188 Comments

• windswiper | Dec 27, 2012, 09:21 PM EST

  The Irish must have a vendetta against America if 96 percent of them would have cast their vote in favor of this immoral creep. I would not wish the likes of this man on Ireland or any other nation . This buffoon is the 'worst' president in U.S. history. Ronald Reagan, of good Irish stock, was the best.

• LindaMarie | Nov 09, 2012, 07:03 AM EST

  @ColleenMcVeety Get a grip on yourself. People have opinions, regardless of whether they can vote in a US election. Or are you going to come up with some conspiracy to blame the Irish for Romney's miserable loss? Gasp!!! That must be it! Romney totally would have been president if Irish people didn't post on the internet! Frigging basketcase.

• Madeliene | Oct 26, 2012, 11:55 AM EDT

  I know why the Middle East want vo to be Pres! The Irish? Misery loves company?

• johnshiel | Oct 26, 2012, 10:15 AM EDT

  this is a goofy premise, who would the Irish vote for... but I have to say it has elicited maybe the best and most illuminating comments I've seen yet on this site. Really. If someone wanted to undertand viewpaoints of Irish and Irish Americans today, they's be hard pressed to beat this. Warts 'n' all, as they say...

• Boldeagle | Oct 25, 2012, 11:57 AM EDT

  Just lost a lot of respect for the Irish. Is it ignorance or bias that makes you love Obama so much? Americans don't know the man so how can you? One day the truth will hopefully come out about this guy and when it does, it won't be pretty. All those who would "vote" for him in Ireland will look foolish. There may be the odd thing about the President that is admirable but in the bigger picture, the man is a fraud and a fake through and through. Who he pretends to be is not who he is. He does not love America and is quite probably trying to bring the country to it's knees. There are millions of examples but here's just one. Do you not remember when he told the President of Russia that he would have more flexibility after the election and to pass that message on to Vladamir (Putin)? Remember, he thought the mic was off and his comment was not meant to be heard by the American public. Do any of you have a suggestion as to what he might have been talking about? Isn't that rather scary? Is this someone you would trust? How about the latest story. The ring on his finger is the same ring Michelle put on as his wedding band. It's also the same ring he wore at Harvard and there's even an article in the Harvard Law Review in which his classmates joke about that ring, since he wore it on his wedding finger. There's an inscription on the ring, in Arabic. It basically says there is but one god and that is Allah. So what is a man who professes to be a good Christian doing wearing a ring for 25 years with that inscription? Possibly an innocent coincidence but given that it's the President, wouldn't anyone like to know more about the apparent contradiction? Bigger question. Why are the Irish so asleep about this man? If you want to learn what the mainstream press will never print, go to WND or World New Daily in the US. They are far closer to the truth than the mainstream press or 96% of the Irish population.

• RthrBHistCorr | Oct 24, 2012, 10:55 PM EDT

  I would vote for Obama too if he was 3,000 miles away. I wonder what the Irish would say if you were to ask Americans who they would vote for Taoiseach?

• AlDente | Oct 24, 2012, 10:20 AM EDT

  After years of the country moving to the left Ronald Reagan made it cool to be conservative. The country has slid even further to the right since then such that Reagan now wouldn't pass the Republican litmus test. The Democratic party is to the right of where the Republican party was 40 years ago and the Republican party today is where the lunatic fringe right was decades ago. Growing up William F Buckley was a hero of mine but he famously kicked the John Birchers out of the Republican party because he knew the GOP would not be taken seriously as long as it had so many nuts in it. Now the Birchers and other fringe are the moral and intellectual leaders of the Republican party. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. We have a conservative party in the US; it is the Democratic party. We have a wingnut party here too and it is the Republican party. I used to be a Republican but the party has moved so far to the right that it no longer represents me or any sane person.

• Scrivner | Oct 23, 2012, 05:12 PM EDT

  Hence the push for voer ID laws in the States--to keep illegals from illegally voting.

• chocolatesauce | Oct 23, 2012, 04:44 PM EDT

  There are many reasons why the GOP is hated in Ireland, but there are (at least) two underlying cultural reasons: The Irish hate imperialism and we have a deep-rooted sense of community and solidarity, something Americans obviously lack, as judged by the contempt they show the poor and the sick. Although the Democratic party is just as guilty as the GOP for the violent, anti-democratic empire the US has maintained since the 40's, the GOP is by far the cheerleader for that empire and thus gains the most notice and blame for its crimes.

• Maccy | Oct 23, 2012, 04:11 PM EDT

  "Most irish are Catholic Conservatives, fiercely apposed to abortion"?? Has this writer ever stepped foot on Irish soil because by the sounds of it, he is writing about an Ireland of a bygone era. The writing in this article is not only delusional but also an arrogant view of Irish American political perceptions. The reason Irish people like the democratic party (in particular Obama and Clinton) has noting to do with conservatism (which has long since passed) or abortion. It has everything to do with the Irish ability to decipher realism from claptrap and to repel jingoistic hollywood nonsensical rhetoric that the republicans have been throwing up for decades. Seriously, stop talking nonsense.

• peterson | Oct 23, 2012, 02:31 PM EDT

  They say that figures don't lie, BUT -- Liars do figure !! This must be the situation !!

• hunter933 | Oct 23, 2012, 10:01 AM EDT

  Maybe because the Republicans are so scary?

• Chicago1 | Oct 23, 2012, 09:30 AM EDT

  Your own paper is reporting an Irish Times poll states that 79% of Irish would vote for Obama. Again, only 1000 people were polled.

• Midwest | Oct 23, 2012, 02:26 AM EDT

  >> "Puzzled Americans ask why do Irish in Ireland dislike the GOP so much?" It could have something to do with American maladministration under the GOP not only destroying the US economy but destroying the Irish economy even more completely. Stop with the "blame the GOP" talk. It's effin' pathetic. The economy went down because both parties allowed Americans to loan out mortgages that they couldn't afford ... mostly it was the DNC's doing. Frank & Dodd -- look it up. Read it. Study it. Comprehend it. And those who think the GOP dominated Wall Street - yea, not so much. STOP blaming it on the GOP because you sound like a tool.

• Smyrnian | Oct 22, 2012, 08:04 PM EDT

  Thankfully they cannot vote here. They have enough problems electing an effective government for themselves. Ireland, once again cannot support it's own people; sending young people away one every 5 minutes! Bodes ill for their future.

• jamieLM | Oct 22, 2012, 06:26 PM EDT

  As an American, I don't care one twit what anyone in Ireland thinks about who Americans should elect. The Irish don't live here. I don't expect anyone in Ireland to care one twit who I think they should elect to any government office, either, since I don't live in Ireland. Remember the old saying - MYOB?

• O'Hanlon | Oct 22, 2012, 05:31 PM EDT

  Not only did Obama track down Osama Bin Laden he also snagged Whitey Bulger too wrapping up essentially the last Irish-American organised crime boss in the US. Think the difference between Irish-American GOP supporters and the core Irish electorate is the fact that most old school Irish-American neighbourhoods in America have mostly either been gentrified or have become Dominican strongholds like Inwood. Hell's Kitchen and SOuth Boston are today full of precious, effete and indulgent hipsters and Yuppies so I guess te demographics of these neighbourhoods reflect how dull, diluted and commercialised the residents now are in these once community neighbourhoods. No wonder they're all "O'Reilley Factor" wannabes now.

• Smyrnian | Oct 22, 2012, 04:00 PM EDT

  Dublindee - You need to check in once in a while. While you (and I) were gone it did indeed turn socialist. Take a good look.

• Banjoe81 | Oct 22, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT

  Sorry guys but if you read this thinking everybody but a few voted on this survey then your as narrow minded as the person who wrote this article.I for one think neither are good for the job but that the problem with not having enough choice for what is essentially the most important job on planet.

• phinsman | Oct 22, 2012, 02:27 PM EDT

  It is wonderful to hear how liberal and open minded the Irish are, which is just like I am. I am hoping my liberalism and open mindedness came from my Irish heritage.

• McNamara31 | Oct 22, 2012, 10:57 AM EDT

  supman How's the air up there on your perch as you look down and make incredulous generalizations about Europeans. So its as easy as; the strong left, and the weak stayed behind.Sounds like something Hannity would say to his simpletons. .

• bobby | Oct 22, 2012, 07:15 AM EDT

  1,000 people were surveyed, the majority of Irish people couldn't care less who wins.

• Dublindee | Oct 21, 2012, 10:24 PM EDT

  Cryin laughing at the many negative comments and "socialist" commentary. I have grew up in Ireland and am in the USA 14 years. I can confirm we are neither insane not beholden to Government. Conservationism in Europe is effectively a moderate to centrist version of the US. This should be a wake up call for Americans and how far this country has alienated itself from the rest of the globe.

• Betty Schueler | Oct 21, 2012, 10:21 PM EDT

  It just shows how intelligent the Irish people are. I am amazed at how so many people, in the US, can be bamboozled into voting for people who couldn't care less about what happens to them. I like it to slaves voting for their masters. It is insane.

• Gordan Duggan | Oct 21, 2012, 09:43 PM EDT

  96% that's interesting. Nobody asked me and I have lived in Ireland all my life. Where exactly was this poll conducted and by whom? Nobody I know has ever heard of this. Stephen Glenn, I assure you most of us in Ireland are completly sane and supman those of us "left behind" as you call us are far from timid and listless. We may be in financial difficulties at the moment but we have not lost our minds. America needs more then TWO political parties in order to have more of a choice. Most Irish people are for Israel and Palestine and wish their difficulties could be sorted out. We can see the problems both sides face and both are entitled to homelands. Why are there are so many anti-Irish people on this supposed Irish site?

