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Obama ; he says his mothers family were British now?

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  • #2
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Why are you not willing to share?


  • #3
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    He would say that wouldn't he.

    His links to ireland aren't exactly strong


  • #4
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Well technically she was. Ireland was part of Britain.


  • #5
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Politician says contradicting things to appeal to audience he's addressing. Nothing new. You cant really have expected him to give a rat's ass about Ireland, did you? It was all political rhetoric bullshit.


  • #6
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Eh yeah, his great-great-great-grandfather or whatever was Irish, where do you think the everyone else in his family came from?


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  • #7
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    The question now should be is there any country he doesnt have links to?


  • #8
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    MONEYGALL WILL BURN FOR THIS


  • #9
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    We don't own him you know.


  • #10
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    poor Henry the 8th won't be gettin no more groupies


  • #11
    RichTea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Because his great-great-great-grandfather came from Ireland doesn't mean that he didn't have British relatives somewhere along his mother's side as well. I remember reading about it as well.

    He's not specifically referring to Falmouth Kearney - he does have more than one relative you know. It's not exactly contradictory. :rolleyes:


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  • #12
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Obama says his mothers family were British =/= "I bring warm greetings from tens of millions of Americans who claim British ancestry, including me through my mother's family."

    He could have one great-great-great-grandaddy who was a brit. What of it?


  • #13
    Opelfruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Opelfruit


    Oh no! He said this to the Queen? Only one solution then, lets kill the Queen before she spreads this terrible news.


  • #14
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    Average american claims Irish descent

    Irish reaction: Get lost ya plastic paddy! :mad:

    Famous person (i.e. Obama) claims Irish descent

    Irish reaction: Welcome brother! :D


  • #15
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    We've never had a case of people having links to the two countries ever before. This really is new ground. He must choose between us.


  • #16
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    HE'S OURS, PISS OFF ENGLAND :rolleyes:


  • #17
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Why this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me.


  • #18
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    orourkeda wrote: »
    The question now should be is there any country he doesnt have links to?

    He's an ancestral home slut.


  • #19
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Next he'll be saying he has links to somewhere off the wall like Kenya or something. Madness Joe.


  • #20
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    I think its fair to say that several countries can claim him. It so happens that we here in Ireland make such a big song & dance about it :)

    http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html

    The ethnic/national ancestry of Mr. Obama, as far as is currently known, can be shown as follows:

    50.0 % Luo (Kenya).
    35.0 % English.
    04.6 % Scottish.
    03.9 % Irish.
    03.7 % German.
    01.5 % Welsh.
    00.97 % Swiss.
    00.09% French.
    100.0 %


  • #21
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    prinz wrote: »
    Next he'll be saying he has links to somewhere off the wall like Kenya or something. Madness Joe.

    I wouldn't put it past him to claim he lived in Indonesia as a child.


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  • #22
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Well technically she was. Ireland was part of Britain.

    True enough. Great speech all the same, at least he or his advisors can write their own words.


  • #23
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Wasn't Falmouth Kearney's father was one of Cromwell's men or something ?;)


  • #24
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    RichTea wrote: »
    Because his great-great-great-grandfather came from Ireland doesn't mean that he didn't have British relatives somewhere along his mother's side as well. I remember reading about it as well.

    He's not specifically referring to Falmouth Kearney - he does have more than one relative you know. It's not exactly contradictory. :rolleyes:

    Ah yes, a good Irish name.

    Paddy, Mick, Seamie, Falmouth..... So how Irish was his Irish ancestor?


  • #25
    Opelfruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Opelfruit


    I demand birth certs! Many, many birth certs!


  • #26
    Xivilai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    US + UK


    = USUK


  • #27
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    He'll be claiming to be Voldemort's fourth cousin next


  • #28
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    's a meltin' pot, innit?


  • #29
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    Ah yes, a good Irish name.

    Paddy, Mick, Seamie, Falmouth..... So how Irish was his Irish ancestor?

    Falmouth was the son of a protestant shoe maker whose entire family emigrated to North America. It wasn't the flight from poverty on a famine ship it is made out to be.

    To be honest, if Falmouth was a mass murderer he would be classed as British, but as he went on to produce the 44th president he is as Irish as Brian Boru.


  • #30
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Henry Healy is sobbing into a pint as we speak.


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  • #31
    apoeiguq3094y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭apoeiguq3094y


    LordSutch wrote: »
    I think its fair to say that several countries can claim him. It so happens that we here in Ireland make such a big song & dance about it :)

    http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html

    The ethnic/national ancestry of Mr. Obama, as far as is currently known, can be shown as follows:

    50.0 % Luo (Kenya).
    35.0 % English.
    04.6 % Scottish.
    03.9 % Irish.
    03.7 % German.
    01.5 % Welsh.
    00.97 % Swiss.
    00.09% French.
    100.0 %

    Ah well, at least we beat ze germans.......


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