73 Comments

• JBRAFTREE | Oct 14, 2011, 02:59 PM EDT

  Cormac, I agree with most of what you said. But she declared she will not run for POTUS this time. I voted for her and McLain, the hero and the hottie. I felt they would be better than what we got. I could've been right.

• georgiagirl | Jun 29, 2011, 01:52 PM EDT

  Rest easy, Cormac. Ms. Palin is more interested in money than politics, but she is amazingly shrewd about keeping herself in the public eye, the better to insure continued interest in herself. That doesn't answer the question, however, as to why, o why, there are numbers of my countrymen who actually would like to see her as a candidate.

• manymoons2 | Jun 29, 2011, 10:50 AM EDT

  luxefare... you sound like you could use some anger management classes. I bet you're not even an American you amadan!

• manymoons2 | Jun 29, 2011, 10:46 AM EDT

  Let's see....America has broken the Irish in the White House (God be praised, truly)...a Catholic in the White House (and praise God again)...a Texan, rather quite a few Texans in the White House (who always end up sending us into trouble after their voracious thirst for oil around the world_(to make themselves and their peers richer)....now a Black American,....so what is left??? A Latino President and a woman...and america likes attractive, large breasted women with big mouths...at least on the television they do...but in the White House??? Lord have mercy on us....we are truly concerned. All someone has to do is flap their mouth about being a Christian and people line up blindly like sheep to follow....as though to practice the Christian faith has not been around for more than 2000 years.

• manymoons2 | Jun 29, 2011, 10:39 AM EDT

  Also, I know for a fact that it was BIG Chicago money who put Obama in the Governor's seat and then into the White House. Because I know one of the "players" personally; who was then offered a seat on Obama's staff. Money buys power. Now I am proud to have an African American as President for many reasons....and frankly our poor country has not had an honorable president who has done anything to help us or the world in many decades...so what is new? Tragically.

• manymoons2 | Jun 29, 2011, 10:35 AM EDT

  Well, I don't know how I have the nerve to address your article regarding Palin myself being American Irish and using the name manymoons2....but here goes. NO! No, no, no, no. Dear Lord Almighty we the sane members of America have no intention of supporting this woman's desire to represent our country. God forbid. Also, we Americans are still in a desperate decline thanks to the many crooks who bankrupted our economy. Homes are still foreclosing at a terrifying rate and people are without jobs. It is desperate here. Not at all what the media represents; they're mostly a bunch of paid monkeys working for whomever pays the highest bid to them. If our country does indeed affect the world as you say Cormac MacConnell, please encourage people to pray for us....because we are sadly being overwhelmed by loons who are shouting out the voice of the good, hardworking sane American.

• VernonC | Jun 20, 2011, 01:18 AM EDT

  Cormac MacConnell has made the turn, folks, he's gone around the bend. How can he say Sarah Palin isn't up to being president when what we have now, in Obama, is a nonentity, a man without an official record of any kind. We know who and what Palin is, she may not be a perfect fit but doesn't have to be, we are coping with a man who couldn't get any other government job with what little we know of him.

• JimMcGarity | Jun 19, 2011, 09:51 PM EDT

  People who have religous values and live by them are hated

• seanomelbourne | Jun 19, 2011, 09:46 PM EDT

  clancy is gone stark raving mad

• clancy4unc | Jun 19, 2011, 02:55 PM EDT

  This is for McNamara31 who stated that we will become the wild west, have you seen the news lately? Crime after crime after crime, and all of this because of liberal idiots. The only safe Americans are the criminals, because they are in control, literally. Don't sell your soul to politicians whose only desire is power and wealth and control. But I honestly think that the deed has been done. Alas!

