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To: stanne
Why carp and moan about de Blasio? He won in a landslide so maybe the better question is: how many of NYC's Irish community voted for the jerk, just as their cousins to the NE voted for Teddy and constantly elect ultraLiberal prodeathers election after election?

The problem isn't de Blasio. It's the Irish "Catholics" who vote for these crumbs.

28 posted on 02/04/2014 9:02:50 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Robwin

And who did the Protestants and other non-Catholics vote for? Why pick on just the Catholics?


30 posted on 02/04/2014 9:09:25 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Robwin

A landslide? Only 22% of eligible voters voted. He won the majority of that pathetic showing.


34 posted on 02/04/2014 10:36:33 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Robwin

The Irish ‘Catholics’ I know are a puzzlement To get them to mass on Christmas is like Noah coaxing giraffes in the rain to get on the boat. It’s like a russell Crowe drama

Their Catholicism goes back to the fifth century when st Patrick converted the pagans to Catholicism. So, for sixteen centuries, now going on seventeen, their ancestors practice Catholicism Its not like they all were pagan for a century or so and then another time all married Jewish and then went back to Catholicism. They were catholic for sixteen centuries

I knew their grandmothers, who knew their own grandmothers They practiced and propagated the faith

I knew an Irish American man who was born in 1888. He had a seat on the stock exchange. He had a lot of wealth besides. Went into manhattan every day He wore a miraculous medal gold hand made huge. You couldn’t wear it in public now, some heroin seeker would grab it. This man would not let a day go by without saying the rosary with his wife. And that was the norm

You tell me what happened.

The ones I know vote republicans Kennedy’s but the women are as culturally liberal as you could imagine. We went to the same schools, knew the same people some shared grandparents and old aunts

If they went to catholic college, forget it, but it happened before that.

The entire region is in trouble The Kennedys tipified the situation

But like wit Obama, he did get voted it, or close enough to it


39 posted on 02/05/2014 3:29:58 AM PST by stanne
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