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"There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama!" (Original Post) UrbScotty Mar 2016 OP
I love this! Aristus Mar 2016 #1
O'Bama! yallerdawg Mar 2016 #2
I bet he brewed "green" beer - LOL Iliyah Mar 2016 #3
my son loved that song and video tk2kewl Mar 2016 #4
That is hysterical!! brer cat Mar 2016 #5
except his security team just blocked Gerry Adams PatrynXX Mar 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author steve2470 Mar 2016 #8
thanks for this. Sharing . . . n/t SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2016 #7
I love it Oak3Tree Mar 2016 #9
That made my day. Never thought I'd see my president river dancing. Tarheel_Dem Mar 2016 #10
LOL treestar Mar 2016 #11
 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
4. my son loved that song and video
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 12:57 PM
Mar 2016

He was a year and a half in Nov 08... he called American flags Obamas for a year or two

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
6. except his security team just blocked Gerry Adams
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 03:28 PM
Mar 2016

yes lets try to start a war with Ireland on their day I don't understand blocking Irelands number 1 peacemaker to the white house to which it was invited?? It was trending on FB. I do not know the end of this story

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Gerry Adams TD added 2 new photos.
23 hrs ·

Here's my statement from earlier today -

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD commenting on the events at the White House on Tuesday evening said:

“I had received my usual invitation to attend the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the White House and was pleased to accept.

“When I arrived the staff at the White House informed me that there was an issue of ‘security’.

“After two decades of travelling back and forth to the USA and countless meetings in the White House with successive US Presidents, this is an unacceptable development.

“It is obvious that there remain some within the US administration who seek to treat Sinn Fein differently.

“Some of our political representatives have been denied access to the USA while others, including myself, have to regularly go through additional searches and scrutiny when we travel to and from the USA.

“Last year the State Department initially refused to meet me as part of a transparent effort to pressurise Sinn Féin during negotiations at Stormont.

“That meeting did take place after protests from US political leaders. Efforts to pressurise us in the negotiations failed.

“This morning Martin McGuinness, Mary Lou McDonald and I met with the Congressional Friends of Ireland. They too shared our grave disappointment at the White House situation and expressed their determination to have this issue resolved.

“Sinn Fein will not sit at the back of the bus for anyone. We are elected to represent citizens and we will do this. I am hopeful that the controversy around my White House invitation will help lead to a resolution of all these matters.”

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