• luxefaire | Jun 19, 2011, 02:16 PM EDT

  Sarah is perfect for what the masters of America want....they are the israeli zionist types who own the media, and believe that sex appeal and a feigned innocence (truly it is ignorance) are all that is needed to get the sheep and their jewish god in line to feed the huge taxation machine now in place. Many of us here are sick and tired of all these lies and zionist story telling, so we call for candidates like Ron Paul, a true American concerned about what matters. It is things like that which causes israels federal reserve to create economic hard times...these zionist pieces of garbage not only control the media here, but the judicial, educational, and currency systems as well. Very insidious they have been, and one can almost admire the way they did it, little at a time, with as much straight up mind control as they could muster, alonwith economic strife/reward programs. America will never Be until palin, mccain, obama, and all the other zionists are no longer taken seriously. They are using ENMOD here to attack us and the israelis in our govt have given total control of our food to monsanto, another zionist-controlled concern. Expect revolution here soon. Even the rich idiots who always thought themselves better than the rest of us are feeling the crunch and seeing the truth now...read my book Devilvision at luxefaire.com, or search google for that title...it is posted free online and pertains to your situations as well...the green leprechaun

• Jimsteer | Jun 19, 2011, 10:53 AM EDT

  I agree with every word. I have some more I could add but why waste them on this latter day werewolf

• joanxis | Jun 19, 2011, 10:09 AM EDT

  Cormac - believe me when I tell you that intelligent Americans agree with you 100%. Sarah Palin only appeals to the right wing element in this country. Have no fear that she will ever get CLOSE to the presidentcy. If the press stopped covering her, she would disappear like a stone. I think that part of our fascination with her is the fact that we can't believe there is such a person as her. She is such a joke that we often can't wait to see what she'll say next. Plus, I don't think she is going to run. She's making too much money doing what she does and she's going to milk it until we all get tired of listening to her, which should be soon. One thing that you didn't mention was the fact that she's a quitter. I watched her entire speech when she quit being govenor and she made no sense. None! Who knows why she quit. She just babbled on forever. I don't think you have anything to worry about, Cormac. We are smarter than you think.

• Springfield9 | Jun 18, 2011, 04:23 PM EDT

  Cormac - pull your nose out of the jar long enough to realize that Palin is the decoy - not the duck. Michelle Bachmann is the real threat - mindless and ambitious.

• seanaci | Jun 18, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT

  Cormac, you only have to look at the hornet’s nest you poked and the number of comments received to understand why Sarah Palin is constantly in the news in the US. She is the “Lame-Stream” and online media’s answer to a prayer and boosts circulation and “hits”. Yes, this is a reflection on readers but a boon to flagging advertising revenue. Take a look at Huffington Post and see how it now acts like her personal blog. And don’t worry – even if she becomes president (instead of, say, Michelle Bachmann, for example) – that office no longer has much impact on domestic politics anymore thanks to Goldman Sachs and the MIC with US Congress in their pockets stepping up to do “God’s work”. Granted the next president will be able to continue endless warfare and economic domination outside the US. Thankfully, for those of us living here in the US, that only impacts foreigners like, say, the Irish and such. Or at least, so our news media says, and we know they never lie.

• Bubbastudd | Jun 18, 2011, 11:18 AM EDT

  Is Cormac MacConnell actually Maureen Dowd in drag? His snide, sappy, supercilious hate-piece could have been cut-and-pasted from 100 Sarah-bashing sites in the USA. So typical.

• seanomelbourne | Jun 17, 2011, 10:46 PM EDT

  Who's reading Marx and Engels .You want to think outside the box called America and read Mitterrand, Spencer and other BROAD thinking writers.I hope you can expand on your thinking to include non-Catholic education centers.

• jnewnam | Jun 17, 2011, 09:22 AM EDT

  Sacred Heart School, Cardinal O'Hara High School, Villanova University (Augustinian), St. Joseph's University (Jesuit), and Loyola University - Baltimore (Jesuit). Just saying. Red necks are some of the most honest, sweet, hard working and funny persons I have ever met. You might want to read Washington, Adams, Monroe, Franklin and Jefferson. Add the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Toss out those books by Marx and Mao and Obama. Learn what true freedom is and what true freedom creates for a country. And while McNamara31 still has his head in the sand about who in the Bush Presidency caused the sub prime crisis (Bush's Democratic Congress and Barney Frank's Banking Committee), try reading what San Jose State University's economic department has to say on the matter or read anything Peter Schiff has written.

• johnshiel | Jun 16, 2011, 11:19 AM EDT

  not a real impressive foray into political commentary, my friend. Your reasons Palin is disliked in Ireland are 1. no passport; 2. not black; 3. you disapprove of some of her supporters' level of pc??? just not real impressive. If you're gonna promise the goods, better deliver, no?