• Stephen Glenn | Oct 21, 2012, 08:49 PM EDT

  I was proud of my Irish heritage till I learned 96% were insane

• supman | Oct 21, 2012, 08:41 PM EDT

  No surprise here. Just like the rest of Europe, the best and boldest left behind the stagnation and immigrated to America. The timid, listless masses who remained behind are content to let the government take care of them. I'm of Irish origin, but proud to be an American first.

• Mgvsmith | Oct 21, 2012, 07:52 PM EDT

  For those who like to talk about standing on their own two feet and not accepting government handouts, who bailed out the big US banks in 2008? Short memories,....a bit like Mitt Romney?

• grimchieftain | Oct 21, 2012, 07:08 PM EDT

  I love Ireland and the Irish people but what they think about American politics and a dollar will get you a cheap cup of coffee.

• seanomelb | Oct 21, 2012, 06:32 PM EDT

  Tom Mo!! you were referring to the Irish press and now you change trains and some how include Crowley who told the truth about the "rose garden" comment.

• AlunPalmer | Oct 21, 2012, 06:18 PM EDT

  No surprise to me either. My mother voted Conservative in England but tells me she would never vote Republican. Same goes for me, although I voted Liberal half the time, but never Labour. Academic really, as I have never taken US citizenship and my mum lives in Spain! It show you how much further to the right American politics is when compared to Europe, though.

• Helen Ferone | Oct 21, 2012, 06:11 PM EDT

  That's because they don't live in America. There's a lot we don't know about Obama and never will.

• pilib04 | Oct 21, 2012, 05:39 PM EDT

  Absolutely no surprise, here, whatsoever. The Irish, are partial to their own. They took to Obama when he came to Ireland like fish to water. There was no warming up period, just genuine love and respect. Is feidir linn.

• hooligan6a | Oct 21, 2012, 05:32 PM EDT

  I believe it. The majority of Irish are European Socialist. They want the government to take them. They have not learned how to stand on their own two feet and not depend on a government handout. I still have hope for you and will keep you in my prayers.

• Renelda M. | Oct 21, 2012, 05:25 PM EDT

  As I see it, many dyed in the wool partisans just cannot or will not think outside the political box. They habitually or traditionally vote the party,not the person running for office.

• andydonegal | Oct 21, 2012, 04:43 PM EDT

  I think many people in Ireland are, quite simply, disgusted at the antics of the GOP - a party bought and paid for by big business such as Koch Industries and the multi-millionaire Koch Brothers, who never stand for any public office but use their wealth to buy appropriate plebs to do their bidding. God knows we have our own crooks in politics here in Ireland [on both sides of the Border] but many reel in amazement at just how crooked the GOP is ... Romney's company Bain has heavily invested in the company that owns the voting machines in Ohio and other crucial States. Ryan forcing his way into a closed Soup Kitchen and had himself photographed washing clean pots - pretending he actually cared about those who need soup kitchens. Romney severely criticising Obama for saving the American auto industry, but quietly making a profit of at least $15M out of it. The list of GOP 'sins' just goes on and on - from the public denunciations of abortion while secretly forcing a mistress to have an abortion to calling those who, through no fault of their own, had their jobs exported to China and need assistance, moochers and [privately] labelling them as worthless of concern, to planning to deny, or at least make much more expensive, healthcare for millions - criticising Obamacare which not so long ago was Romneycare and, according to Romney himself, was worthy of being rolled out across the nation. There is simply neither integrity nor truth in the GOP manifesto. Perhaps the most odious aspect of the GOP is its veiled racism - they dislike Obama for no other reason than that he is black - but of course they lack the balls [and the honesty] to come out and say it!! America simply can't afford a Romney Presidency - neither can the rest of the world! The Irish are NOT turkeys who would vote for Thanksgiving ..... it's a tragedy that so many Americans seem content to be those turkeys!!!

• SpiffySean | Oct 21, 2012, 04:34 PM EDT

  I'm just wondering who "Ragan" is?

• Change4hope | Oct 21, 2012, 04:21 PM EDT

  I have no doubt that the percentage of Irish citizenry that would vote for Obama is high. So many of the comments that I see today speak about the UN and how wonderful it is, how the Irish relate to the Palestinians and how you are against US support for Israel. One fool even commented on how the UN should move to Belgium or some European country. I suggest Ireland. then you can absorb the costs of the deadbeat delegations. The US provides more support for the UN and its member nations than any other nation and is vilified in spite of it. Do I care that more people in Ireland would vote for Obama or that some of them think the US image has suffered? Not in the slightest! I could give a rat's a_ _ what a country that ostracized their own for fighting against Hitler's Germany in WWII thinks!

• Pregxi | Oct 21, 2012, 04:21 PM EDT

  My great-grandmother came from Ireland and was a fierce Democrat; I find it interesting to see how family history can shape political views for generations. I wouldn't have guessed they supported Obama by that wide of a margin. That's pretty brutal. I do have to point this out (my philosophy professor asked us to correct any article that gets it wrong), it doesn't "beg the question" it "raises the question".

• Chlodagh | Oct 21, 2012, 03:51 PM EDT

  @ MotherIrish. That is such a crock. If you speak to many Irish they are not even that familiar with our domestic policies (re: dole). This is based on two things. U.S. foreign policy and historical politics. I've actually been in houses in Ireland that still have dusty pictures of JFK up on the wall. Similarly there are many that still ask why Clinton can't be president again. Both Clinton and Kennedy have been influential for obvious reasons. Democratic presidents have long been heroes to the Irish, Obama included.

• patrickesq | Oct 21, 2012, 03:24 PM EDT

  How can the Irish be so perceptive in their unity and the Americans so dim in their diversity!

• hollabackgurl | Oct 21, 2012, 03:23 PM EDT

  I've voted for Obama early and I'm Irish so I guess the Irish people have a justified reputation for wisdom.

• Smyrnian | Oct 21, 2012, 03:06 PM EDT

  Box- I have been here a big while longer than you and have lived in many states but hey, I respect your opinion. Maybe you are right, the younger, less experienced, less mature and less seasoned Irish may love Obama. I will concede your point.

• McNamara31 | Oct 21, 2012, 02:44 PM EDT

  MotherIrish ..The truly great inspiration that America showed to the world was you could come here, stand on your two feet and succeed like you father and most other Irish; however if you were unfortunate in your quest for the American dream, and you became a widow or and orphan or contracted TB you had a nation with an ethic to take care of unfortunate. The difference is the Democrat platform has a place for the unfortunate and the GOP, like yourself feel as you said so condescendingly " they like being on the dole" And when it comes to the division and as you put it: "a country split like I have never seen" you can thank the distortion, outright smear, and vilification of this president and the people who support him. And lastly when you say "Give me a business man over a profession liberal politician" Truth be told instead of FOX prop, Romney as governor placed 47th in the nation for JOB CREATION. Give me a leader of the all people, not a corporate raider who'll be anyone you "want him to be" just to get your vote.

• Dompedro | Oct 21, 2012, 01:52 PM EDT

  really surprised and dismayed by the partisanship and vitriol, but then you could ask. where have I been hiding the last few months? But Murph46 pretty well nailed it; his figures on employment, debt, debit, etc are U. S. Gov't numbers. Kibbey is concerned that American workers are being told that a Romney win would mean that they would lose their jobs; someone should tell him that 15% of us already have. CelticQueen says that when "they' are in power, we have wars. I checked a little: WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam war. She may be very young or just the product of the modern US education system. Gorden the Hider says that the US destroyed that Irish economy; not any more than they destroyed the Greek or Portuguese economies. And he conveniently overlooks the Party to which Frank, Dodd, Schumer, Pelosi and other advocates of sub prime loans to poor people belong. Rpberts = Irish? more likely Welsh, Scots? and then the Irish and americans get advixce from those who don't live either place. Hey Sean, hpw ya doin'?

• MotherIrish | Oct 21, 2012, 01:32 PM EDT

  I think most of the premises used here are false. The reason the Irish in Ireland would vote for Obama is they like being on the dole. There is a different psyche there for the Irish than the Irish who came to America. My dad was one of those who came and made sure all of us kids - 5 in all - understood that America was a country in which you stood on your own two feet, the lesser amount of gov't the better, and to work hard for what you get. Many of us in America do not see much value in most of the UN actions. We could side with the Palestinines if we though but we rose above our selves and the Brits. The Palestinines want Israel gone. We never want the Brits gone off the face of the map, just to leave us alone and stay on their own ground not ours. Unions for gov't employees is just wrong, wrong wrong. They get paid better, have more days off and better pensions than the rest of America - Why?? Should be equal to the rest of us. Many companies are finding out that outsourcing is no longer viable and jobs are coming back to the USA. & We don't need the Irish input/ After all, we don't weigh in on who they elect - for good or for bad. Personally we cannot deal with 4 more years of high borrowing, higher and higher medical cost, debt to strangle our kids and grandkids, apologies to Muslims, horrid foreign policy, no real energy policy, throwing good money after bad in bad 'green' energy investments (my tax $$'s) and a country split like I have never seen in my 71 years. Give me a business man over a profession liberal politician any day. VOTE ROMNEY/RYAN

• branagh | Oct 21, 2012, 01:12 PM EDT

  This type of report should carry a health advisory based on the deep upset and apopleptic responses of some IC readers!

• McNamara31 | Oct 21, 2012, 12:57 PM EDT

  The Romney's GOP has a 5 Phase approach; First, Silence the voices of the American worker through crushing unions. Second, suppress the voice of everyday Americans with voter suppression and Citizens United. Third, Outsource American jobs to surge corporate profits.Fourth, deliver all moneys presently in Medicare and Social Security to corporate Wall St interests.And Fifth, give themselves some more tax breaks. That's the Romney/Ryan future.

