The Irish in Obama

How incredibly shallow to automatically assume that just because the majority of Irish-Americans today no longer identify themselves with the Catholic church, that this must mean that the "majority" of Irish-Americans must have come from the Protestant tradition in Ireland. That's what you call lazy and shoddy historical research. It is not surprising that many of the nineteenth century Irish-Catholic immigrants who settled in an overwhelmingly Anglo-Germanic Protestant America would have fallen away from the despised Catholic faith. Barack Obama may today identify himself as Protestant, but that doesn't mean he's descended from Protestant Kenyans. Irish Bullshitsky indeed.

Good heavens - the Irish should embrace him. He is a poet, a writer, an orator, a skilled politician, a family man, and someone who overcame hardship (single mom) and ended up with a Harvard education. I am sorry but I thought America had turned the corner when he was elected but if anything it appears that some are more threatened than ever. Obama, you are welcome to celebrate your Irish roots!

Quite a slathering of Irish Bullshivisky!!

what a joke, the only thing irish about that man is that he's an embarrassment to all irish people. Don't publish that garbage, it makes you look like a bunch of fools.

Irish protestant, I don't think so. English protestant squating in Ireland.