Yes, President Barack O’Bama is part Irish. His maternal grandfather’s ancestors were from Moneygall, Ireland. Right smack dab in the middle of the Emerald Isle.
I tried to figure a way to post the song, There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama, by the Corrigan Brothers. The embedding was removed from youtube and I found how to download the song but not the video. Alas, you will just have to go to youtube.com by clicking on the song title.
Definitely a fun song that will stick in your brain. Sing it at the parade.
There seems to be some discrepancy on how many ‘greats’ in that great grandfather claim to Irish fame, but who’s counting. So know that in Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, they take their Amrican politics seriously. Ironically, ‘Moneygall’ (Muine Gall) means ‘grove of the foreigners’ in Irish.
According to that great source, Wikipedia:
Falmouth Kearney, the great-great-great grandfather of United States President Barack Obama, emigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County, Indiana.[2]Kearney’s father had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled trade
Now for those of you who want to be able to speak a little Irish during the next few days, I am going to leave you another website. You can learn to say ‘kiss me arse,’ ‘Erin go Bragh’, or ‘My trousers are on fire.’ I have no clue why anyone would want to say the last one or what its connotation is. However, the first 2 …obvious.
Imagine that! Obama and I could be cousins! I would be proud to be his distant cousin. I just hope he watches out for ALL low income people left behind and not just those identified in “protected classes” and specific ethnicities. I got some cousins in Georgia that make less than 15,000 per year, he is not helping them, they are not being identified as qualified for specific ARRA funds (wrong ethnicity not classified as LEFT BEHIND).
Hey cousin, rethink you might be wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong about who is left behind and who is not? Charter schools only for the rich kids anyone?
I have to say that the O’Bama video sure is a lot more decent than that Urkel Obama caricature over on the dark screen. There is just something offensive there.
I didn’t realize President Obama is Irish.
I am glad to see some lightheartedness that isn’t poking fun at someone or something.
I am proud my kids are doing extremely well, even with one hand tied behind their backs, and still they are making better grades than the majority of people Obama classifies as “left behind” and my 23/24 year old kids make less than $12,000 per year. They were not memebers of protected clasees or “entitled” to get HUD or 8A loans. Of course he has no category for just “low income” left behind……
Funny…… he doesn’t look Irish! : )
Second Alamo, just goes to show you can’t judge a book by its cover. 😉
Michael, I guess you have boys? Are they in college? I have a son, a little older than your kids, and I have never once heard him complain about not being part of an entitlement class. He isn’t rolling in wealth either. I honestly think that this thing is not as big as you think it is. As a female, I sure never felt like I was in a protected class. I never tried to borrow money for a business either.
My oldest grandchild, 7, recently grasped the fact that her
father’s family includes a rich Cherokee heritage and she danced
about my home last week excited with being a “Native American”.
(Her ability to already race two miles without even breathing
hard is certainly not from my side of the genetic mix) –
I, of course, am happy because she is happy, but I wonder what
she will think years ahead when she learns about the
harshness visited upon Cherokees by my ancestors – whose blood
also runs in her veins. Of course, President Obama had
to deal with his version of that challenge. We are Americans –
a rainbow people.
Alert your readers to the New York Times website – they
are doing articles on immigration in America. Today has a video
piece on Hlyton High School in Woodbridge – “non-English speaking
students trive in separate classroom, but what do they sacrifice
in return?”. Does this really work? Is it a good idea?
“thrive” – por favor.
Thanks Poor Richard. It isn’t much but I just finished a quick blurb and a link. Thanks again for bringing this great article to our attention.
@michael
“I am proud my kids are doing extremely well, even with one hand tied behind their backs, and still they are making better grades than the majority of people Obama classifies as “left behind” and my 23/24 year old kids make less than $12,000 per year. They were not memebers of protected clasees or “entitled” to get HUD or 8A loans. Of course he has no category for just “low income” left behind……”
How about “losers”?
Starry,
That was very unkind of you. Low income does not equal to loser. I may have misunderstood your intent, if so, please clarify. As a middle school counselor in the Bailys Crossroads area, many children I helped were low income and they were definately NOT losers! @Starryflights
I agree, Thank you Elena.
I would never call my firefighter, emergency room technician nursing school attending, anesthesiologist bound son, and my pre-FBI daughter “losers”, just low income (for now).
Because they are low income and not ethnic minorities, who qualify for 8A as protected classes, they have to get ahead the hard way, and it is taking them a lot longer than other kids their age that have “special ethnicity” help rather than “low income” help.
Michael, they are probably going to be better off for having to get ahead the hard way. Those who continually get a free lunch tend to be not very responsible people. Easy come, easy go.
Poge me home.