Posted on 05/23/2011 8:47:49 AM PDT by kcvl
No wonder I saw that train on the dirt road. It had to see this picture earlier.
“My name is Barack Obama, of the Moneygall Obamas, and I’ve come home to find the apostrophe we lost somewhere along the way”
SOURCE: The Scotsman
17 minutes ago
“For the United States, Ireland carries a blood link with us”
– Michelle Obama
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
47 minutes ago
In a speech devoted as much to personal pride than overt politics, Obama told many thousands gathered in central Dublin that he had come to reaffirm the bonds of affection between the United States and Ireland. “There’s always been a little green behind the red, white and blue,” he said to cheers.
Obama spoke shortly after he had downed a pint of Guinness in tiny Moneygall, the small Irish village where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker. It was an improbable and memorable pilgrimage for America’s first black president into his Irish past, and Obama soaked it in.
“My name is Barack Obama, of the Moneygall Obamas,” the president said. Then, playing off the popular Irish spelling of surnames — O’Bama — the president said, “I’ve come home to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way.”
http://www.startribune.com/world/122436824.html
The sleepy village of 300 was the birthplace of Obama’s great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, a shoemaker who left in 1850 to begin a new life in the United States.
This makes Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and Irish-American mother, one of 37 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry, and he was greeted like a long lost son. The powerful images could help his 2012 re-election campaign.
Heard on the radio about the same time was a popular song, “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/23/us-obama-ireland-idUSTRE74M09F20110523
PUKE!
Meanwhile, back in the United States of reality...
Three-Quarters of Joplin, MO Destroyed...
Damage Unimaginable...
Town Unrecognizable...
HEARTLAND DEVASTATION
US stocks plunge on European debt worries...
Pile of American debt — would stretch beyond stratosphere!
BANKS NOW HOLD 875,000 FORECLOSED HOMES; SELLOFF COULD FURTHER DEPRESS PRICES...
Protesters: Israel won’t commit suicide...
Pakistan turns to China for military help...
Concern over volcanic ash cloud forces Obama to leave early...
The White House says President Barack Obama will leave Ireland early due to safety concerns over a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano that is moving toward Europe.
Obama had been scheduled to spend the night in Ireland and fly to London Tuesday morning. Instead, he will head for London Monday night.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110523/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obama_ash_cloud_1
Who travels in a getup like that?
According to liberal fools ‘THE fashionista’!
She has about as much fashion sense as a pig.
I’m sure the Guinness has helped ease the pain Zero feels over the devastation in Missouri...
You mean that isn't fruit and vegetables from the garden? And aren't you glad she showed us her shoulder blade dimples?
Yes, every DIGNIFIED First Lady always does that! Even Hillary Clinton wasn't that stupid with her crazy wardrobe.
“let them eat cake” while rome burns
I notice the Wookie is sporting a more ornate ring on her finger. Perhaps Bambi has his own Tiffany bill.
Or taxpayers got the bill! Don’t put it past them. Or to ask for someone to give it to her. Hillary Clinton did the same thing.
I know Hillary received a REAL Dennis Basso coat and a REAL Judith Ripka piece of jewelry (not QVC version) by sucking up to them.
this will be the latest hair craze... and the press will credit Michelle with her “edgy, courageous” new do... she’s so progressive... watch—this style will be lining up the runways of top designers... because those people are so shallow and ridiculous...
Somebody will be fired for not putting enough hair spray on her hair.
That thought (while possibly quite real in truth) makes me sick to my stomach.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389934/Barack-Obama-Ireland-visit-Wife-Michelle-looks-windswept-arrives-Dublin.html
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