Obama's Irish roots found to be Protestant - Telegraph
New research has traced Mr Obama's maternal family tree back to his great-great-great-great grandfather Joseph Kearney, a well-to-do shoemaker from Moneygall, Co Offaly, who lived from 1794 to 1861. Mr Obama's roots were uncovered by Canon Stephen Neill, a Church of Ireland rector, who found baptismal and marriage records in the house of a late parishioner, Elizabeth Short.
How the hell am I supposed to be able to vote for him now? Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
It's tragic that he's not also gay and a former fighter pilot, but I suppose you can't have everything.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
As Maher pointed out one night: "Oh, Congress looks like America -- we've got blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and whatever else is in Barack Obama." Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
you forgot he has a grandmother in kenya living in a mud hut!
roots, baby! ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
The Irish were the blacks of the modern western world before the Muslims ever were.
Oh, quit your whining. We gave you Boston, didn't we? ;)
Actually, one of my family members has an old (very old) sign that used to hang over a pub somewhere. It reads "No Dogs or Irish". It's hanging in his garage somewhere. Being partly of Irish descent, he gets a kick out of it. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