• Mgvsmith | Oct 21, 2012, 12:36 PM EDT

  I'm a bit surprised at the amount of Obama bashing on here. I live in Northern Ireland and I feel there would be a better balance than 96-4 in the voting patterns of Ulster folk but the majority would still be for Obama. I think many here underestimate how cool Obama makes America appear to the rest of the world. And that was a difficult task considering the foreign and domestic policy legacy of George W.

• boxnewyork1 | Oct 21, 2012, 12:31 PM EDT

  I am Irish, living in NY for 10 years. Smyrnia- you must not know any Irish people in the US under the age of 40 because the Irish community here would overwhelmingly vote for Obama given the chance. Mreinhar2001- your ignorant comments regarding Irish in America is just a fine example of the frustration many feel about the GOP mindset. It is extremely difficult to find a way to citizenship for Irish in America. Myself and my husband have been in the process for the past 7 years and still no progress in the case. We pay our taxes and have 2 American children born here yet are denied any clear way to citizenship. I think Irish and Europeans support Obama as he is morally a better candidate.

• haasny007 | Oct 21, 2012, 12:13 PM EDT

  McNamara31 - AMEN!

• McNamara31 | Oct 21, 2012, 11:36 AM EDT

  For all with their FOX style continued bashing of Obama; I would suggest reading articles regarding the closing of the Bain's (Romney) Sensata plant in which a company who made all time profits,is now being "Outsourced" to China and all American workers were required to train their Chinese replacement before their last day of work. This is the Romney future you are voting for. An America, where "Gordon Gekko" corporate raiders take profitable American companies and off shore them in search of obscene profits margins. Its all business to them. The hell with the worker, the community and years of dedicated service. You will soon see a future America where huge amounts of the population are unemployed including manufacturing, engineering, radiology, information systems.Globalization did start this trend, but companies like Bain added fuel to the fire with leveraged buy outs that made American workers a very disposable commodity.Ireland you saw this when Dell pulled out of Limerick, but this will happen everyday in America under a Romney pro outsourcing presidency.

• Smyrnian | Oct 21, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT

  I am Irish born living in the US and I have never heard of an Irish person actually saying they would vote for Obama. More IC wishful thinking. Anyway, Ireland needs to get its own act together first and start electing the right people over there.

• Towngate | Oct 21, 2012, 10:48 AM EDT

  Patrick! This is plainly STUPID! WHO asked 100% of Irish people what they thought!It is assertions like yours that make us believe America really does deserve appalling presidents like - soon to be - Hobo-ama! ~~~~ The UN is discraced because it is percieved rightly as an American Political Plaything!! -- Walking out and dragging their toady state-lets with them when they are in danger of hearing something they might not like! The US DENYING entry visas to UN representatives of Nations whose future is being discussed with their enemies;(Serbia) - whilst criminally continuing to bomb their Capital City! Brazenly ignoring countless resolutions condemning their pet state. The UN should be truly independant and should relocate to Geneva, Switzerland; there it might regain some element of dignity and respect! ~~ The Irish are well-versed historically in recognising Terror-Authority such as US sanctioned anti-Palestinian monstrosities. It is a wonder the Irish are even talking to Americans,let alone considering them as close friends!

• mollymaguire | Oct 21, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT

  I'm an American of Irish descent and I've been to Ireland nine times now and I love every inch of it. Would I vote for Obama??? Absolutely not!!! He has done absolutely nothing for the USA since he took office and if he is re-elected, our country will be ruined in the upcoming next 4 years. He's an imbecile and doesn't have the intelligence to run any country. As for Obama Care! It's the worst thing that could happen to the senior citizens and it's already showing in many ways to include premium hikes and also more money being taken out for Medicare in the new year. So why give the seniors a raise if it's only being taken back to cover the premium hikes. Get him the hell out of the White House and as far as I care, out of the country and back to where he was born.

• mreinhar2001 | Oct 21, 2012, 09:54 AM EDT

  What a silly article. It does not matter who the Irish citizens would vote for in a US election. They cannpt vote because they are not citizens of the US, therefore their opinion does not matter when it comes to our electoral matters. If they want to vote, then they can make the effort to obtain US citizenship. Ireland allows for dual citizenship, so the excuse that they do not want to give up Irish citizenry would not be a factor.

• micky74007 | Oct 21, 2012, 09:25 AM EDT

  Please take this muslim if you like him so much. He'd fit right in with your bankrupted economy.

• shuvonn | Oct 21, 2012, 08:03 AM EDT

  alistz thinks that Obama has achieved nothing yet he and not bush got Osama bin Laden. Passed Obama care and in case you forgot it Romney passed that before in Massachusetts so he was for it before he was against it. Obama has rounded up more illegals in the US than Bush did in his whole term. Romney does not care about 47% of the voters, and you seem to not know who is part of that percentage, retired people, former service men who are NOT on welfare so you are lying about that one and if Obama said the same thing I would be against him. Romney has been caught on tape telling employers to tell their employees who they need to vote for, some democracy he advocates. Romney pays less taxes than the majority of people who are paying taxes at merely 14% and he thinks that's just fine. It's almost amusing that you think birth control is somehow a communist concept or that it will be distributed free when that is far from the truth. Good lord you really need to wind your neck in.

• Los Leandros | Oct 21, 2012, 07:43 AM EDT

  One's immediate reaction is, what a pointless poll, what a waste of money. It does'nt matter, it's not going to affect the outcome how " paddy " might vote. But it is indicative of the intellectual dumbing down of Irish society in the last 20 years or so. As a proud Irishman, it pains me to say so. Do these idiots not realise that the Democrats policies ( vis-a-vis US direct investment ) would impact disastrously on the Irish economy. I suspect it's a wooly, sentimental reaction. Most of them have also been brain-washed by a constant Obama-friendly ( nay obsessed ) Irish media.

• GordonHide | Oct 21, 2012, 06:48 AM EDT

  "Puzzled Americans ask why do Irish in Ireland dislike the GOP so much?" It could have something to do with American maladministration under the GOP not only destroying the US economy but destroying the Irish economy even more completely.

• Mgvsmith | Oct 21, 2012, 06:25 AM EDT

  The majority of the Irish people identify with Obama because he is the modern representative of civil rights America. The Civil Rights movement in the US and the pursuit of social justice which it represented (and represents) elides with the social justice values which are important to the vast majority of people on the island of Ireland. It's as simple as that.

• cinderfella1 | Oct 21, 2012, 06:07 AM EDT

  The Irish people are too good for thier own good; however, if they were born and raised in this country and see what it's like to live in this country, they would soon vote against him.

• mairint | Oct 21, 2012, 12:52 AM EDT

  The so called love affair of the Irish for Obama has some weird twists to it. It is propagated by the lefty media. When Pres. Reagan set up Reaganomics (which did wonders for the U.S.) the Irish were angry as it stopped the regular flow of American tourists who spent their money in Ireland. Then with the media hate fest for Pres. Bush picked up by Irish media, the old love for democrats kicked in again. The worst side of it all is the trend of the modern Irish not to be leaders but just to be followers, not think for themselves, leads to 'stars in their eyes' for the flowery flattery of the Clintons and especially then when the cunning Obama claimed some Irish heritage. They got a thrill with that and fawned over him when he came to Ireland like kids around a rock star. Now, with few exceptions, the Irish are incapable of seeing the danger of the man who is a confused mix of communism and Islam with a particular dislike of Christianity.

• PHELANJM | Oct 21, 2012, 12:42 AM EDT

  If the Irish would like to have Obama, I can assure you that I and every other Catholic in South Carolina would be happy to see him relocate.

• Tom Mo | Oct 21, 2012, 12:32 AM EDT

  Seanomelb. A free press is one that will protect the citizens from the tyranny of government, by informing them of the facts and investigating corruption. We have a free press but unfortunately it, and the media in general are in bed with the socialists. Y ou may have noticed Candy Crowley the other night coming to the aid of Obama with a lie in front of 60 million people. She later retracted that lie but not in front of 60 million listeners. Get my point?

• Tom Mo | Oct 20, 2012, 11:52 PM EDT

  Eirimach. My short answer to your question is yes. Duped by misinformation. Just as some here in the US are duped.

• Alistz | Oct 20, 2012, 11:40 PM EDT

  The failure of Obama/Pelosi/Reed for the last six years is acceptable to a country that was run for forty years be de Velara. Americans expect better, and as soon as we kick the low IQ joke who has been propped up by affirmative-action and hasn't an accomplishment to his name in his entire life, we'll turn it around. In the meantime, Obama can go on a tour with his fake Nobel Peace Prize and the whole lot of you can take it and shove it where the sun don't shine.

• seanomelb | Oct 20, 2012, 11:06 PM EDT

  Just a mo Tom!! the Irish newspapers are owned by the other 3.6% so much for your free press comments.

• averagejoewa | Oct 20, 2012, 11:04 PM EDT

  I think that a lot of the animosity towards the GOP amongst the Irish comes from the fact that Irish people in America were traditionally Democrats until a few decades ago. Therefore, Irish people see the Democrats as the Irish party even though many of the policies of the modern Democratic party are at odds with the personal views of many Irish people.

