The Irish in Obama

I live in America. There is more racism now than before Obama was elected. The country is divided more than ever on issues. The health care issue. Terrorism. Everything. Look how they are treating people at the airports with the scanning and patdowns. Instead of hope and change it is grope and change. And instead of date rape it is now gate rape. Things are worse than they have ever been. More racism. One black woman shoved a white woman into a wall because she expressed her views on Obama.

Dont tell me. His name is really O'bama.

Irish And Proud, you seem so angry. Everyone has a right to their opinion, just like you. Tog bog e! We all have much more in common here than we are different. We all care about what's happening in the world, if we didn't we wouldn't comment about it.

Searlit it's difficult to have discourse with people who's raison d'etre is to vilify. A case in point is the below phrase "bottom feeders" when I told an Aussie joke and now taken out of context. I believe the racist and bigots must still be held to account.

searlit, do you mean name-callers like hollabackgurl, who called certain people 'birthers' and 'bottom feeders?'

seanomelbourne: You're a brave soul to keep fending off these name callers.

Monsoonman, this whole article is about trying to identify Irish things with Obama (only a part of his white half which, let's just say, was not exactly the half which was emphasized whilst he was running for President...and is clearly not the half he identifies with -- or is identified with -- to this day), because the author still somehow fancies Obama to be a popular individual in the USA. Most people nowadays are running FROM him, not TO him(not the least of whom are members of his own party, up for re-election)...and couldn't care less about some distant ancestors he doesn't even identify with, and a nation (Ireland) he knows little if anything about. He didn't even recognize the Irish accent, when he heard it; he had to ask where the young lady was from. Articles like this are flatly embarrassing. Obama's magic is gone, and everyone's running from him. His party is in deep, deep sh-t.

Monsoonman most polls(including Rasmussen)state that 20% of Americans are in denial of Obama's birthplace the also state that this 20% of Americans are GOP supporters.Most polls show that 40% of Americans vote republican.Therefore 50% of Republicans are birthers.

The same could be said about you, hollabackgurl, from your extreme left side of the aisle. You're less mainstream than the birthers, since fewer Americans self-identify as liberal than who believe Obama was foreign-born.

These Birther bottom feeders are a disgrace to the nation. Even Ann Coulter thinks you're retarded.

Born barry sotoro, chance your name to barack huessien obama. All good Cristians change thier names to muslim/arab names. All good Cristians pay millions in lawyer fees to hide thier history. All good Christians go to church were the minister said God damn America. Give me a break!!

As I watched the inauguration of our president, I was moved to tears by the significance of the event--the fact that we had finally arrived, I thought, to the point of being color blind and seeing him as the most qualified and best person to be president. It was an incredible sight to behold this part of our country and I was very proud. Because I live in a part of the South I find myself being a minority and to some extent being looked down on because of my political opinions. Evidently being a Democrat is grounds for contempt in this part of the world. I feel sad that this is the situation here. President Obama is probably the most American of any of us and certainly equiped intellectually and in all other ways to do what is right for our country and the rest of the world where we still have influence.

Lad: You need to adjust your logic compass a bit, it is off due to precession...How do you come up with these figures? 40% of the GOP cast aspersions on his ethnicity? Please back that one up, I need to see its source, because more and more blacks are now joining the GOP and are running for office in the GOP party, fer cryin out loud lad, the chairman of the gop is a black man....Sum-ting-wong lad...Someones got some corrupted info....Maybe it gets discombobulated traveling all of the way "down there" and then traveling all of the way back up here? Exactly where do you get your info?

Monsoonman you may not care what is origins are and you have every right to have an opposing political opinion my comments were not of a personal nature. How do you account for the 40%(approx) of the GOP who do cast aspersions at his ethnicity,place of birth or denying his Christianity? I find it incredulous that so many of them are so bitter. It's as if America woke up from a slumber one day and collectively said "my God we voted for a black man" "what do we do now " "I know let's vilify him and drive him from office" Now we can return to the old status quo. Drive a chevvy to the levy and all that jazz.

Sean me boy....I detest obama, not because of the color of his skin, but because of the color of his politics. If he were a whiteman I would have the exact same feelings for him. Because he is a negro makes no difference to me.