Maureen Dowd writes on Obama mania in Moneygall

Only two "I"s to go.........

Hey James get your facts straight. Dowd is not America's best known columnist. At least you did not call her a journalist.

suck upper crust imaginings abounding.

I hear that there are doubts as to whether Falmouth Kearney was really born in Ireland :)

I watched Obama's speech in Dublin on TV this evening.I didn't see a teleprompter. His speech was typically complimentary to his guests, he showed pride that to have found blood relations in Ireland, was cleqrly enjoying himself, very much at ease. A great day for him, Michelle and Irish people of whatever hue.

Be sure to notice his arrogance, strutting, BS and teleprompter talent.

Maybe I can get this comment through. Whatever your politics, I think most will agree that President Obama is a decent man who has overcome increible odds. Do you realize the USA has never had a president of Italian or Jewish descent? I think it was great of Ireland to invite him to an ancestral home. I don't like Maureen Dowd blaming Ireland for the financial debacle that has occurred. Does she blame the millions of Americans who also lost their home and jobs to crooked American and International bankers? We were in Ireland many times and saw the beautiful homes, gardens and met the highly educated young people. We were astonished at the number of engineers of varying disciplines. Iceland was also fleeced but I don't see them referred to as paper Icelanders. By the way does anyone care about these beautiful, uncomplaining people? When they have a volcanic eruption the only concern seems to be the effect on European air flights. Be more generous folks

Obama to Ireland.....isn't that special...remember...listen but verify...he tells whoppers!

Nice knee-pads Maureen.

For John 5319 - If Bill Clinton had "Slippery Zipper Syndrome," how would describe JFK's many more pant's unclosures? For Old Sarge - You have not kept up with all of Dowd's columns: f course she called out he POTUS when needed! For MarthaAnne - Dowd was exactly on the mark in her column regarding Bin Laden's elimination. That hypocritical coward, while living comfortably in the "Greenwich" of Pakistan with his multiple wives and ministering minions, using American shampoo and drinking Pepsi Cola, sent out scripted retakes of rehearsed screeds leading his followers and the world to believe that he was a stoic, cave dwelling leader. As someone who not only lives in New York and smelt the tragedy of nineslasheleven first hand but had her health and her financial security slashed to pieces because of his actions that terrible Tuesday, his death mirrored exactly what his actions created in the first place: Bin Laden was a cancer that needed to be surgically removed that could have been taken out years earlier if the previous President of this country had had the truthful courage to do so.

I just hope the weather is good so Obama can visit. I also hope the local population can make some money from his visit. I'll pray for sunshine for you all tomorrow. Ignore the right wing "birther" crazies. They insist that Obama isn't a citizen of the USA and the world is flat. Obviously they are delusional and more than likely racist jerkwads.

kevinhayes I'm with you. I hope "Our American President" and Ireland have a great day.

It is funny to read posts by all the tbagger/haters trolling around the net looking for any thread with the word "Obama" in it so they can spew their ignorant, childish anti-Obama spin. The comments are so repetitive, so predictable and so utterly void of intelligence that it has become a joke among reasonable, rational Americans. However, it IS an embarrassment to have this American Dirty Laundry exposed to the outside world. To all who live outside the US, just note, these tbaggers are just a very loud minority in this country and they just prove that the less intelligence a person has, the more they THINK they have and the more they seem to have the need to share it. - loudly and repeatedly - everywhere.

I think it's much ado about nothing, the man alleged to be Obama's father, Barrack Obama "Sr", born in Kenya while it was a protectorate of England was therefore a citizen of England, Obama Jr., wherever he was born, is properly a citizen of England, what's with the Irish marveling at an English citizen visiting them? It's not like an American visiting, they do that as tourists but without the fanfare. Obama apparently has Irish ancestors but he seldom mentions them except to say they were too white and too sure of themselves. Send him packing.

This is all nice about Maureen Dowd's appreciation of Obama's purposed trip and her reporting of the wonderful visit of the Queen to Ireland, but I no longer like Maureen Dowd. Am disillusioned. I used to read every one of her columns twice weekly but when she recently defended killing Bin Laden immediately, and not capturing him (even if it could be safely done) for a trial, I was disgusted. She really lost me there.