• Alistz | Oct 20, 2012, 11:03 PM EDT

  Here's a great example of how the Irishman just lacks information:
  ForTheRepublic!
  ...The fact that you call Obama a communist is just ridiculous...
  ***
  Let's lay out the REAL facts:
  1. Barack Obama senior was a communist who endorsed a 100% income tax.
  2. Stanley Dunham (Obama's mother) was a communist who met BHO Sr. in 1960 in Russian class.
  3. Ms Dunham gave instructions to her mother that BHO should visit Franklin Davis in Hawaii every week. Franklin Davis was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA. Barack called him 'Uncle Frank'.
  4. Mr. Obama moved to Chicago and his first political mentor was Alice Palmer, who was a member of the communist party.
  5. Mr. Obama became a dues paying member of the Chicago New Party, which is an openly socialist party.
  6. Mr. Obama joined Trinity United Church, which is a 'liberation' thelogy church, believing that Jesus Christ was a Socialist trying to overthrow Roman rule in favor of a socialist society.
  7. Mr. Obama became a working associate of William Ayers, a terrorist, who called himself "A Communist with a small 'c'".
  8. President Obama took over GM, giving the government 25% ownership and the Union 20% ownership, by fiat throwing out the normal US bankruptcy laws.
  9. President Obama has by fiat decreed that Birth Control should be distributed for free (Communist birth control) to all woman, and piss on the Catholic church if it doesn't like it.
  If I could make this many connections between a man and the KKK, you would certainly conclude he was a Klansman. Or, in your case, FortheRepublic, if I could make this many connections between you and idiots, I would assume you are an idiot too.

• McNamara31 | Oct 20, 2012, 10:59 PM EDT

  CitizenWhy "GOP is repellent to anyone familiar with Irish and Irish-American history" Well said and true.

• Alistz | Oct 20, 2012, 10:50 PM EDT

  Lokelani I am one of those 47% that Romney was quoted as saying that he would wash his hands off, that he would not be responsible for. **** This is a perfect example of the type of Distortion the left (and no doubt the Irish Press) engage in. Mr. Romney never said anything of the sort. He was asked about how he could cobble together a voting majority, and made the point that 47% of the people were so dependent on entitlement culture of Democrats (Socialists) that he wasn't wasting resources on trying to convince them a culture of growth and opportunity would benefit them more than dependency. Never did he say he didn't care about those people, such a lie. Let's restate what he said in the way in Irishman might: The Party that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw

• LisaJHD | Oct 20, 2012, 10:27 PM EDT

  I thank the Triune God that the Irish who responded to this poll do NOT have a vote in this upcoming American presidential election. About the only task that BHO has successfully done is to send the USA into decline -- financially, militarily, politically, and with respect to global standing. His disregard on the nation's Constitution is appalling. His administration's deceptive lies have damaged the reputation of the USA. The uncertainty that BHO's economic policies (including the future implementation of Obamacare) have fostered have resulted in a paralyzed business sector. Another four years of this same president would be even more disastrous for the USA.

• porkheaven | Oct 20, 2012, 10:26 PM EDT

  I am an Irish American and my family originated in the counties of Kerry,Longford,and Monahan. We would not vote for Obama because his spending and lack of leadership in protecting or country. He is one big liar.

• ForTheRepublic! | Oct 20, 2012, 10:11 PM EDT

  The fact that you call him Obummer which is just childish makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you call Obama a communist is just ridiculous and makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you blame Obama for the recession even though it was started by George Bush makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you can't accept your party is the reason for your own problems makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you call Obama a Muslim just makes you sound like a bigot so makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you were horrified at the thought of a black president makes you racist so makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you are obsessed with Obama's birth certificate makes us roll our eyes so we vote Democrat. The fact that you march in the name of Israel because you believe you are carrying out Biblical prophecy makes us think your party is made up of religious nut jobs makes us vote Democrat. The fact you are clueless to the fact that a large percentage of Palestinians are Christian and your so called holy land is becoming less and less Christian because of your ignorance and support for Israel makes us want to vote Democrat. The fact that you claim polluting the earth is fine because it will help bring about the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus is really f**ked up so makes us want to vote Democrat. This is part of the reason people vote Democrat because we believe the "Grand Old Party" to be a party of racist, gun loving, anglo saxon, bible thumping lunatics!

• borefield | Oct 20, 2012, 10:02 PM EDT

  The Irish are a nation of entitlements. They feel justified to take all they can from the government. They love to criticize the US, but have no trouble accepting our monetary aid. The UN is a useless institution and the American taxpayer gets stuck with the financial upkeep. Very few if any other country contributes. I for one would dearly love to donate Obama to to the Irish Nation.

• GDaugherty | Oct 20, 2012, 09:07 PM EDT

  Has anyone actually seen this Gallup Poll? I've searched for it 10 different ways on the Gallup website to no avail. If someone finds it, can you please post the link? Thanks!

• eiriamach | Oct 20, 2012, 08:59 PM EDT

  Do you really think that the Irish are simpletons duped by the media, Tom Mo?

• Tom Mo | Oct 20, 2012, 08:27 PM EDT

  I believe that the reason the Irish at home do not like Republicans is beacuse of media bias. Eamonn/Dublin said as much and I agree. My first vote as a U.S. citizen was cast for JFK. I was proud to vote for an Irish Catholic. JFK however was the last good Democrat President. He along with Hubert Humphry, Henry (Scoop) Jackson are long gone and so the the Democrat party of old. A new radical leftist party has taken over. Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, Holder, Clinton, are leftists and do not have America's best interests at heart. But they do have the media on there side. And the media are all for sharing wealth, redistribution of wealth,multiculturalism;abortion,contraception,planned parenthood and so forth. They,like the Democrats(Socialists, believe we should all be equal.They believe that the "rich" are evil. Meaning of course, the Republican rich. Not the filthy rich Democrats most of who "earned" their fortunes while on the public teat. Just look at the current situation. Mitt Romney a proven success. Created companies like Staples,Domino Pizza,The Home Depot, Toy r' U, employing and training thousands of people. Rescuing the Olympics from failure without pay; Governing Massecheutts (sp) without taking a salary. And donating millions to charity. Barack Obama never worked in the private sector. As President he gave billions of taxpayer dollars to so called green companies, 36 in all who have since failed. Evergreen Solar,SpectraWatt, and Solyndra, to mention just three, have all filed for bankruptcy. That's tax payer money down the drain. If the Irish in Ireland knew these facts would they still back Obama?

• Springfield9 | Oct 20, 2012, 08:22 PM EDT

  Well, if you are in bed with the Palestinians .... Obama is your man. The last big splash Mr. "O" made in Ireland was his ridiculous visit to Moneygall. Given the RTE coverage of that you would've thought his Mother was waiting for him. Ireland is simply misinformed and polled by incompetents.

• eiriamach | Oct 20, 2012, 08:09 PM EDT

  To follow up on EphraimK's comment, I suspect that most Irish do not fully appreciate the power of ideology to shut down the neurons of the cerebral cortex and leave Americans befuddled about their own political interests. People under the influence of the "American Dream" cannot see through the GOP's lies about wanting to serve 100 percent of the people. For a brief time, Ireland was under a similar influence. However, when the Irish economy crashed, most quickly saw through the political spin. Some saw through it even while it was happening. I remember being in Cork once when the Celtic Tiger was still roaring. I listened to a taxi driver talking about Ireland being "awash in money." He was working 16-18 hours a day, making money while he could, because he realized that the deluge of Euro into the country could not last. He was aghast at the making of millionaires by crony-buddy politicians, and we lamented together the fact that so little new Irish wealth was funding schools and job training, and services that would create permanent improvements for Ireland. The Irish may not have the great political leaders they once had, but they have always been savvy critical thinkers about politics whereas many Americans are hopelessly ideological!

• Lokelani | Oct 20, 2012, 07:55 PM EDT

  I am one of those 47% that Romney was quoted as saying that he would wash his hands off, that he would not be responsible for. We need to keep the President in office, who is willing to be responsible for all 100% of us. We do not need another "Tricky Dick" (Nixon) in the White House. I will be voting for our President, Barack Obama.

• hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2012, 07:35 PM EDT

  68 Nobel Prize Winners (some of them economists, but what do they know) today endorsed Obama for President. The Irish are in good company.

• seanomelb | Oct 20, 2012, 07:30 PM EDT

  The Israeli terrorist state over this week has pirated another humanitarian ship on the high seas bombed farms in Gaza run by international NGO's and their terrorist soldiers on the west bank held back Palestinian farmers and watched illegal settlers burn olive trees some of the 3ooyrs. People like Bishop Sean and my old school "pal" Eamonn condone the rape and pillage of the palestinian people.

• EphraimKibbey | Oct 20, 2012, 07:24 PM EDT

  Sometimes you must step back from a problem to see it in its true form. Obviously the majority of those polled in Ireland have an objective view of the American Presidential race. Many people in America are tied to special interest groups and vote the interest of the group rather than what is best for the nation. To point, many workers are now being told by their bosses that if Obama wins, they will lose their jobs.

• EphraimKibbey | Oct 20, 2012, 07:18 PM EDT

  edmundburke - Its 1., 2., 3., 4. not 1., 2., 3., 3.

• BishopSean | Oct 20, 2012, 07:08 PM EDT

  A timely article by Roberts. Éamonn in Dublin explains it’s due to media bias. Re: identifying with Palestinians’ plight, consider statement by retired Saudi Navy Commodore named Abdulateef Al-Mulhim, published at Arab News. “Not only is there a severe dearth of Arab commentators willing to ask such difficult questions, but Western media gatekeepers (at the Guardian and elsewhere) seem to believe that Arab ‘authenticity’ requires that blame for Arab political, social and economic problems continue to be place squarely on Israel. But, the hardest question that no Arab national wants to hear is whether Israel is the real enemy of the Arab world and the Arab people. The Arab world wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and lost tens of thousands of innocent lives fighting Israel… And, isn’t it about time that Western commentators stop indulging the worst impulses of the Arab world, and cease in allowing Arab leaders to scapegoat their vexing social problems on Jews, Israel and the West?”

