Monday, May 11, 2015

Mother"s Day surprise calls from President Obama to some lucky mums

President Obama calls three unsuspecting mothers who had written to him recently to wish them a happy Mother’s Day.

US President, Barack Obama yesterday surprised three mothers by calling them on the phone to wish them a Happy Mother’s Day. According to a White House source, Pres. Obama called Stephanie Tarr from Minnesota, Dawn Miller from Arizona and Patricia Church from Florida, who had at one point or the other written letters to the president.

“Hi. This is Barack Obama. Your President.” Obama said “I know how tough it is to raise kids and do right by them, and if it hadn’t been for my mother, I certainly wouldn’t be here,” Obama said on a phone call with one of the mothers “You are doing the most important work there is.”

“Not uh … no way,” Stephanie Tarr reportedly responded in disbelief when the person on the other end of the phone introduced himself. “It’s me! Give me a test,” Obama replied. “Ask me about anything”. Then he told all mums “I decided since it was Mother’s Day, I should call letter-writers and moms and say ‘thank you’ for being great moms”

“I decided on Mother’s Day I should call up some letter writers and moms, and say thank you for being great moms,” Obama, 53, told Dawn Miller, a corrections officer from Tucson, Arizona, who has a 22-year-old son. “You’re one of the moms I want to say thank you to … You still don’t believe me.”

Stephanie Tarr, a waitress from Coon Rapids, Minnesota, and the mother to two boys, reacted with similar disbelief when Obama called her and introduced himself, reports CNN.

“Not uh … no way,” Tarr said.
“It’s me! Give me a test,” the president replied from the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. “Ask me about anything.”

“I know how tough it is to raise kids and do right by them. If it hadn’t been for my mother, I certainly wouldn’t be here,” Obama said, referencing his own mother, Ann Dunham, who died of ovarian cancer in 1995. “You’re doing the most important work there is.”
“I’m so proud of everything you’ve done, raising four kids and you know, serving our country,” he added. “Those boys are going to turn out good because of you.”