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Obama Goes There in Ireland

President Obama just said in a speech in the Irish village of Moneygall (where POTUS has distant relatives) that the Republic had “overcome occupation.”

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   05/23/11 13:31

I'm sure the Queen of England will appreciate that statement. When will folk wake up and realize this man is totally incompetent. Let's see, Obama is now African-Irish-American. When he goes on to Poland I bet he'll find a relative who was Polish, so we'll have an African-Irish-Polish-American President. This farce gets more insane as the days go on. Plus today, the liberals on the Supreme Court told CA to release up to 42,000 felons for they are enduring "overcrowding" in jail. We are in real big trouble and it only is getting worse.

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   05/23/11 13:32

What????? This idiot is now calling our British ally's exercise of dominion of a land that it conquered fairly and squarely 1000 years ago as "occupation?

What is to stop this idiot from calling America's mere 500 year old presence in the New World as "occupation"? This man is a fool, and a dangerous fool. He is going to unravel 250 years of US foreign policy in 4 years.
January 2013 cannot come soon enough.

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   05/23/11 13:32

Obama Irish? O'Please.

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   05/23/11 13:36

Apparently the President is unfamiliar with the upper six counties. Glad he's paying attention.

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   05/23/11 13:37

According to socialists, the entire Planet Earth is under "occupation" from the GREAT SATAN -- infidel humans!

Obama, to be sure, has been OVERCOME by HIS current occupation.

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   05/23/11 13:38

For those who may have forgotten, President Obama's mother was Caucasian.

That doesn't make the comment about "occupation" any more acceptable, of course. But if he continues along this line of reasoning much longer, it might become apparent that almost every modern nation either has, or has been, "occupied" - some have experienced both! How long must a piece of land have been "occupied" before said "occupation" is no longer considered as such?

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   05/23/11 13:38

>"the Republic had “overcome occupation.”"

I don't get it. What's your point?

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   05/23/11 13:39

The million dollar "beast" super-dooper car of Dear Leader's has been stopped by a speed bump in Ireland. The clang heard around the world. Hilarious.

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   05/23/11 13:39

Surely you're joking, Sean. "Conquered fairly and squarely"?! If by enslaving a population in an offensive action with weaponry unknown to said population, "conquering fairly and squarely", then apparently the US could conquer most of the globe "fairly and squarely" today, with no moral accountability whatsoever.

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   05/23/11 13:40

Is this really controversial? It isn't like he's re-fighting the Irish Civil War.

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   05/23/11 13:41

>"That doesn't make the comment about "occupation" any more acceptable, of course."

I seem to be missing something here. What part of this is unacceptable, and why?

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   05/23/11 13:44

I guess we can change the spelling to O'Bama

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   05/23/11 13:46

Wow. Even Sinn Fein is reluctant to use that kind of language publically.

Epic fail.

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   05/23/11 13:46

Would Obama have stayed neutral in WW2?

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DJ
   05/23/11 13:48

definite facepalm, considering that he is going to see the queen tomorrow. For the first time in my life, I am truly embaressed by the occupier of the WH. I hope that we can overcome that occupation in 2012

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   05/23/11 13:53

I think the president is mistaken. Ireland has not left the EU.

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   05/23/11 13:53

>"This idiot is now calling our British ally's exercise of dominion of a land that it conquered fairly and squarely 1000 years ago as "occupation?"

Yeah, next thing you know somebody will be describing the German occupation of Norway - which it conquered fairly and squarely in 1940! - as an "occupation". And God knows what they'll call the American occupation of the Philippines, which we conquered - fairly and squarely! - in 1902.

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   05/23/11 13:57

#John Galt -- Sure, save for the Gerry Adams editorial Sunday past "welcoming" the Queen. Other than that, Sinn Fein has been discreet.

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   05/23/11 14:02

Barack Hussein Obama:

A kid from Kansas with Irish heritage! How quaint!

For those who are confused:

If a nation conquers another one in a war, say, like 1,000 years ago, it is a little incongruous, at millennium's end, to refer to that as "occupation".

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GeraldF
   05/23/11 14:06

@SeanB..."our British ally's exercise of dominion of a land"...I believe they said the same thing in response to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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