• myhomenj | Oct 20, 2012, 07:06 PM EDT

  I and all the Irish Americans I know , will be voting for Mr. Romney. I hope the 96% group in Ireland stay right were they are. Good luck with your gathering.

• oaklongan | Oct 20, 2012, 06:58 PM EDT

  hughaed, "War's a good business, invest your son" Mort Sahl sarcastically said on his radio program in 1963, following the asassination of President JK Kennedy. Young German boys-men were pressed into service from the 1200s? to the late 1700; they were seen as convenient cannon-fodder by the petty German princes, sitting on their small hilltop domains for various wars often fought for trivial purposes, in central Europe. This continued in the late 1700s in American under German-English King George's time in the British army before, during and after the American Revolution. Some and maybe many Hessian soldiers left the British armies (or deserted) to scatter throughout the eastern seaboard and well into the country before, during and after the American Revolution.

• seanomelb | Oct 20, 2012, 06:18 PM EDT

  half the US population,such as blackduck fail to see the bleeding obvious and they would rather vote on gun and religious issue rather than "bread and Butter" issues.They would rather shoot themselves in the foot with NRA policy than feed or educate their kids.

• seagreen | Oct 20, 2012, 05:58 PM EDT

  Irish/American Republicans.. You are really no different than the people that your forebears hated. The same ilk, just a different identity and more money, and a set of golf clubs..

• Chiefjustice | Oct 20, 2012, 05:46 PM EDT

  Perhaps if thay, the 98% could and Did vote for the Pres. Along with the entire Britsh NAVY voting the same. And the French people as well... Yeah he could win...Too bad thay cant vote..

• southside77 | Oct 20, 2012, 05:41 PM EDT

  Please remember that the Irish also were neutral, during World War Two, when 6 million Jews were slaughtered. It must be nice to sit back and be so smugly self righteous.How would the Irish have fared under Nazi rule? Or how many would have collaborated with the Nazis? The Irish can send us the thank you note when they pull their heads out off there rear ends.

• PiperMac52 | Oct 20, 2012, 05:27 PM EDT

  This revealing regarding Ireland's ideology whereby embracement of redistributionist/Socialist over a man who is the epitome of the free market system on which this great nation was founded and which brought untold millions to these shores seeking opportunity, including millions of Irish(my great-Grandparents included). Socialism has not worked out so well for Europe....has it?

• Happyhippo | Oct 20, 2012, 05:15 PM EDT

  Why do people love to shoebox everybody into republican/democrat,when there are many shades in between, i was Born in Ireland i have traveled to many places have friends in NOLA USA,(New Orleans)Had my own family in UK

• Blackduck | Oct 20, 2012, 05:01 PM EDT

  hughaed.....................My Great Grandpa who came to the USA in the 1880s; from Co. Donegal was an ardent Capitalist, as was my Grandpa!

• aloistmartin | Oct 20, 2012, 04:37 PM EDT

  Supporting Enda Kenny`s clandestine Crusade against Sinn Fein, and Gerry Adams; And, supporting Obama/Biden, simply makes no sense at all ! I. suggest the Statisticians go back and check their Numbers !

• Blackduck | Oct 20, 2012, 04:25 PM EDT

  Fortunately the majority of America doesn’t agree with hollabackgurl; reference the recent poles. Because our leader proved he can't think on his feet during the debates. We already knew that Obama can't make quick decision.. Biden also proved he is a bad joke.

• JudyStinger | Oct 20, 2012, 04:13 PM EDT

  The Irish have their own problems for sure. The President ran on hope and change - we've received none of that - only never ending debt, a worsening economy, no jobs, horrific housing market, unsecured borders, no immigration reform, skyrocketing gas and food prices. The final straw was when 4 Americans were tortured and murdered and our Preident chose to go on campaigning in Vegas. We are not Europe - but rather the greatest country in the free world and our elected officials forget that they work for us and we own this country. Its time for a change.

• Blackduck | Oct 20, 2012, 04:01 PM EDT

  Our Fearless Socialist leader is not destroying their country. Even a great country like the USA cannot take another four years of him. He is destroying our military; our economy, and our way of life!

• hollabackgurl | Oct 20, 2012, 03:52 PM EDT

  The Irish people know a smiling two faced grifter when they see one, and Romney is. He's what one poster here today called a Latter Day Trojan Horse.

• EamonnDublin | Oct 20, 2012, 03:49 PM EDT

  The vast majority of the people in Ireland get their views on United States politics from RTE radio and television, Newstalk Radio, and/or the written media. RTE is abysmally biased in favour of Obama, Newstalk radio is even moreso. The newspapers also lean very heavily in that direction. The aforesaid is a given - even the media itself will admit it. It is so biased that it is no longer general news media we get here; it is a published left wing liberal agenda. A lot of the stuff we are subjected to is simply childish - such as a respected radio presenter sneeringly saying a couple of weeks ago, when a baby began to cry as Mitt Romney began to hold it, that Romney "is a DISASTER". Or Lara Marlowe in the "Irish Times" after the second Obama/Romney debate this week, saying that when Romney was (in her ultra-biased view) confirmed to be "wrong" by Miss Candy Democrat on the Benghazi issue, "Romney appeared to slam down both his fists" in embarrassment. This is the sort of stuff that forms the opinion of a lot of Irish people. This is also the sort of stuff that unfortunately forms the opinion of who those same Irish vote for in Irish elections - resulting in a crowd of gombeen, incoherent, small-minded, small time politicians who have no idea how to run a country - only how to get local votes and hang in as long as they can. That is also why most of Ireland supports Obama - they haven't got a CLUE themselves, it's just what the MEDIA tells them. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

• alisaann | Oct 20, 2012, 03:41 PM EDT

  even the americans HATE the GOP....they LOVE taking from the POOR to give to the RICH....getting us into un-needed wars...and sooooo many other things. alisa

• jflanagan | Oct 20, 2012, 03:32 PM EDT

  It is sad and telling that President Obama would get the vote, if this were a believable poll, when he has no plan to reform the tax system to eliminate loopholes, no plan to save SS and Medicare from running out of money, no plan to cut spending in the here and now and has helped to put our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren in debt for nearly $52,000 each and climbing. He has helped to slow the Gross Domestic Product growth that spending is over 20% higher than when President Clinton did so well. My father grew up in and my grandfather worked in the Depression years. Both said FDR was good by keeping everyone's hopes up but it was companies such as Esso, Allied Chemical and the like in our area that got them through the depression with only small discomforts. In 1946, months before his death, John Maynard Keynes warned of the overspending in non depression circustances and hoped the "invisible hand" Adam Smith wrote about would be more relied on to grow economies. I'm not a Republican, until last year I was a Committeeman for the local and County Democrat Party but got disillusioned by the wreckless policies of this new power grabbing, people crushing Democrat Party.

• hughaed | Oct 20, 2012, 03:19 PM EDT

  Re: the remarks about "Socialist leaning" Irish. A century ago most people who had been through hard times were "socialist leaning". Seventy years ago most Americans were "socialist leaning" because they had been through the bitterness of the great depression. "Socialist leaning" is a collective form of insurance against a plutocratic minority. The idea is that we are all responsible for each other in difficult times. It's interesting to observe that the poor are drummed into the military, often as a result of questionable invasions into other people's territory on the other side of the world, but the very same poor families who supply the soldiers, & who are in need of a social safety net are sneered at by the hard right of this country. It's sad to see so many American Irish adopt the "dog eat dog" attitude of predatory capitalism, which in the long run, is eroding the social fabric of what was (and still may be) a wonderful country that has drawn millions of Irish born people to its shores.

• mayoman1 | Oct 20, 2012, 03:13 PM EDT

  Because Ireland, after years of bullying from conservative England, has a highly developed social conscience and the Republicans in the U.S. have been very successful as non-believers in social programmes.

• MegK311 | Oct 20, 2012, 03:05 PM EDT

  Patricia Mayra, You are right I should have said that California was one of the highest taxed states. But it does not change the facts that Ca. is going bankrupt and many cities already have. More people are leaving Ca. than coming here as businesses move to other states because of the restrictions and taxes places on them.

• kubs | Oct 20, 2012, 02:57 PM EDT

  Au contraire. It is the American (politcal) educational system that suggests that it is somehow ok for less services & mgmt of :road & utility construction & repair , flood, tornado,& hurricane assistance, oversight of runaway banks & venture capitalists, in- trading by Wall Street executives, & the hoarding of capital by a few from the middle class, to name a few of rhe issues. When the rich have unchecked power, they become the highly rich. Reflect back on the robber barons of the late 1800's; one had Newport megamansions & workers' shanties. It was when American citizens organized to demand equal pay & benefits for equal labor that the budding middle class began to emerge. Romney is no friend of the middle class; he certainly will give those of you of the blue-collar working classes no respite. With all the tax cuts (don't think about asking the gov't for any help the next time the tornado takes your town down) & tax breaks for the entitled, your hope will be that these few will be willing to share their abundance with you. Dream on. But, I am aware this blurb will change no minds. But at least listen to the Irish.

• Donegal6 | Oct 20, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT

  The writer could have saved a lot of time and effort by saying that most Irish are socialist leaning. Am I wrong?????

