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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 10:06:09 GMT -5
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 10:28:16 GMT -5
Moneygall, a tiny farming hamlet between Dublin and Limerick where Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born, has been swept by a giant wave of Obamamania since the President announced on St. Paddy's day that he would swing by during a tour of Ireland. Residents festooned every lamppost with American and Irish flags, slathered their homes in red, white and blue paint and stocked shelves with Obama-themed knickknacks. On Saturday, the town's favorite band, the Corrigan Brothers, held a raucous show that included the song "Welcome Home, President Barack Obama" - an update of their 2008 viral smash, "There's No One as Irish as Barack Obama." "We've all been caught up in this dream. Nothing in the village seems real," said Henry Healy, 26, who recently discovered he's Obama's eighth cousin. "I've been rehearsing what I'm going to say to the president for months in my head. I can't really believe it's going to happen." Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/23/2011-05-23_moneygall_ireland_obamas_ancestral_home_preps_for_potus_visit_tiny_town_struck_b.html#ixzz1NBmfYA00 |
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Post by chiver78 on May 23, 2011 10:53:18 GMT -5
to answer your thread title question, I hope not. that rock's been pissed on by more people that I'd care to count.  if anyone kisses it anymore, they deserve whatever they catch from it. as far as the rest of your commentary, I don't see how this trip is any different than say, Bush visiting the Pope in 2002, Clinton going to Haiti in 1995, or Kennedy giving a bunch of speeches in Germany and telling the world he was a jelly donut?  |
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 11:20:01 GMT -5
A jelly donut? ;D
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Post by chiver78 on May 23, 2011 11:46:19 GMT -5
yeah, the bad translation joke. common lore is that he said he was a jelly donut in one of his speeches in Berlin. basically, Kennedy made a few speeches around Germany, and in one where there is video available, he says 'Ich bin ein Berliner'.
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 11:54:04 GMT -5
Oh dear. . caller from Ireland says the only people on the sidewalk for bottomed out motorcade were those trying to cross the road to get to the grocery store.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 12:26:40 GMT -5
Obama has been under fire, needs something to boost his self image back up. Maybe the Irish will oblige him? Funny, now he is Irish...
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 12:36:57 GMT -5
Obama has been under fire, needs something to boost his self image back up. Maybe the Irish will oblige him? Funny, now he is Irish... ;D  Call me anything. . . Just don't call me late to dinner!  |
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Post by chiver78 on May 23, 2011 12:38:15 GMT -5
Obama has been under fire, needs something to boost his self image back up. Maybe the Irish will oblige him? Funny, now he is Irish... ;D hmm....he's always been part Irish. it's never bothered anyone before though.... |
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 12:44:26 GMT -5
What bugs me, Chiver, is all the tax payer money he is spending flitting around doing nothing. He's just trying to up his votes among Irish Americans. Was there ever a first family who so obviously lapped up the perks. It sort of bugs me. A class thing I guess. We expect our presidents to have a certain decorum, a certain restraint.
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Post by chiver78 on May 23, 2011 12:59:29 GMT -5
can I ask how that's any different than prior Presidents visiting the Pope? I'm confused how those trips are any different, since those Presidents were trying to win favor from the Catholic Americans.
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Post by NoNamePerson on May 23, 2011 13:04:01 GMT -5
Doesn't he have to bend over to kiss the stone - never mind  |
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Post by Tennesseer on May 23, 2011 13:07:37 GMT -5
Doesn't he have to bend over to kiss the stone - never mind Bend backwards.  |
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on May 23, 2011 14:24:25 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind a taxpayer-funded trip to Ireland.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 14:28:13 GMT -5
Yeah. I'm part Irish, too!!!!
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 16:53:31 GMT -5
;D
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 16:56:45 GMT -5
LOL, Marsha!!!!
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 17:11:16 GMT -5
LOL, krickitt!!!! ;D  |
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 17:14:58 GMT -5
Oh man! What a clunker!
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Post by ed1066 on May 23, 2011 17:15:23 GMT -5
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 17:20:28 GMT -5
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 17:23:52 GMT -5
The Beast . . . Don't usually watch the comedy shows. Think I will tonight.  ;D |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 17:43:58 GMT -5
LOL!!! Not sure whether to  or  or just to  .... |
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 17:48:12 GMT -5
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 21:56:41 GMT -5
I don't think Iceland volcanoes like Barack O'Bama. Third time they dissed him. Bad enough his beast looked like a turtle on a fence post today.
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 22:03:30 GMT -5
Barack Obama, like most politicians, doesn't have to kiss the Blarney Stone. He has already chipped a large piece of it off and wears it close to the heart. On his shoulder?? |
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 22:11:01 GMT -5
No, while that is a good "grudge" joke, Barack OBama has nothing on the Irish for that. Have you ever heard the definition of Irish Alzheimer's? When you forget everything except your grudges. Yep, he's a chip off the old Blarney stone alright!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 22:55:23 GMT -5
Now if BUSH got caught like that, libs would be looking for cuts and saying he fell out of bed drunk!!  |
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Post by hello fromWarsaw on May 23, 2011 23:23:47 GMT -5
Sorry you didn't get to watch the speech and see some nondismal stuff ;D
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