• jamieLM | Jun 16, 2011, 11:14 AM EDT

  I really hate it when people think they can characterize or catergorize "all Americans" as this or that. There are great regional differences in America. Kansas is not New York, California is not Indiana, and Mississippi is not Washington state. Many of my friends and I hold passports and have traveled throughout Europe and none of us own guns. Just who is the "average" American???? Think anyone can speak for all "conservative" Iowans? That little state allows gay marriage. There are over 300 million people from 198 ethnic backgrounds in the U.S. Ten Americans in a room and you won't get a consensus on any issue. I resent anyone else speaking for me and I never speak for "all Americans." My opinion on any issue is just that - mine. When people say "Americans think," at best they're generalizing. Btw: you can't even get Americans with Irish ancestry to agree on political issues - see below.

• McNamara31 | Jun 15, 2011, 08:55 PM EDT

  jnewnam ... I hope America remembers what the last Texan did to this country. It will take decades to undo "his" damage.

• seanomelbourne | Jun 15, 2011, 08:13 PM EDT

  Jnewman still has a red under his bed somebody better whisper in his ear that the cold war is over.

• maloney | Jun 15, 2011, 06:48 PM EDT

  Sarah Palin is not the most likely Republican choice for Potus. There are millions of Irish Americans who love Palin. The American President being the leader of the free world reflects on other countries failures. Obama becoming Potus shows how stupid the American people can be at times and this has nothing to do with his color. Sarah's popularity proves how an average citizen can rise to prominance in America. Obama in charge of the RED BUTTON should scare the world to death with him having said in his book "I will stand by my muslim brothers should the time come to decide what side I'll be on." Sarah did not start the Tea Party. Sarah's supporters are doctors, lawyers, judges, bankers, business owners and yes a few red necks but most red necks are much more radical than Sarah. She's not fooling anyone in America. She's not running for Potus. Either you like her or you don't. Opinions are like arse holes, every body has one old man. Cormac is a fountain of mis-information. Cormac knows little to nothing about America.

• jnewnam | Jun 15, 2011, 08:17 AM EDT

  Isn't odd that it was the lamestream media that got the Paul Revere story wrong. Revere did indeed warn the British after he was captured that they should not attack (they wanted to take our guns away from us) because they would lose. And I do believe many of those settlers were Irish. So they (presently Hillary and the UN - pending treaty) take our guns away from us and cannot take them away from the criminals -- how's that going to work our for you. And when the government turns on 'the people' ????????????? We loan authority to government not the other way around. Oh that's right Obama is a communist and thinks he is the authority, not the people. Texas has a saying, "Don't Mess with Texas".

• McNamara31 | Jun 14, 2011, 08:36 PM EDT

  Texas Governor Rick Perry has said that he favors a proposal to allow guns on all college campuses statewide, and guess what? He may jump into the presidential race too. Can you imagine a Perry/Palin ticket? We may soon become the "Wild West of America"

• palmeiras | Jun 14, 2011, 08:25 PM EDT

  Cormac is completely right; the average american is a red neck, doesn't have a passport and probably never will; still they think they can lecture the rest of the world. This is just sheer arrogance. They should go and practice with their arsenal of weapons- eight per household on average; but watch out; it's not the russians that are coming this time but the Chinese. Time to learn Cantonese or Mandarin you yanks; then again ye cant speak english- at least not correctly.

• bogmanjoe | Jun 14, 2011, 05:39 AM EDT

  Cormac this is nasty, unwarranted and unprovoked. Would you consider Cowen or Kenny to be genius's. Your article is further proof that ignorance in Ireland remains a virtue. It is really disapponting to see Irish people participate in a form of intellectual snobbery the Irish themselves where once victims of. We are constantly reminded of how intelligent President Obama is and yet we see no evidence of this claim. Obama's imtelligence is only claimed hearsay and accepted by those who are all too easily misled by a cheerleading media. Put your pom-poms away Cormac.

• seanomelbourne | Jun 13, 2011, 07:21 PM EDT

  Cormac it's hard to shake the ignorant side of America out of it's gun-totin,God fearing malaise. They never travel,they have no idea how other nations live (and live well).They are spoon fed this God, country and gun bull from cradle to grave.It prevents them from seeing the big picture and how they are been conned by the ruling classes,the poor unfortunates.