• edmundburke | Oct 20, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT

  Why is Ireland pro-Obama and Irish Americans, at least 45%, for Romney? Here's an explanation. 1. The current Irish largely share the political views of their fellow European social democrats-- significant government involvement in economic affairs and business, significant government provision of social welfare programs, and opposition to vigorous American foreign policy. Thus they find the leftist views of Obama very appealing. 2. On the other hand, most Irish Americans are generations away from their Irish ancestors and have fully assimilated into American society. Ergo as many Irish Americans are as prone to be Republican as any other segment of American society of European heritage. 3. As demonstrated by many comments here, the Irish-Americans have developed an appreciation of the American free enterprise system, which contrasts strongly with the state socialism of Irish governments since 1922. They have seen real opportunities for employment, growth, and building a financial future in the United States as opposed to decades of high unemployment and a stifled economy in Ireland. 3. Although Irish American Catholics have been traditionally Democrats, there have always been Irish American Republicans. Many immigrants who fought for the North in the Civil War revered Lincoln's legacy and became Republicans. The Fenians collaborated with the Republican Party many times between 1865 and 1890. There has always been a hearty band of the Irish within the Republican Party, which group was happy to see the ranks swell when Irish American Ronald Reagan convinced many, many more to come over to the Republican side. Therefore, not only is it not surprising that Irish Catholic Paul Ryan would be on the Republican ticket, but we will continue to see Irish Catholics stay a major influence in the Republican Party. Although it is hard to see in Ireland today, there has always been a conservative temperment amongst the Irish on either side of the pond.

• seanaci | Oct 20, 2012, 02:48 PM EDT

  I agree with Hughaed that memories of the way Irish were treated - epitomized by the famine years - left a bitter taste that is not far below the surface and helps explain the opposition to the GOP. But efforts to lump all Americans and all Irish in single categories are not valid. There were, are now, and always will be stupid and ignorant people in every corner of the world. An example was the rapturous welcome and huge cost associated with Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1849, where the effects of the famine were still everywhere. This is like the Tea Party rank an file's rapturous support and donations for GOP candidates. No country has a monopoly on ignorance.

• kilgara | Oct 20, 2012, 02:42 PM EDT

  With now, overwhelming and indisputable proof that life begins at conception how can ANYONE vote for this rabid supporter of infanticide, Obummer?This knucklehead actualy voted to make it legal to kill a baby after birth!!!He promotes abortions on a scale unknown to any other national politician in the USA.If we do not have the right to live all other rights are obviously in jeopardy.The leftys in the media ignore this outrage.Romney is certainly the lesser of 2 evils.As for Eire, they know about as much about American politics as the average Irish-American knows about Irish politics i.e. next to nothing.

• Daytonavejim | Oct 20, 2012, 02:39 PM EDT

  Why do the Irish hate the American people so much? Four more years of this guy and we will all be emigrating back to the home land.

• edmundburke | Oct 20, 2012, 02:35 PM EDT

  @hughaed---how old are you, 150? Your views are of the obsolete variety shared by Tammany Hall Democrats in the 1920s. Lot of water under the bridge since then. To try and deduce which party would take the British position during the Irish Famine is a particularly stupid method of picking your current leaders. Glad this method leads you to support Obama, who is strangling the economy and driving us into so much debt your grandchildren will be at risk.

• torbreezy | Oct 20, 2012, 02:25 PM EDT

  An oh-so-sad commentary on the plight of the Irish education system and its in-the-tank media that the Irish could be so easily and so willingly(?) bamboozled . . . .

• hughaed | Oct 20, 2012, 02:16 PM EDT

  I agree that the 96% is accurate. I am from Ireland & am appalled at the swing to the right of so many Irish-Americans. Short term memories seems to be the cause or an inability or lack of curiousity about the past. Any serious reading of 19th century history concerning the Great Famine would show that what prevented the British from any more than a nominal effort to alleviate the disaster in Ireland was the "laissez faire" policy adopted in the 1830s which allowed the markets to prevail. A government effort could easily have saved a million deaths from starvation & disease. This was at a time when up to 35% of the British military were made up of Irish soldiers so one would think they would do what was of utmost importance. If anyone wonders why there was a pervasive hatred of the British government among so many Irish it was the brutal indifference caused by the passivity non-effort that took place. Unfortunately the American GOP follow the same essential policies as the British but the collective trauma among the Irish is still there at a subliminal level. What has happened to so many American Irish is that they live in a collective state of denial of the past & buy into the dominant white right attitudes espoused by a GOP supported mostly by a wealthy minority feeding their followers with misinformation & disinformation. It is reminiscent of the propaganda methods used by the British to control Ireland & all their other colonies.

• Pittsburghkid | Oct 20, 2012, 02:16 PM EDT

  Asked my Grandfather why the family never went back to Ireland. He replied because the people there are stupid. He was right. Ireland is a nice country full of stupid people.

• RealAmerica | Oct 20, 2012, 02:02 PM EDT

  I read just yesterday how opposed virtually everyone in Ireland is to abortion (both Catholics and Protestants). If the Irish people understood that Obama is rabidly pro-abortion, I think their support would be much lower. As a state senator in Illinois he even refused to vote for a bill to criminalize the actions of a doctor who would kill a baby that was born alive as a result of a botched abortion. This is the real Obama and this is only one of his many disturbing facets that our mainstream media has covered up.

• blackstone | Oct 20, 2012, 01:56 PM EDT

  this Irish support for that preening, arrogant, liar Obama makes me ashamed of my Irish ancestry. What a pack of fools to buy into all Obama's falsehoods and deception. He's had his four disasterous years of being president.Thank heavens the U.S. citizens are seeing the truth about this phoney who is more concerned with posing with Hollywood celebrities then governing the country.

• PatriciaMarya | Oct 20, 2012, 01:56 PM EDT

  It may be of interest to the Irish Central readers to learn that the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest newspaper, has endorsed the President and gave the reasons why. If the CEO-mentality that Romney touts as his strength came to bear, it would be righteous if the States, like Mississippi, that receive more in Federal aid than they send to Washington in tax revenue would be "off-shored" or closed down as non-productive parts of the Corporation!! The U.S. is not a corporation and Romney cannot be its CEO - he is running for an office as a Public Servant and has still not gotten that he would be working FOR U.S., not telling U.S. what to do. And point of information to the Californian, as a New Yorker, we pay the highest amount of taxes in the country, including a City Tax as well as a Sales Tax of 8.875% and get back less than what we send to Washington. We also pay the highest amount towards public transportation than any State in the Union; check it out.

• Chesterb | Oct 20, 2012, 01:52 PM EDT

  Sadly, many in Ireland, though Catholic, don't quite understand the Commandment, "Thou Shall Not Covet". Covetousness is the rally call of the Democrat party.

• llyndsey | Oct 20, 2012, 01:45 PM EDT

  This is very interesting. I have often marveled while reading this site and the comments hereon just how much more conservative Irish - Americans are than are the Irish themselves.

• seanaci | Oct 20, 2012, 01:43 PM EDT

  Patrick Robert's catalog of reasons are all valid but the main reason is that, like most Europeans - possibly excluding bankers and politicians - the Irish are more concerned with quality of life for everyone whereas Americans are focused on themselves and their personal standard of living without concern for others and the GOP are the main standard bearers for this approach.

• MegK311 | Oct 20, 2012, 01:41 PM EDT

  Switman2 the problem is they can't see all the lies that Obaman is throwing so that doesn't make them so smart.

• shop tom | Oct 20, 2012, 01:41 PM EDT

  Why is it that so many fall for the myth of the GOP's "war on women", but fail to see how successful the Democrats' "war on babies" has been.

• shop tom | Oct 20, 2012, 01:39 PM EDT

  Thank goodness that 96% can't vote in the U.S.

• Murph46 | Oct 20, 2012, 01:32 PM EDT

  Lies Switman? 15 % Poverty -Highest ever!16 Trillion debt-highest ever President during down grade of our Bond rating,23 Million unemployed,almost 9 % unemployment!,Yeah vote for him-Oh ,while our nation was crumbling,he played golf 122 times!

• Switman2 | Oct 20, 2012, 01:26 PM EDT

  Why do the Irish support Obama? My guess is that is it because they are a smart people and can see through all the lies the other side is throwing.

• MegK311 | Oct 20, 2012, 01:09 PM EDT

  I was born and raised in Ireland. When I became a US citizen I registered as a Democrat. The more I listened and observed I soon became aware I was not a Democrat. I have voted Republican for many years now. Obama does not represent anything I want in my life. There are many Democrats both black, white or whatever who would make a better President than Obama. I live in California which has been controlled by the Democrats for years and look at our economy. We have cities going banktupt and everywhere you go you see businesses closed which means that thousands of people are out of work. We pay more taxes than any other state and Gerry Brown our Gov. wants us to vote for more tax increases in Nov. What you see in Ca. you will see in the rest of the country in years to come if we continue to elect Democrats.

• bob40wil | Oct 20, 2012, 01:09 PM EDT

  96%? I guess we're lucky they can't vote here then, we need to get rid of this guy.

• weeknocky | Oct 20, 2012, 01:01 PM EDT

  Maybe they think that Barry O'Bama is from Ireland....!!!!

• Nicomax | Oct 20, 2012, 01:00 PM EDT

  Maybe because Romney reminds the Irish of Cromwell.

• somurray | Oct 20, 2012, 12:57 PM EDT

  "After all many Irish are Catholic conservatives fiercely opposed to abortion and feel issues like immigration into Ireland is destroying the country." Immigration is not much of election issue in Ireland, abortion certainly is though. There aren't any strong nativist Irish parties or Irish TDs. "The overwhelming number of Irish identify with the Palestinians and draw many comparisons between their plight and the Irish under British rule." As an Irishman who supports Israel's right to exist, one could easily draw comparisons between the Irish struggle of 1919-22 with the Israeli one against the British Mandate 1922-48. Funny how only 4% would vote for the GOP in Ireland. Ireland relies on foreign investment, especially from American multinationals, which Mitt Romney would the more sensible candidate to go for while Obama and Democrats in general tend to be protectionist.

