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Whitehouse erases Obama

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  • 17-03-2019 9:10pm
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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭


    The annual official Whitehouse post about St. Patrick's day & the shamrock presentation visit is extremely complimentary of the Irish & their contribution to America, however it completely omits #44 (4th last paragraph). Not surprising given the incumbant, however, shameful in the least.

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    odyssey06
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    Dont know what you mean... it name checked a republican, a democrat, and a democratic republican.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    leonffrench
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    Whitehouse.com would have been better... brings back memories


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    Children been burned to death over an utterance from his mouth sending in drone after drone leaves a very bad taste


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    Kermit.de.frog
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    That's from 2018 OP.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I don’t see the issue? He’s still got Barack Obama Plaza…


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    Atoms for Peace
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Children been burned to death over an utterance from his mouth sending in drone after drone leaves a very bad taste

    The qoute about rough men standing ready applies here, but Obama has been sanctified in the media with the darker, but neccesary, aspects of his leadership being whitewashed.


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    Sonics2k
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Children been burned to death over an utterance from his mouth sending in drone after drone leaves a very bad taste

    Literally name any US President in the last 30 years who hasn't been responsible for the death of children.

    Get outta here with your daft bias.


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    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,284 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Literally name any US President in the last 30 years who hasn't been responsible for the death of children.

    Get outta here with your daft bias.

    Sure why stop there. Andrew Jackson hacked indian children to death in person... allegedly.
    Thats the Irish in him no doubt.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Literally name any US President in the last 30 years who hasn't been responsible for the death of children.

    Get outta here with your daft bias.

    Donald Trump?


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    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Donald Trump?

    Good god no. Trumps Government has increased bombings in Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan.

    You don't think no kids were killed, do you?


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    Relikk
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    SEPT 23 1989
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    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Good god no. Trumps Government has increased bombings in Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan.

    You don't think no kids were killed, do you?

    Donald will be remembered for the opposite


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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,542 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    What the Republican party tweeted today is arguably more worthy of discussion in my humble opinion



    https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1107325339791953921


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What the Republican party tweeted today is arguably more worthy of discussion in my humble opinion



    https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1107325339791953921

    That Twitter feed was like the dump I took this morning. Long and made me wonder what the stink was all about?…


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    #16
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,048 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Obama's Irish background is far more diluted that that of Reagan or Kennedy's.

    Reagan was a great grand child, Kennedy was a grand child.

    Obama was a great great great grand child.

    I don't know about Andrew Jackson but one point about him is that he was of Ulster Scots (today's unionists) stock.

    Ulster Scots went to the US in huge numbers so he was probably included to reflect that.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Are we really still insisting that Obama is Irish?


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    #18
    Kermit.de.frog
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    O'Bama


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    Overheal
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    Aegir wrote: »
    Are we really still insisting that Obama is Irish?

    Stanley Ann Dunham was born on November 29, 1942 at Saint Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas,[7] the only child of Madelyn Lee Payne and Stanley Armour Dunham.[8] She was of predominantly English ancestry, with some Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German and Swiss.[9]


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    mad muffin
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Stanley Ann Dunham was born on November 29, 1942 at Saint Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas,[7] the only child of Madelyn Lee Payne and Stanley Armour Dunham.[8] She was of predominantly English ancestry, with some Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German and Swiss.[9]

    And not to mention, a bit of Kenyan in her too…






































    badabing


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Sure why stop there. Andrew Jackson hacked indian children to death in person... allegedly.
    Thats the Irish in him no doubt.

    That’s the Scots Irish in him, no doubt.


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    Dohnjoe
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Children been burned to death over an utterance from his mouth sending in drone after drone leaves a very bad taste

    Men, women and children were being imprisoned, enslaved, raped and slaughtered by the fundamentalists being targeted, it's not like there was an easy choice. It has had to continue under Trump, who has actually removed the accountability part.


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    Men, women and children were being imprisoned, enslaved, raped and slaughtered by the fundamentalists being targeted, it's not like there was an easy choice. It has had to continue under Trump, who has actually removed the accountability part.

    The fundamentalists in Yemen? Or in Syria?


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    Dohnjoe
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    The fundamentalists in Yemen? Or in Syria?

    Whichever ones I don't like based on which countries I don't like. That's the selective outrage logic around here


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    #25
    Ferajacka
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Ferajacka


    Is this a 'the 44th king prophecy' thread?


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    #26
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    Whichever ones I don't like based on which countries I don't like. That's the selective outrage logic around here

    No.

    We were talking about Obama. You were. What are you referencing?


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    #27
    Dohnjoe
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    No.

    We were talking about Obama. You were. What are you referencing?

    I saw a thread with Obama in the title, related to Paddy's day, so I presumed there'd be mention of drones within nanoseconds, I wasn't disappointed


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    I saw a thread with Obama in the title, related to Paddy's day, so I presumed there'd be mention of drones within nanoseconds, I wasn't disappointed

    That’s nice. Not sure what fundamentalists you were opposing though since the drones operated in Yemen helping the fundamentalist Saudi regime there.


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    #29
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Almost half of former US presidents claim Irish ancestry

    I wouldn't put the Obama claim near the top of the list!


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