Hey Obama, isn't it apparent, that a father is a parent?

The other day, Obama responded to a question about if he will take us out of Iraq, his answer started out as:

"I can only imagine how you feel, as a father and as a parent,"

Now, I don't mean to nitpick but imagine the reactions of John Stewart & Bill Maher if Bush said this. In typical fashion, they would probably show the audience a clip of that and stare into the crowd with big eyes as if to say "Can you believe he said something so stupid?", then the crowd would laugh like they believed that since Bush said something, somehow that made John Stewart & Bill Maher funny.