• Smyrnian | Oct 20, 2012, 12:51 PM EDT

  ME Costigan has it right. Also, with the extremely poor Irish record for voting in all the wrong people, a fact firmly espoused in this lefty site, the Obama endorsement actually makes sense.

• Tooreenagrena | Oct 20, 2012, 12:49 PM EDT

  Dear mecostigan. That is just the sort of nonsence that makes Republicans so disliked.

• ColleenMcVeety | Oct 20, 2012, 12:43 PM EDT

  geneq.. Who said Obama had something to do with Vietnam? Please read it again...I wrote of DEMOCRATIC leaders. JFK got the ball rolling..Johnson really set it on fire. Both Democrats. Now to learn something. Mormons always do their missionery work at Mitt's age or close to it. There are THOUSANDS of Mormons in our military. They do not avoid it by any means. Please learn about a religion before you write of it.

• mecostigan | Oct 20, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT

  Unfortunately for the Irish they've swallowed the Euro Social Democratic Kool-Aide. Should be no surprise to anyone that they support someone as leftist as Obama.

• jamthecat | Oct 20, 2012, 12:38 PM EDT

  The Irish see the GOP for what it is -- a fascist organization backed by religious fanatics masquerading as caring about democracy when in fact it wants to institute a one-party rule run by the "Christian" version of the Taliban while giving the rich carte blanche to do whatever they want. It's the politics of entitlement for the few, as was practiced by the British for centuries in Ireland, and what self-respecting Irishman could ever identify with the attitudes of the House of Lords?

• jjdickson | Oct 20, 2012, 12:27 PM EDT

  The Irish sense a kindred spirit in the fascist left Obama. They voted for Enda Kenny, the ESM, the Lisbon treaty and the ESM. They have a record of invariably voting for the wrong side. Now they are subservient to Germany, another people who, like the Irish, always like to be told what to do.

• markday | Oct 20, 2012, 12:19 PM EDT

  Bingo Rugby Player: Ireland is the home of the Blarney Stone. The Irish know b.s. and malarkey when they see it. And their b.s. detectors go off the charts when they see Romney and his tightly wound family. NOt so with many Irish Americans who not the brightest porch lights on the block.

• pndirishandprou | Oct 20, 2012, 12:16 PM EDT

  The hard truth is that the Republican party with its far-right political platform would be an unelectable fringe party pretty much anywhere in the world. Mainstream conservative parties in Europe and other democracies have very little in common with the Republican party. The big difference is that conservatives outside the United States are generally reasonable and, unlike in this country, most of their supporters are not voting against their own economic interests.

• mace1246 | Oct 20, 2012, 12:10 PM EDT

  No HERMIT TALKER, I think austerity will be teaching you guys a lesson. America will take care of herself as always. She never has her hands out.

• O'Hanlon | Oct 20, 2012, 12:03 PM EDT

  Not to mention scenes of a Tea Party rally cheering as if in hero worship a gun toting man who took it upon himself (against police advise) to walk onto the streets and shoot in cold blood two unarmed burglars fleeing from a crime scene. The same "human rights only for those who are rich enough to afford it" sentiment that for so long appeased the murderers of Bloody Sunday. As for asset stripper Romney and "having a proper job". Give me someone who doesn't know how to fire the tea lady, slash jobs and ship employment overseas anyday to a self-serving crony capitalist like Romney. He'll serve the people he is paid to represent, i.e. like the puppet on a string corporate balladeer that was Reagan. The man revered as the greates GOP President of all time was a man who believed (I kid you not) that "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do". Ireland has spent enough time being dictated to by incompetent buffoons donning crowns. Ronald Reagan and George Dubya were the Prince Philip's of American politics. Ignorant buffoons who have suddenly found that power and money goes a long way to getting complete idiots into position of Head Of State. What did Reagan say when he went to chile. Something similar to Prince Philip's remark in Paraguay that "It's nice to be in a country tha tisn't ruled by its people". The GOP serve the same agenda as the Royals, only their Kings and Queens are the 1% chewing the fat and dismantling the US economy in Wall Street and fixing Libel Rates.

• GerryMaine | Oct 20, 2012, 11:59 AM EDT

  Obama's indiscriminate use of drones to "kill" those on his Kill List are killing hundreds of innocent civilians: men, women and children. That's a fact. Most of these are in Pakistan and Yemen..and probably soon in Libya. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What a joke! It should be revoked.

• Searlit | Oct 20, 2012, 11:55 AM EDT

  Unfortunately, the land that once reached it's hands out to the poor, throughout the world, now attracts the selfish people across the world. That is why there is so much support for the GOP, still.

• ePHraimAg | Oct 20, 2012, 11:53 AM EDT

  Lost confidence in Both Of them genuinely.

• rugbyplayer | Oct 20, 2012, 11:44 AM EDT

  Puzzled Irish Americans ask why the Irish in Ireland dislike the GOP so much? The answer is simple: the Irish in Ireland are not stupid.

• Bumpercat | Oct 20, 2012, 11:27 AM EDT

  As someone who is Irish born and raised it really annoys me to hear the hatred that goes towards the GOP and the fawning over the Democrats. It should be understood that we do not have a diverse media in Ireland, it is overtly liberal with few dissenting voices. We do not have a left/right political divide, or at least that's what we are told, however we are brought up to believe that 'conservative' and 'right-wing' are dirty words. The media and political classes like to portray the Democrats as being 'like us' and the Republicans as being evil. If Irish people knew the real agendas of both parties I believe they would have very different views. The radical liberal pro-abortion Obama would horrify most Irish people. They certainly would be more inclined to support Paul Ryan if they knew he is the type of politician who opposes bank bail-outs.

• BrianO | Oct 20, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT

  So how is the Irish economy doing these days, have they chosen leaders wisely.

• mace1246 | Oct 20, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT

  That is why the Irish in Ireland are called "Donkeys". Who cares if they dislike the GOP. Thank God they don't live in America. Mom & Dad were born in Ireland and agree with the GOP. Lets get that phony liar communist out of my White House and put the country back togther again. All of Europe is in bad shape and the governments keep the people ignorant

• CitizenWhy | Oct 20, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT

  Parents born and raised in Ireland, ancestors not affected by famine. ... The GOP supports arrogant, selfish, laissez-faire capitalistic policies similar to those that withheld abundant Irish food from the starving Irish. ... The GOP insistence that the sick should get no treatment is contempible. ... The GOP desire to turn Social Security and Medicare over to an irresponsible Wall st is repellant. ... The GOP desire to end environmental protection is horrifying. ... The contempt for the dependent poor, the working poor and the struggling middle class and the worship of billionaires shown by the GOP is repellent to anyone familiar with Irish and Irish-American history.

• PhlutiePhan | Oct 20, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT

  @McNamara31: Who killed RFK? I still support the memory of RFK as a Navy vet. I knew JFK and you Mr. Obama are no JFK. Romney is a viable alternative to a radical socialist. BHO is "A Clear and Present Danger" and by the way, get off of my plane.

• PhlutiePhan | Oct 20, 2012, 11:14 AM EDT

  There was a recent poll among African-Americans and the same 96-4 percentage held. In addition, the other 4% refused to vote for Romney. All that Obama wants to do is redistribute wealth. It is obvious that the Irish religious orders are living in a dream world. The president of Nicaragua was a former priest. In the real world, some people have to work and work hard to produce revenue which can then be taxed to help the poor. It is obvious that Malachi Martin was right on target in his writings that key elements in the Catholic Church want to form an alliance with atheistic Communism and merge Church and State. I wonder what Jesus the Christ said about that one. It was something like "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's" and to Obama what is Obama's.

• geneq | Oct 20, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT

  @ColleenMcVeety: What does Obama have to do with Vietnam? US involvement in that war officially began 1 Nov 1955 when Republican President Eisenhower deployed a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to train the RVN Army. Obama, born in 1961, was only 12 in 1973 when the last US combat troops were withdrawn and the draft was discontinued; he could not have served in Vietnam even if he wanted to. Romney, on the other hand, received four separate draft deferments (including 31 months as a "missionary" in France) from 1966 through 1970 to avoid military service.

• 71regiment | Oct 20, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT

  It would have been interesting how Patrick Roberts came up with his figure of 96% of the people in Ireland favor Obama being re-elected. Obama is still a person of no experience, he relies on his inner circle for what to do or not to do. He never ever had a real job and has been a failure as a President of the USA and never really had a plan for the last 4 years and has no plan for the future if re-elected, just more of the same, spending money we do not have. He had no balnced budget in the last three years, he has reduced the USA's power and influence in the world. To those who look down at the USA protecting Western Civilization, do not think you would get the same from the UN and or from China if they become the number one world power. As well some have said here that the GOP does not like Obama because he is black, be advised he is half black and half white, and as for the majority of people who do not like him, is because of his failed policies and not his skin color.

• beodonne | Oct 20, 2012, 11:10 AM EDT

  With ref to GerryMaine's earlier comment.... He is right I'm from Ireland and live here in the US and I am not voting for Obama!

