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Top o' the mornin to ya O'Bama

  • 28-03-2011 3:13pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    http.www.independent.ie/national-news/musical-brothers-back-on-the-barack-bandwagon-2597020.html

    Am I the only one embarrassed by the build up surrounding the forthcoming visit of US President Barack Obama ?

    On a trip taking in a state visit to the UK and the important G8 summit in France, the most powerful man on the planet is also taking time out to visit Ireland.

    And true to form, rather than using the visit for something useful, our main focus seems to centre around dragging him down to some backwater in Offaly that claims to be the home of one of his ancestors.

    If Obama were to visit all his ancestral homes around the world, his term in office would be taken up by looking at villagers worldwide dancing jigs and singing their version of that bloody awful song by the Corrigan Brothers. The man is about as Irish as chicken chow mein.

    Derek Mooney has spent the last hour on the radio salivating over the visit like a 13 year old girl with tickets to a Justin Bieber gig. He dismissed people like me as having no sense of fun by claiming we would prefer constant news coverage of tribunals instead. I'd actually prefer if we took the visit seriously for a change.

    He also said the worlds media will be present for the visit, and this is the bit that annoys me. Front page newspaper photos will carry images of shamrock drowning paddies in true beggorah style competing with each other to shake the president's hand and the obligatory photo of the man drinking a pint of stout. (Remember the embarrassing claim publicity stunt between Guinness and Murphy's after a visit by Clinton?)

    I thought we had moved on from all this fawning guff and prickology.

    At a time when we need our European neighbours to take us seriously more than ever before, we are doing our best to prove incapable of doing so ourselves by treating this visit like a circus.

    Derek Mooney may feel orgasmic when he hears There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama.

    I feel like throwing up when I hear it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,942 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Not embarrassed at all, think its great.



    Yes we can, so we can!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,871 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Lapin wrote: »
    http.www.independent.ie/national-news/musical-brothers-back-on-the-barack-bandwagon-2597020.html

    Am I the only one embarrassed by the build up surrounding the forthcoming visit of US President Barack Obama ?

    On a trip taking in a state visit to the UK and the important G8 summit in France, the most powerful man on the planet is also taking time out to visit Ireland.

    And true to form, rather than using the visit for something useful, our main focus seems to centre around dragging him down to some backwater in Offaly that claims to be the home of one of his ancestors.

    If Obama were to visit all his ancestral homes around the world, his term in office would be taken up by looking at villagers worldwide dancing jigs and singing their version of that bloody awful song by the Corrigan Brothers. The man is about as Irish as chicken chow mein.

    Derek Mooney has spent the last hour on the radio salivating over the visit like a 13 year old girl with tickets to a Justin Bieber gig. He dismissed people like me as having no sense of fun by claiming we would prefer constant news coverage of tribunals instead. I'd actually prefer if we took the visit seriously for a change.

    He also said the worlds media will be present for the visit, and this is the bit that annoys me. Front page newspaper photos will carry images of shamrock drowning paddies in true beggorah style competing with each other to shake the president's hand and the obligatory photo of the man drinking a pint of stout. (Remember the embarrassing claim publicity stunt between Guinness and Murphy's after a visit by Clinton?)

    I thought we had moved on from all this fawning guff and prickology.

    At a time when we need our European neighbours to take us seriously more than ever before, we are doing our best to prove incapable of doing so ourselves by treating this visit like a circus.

    Derek Mooney may feel orgasmic when he hears There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama.

    I feel like throwing up when I hear it.
    I agree 100%. Those d*cks were actually brought to the whitehouse....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    I think its great that he's coming.

    I just don't agree with the bullshít that surrounds the visit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,942 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Lapin wrote: »
    I think its great that he's coming.

    I just don't agree with the bullshít that surrounds the visit.

    Americans love that sh1te that makes us cringe.
    No harm in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    When are we being issued with the green jackets and fake red beards? tis a fine fine ting to be sure to be sure, oh begorrah and bejaysus, toooraloorlooraloo etc etc


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,871 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    20Cent wrote: »
    Americans love that sh1te that makes us cringe.
    No harm in it.
    that is a myth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,942 ✭✭✭20Cent


    If he was visiting any country they would wheel out the traditional music and stuff. Only in Ireland people are somehow embarrassed by their own culture for some reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,871 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    20Cent wrote: »
    If he was visiting any country they would wheel out the traditional music and stuff. Only in Ireland people are somehow embarrassed by their own culture for some reason.
    and you think "there's nobody more irish than obama" and it's sequal are a fair representation of our musical culture?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Twin-go


    I agree 100%. Those d*cks were actually brought to the whitehouse....

    No they wern't!! and they are not Dicks!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    and you think "there's nobody more irish than obama" and it's sequal are a fair representation of our musical culture?

    It's more a flovour of the month song than a true reflection of Irish culture , a bit like ''Oooh Ahhh ... Paul McGrath '' although I'm sure there's more Irish in Paul than O'Bama


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    It will be interesting to see the same people condemn the Queen's visit on the back of her countries involvement in the middle east, then swoon over Obama!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    No doubt with O'Bama's visit the whole country will be taken over again by the CIA / Secret Service and probably MI5 for the Queens .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,871 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Latchy wrote: »
    No doubt with O'Bama's visit the whole country will be taken over again by the CIA / Secret Service and probably MI5 for the Queens .
    along with the right to shoot and kill


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭dan_d


    I'm not embarassed to be Irish, but it IS embarassing when you hear people trying to convince him that Offaly and the Irish are practically solely responsible for his presence on this planet!

    So the man's (apparently) from somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Offaly.Big deal. It's great that he's coming here, I will say that, but it's fairly nauseating listening to all the crap that goes on. It's ok to be proud to be Irish, but we do occasionally have to remember that we aren't actually as wonderful as we like to think we are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    along with the right to shoot and kill
    Yep .... and a big headache for all the Irish security forces to .


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Won't be much of a headache if he's only going to be in the country for 5 hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Lapin wrote: »
    Won't be much of a headache if he's only going to be in the country for 5 hours.

    Really? Is he just visiting BallyNaSpoof (or wherever is laying claim to him as a long-lost son of the parish now)?


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