• conchobhar | Jun 13, 2011, 06:33 PM EDT

  Well, Cormac, you've certainly banged on the door of the asylum and aroused the crazies, but relax. Sarah Palin has as much chance of getting the Republican nomination as I have of becoming Pope, and I'm not running. Neither, I think, is she. She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but she's smart enough to know that: 1) she can't win the general election; 2) keeping her face in the news as a potential candidate can feed both her enormous ego and her voracious pocketbook.

• jnewnam | Jun 13, 2011, 10:55 AM EDT

  jacersagain: President Kennedy was the one who put America into the Viet Nam War. He supported the Bay of Pigs invasion which caused the Russians nuclear silo construction in Cuba. Yep! I remember those years of duck and cover under our grade school desks. Everyone knows that Kennedy's Daddy's illegal prohibition money got him elected through the Chicago political machine which stuffed the ballot box. And I still say given the pre Vatican II atmosphere of 1960 America, if the nuns, priests and Irish immigrant population (my grandmother and great aunts included) knew of Kennedy's immoral behavior, sham of a marriage and sexcapades, they never would have voted for him in the first place.

• irishwriter | Jun 12, 2011, 08:46 PM EDT

  Great, spirited Irish dialogue in these posts---love it! What no one pointed out was that she left her post in Alaska to seek more opportunity elsewhere---she NEVER finished her term! I don't mind all the media attention around her because I just like to look at her 'cos she's purdy. But c'mon...President Quitter? Don't think so!

• jacersagain | Jun 12, 2011, 06:57 PM EDT

  @maloney, 12.32am – you’ve proved yourself to be an Irish-American idiot. Re yr comment on mine for sending Ms. Beautiful Palin to me personally and yr suggestion that I should keep ‘playing wit’ (sic) myself in her absence of my presence: it has shown you up as a pornographic idolater. My ‘private scheming plan’ for Ms Palin and her excellent persuasive powers would be to invite her to be once again a Christian woman who could advocate that young Irish (and many other countries’) women should be not subjected to be play things of pornographically-induced men. With her honest beliefs and her beautifully presentable persuasive talents, she would help reinstate the true charitable work of Irish nuns. Sorry to see you show your mind as that of a porno-sicko's.

• McNamara31 | Jun 12, 2011, 05:24 PM EDT

  OldSarge...With all due respect, “leftist” media agenda? Whether you are Republican, Democrat or Independent the facts remain the same. America is in the present trouble because the previous administration blew through a surplus then went on to put two unfunded wars on credit cards, while handing out tax cuts, while losing 750,00 jobs a month, and then finished his term with financial de regulation that enabled the Wall St.crash of 2008. That’s not lefty spin as Palin would like you to believe, its factual truth. Amazing one administration could do such damage but we all know they did. Then as a country we elected the first multiracial American president and his opposition “has used that at every time” to deflect from the real issues at hand. Then every financial mastermind including Buffet, advised this new president that the only way to offset a major depression was with stimulus money. That’s how we got here, and maybe if we remove some of the labels, we could return some clarity and start to get some of the problems solved.

• Ernesider | Jun 12, 2011, 01:30 PM EDT

  ... jaysus Cormac! You are brilliant. But sadly you correctly saw some of that coming and we have a very ignorant people here as many of the comments below attest. But let them have it Cormac and like Jesus in His day you do your job.

• battychief | Jun 12, 2011, 12:45 PM EDT

  Cormac, you did just what you set out to do, stir the pot. I, myself, have given up on politics AND politicians. I am glad I am old, and will not be around to see what my country will look like when Obama gets through with it. Maybe the ECU can bail us out. Or else China will call in our markers.

• OldSarge | Jun 12, 2011, 11:55 AM EDT

  First, I'm not a big Palin fan. The leftist media has gone after her from the git go simply because she does not buy into their agenda. She was a very good governor of Alaska, Obama was a dismal junior senator for one year. She speaks her mind, Obama only says what he thinks the fawning media want to hear. She knows there are 50 states, Obama publicly said he had been in all 57. No wonder our economy is in such trouble, he doesn't know geography, basic math or American history. You sir are a humbug!

