Irish America’s best hope of winning the White House - Martin O’Malley

The author incorrectly assumes that there is still (if there ever really was) a mindless monolithic "Irish-American" political community,focused solely on electing "one of their own kind," which even a cursory scan of the prior comments to this article clearly indicate there is not. C'mon, Irish Central, we love you, but you need to get away from this myopia and accept that, mostly for good, pretty much everything has changed since the Irish-American voters were the property of the Curleys and Hagues and Daleys. We've grown up, we actually think for ourselves now - pleaser write like you understand this fact!

It would be the last thing that america needs, that man has run Maryland into the ground, I shudder at the thought.

Barry "shamrock" obama isn't good enough for ya?

Oh yeah,now the rest of the USA can pay higher taxes like we do in Maryland. A new 13cent gas tax a new wine tax and thats just 2 of them.

We got rid of the last Kennedy in Washington, after 62 years. We do not need another Kennedy or Kennedy-esque. Although, we could us a Reagan-esque Republican President. Reagan was an Irishmen, although not Catholic. His father was Irish-Catholic. Reagan was good friends with James Cagney, and the other Irish Catholic Actors of his age. Reagan was a Union President of Actor, while Kennedy never belonged to a Union, and graduated from Harvard. Joe Kennedy's biggest resentment was not being accepted by the Protestant Blue Bloods of Boston.

There is already an Irish-American in the White House. President Obama has Irish roots. His great-great-great grandfather fled the Irish potato famine in 1850.

Where does he stand on abortion. IF he is a good Catholic he can not support abortion. He prays everyday, whoopeee so do I.