Posted on 02/11/2017 8:33:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
Members of Dublin City Council walked out after the Lord Mayor put forward the request to award the Freedom of Dublin City to former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
Lord Mayor Brendan Carr put forward the request at the council meeting on Monday evening. His request sparked a heated debate but it was passed by a narrow margin. Once the decision was announced People-Before-Profit councilors John Lyons, Andrew Keegan, Tina MacVeigh and Hazel de Nortuin walked out of the council chamber. The vote by passed by a majority with 30 councilors supporting the proposal and 23 voting against.
Those against the decision said they believe awarding such an honor to a president who “presided over growing inequality at home, mass incarceration and deportations and ongoing wars in the Middle East” was an insult to the people of Dublin City, the Irish Independent reported. …
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When Barack Hussein Obama is too far right for you, you might be a communist.
Shocking! Drunks like to throw parties!
Well, it is Dublin...IRA and Sein Fein and so on. They do like their Clintons, though.
Good for those who WALKED OUT!!
So it's more a slap at Trump than an award to Obama.
Like the Nobel prize in 2009 was a slap at Bush.
Ireland, please keep them.
Honky guilt is breaking out all over. Since Obonzo never did anything for Ireland and hates all “typical white people”, I imagine that they just want to kiss a black guy’s arse. Probably a kinky Irish thing.
we lived in Dublin in the late 80’s. believe me, any black(american) person was def getting his ass kissed back then. Very much a novelty.
I read that a lot of Somali’s now reside there.
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