• WoundedKnee | Jun 12, 2011, 09:27 AM EDT

  A columnist from Ireland (home of Cowen, lenehan etc.) supported by equally ill-endowed posters (haterjacer etc.) lectures us on the poor quality of our political choices! Maloney, I'm sure the irony isn't lost on you.

• maloney | Jun 12, 2011, 12:32 AM EDT

  It's a horrible thing when little men from a little country with little influence, no jobs or money think they can tell any other country, let alone America anything. Jacers, ya had your chance at our Irish Potus and ya let him slip away. As for Palin I guess you'll just have ta keep playin wit yourself. We pay $3.35 per gallon of gas. How about you? We print our own money, how about you? By the way, that half black fella ya was talkin about got us in 4 wars now. Count em, FOUR. That we know of. and ya let em slip right through your fingers. Wasn't to long ago the only way ya found out anything was from a message it a bottle. And ta think my people yusta be one of ya. Keep watchin thou, ya may see something that will amaze ya in da next year of 3.

• jacersagain | Jun 11, 2011, 11:41 PM EDT

  Firstly, American people have to recognise what we in Ireland and the rest of the world already know about them... they are uneducated, or at best poorly-educated and easy TV-led, smoked-up and doped-up idiots, whether of Republican or Democrat hue. Secondly, almost every American President elected since the discovery of Oil and of the Spoils of War has been a stooge of oil business companies and war weaponry manufacturers. The Oil companies and the Weapons companies would have no reason to exist if they didn’t have customers. Both make huge profits off an uneducated populace. Every American Presidential candidate slinks towards both of these to obtain presidential campaign funds. With the exception of President Kennedy (who had a self-made rich Daddy), every US President has mostly relied on both of these sources of funds to get elected. And all of them, except for Kennedy, have been stooges of war weapons manufacturers and oil companies. I’d say to you lot of American idiots – since yez don’t like Obama, send him over to us in Ireland and we’ll prove what he meant by “Change! Yes, we can!” And... Er, uh, while the beautiful Ms Palin might be disliked largely in Ireland and somewhat in America, you can send her here too, preferably to me personally. With both of them gone from your country, you’ll then see who the Oil and War people will pick to be your next stooge president. How’s that for a good deal?

• jacersagain | Jun 11, 2011, 11:34 PM EDT

  What is this? Cormac throwing himself to the wolves? Just when me Da and me Ma tol’ me to live me life so as to keep the wolves from the door? Cormac’s not only opened the door but thrown hisself out to them, to be gorged! What is this at all, atall atall??? Since ICentral asks what I think, I’ll tell yez what I think... well, he’s partly wrong but mostly right.

• McNamara31 | Jun 11, 2011, 10:13 PM EDT

  Cormac as you look in disbelief at America’s political state and its effects on the world, you have to ask how this happened. The biggest cause is Roger Ailes and Fox News, who now reach 100 million households, more viewers than all other cable-news combined. Under his leadership, a study by the University of Maryland revealed, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network. So why do people believe Palin is ok, and Obama is out to destroy America? Because ignorance is bliss, quite profitable, and wins elections for Fox News. Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us," said David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter. "Now we’re discovering that we work for Fox."

• Mavaureen | Jun 11, 2011, 10:04 PM EDT

  Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura in 2012! Two honest and courageous American Patriots but, rest assured, international corporations will do all in their power to block them. The Bildebergers run the World! They are in St. Moritz even now planning the devil's work for next year of bringing about the New World Order.

• MacGiobuinR | Jun 11, 2011, 08:47 PM EDT

  Cormac, rest easy tonight as Palin will never be elected President. The Tea Party and their lot are a small minority who should try reading the Federalist Papers if they really want to know what our founding fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. And for Palin try reading and understanding: Article 1 Sec 8 Clause 18 (our Constitution is not set in concrete but is a living breathing document that was designed to adjust with the times and new ideas. Get over it! Slainte!

• kevinhayes | Jun 11, 2011, 06:30 PM EDT

  Cormac, sad to say but a lot of Americans are very gullible and swallow the nonsensical shtick coming from Fox, the WSJ and the rest of what Hilary long ago correctly identified as the vast right wing conspiracy. Palin's GOP works on behalf of 1-2% of the population but gets votes from roughly 50%. They use people like Palin and spit them out when they are of no use anymore. Palin has escaped the corral and is doing her own thing - building her brand and her wealth. They will never let her run for President and she has no intention of doing so, in any case - she has zero chance of winning. Follow the money.