• O'Hanlon | Oct 20, 2012, 11:10 AM EDT

  We've already had Romney's polcies carried out in Ireland and they failed. Crony capitalism and tax cuts for the super rich and zero regulation is what decimated the Irish economy. Not to mention the fact that the GOP were hand in hand with Thatcher during the worst years of the troubles as Thatcher and Reagan were also schmoozing and supporting South American dictators and civilians were being killed by despotic overlords supported by the IMF. Not all Irish-Ammericans are Republicans anyway. This site is totally unrepresentative. It would probably be around 50-50 but even if it was more for the GOP it isn't such as a one way tide as this site tries to pretend. No doubt "the O'Reilley" factor has swung alot of Irish-American faux-News supprt but then the Hallinan family in San Francisco were very strong campaigners for a living wage and affordable housing in San Francisco. They also protested against dictator Pinochet whilst the GOP gave complicit support. Thatcher even spoke of "driving Liverpool into the Irish Sea". That's how divisive and venomous she was not only in her disdain for own people but for striving for a peaceful resolution in the troubles in Northern Ireland. The Ulster Unionists are aligned with the Conservative Party of great Britain. There in a nutshell is your answer, the Irish people can't abide cronyism and we've had our fair share of it with exactly the kind of policies Romney is proposing. And wh cares what the business class of Ireland think? Most of them are living in trendy London suburbs now and getting rich off the fat of the land they swindled out of the Irish people before packing their bags and leaving the Irish taxpayer with the bill.

• O'Hanlon | Oct 20, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT

  LOL, our President is a pathetic, incompetent disaster. 96% of Ireland are utterly CLUELESS when it comes to Obama.

• slainte9 | Oct 20, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT

  Let me think about this. Maybe the Fresh Irish haven't forgotten that the GOP was founded by anti-Irish, anti-Catholic Nativists. Actually the expression Nativism is a misnomer, the early GOP Nativists were culturally and literally the inheritors of British tribalism that was virulently anti-Irish and anti-Catholic, the devout Oliver Cromwell Princeton and Yale crowd, notably the celebrated Beecher family.

• McNamara31 | Oct 20, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT

  Why do 96% of the Irish realize that Obama is the better choice? Because in Ireland you don't have half the population watching an "slander machine" which is FOX News. If Robert Kennedy was running today, FOX would have half the nation thinking he was an IRA terrorist raising 11 children to start terrorist sleeper cells. RTE or any other, would never get by with the total prop that FOX gets by with in the states.And do we have to mention that FOX viewers were polled and found to be the least educated and misinformed viewers in America.

• Sparklet | Oct 20, 2012, 11:02 AM EDT

  Maybe because they keep choosing idiots to lead them?

• Sparklet | Oct 20, 2012, 11:02 AM EDT

  Interesting, So the Irish support the destruction of Israel, seems a bit bigoted to use stevievirginias jargon.

• jjdickson | Oct 20, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT

  If you consider what a disastrous record the Irish have politically it figures they would vote for the worst President America has had since Jimmy Carter. They also thought that criminal sleazebag Clinton was great. No wonder they would vote ZerObama, just as they support the terrorist 'Palestinian' imaginary country. No wonder Ireland is going down the pan so fast....

• hancock | Oct 20, 2012, 10:55 AM EDT

  No wonder Ireland is a disaster.

• katiemac | Oct 20, 2012, 10:49 AM EDT

  Of COURSE the Irish would vote for Obama. They are SOCIALISTS.

• StevieVirginia | Oct 20, 2012, 10:49 AM EDT

  The GOP is out of touch. They want to lock the door and screw the rest of the world. The GOP is all about ME ME ME and full of racist-bigots. The GOP is a bunch of angry white people afraid of any non-white person who might change the culture of America. Fact: In 50 years white people will be less then 50% of the population and angry white man from the GOP is afraid of this. America is changing! Screw the GOP! Obama 2012/OzzyOsbourne 666/Romney 1040

• GerryMaine | Oct 20, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT

  I forgot to mention Obama's increased use of drones, killing innocent men, women and children in his hunt to track down and KILL those on his Kill List.

• stanchaz | Oct 20, 2012, 10:44 AM EDT

  OF COURSE- they don't fall for the Romney/Ryan rich-man lies!

• Biscuitboy | Oct 20, 2012, 10:44 AM EDT

  In most any other country, Romney and the rest of the lying GOP would be shown the door with a swift remembrancer on the backside to encourage their departure. The GOP continually cuts education, so that the masses may be kept uninformed, thus swelling the ranks of their ignorant minions. They are a disgrace to America.

• GerryMaine | Oct 20, 2012, 10:42 AM EDT

  Obama is an ignorant bull-shitter. Biden is stupid. I think most Irish are not ignorant BSers. I think they wouldn't vote for him if they lived here... but I may be wrong.

• cillowen | Oct 20, 2012, 10:31 AM EDT

  from afar they are better able to assess the lyin Hulk and chimp Obama is up against.

• bcoc1124 | Oct 20, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT

  Once again the isle of saints and scholars enlightens the world! Up the Republic! Well done Ireland.

• katieherk | Oct 20, 2012, 10:19 AM EDT

  I'm shocked to read below those who think the GOP is bad! I was there for quite a long trip and found just the opposite, more of them thinking Obama is a horrible president. I get emails daily also to that effect... wish I could share some of them. Am I surprised at this blubber above? No indeed, Patrick Roberts wrote it and along with his fellow writers (Niall,etc), they're all leftists!!! It would be refreshing to hear the truth.

• ColleenMcVeety | Oct 20, 2012, 10:18 AM EDT

  I have read plenty of lies off this leftist EMAIL publication....but this one takes the prize. Patrick Roberts....if you are Irish...you are a disgrace to the Irish people. Turn off your BBC Ireland...NOW THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A PART OF ENGLAND...and stay out of American politics. Obama is going to lose..WE DO WANT HIM. Republicans starting wars? Ever hear of Vietnam?????? Obama can return to Moneygall...please extend the invitation. By the way...just got back from Dublin, had a hard time finding many Irish folks. If I were you...I would worry about your own country...things are not looking so good. Do not look foolish by judging another.

• Canal Rat | Oct 20, 2012, 10:17 AM EDT

  Bain Capital saved many companies that would have gone under, in which case everyone would have lost jobs. I don't think Romney is running so that he can rape America. I'm a total atheist, but I think Romney is informed by a strong faith and a sense of what he has to do to help the country. Bottom line: we are 16 trillion in debt and we need to find a way out. We are likely to go much deeper with Obama; he never even talks about the debt. The looney leader of Iran is right about one thing-he said the other day that America cannot continue to be a world leader with the debt its accumulating. Which guy you think is cool and which you think is square is irrelevant.

• AengusOg | Oct 20, 2012, 10:15 AM EDT

  Mark Twain I trust Barak Obama will be available to govern Ireland in 2013.

• MichaelJTully | Oct 20, 2012, 10:14 AM EDT

  In my humble opinion he looks like, and acts like a back street car salesman.

• AengusOg | Oct 20, 2012, 10:13 AM EDT

  Lies, damnable lies and statistics

• The Commentator | Oct 20, 2012, 10:07 AM EDT

  The Irish have been bullied by the English for many years so it is not surprising they would vote for Obama. Romney as part of Bain Capital, is a bully who took advantage of many companies. They restructured the companies, breaking many up, eliminating benefits, moved jobs overseas and essentially raping the companies. I believe the Republican Party in the USA have very rich party members who are heavily invested in companies that do business with the military as well as overseas investments . They depend on the USA being at war to prosper and to protect and take advantage of the countries they go in to "straighten out." Romney is stating that he is going to increase military spending by 2 trillion dollars. The Republicans are bullies and take advantage of the poor and disadvantaged. How can anyone be in favor of a party of bullies unless you are a bully.

• motamanx | Oct 20, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT

  The people in Europe are less affected by the millions (or is it billions?) of dollars spent by the fat cats of America to sway the elections towards the right, thereby enriching themselves even further. The money spins the Republican lies into a froth that many unenlightened Americans tend to believe. A sad but pervasive legacy for a once-great country.

• miltonedunn | Oct 20, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT

  Only fools prefer people who kill women and children compaired to someone who makes money.Do you not know what the man and his ilk are They are takeing your owncountry now fools

• upthera66 | Oct 20, 2012, 09:55 AM EDT

  I just returned from spending 6 weeks in Ireland. Your biased comments are full of crap. The people there are not that anti-republican.

• miltonedunn | Oct 20, 2012, 09:54 AM EDT

  Would they be voting for the man or the money

• patrickesq | Oct 20, 2012, 09:47 AM EDT

  Let us hope that the Irish who have emigrated to America share these sentiments and vote accordingly.

• CelticQueenUSA | Oct 20, 2012, 09:45 AM EDT

  War! What is it good for? The republicans! They thrive on it and sending all products on out-sourcing, including savings accounts! Time for America to settle in and thrive. OBAMA

• CelticQueenUSA | Oct 20, 2012, 09:43 AM EDT

  Every time they are in we have wars. They think that is the only way to build our country. WRONG. We must work within our country not pan out to others like China, Middle East. Time to settle in and thrive. OPBAMA

• TheOldPerfessor | Oct 20, 2012, 09:33 AM EDT

  From my travels in Ireland, I've found that the Irish don't think much of the Republicans' disinclination to tell the truth.

• hermitTalker | Oct 20, 2012, 09:26 AM EDT

  Definitely the war-mongering of Mr Reagan and Mr Bush - in two different theatres in their time was a big part. the Leftist media who are as blind and deaf about the moral issues from sexuality as they are to the other social justice issues sucked them in. The people have not caught up yet to the Keynesian borrow and spend model, which has ruined the US and caught Ireland in its grip. Now, austerity is teaching them a tough lesson with more to come.