Mitt Romney meets Irish Prime MInister Enda Kenny for talks

Say what you want-- Romney is still a better choice than King Obama !

Taoiseach Ó Cionnaith wasn't as positive about the 2011 Irish presidential campaign, where Fine Gael were first off the blocks in the negative campaigning [p]olympics. First there was the discovery of Sen Norris's Israeli clemency letters before they ran for the cover of the summer Dail recess. Then there was the shameful use of a deceased Irish Army private's son, caring more about political gain than the sanctity of his father's memory. Then there was the black propaganda against the Sinn Fein candidate's election adversely affecting US investment in Ireland, (vehemently denied by Irish-American millionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney - who is now suspending his "Giving-While-Living" funding in Ireland by 2016, the centenary of the 1916 Rising!) (Hmmm! Wonder if the FG/Lab Govt projections became a self-fulfilling prophesy, causing them to shoot themselves and the Not-For-Profit sector in the foot.) Hoisted with their own petard?

A west brit and a declared Anglo,both cut from the same cloth. A meeting of challenged minds.

I hope Enda invited Mitt and Ann to attend Goffs in the hopes of persuading him, when he becomes President, to order the FDA to approve Irish thoroughbreds to be prescribed for all MS patients in the US and to be covered by Medicare, the VA and Medicaid. What a boost that would be for our bloodstock industry.

Given Ireland's history, and its centuries of control by Anglo-Saxons, I wonder if Romney's aide includes the Irish in his notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority.

At least Enda has some good positive comments to make about the Olympics. Mitt should follow his example. I noticed last night that there was a bigger than normal cheer for the Irish team in the stadium. The BBC commentators remarked on this.

Enda Kenny's official title is Taoiseach, not Prime Minister. The 6:30 PM C.B.S. news yesterday correctly called him Taoiseasch Kenny. While discussing U.S.-Irish relationships, I hope that emigrants from all parts of Ireland - nor only those from Kenny's jurisdiction - were includd. The Kenny-Romney meeting ws held in London, the city of my birth, but my 'nationality' applies to "the whole [Irs] nation and all its parts".