Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton: We’re All Irish Now
WILL Barack Obama be celebrating St Patrick’s Day?
On this day we are all Irish on the inside. It’s fashionable to be Irish. Anyone can be Irish.
According to the Clare Heritage Centre in south-west Ireland, Muhammad Ali is Irish. His great-grandad was allegedly one Abe Grady from the Irish town of Ennis, who emigrated to America in the 1860s, settled in Kentucky and married a black woman. If only Ali was aware of his ‘Irish soul’, things could have been so different. I can just hear him now: ‘No Vietcong ever called me a nigger or a bogtrotter….’
Yesterday parade in Birmingham – location of the “world’s third largest St Patrick’s Day Parade” (and there is much competition) - featured such Irish notables as local group the Dhol Blasters, adding what the BBC calls “a Punjabi twist”.
A picture on the Ireland.com website is captioned: “Samba dancers in Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day parade.”
Says the Montreal Gazette:
Leslie Lopez calls herself a Mexican-Canadian, but yesterday she was all decked out in green at the 184th St. Patrick’s Parade. There’s nothing Irish about me, zero per cent, but I’ve been to Ireland and I like Irish culture,” she said, sporting a kicky green tinsel wig, Irish-themed buttons, a shamrock lei and green beads.
So can Barack O’Bama be Irish. Barack Sean O’Bama?. The man supported by O’Prah Winfrey? Hillary Clinton’s is at a St Patrick’s day parade in Pittsburgh. And this the Hillary who brought peace to Northern Ireland.
But which is the more Irish?
As we know:
US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama can now count himself as one of the millions of Americans with Irish heritage. Research by the genealogy website ancestry.co.uk reveals that Mr Obama’s great great great grandfather was born in Ireland, although it is not yet known where. Falmouth Kearney sailed from Ireland to New York in 1850 at the age of 19 on the S.S. Marmion arriving on the 20th of March.
Says O’Bama:
I noticed over the last several weeks that the forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again. And I’m not here to cast blame or point fingers because everybody, you know, senses that there’s been this shift. It reminds me: We’ve got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We’ve got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. …This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
He is, of course, talking about 800 long years of English oppression, the overbearing priests, the drunken father, the beatings and the miserable wretch of a mother.
Meanwhile in Dublin, the locals are wondering if the Guinness is organic…
Luck of the Irish to one you - most like the loser…
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March 18th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
blonshag…
Hillary who?
Wasn’t he the kiwi chap who climbed Everest?
March 18th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
In Denver, Colorado, on 16th street(the main strip) there is a large Irish bar and I remember being surprised to see a parade FOUR miles long that celebrated St. Patricks day.
There are many people(including myself) who can’t understand why such promotion is given to this day, and in contrast there hasn’t been a major day to celebrate England.
A lot of Irish influences in the USA,and although you can meet good and bad anywhere in the world,the Irish that I’ve met over the years haven’t particularly impressed me.
In London, there is an Irish guy that I know whose worth about 100 million but in character he doesn’t have ten cents in the bank.
During the American elections they will say anything and claim anything(about an Irish background) to try to win your vote.
Will be drinking some Guinness at a friends bar this week.My first Guinness for sometime and I will also be knocking back beers from Uraguay(Nortena) Argentina(Insbeck) Germany(Erdinger and Warsteiner) and good Old Speckled Hen from England!
Cheers,
March 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Barack H. Obama - NEEDS to remove himself from the Democratic Presidential Election - immediately.
Barack H. Obama - NEEDS to resign from his Senate seat - immediately.
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VOTE - “MY AMERICAN MAMA” - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - PRESIDENT!!
YOU GO GIRL!!!!
YOU GO GIRL!!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ban pink hot pants?!
Penster would have to totally renew his wardrobe…..
March 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
St Patrick’s Day - horrific.
Even worse than tartan and bagpipes, Morris dancers and real ale - and gay men in pink hot pants.
Can’t someone ban it???
March 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“Don’t you know? Everyone in America is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!”…………………….
Well no not really, I manage to resist the pressure to pretend Irishness every year.
All together now………
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner that I………………………..etc etc.
Welsh father, Italian mother, no I’m not friggin’ Irish.
Nothing against them, I’m just not one of them.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Top of the mornin’ to y’all lads….errr…hiccup….anybiddy git the time? Yes sir, the Guiness is organic - it’s toxic too!
March 17th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
(i posted this on the wrong thread)
is this true?
heather is entitled to half of his money because she was married to him and had his kid, just like every other woman in the UK! or should she be treated differently just because she needs one less shoe?
assets in a marriage are put in a pot and divided equally in a long marriage, and less so in a short marriage, keeping in mind that the poor mother needs money to feed her child, even though she will get benefits, probably work, have many more daddies, had money herself, and didnt even need the man to begin with.
she will probably get to live in his one house after the split, even if he owned it before she met her, and she will be given half of the house when the youngest child reaches 18 (or maybe 19, batman and spiderman can correct me here.)
and while the money will be divided equally, the mother will be granted almost complete control over the children’s time, with shared custody, or shared ‘residence’ rare in this country. ah, life isn’t fair, unless you are Sir Paul. Paul gets half of his child at 9% of his wealth. Average men get every other weekend at fifty percent. I wish he had been treated ‘fairly’.
Having said that, he has brought tremendous joy into the world with his music, so I forgive his being giving special treatmen.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Aint it a hootin annie, the only fecker that aint irish is St Pat, he’s a genuine 103% Scot.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hope you have better luck
My father ’s office used to be on Kilburn High road - the middle of Irish London. We once at at pizza hut. The waitress asked the couple in front: “Was that the thick and chewy or thin and…”.
The reply: “Who the fuck you calling thick and chewy.”
Mayhem.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Don’t you know? Everyone in America is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!