[afraidfortherepublic]

Doesn’t anyone think that it is preposterous to think that Obama can “buy off” the Catholics by making St. Patrick’s Day a National holiday?

Good grief, there are already so many celebrations, both before and after St. Paddy’s Day, that we don’t need a special day off!

[jmcenanly]

Doesn’t anyone think that it is preposterous to think that Obama can “buy off” the Catholics by making St. Patrick’s Day a National holiday?
How is going to sit with the multiculturalists? St. Patrick replaced the ecofriendly Druid religion with Christianity. Not only that, but by starting monasteries, he ensured that there would be someone to copy all of the books of Western civilization, to carry the fallen civilization through the Dark ages. They'd probably put him in the same class as Columbus.

[ciceroqpublic]

It may well be preposterous that Obama can buy off Catholics with a holiday but history shows that this kind of political largesse works. Also look at how the democrats have bought off civil rights groups with the Martin Luther King Holiday even though the democrat party opposed civil rights.....................