Not only is Bill Clinton one of the most well-liked living former presidents, he’s now the Father’s Day Council ‘Father of the Year’ for 2013.
“We are extremely honored to have President Clinton accept this award for Father of the Year,” Dan Orwig, Chairman of the National Father’s Day Committee, said in a press release. “With the profound generosity, leadership and tireless dedication to both his public office and many philanthropic organizations, President Clinton exemplifies the attributes that we celebrate through the father of the year award.”
The 72nd annual awards ceremony will be held at the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel on June 11. Proceeds will benefit Save the Children’s U.S. Programs.
Each year since 1942, the council has chosen “contemporary lifestyle leaders of our culture whose lives are dedicated to family, citizenship, charity, civility, responsibility and reverence,” according to its website.
Yet the organization’s praise for Clinton seemed based on everything except his family, not mentioning daughter Chelsea and wife Hillary until the sixth paragraph of the press release. But that’s totally understandable — after all, the last thing you’d want to mention in awarding ‘Father of the Year’ is the family he totally betrayed a decade ago. Awkward.
As one commenter on the POLITICO article noted:
Isn’t it a bit odd that his child is a grown adult and he gets an award but during the time she was actually a child and needed her father he was busy playing with interns? –Bill Grumhaus
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
