A word from Mr O'Bama
With all the focus on Barack Obama's Democratic party bash in Colorado, the US Ireland Alliance brought my attention to a fact sheet from his campaign team. It deals with Ireland, Northern Ireland and Irish America. Apart from reminding everyone that his great great great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated to America from Ireland in 1850, the candidate goes on to question whether the US should continue to appoint a Special Envoy, now that - in his words "the crisis period..has passed".
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Has the crisis period passed??
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OBAMA '08
I have just read your link to the Obama '08 fact sheet and have made two quick observations (nit-picking) -
1. "Many Catholic immigrants fled Ireland's Famine in the mid-19th century..."
What did the Protestant population (mostly Presbyterian) do - stay behind and gobble all the food?
2. "Barack Obama looks forward to building on this important relationship in a way that treats the Irish as the full partners that they are".
No they are not full partners. They are not members of NATO and therefore do not contribute to the US-lead fight against world terrorism. The Irish Government believes the acronym NATO means "Neutrality At The Oireachtas".
Otherwise a good neutral piece.
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