[conserv13]

The Irish don't understand Bush, Bush doesn't drink.

[maestro]

Bush faces a hostile reception in Ireland ^

LOL

;-)

[demlosers]

Bush was being interviewed today by some Irish sassy lass reporterette and did great rebutting all her silly Euro-Lib talking points.

[Redbob]

Of course they're hostile: they know he is deathly opposed to terrorists.

[Puddleglum]

Now and again the Irish have to remind us where the term "blarney" came from, I guess. Or maybe they're just green with envy that we still have a leader with some fortitude. Be a damned shame to see the Irish go all Euro-squishy after the great start the monks gave their civilization.

[jwalsh07]

"Nobody denies we have an affinity with the United States, but that is a different matter from having an affinity with the president," O'Rourke said in the Irish Parliament this week.

Well I've got news for you, you shanty Irish sob. I'm a descendent of Irishmen and I have NO affinity for socialists or baby killers no matter what they do on St Patty's day.

[Dog]

Ireland needs to remember one thing........disagreement is fine...but you attack the President of the United States .....you are attacking all of us..

[Poohbah]

"Bush faces a hostile reception in Ireland."

He should tell them to talk to his complaints desk, which is run by Ms. Deeyenda Maddick.

[MplsSteve]

Time for a large (and retaliatory) 50% tariff on all Irish linen, Waterd Crystal and Bushmills.

The Irish will learn to shut their mouths really quick once that happens.

But then again, they're Irish. They probably won't have learned a damned thing.

[CourtneyLeigh]

That is one country of sentiment. They have had their fair share & taste of cold blooded murder from their English Terrorists.

They know what it's like, and they'll never allow a shadow of World Wars to inhabit their lands or people. Not until they've won the war they've been fightin' for over 200years against the Euro/Roman Catholic invasion!

Ireland/Scotland still cry tears of blood over their lost sons/daughters to a self-righteous people! Bush is a good president for America, and America alone, but he can never expect a warm welcome from a country that still has open wounds on top of old scars!

It's like asking a mistreated cat to trust another human, after it's first human hurt it!

[steveo]

sigh, like I really care about what eurotrash thinks.

[Dolphy]

"Nobody denies we have an affinity with the United States, but that is a different matter from having an affinity with the president," O'Rourke said in the Irish Parliament this week.

Someone should let O'Rourke know that you show your affinity by respecting our institutions, people with any amount of class or depth know how this works.

[wideawake]

As an American of Irish descent, I have to reiterate:

Every Irish person with guts and smarts left that island for America years ago.

[BushisTheMan]

I went to the comments:

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65723

Very interesting.

[OpusatFR]

""Nobody denies we have an affinity with the United States, but that is a different matter from having an affinity with the president," O'Rourke said in the Irish Parliament this week."

You HAD, past tense, an affinity with the US. I could care less if the entire terrorist network landed in your country and blew the place to bits.

This is my President. I voted for him and he is possibly the greatest in a very long time.

I've had it with Europe.

[AmericanMade1776]

Not so hostile here:

[Zionist Conspirator]

Irish nationalism has long been a witch's brew of mysticism, anti-Semitism, and radical left wing socialism.

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (main "nationalist" party in Northern Ireland).

The Workers Party (until 1982 Sinn Fein--The Workers Party, and until 1977 Sinn Fein; the old "official" Sinn Fein that was the political front of the now long-defunct "Official" Irish Republican Army).

Sinn Fein (Gerry Adams' organization, the front for the "Provisional" IRA).

Republican Sinn Fein (political front of the "Continuity" IRA).

The Thirty-Two County Sovereignty Movement (political front of the Real/True/Dissident/New IRA).

Irish Republican Socialist Movement (political front of the most radical of the Irish terrorists, the Irish National Liberation Army).

Workers Solidarity Movement (traditional Irish anarchist group).

Granted, this list doesn't include the two main Irish parties (Fine Gael and Fianna Fail) but neither of those parties is conservative in the American sense. In fact, Ireland doesn't seem to have any organized conservative movement at all.

I mention this only because Irish nationalism takes the place of Biblical Jewish nationalism for so many "palaeoconservatives" and Catholics as well, who sometimes like to point to the alleged "inherent radicalism" of the Jews. I intend no offense to the my friends among the Irish Freepers.

[conservative in nyc]

In contrast to the jubilant welcomes accorded to Presidents Ronald Reagan...

Hey, Ms. Bumiller! Try reading your own paper for once:

Irish in an Anti-Reagan Mood for Visit
New York Times
June 1, 1984
By R.W. Apple Jr.

DUBLIN, May 31 -- President Reagan faces calculated snubs and hostile demonstrations as well as fonder greetings, during his three-day visit to Ireland beginning Friday.

Yup, more revisionist history from the Slimes.

[EternalHope]

Hmmm...

It seems the Irish have contracted the Spanish disease.

I'm surprised. I thought they valued their freedom, at least enough to thank us for preserving it for them.

[Alia]

Ireland has sent some excellent troops to both Afghanistan and Iraq. Do not forget, however, it was American feminists with aid from the UN orgs which "purchased" "no fault divorce" for Ireland in the mid-90s. It quite literally tore the country into two.

Of course, were Ireland undergoing a HUMONGOUS Muslim immigration "situation", no doubts, there'd be many Irish Parliament voices praising and thanking President Bush. And why isn't there a huge "immigration" of Muslims to Ireland? Norway, Sweden, parts of Europe, England are suffering tremendously.. but not Ireland. ahem.