• hooligan6a | Jun 11, 2011, 01:07 PM EDT

  asheridan, if you need help with your air fare let me know.

• billito | Jun 11, 2011, 12:44 PM EDT

  Members of the Reagan administration admitted after the fact that they had invented and pushed the myth of the "liberal media" to plant distrust in the public.(then went on to start Fox)The fact is that multinational corporations,hardly flaming lefties own and operate American Media.Can you name one or two liberal radio programs? The list of rightwinger radio programs is lengthy--Rush,North,Beck,Hannity and on and on.The American public's lack of education about politics is due in good part to the fact that most of them get their "news" from Fox.Whenever I am disappointed with Obama,I remind myself that the alternative was McCain and Palin.The irony is that the policies Palin actually supports favor the rich while she plays like crusader for the average American.She is all about herself-her need for attention and money.She even betrayed McCain's campaign when he was the guy who brought her into the public eye and out of Alaska one step ahead of the law.It should be interesting to read those emails and compare them with her self-mythologizing.

• harryfee | Jun 11, 2011, 12:36 PM EDT

  Mr McConnell i know shes a scary bitch, but don't worry. she's more a spectical than any thing else. in america like we like to watch to watch lunatics like her, but she doesn't have much chance of being elected. she's just amusing to watch. we're not that stupid...i hope. if she gets elected, i'll be coming over there!

• BishopSean | Jun 11, 2011, 11:54 AM EDT

  If Sarah Palin is such an intellectual and political featherweight, why are the liberal media organizations demanding copies of all her Email messages sent while she was governor, so they can pour over them? Is the liberal media afraid of her?

• OldMariner | Jun 11, 2011, 11:28 AM EDT

  Dear Cormac, please don't worry about Palin ever becoming a candidate, no less elected, president. Her minuses are many and only die-hard rightwing, largely evangelical, voters would even consider her. It has been often said that Americans love the underdog and this may apply in her case. The stupid liberal media is infatuated with her otherwise she would have faded into deserved oblivion after 2008. And please, don't think she is supported by the so-called tea-partiers and the mainstream conservatives, they know she is an inveterate ignoramus and a non-starter politically.

• dave3rings | Jun 11, 2011, 11:18 AM EDT

  Anyone who believes anything that Sarah Palin says, or says she stands for, is deluding themselves. Sarah Palin doesn't stand for anything besides Sarah Palin. She is a pretty sock-puppet (I'll give her that) who spews drama to form issues without substance, to attract attention - just like Fox News. I'm ashamed to be an American when I look around and see that so many of my fellow Americans follow her. And scared.

• DaddyMac22 | Jun 11, 2011, 06:52 AM EDT

  ...plus she's a moron

• GingerDee | Jun 11, 2011, 05:33 AM EDT

  The American press prefers to mock Palin rather than giving a single column-inch to Ron Paul's campaign. Ron Paul is a credible candidate, a medical doctor and a long-serving member of Congress. The meddling press doesn't want people to know about Ron Paul, so instead they focus on a certain non-winner, so as to ensure Obama stays in office, tragic though the consequences to the USA may be.

• bucktown773 | Jun 10, 2011, 11:39 PM EDT

  I can't understand why people are so concern about what Sarah Palin is doing! The U.S. has major problems right now. We are in the worst financial situation since the late 20's with no leadership or direction coming from our current administration...The economy sucks!

• maloney | Jun 10, 2011, 10:54 PM EDT

  Looks like a majority of Americans don't give a tinkers damn about what you or Ireland think Cormac. My father who is 82 left Ireland at 17 and has always told me how stupid and screwed up the Irish were including this past week. He was right.

• kmkellyc | Jun 10, 2011, 10:42 PM EDT

  Poor Cormac---he doesn't even know how embarressed he should be. His rant reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of the Americaan Constitution & Bill of Rights. Those of us that agree with Sarah Palin (and other conservatives) are not rednecks. We have read our documents--we wish to reclaim our freedoms--we do not wish to dissolve into socialism. Our country was founded on the principle of limited government. We do not wish to have the government in our daily lives and spending OUR money like there is no tomorrow. I could go on but it is late and I am tired. BUT DO NOT ASSUME THAT I AM A REDNECK--I AM WELL-EDUCATED & APPARENTLY BETTER VERSED, THAN YOU, IN MY COUNTRY'S GOVERNING PRINCIPLES.

