The President’s off to Ireland – Archives from Irish Church Show ties to the Emerald Isle - Obama is Now Irish!

Obama as Irish - image from Chicago Machine.org

CBC News is reporting that the President is Irish, through is material grandfather. The ever evolving biography of the 44th President of the United States, underscores the melting pot that is the United States. This revelation has been noted as being timely considering that Irish Catholics have a substantial voting bloc within these United Sates, and Ireland could use a boost to its economy.

Barack Obama, whose father was a Kenyon (British) National, and a mother from Kansas, has been viewed as a of mystery” vis a vis his edibility for the Presidency, including a new book released by Jerome Corsi, “Where’s the Birth Certificate”(Amazon.com) a tome that asks questions ranging from the long form birth certificate (answered and released by the White House), as well as others that one might find more troubling.

The fact that our President is of multinational and multi-cultural heritage highlights the best of the nation that is these United States; that regardless of one’s ethnic or other background, one can still be voted into office by a majority of the American People. Will being a new found Irishman help his chances for re-election? No more and no less than any books written on his eligibility may aid in ensuring he is not re-elected. His ability to govern, his foreign policy stance, and the economy will all factor into whether or not the President will be reelected to a second term. With the GOP field under constant attack by the media, (see media trouncing of any candidate or anyone contemplating a candidacy on the GOP general election Presidential ticket), the “transparency of the media” (not in a good way), and the political climate in the late summer and fall of 2008, should the present trends continue, whoever the GOP nominee may be, from this point of view, stands a better than average chance of becoming the 45th President of the United States. That said, our current President is one fascinating man vis a vis his ever evolving heritage.