[LiberConservative]

0’s good. He panders better than W.

[GeronL]

what does that mean?

[crymeariver]

My father faced signs that read “Irish Catholics need not apply”. I want reparations. Let’s go really socialist and make March the Irish Reparations month.

[Thank You Rush]

“In my brief conversations that I’ve had with him, he tells me that he’s very proud of his own Irish ancestry in County Offaly.

“I think he’s very conscious of his Irish associations.”

I really don’t want to disown my Irish heritage but if he’s claiming it as his own, I will be tempted... Yes - the Irish worked hard upon arrival here to achieve and be successful - when they were allowed to. What then is his excuse for those who were born here not working to realize that same dream? Guess that’s best left unsaid, right Zero?

[paulycy]

[muawiyah]

The colonial "migrations" were more like the Brits took some of my ancestors captive, tossed them in prison barges, and then hauled them to America where they were set ashore only to have to serve out their lives as slaves.

Obama is being less than truthful when he calls that sort of thing a "migration".

[Smokin' Joe]

Irish immigrants in the 1840s: Among those leaders were signers of the Declaration of Independence

A wee temporal rift, there, O'bama.

[NonValueAdded]

Plenty of Irish slaves were shipped to the Carribean thanks in great part to King James II and "perfected" by Cromwell. They were considered as less valuable than the Black slaves - after all, one had to pay for the Blacks - so the treatment of the white slaves was worse. Will the descendants of the Irish slaves get reparations too? Is this story news to you?

Backgrounder

[mylife]

So now O’bama is Iyerish is he?

[Tainan]

Soetero...a fine auld Irish name it is....yeah...thats the ticket...yeaaahhh...

[mrmargaritaville]

Im sure his Irish ancestory is noted on his birth certificate.