• AlunPalmer | Jun 10, 2011, 10:15 PM EDT

  Cormac is a truly wise man and has it exactly right.

• gthog61 | Jun 10, 2011, 07:29 PM EDT

  I'll tell you why she is disliked in Ireland - because Irish people are ignorant.

• kaydog1 | Jun 10, 2011, 06:58 PM EDT

  Cormac, truly you are as wise as you are beautiful (Shakespeare). For your information, we've already had two Redneck Presidents - Carter and Clinton, each Democrats. The first was a nincompoop, the second just a Leftist womanizer. I guess to an Irish Leftist, it's wonderful that our President is Black, and his being an anti-American, anti-semitic, pro-Islamic, spendaholic, Marxist job-destroyer is just icing on the cake. Tell me, oh Cormac, what kind of incompetent management style looks at a national income/revenue of $2.2 Trillion Dollars, a spending/budget of $3.4 Trillion Dollars, and thinks it's a good idea to send an unasked-for $40 Billion Dollars to Egypt and Tunisia "to support the Arab Spring"? Is it that he can't help himself? He won't stop spending on entitlements either, but Leftists like yourself think that's just great, because the whole premise of Leftist monetary theory is that someone (else) will pay for it all. You're like ignorant, spoiled children, and if you get control of the public purse, you want to spend it all - except the part you siphon off for "worthy friends." Perhaps he could come be YOUR President, Cormac. We've had a bellyfull.

• vinniedablade | Jun 10, 2011, 06:46 PM EDT

  I'm thinkin these Irish are too damn drunk to have any sober knowledge about anything that's going on in the U.S. Ireland and the rest of the world would be better served if Obama and his posse' were ruling over them and leaving our country to the sane adults.

• irishinohio | Jun 10, 2011, 06:45 PM EDT

  I think Mr. MacConnell should stop believing everything he reads in the NY Times or views on CNN. If he were to examine the actual record in office of the former governor of Alaska and take the time to read a few of the lady's speeches and writings he might (if he possesses half a brain) have a substantial change in attitude. As far as the wonder of our having elected a "black man", Mr. Obama is one half Kenyan (mostly Arab - his people were the ones who owned slaves) and the other half lilly white American Communist. He has no connection but those he fabricated for a political career to African Americans or their experience on this continent. My (Irish) great grandfather fought to liberate those people under a president whose party (Republican) was founded specifically for that purpose and which fought for their full rights for 100 years more against the Democrats in the Jim Crow South, believing them to be as capable as the next human if given the chance. Oh and by the way, if or when we ever give, as you say, a tinker's curse for what an ignorant sod like Mr. MacConnell thinks about American policies or politicians it will indeed be a very cold day in Hell.

• jpeditor | Jun 10, 2011, 06:26 PM EDT

  "Whatever one thinks about Barack Obama's term in office to date, it is certainly true that the election of a black man to the White House represented the bright and free and enlightened facet of the American Dream." Whatever one thinks? ISN'T THAT THE POINT, YOU BLITHERING OLD FOOL? You obviously think that America being turned into a turd-world country because of Obama's policies (policies that have HASTENED decline of the once-great US economy and by extension your OWN Irish economy), you think thats all balanced out because we elected a Halfrican, Islamo-marxist "Community Organizer" whose only jobs were giving away other people's money to marxist teachers groups or suing banks to help IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S. MORTGAGE MARKET. Either you are a moron or YOU are islamo-marxist sympathizer, and you and everyone like you can GO BACK TO IRELAND and suck your whiskey off the dole. We have enough jerks here and we don't need anymore.

• brianc2221 | Jun 10, 2011, 06:04 PM EDT

  Cormac - There no fool like an old fool and you are Exhibit A. In the United States we have the most incompetent President in our nation's history and you are worrying about Sarah Palin? Barack Obama has added more to our nation's debt in less than 2-1/2 years than EVERY preceeding President in our nation's history. Yet, he wants to save Greece from going bankrupt, wants to give Muslim countries billions, loan a Brazilian oil company (in which his buddy George Soros holds a major share) $2 billion for drilling off the coast of Brazil. Now he wants to get us into a war in Libya that isn't in our national interest and thaqt we cannot afford (in terms or money of the lives of our military). My late father was born in Ireland and one of his favorite sayings was "God created liquor to keep the Irish from ruling the world." If we continue to follow this loon we are going to be as screwed up as Ireland (and right now that's really screwed up). Until you clean up the mess you are in, please don't give advice to other countries. Now go back to the pub.

• brianc2221 | Jun 10, 2011, 05:52 PM EDT

  asheridan - I'll help you pack.

• hinckleybuzzard | Jun 10, 2011, 05:50 PM EDT

  Qhy is it that electing a half black, illiterate teleprompter-bound criminal psychopath is a tribute to the American Dream, but electing an intelligent, goodhearted patriotic woman is something to be ridiculed? I think you used every stereotype of hatred available to you. But the only one that seems to have gained credibility is the stupid drunken irishman.

• walthe310 | Jun 10, 2011, 04:51 PM EDT

  Totally true and right on the bullseye. Sarah is seeking attention. Best strategy is to ignore her. Hard to do with the media attention that draws revenue to her and to them. It's all about money and not about what is good for the country.

• ravance | Jun 10, 2011, 04:45 PM EDT

  Well, sorry to inform you, but we've already had a redneck as president. You seem to have forgotten Bill Clinton's roots as the governor of the most redneck state in the union. BTW, how's that community organizer thing working out or perhaps you should try asking his friends from Goldman Deutsch Bank who were the ones who mainly screwed your country.

• asheridan | Jun 10, 2011, 04:09 PM EDT

  If she becomes President I will be moving back to Ireland.

• chesapeake | Jun 10, 2011, 03:18 PM EDT

  You have a problem... WE have a problem in Obama. Consider your comments about a person who has experiencs as a governor and leader, then review the almost total lack of leadership roles and governing experience on the part of " not ready for prime time Obama". By the time the Liberals are done with the USA we may all be in the tubes. Time to wake up and take counter actions!

• Ajreaper | Jun 10, 2011, 03:08 PM EDT

  Keep hearing how Obama will be ripe for the picking come election time yet the GOP keeps offering up a collection of knuckleheads- I am a Republican and would rather have Obama back then any of the so called serious GOP offerings. And you have no idea how hard that is to say.

• suzandpej | Jun 10, 2011, 01:10 PM EDT

  Agreed..but the dumbing down of America started with Obama. If this country could elect him...why not her? Not by my vote, mind you, but he didn't get my vote either. We have no honest, hard-working politicans anymore. Look at Weiner! What a joke! And he won't go away.

• manhattan | Jun 10, 2011, 12:39 PM EDT

  I don't always agree with you Cormac but your take on Palin is right on. It's called the dumbing down of America. I'm still mad a McCain for dumping her on us. If God forbid she becomes President do you have a room I could rent?

• irishman6 | Jun 10, 2011, 12:35 PM EDT

  I was about to post a comment but the I read the one posted by cyersharque and have decided it says it all!! Well done to both of you.

• cybersharque | Jun 10, 2011, 11:29 AM EDT

  You lot are missing much of the picture. Forty percent of the American population would vote for the Devil himself if he secured the nomination of either of the major parties. Much of Sarah Palin's support is coming from the Democrats. Just as Richard Nixon moved heaven and earth and piles of money to make sure that McGovern would be his opponent in the election, so, too, do many Democrats recognize that Palin's unelectability may save Obama's sorry butt from being evicted after only one term in office. And make no mistake about it, we have lots of Amurricans who are as sharp as a sack full of rocks. They are the segment of the population that does not read, but take all of their awareness of the World from Fox News and the pulpit. And their preachers condemn the RCC because it's a den of Liberals. Yes, they think the RCC is a dangerously modern, progressive institution. These are the people who support Palin. And the other source of support: the media, who get extra eyeballs for the advertisements when Sarah appears. Don't try to make sense of American politics. We would lose our minds in the process, and you should not follow our example in this process.