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  1. You can’t even spell Bentsen right.

    Stop talking about things of which you know nothing. Worse than nothing.

  3. Here’s the text.

    By Conor Humphries

    GRAIGUENAMANAGH, Ireland (Reuters) – In the land of his ancestors, Paul Ryan’s Irish charm is failing him.

    Despite his name, Roman Catholic faith and immigrant-made-good family history, the Irish half of the Republican ticket is failing to win the allegiance of the old country from Barack Obama, a skilled hand at playing the Irish card.

    Obama struck public relations gold last year by sharing a Guinness with a distant cousin in the village of Moneygall after an amateur genealogist traced his ancestors there. Pictures of cheering Irish crowds were beamed across the United States.

    But 100 kilometers (60 miles) down the road, Ryan’s ancestral hometown is feeling the cold shoulder and like Ireland as a whole, most of the locals are rooting for his Democratic presidential rivals.

    “He doesn’t have the charisma, he hasn’t connected with the people,” said Pat Nolan as he strolled passed the 13th century stone church in the village of Graiguenamanagh where Ryan’s great-great grandparents were married.

    “It doesn’t matter what his name is, it’s Obama that has made the effort,” said Nolan, 62, a retired physiotherapist.

    In a recession-hit town where almost a third of the shops on main street are vacant, Obama’s promise to secure more visas for Irish immigrants and help attract U.S. investment has struck a chord.

    Ryan’s pitch to slash public spending does not go down so well in a country reeling from years of austerity imposed after crippling bank debt forced the government to take a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in 2010.

    Despite the Ryan connection, few locals are hoping for a Republican victory across the ocean.

    “It would give a boost to a nice small town like this, but I would forgo it. I wouldn’t want to inflict him on the American people,” said Margaret, a 64-year-old cashier, upset by Ryan’s plans to cut welfare and Medicare health cover for the elderly. She withheld her family name to avoid angering her employer.

    A straw poll of 20 people on a recent afternoon found 12 Obama supporters and none for Ryan and running mate Mitt Romney.

    Ninety-six percent of people in Ireland who have decided would back Obama and Irish Catholic running mate Joe Biden if they had a vote, according to a September poll of 1,000 people by Gallup International.

    “He’s too far right-wing for this part of the world,” said Martin Brett, the former mayor of the county’s capital Kilkenny, who hosted Ryan’s uncle when he came to trace his roots in the region a few years ago.

    But tight economic ties with the United States and a soft spot for Irish Americans could yet convince Ireland to embrace a President Romney and Vice President Ryan, he said.

    “If they won, the invitations would be in the post,” Brett grinned.

    DANGEROUS GROUND

    As the country with the second-largest budget deficit in the European Union and recipient of an international bailout, Ireland is dangerous ground for Ryan, whose campaign is based on a promise to slash the United States’ fast-growing debt pile.

    The Wisconsin congressman has not endeared himself to his kin by holding their country up as a cautionary tale of bad practice.

    Ryan’s web site refers to Ireland 11 times, eight as an example of the economic doom facing the United States if it doesn’t address its budget deficit and three as a rival to the Cayman Islands as a tax haven threatening American jobs.

    When Ryan told a crowd in his home state how his great grandfather had fled the Irish potato famine with just the shirt on his back, the crowd lapped it up.

    But an Irish historian of the famine, John Kelly, rebuked him days later for espousing a laissez faire economic philosophy he said was strikingly similar to that of British policymakers whom many in Ireland blame for the deaths of millions.

    Asked why Ryan appeared to have soft-pedaled his Irish heritage, Mike Steel, a Romney campaign official said in an email to Reuters: “He did address his family’s Irish immigrant roots at a rally in his hometown of Janesville, WI. He told a joke about his ancestors arriving in Janesville and saying “It looks just like Ireland … and then the winter came.”

    FADING KINGMAKERS

    While visiting an ancestral home in Ireland remains a rite of passage for U.S. presidents, with the last five claiming ties there, the power of the Irish vote has faded since it helped lift John F. Kennedy to the presidency in 1960.

    Kennedy’s victory set up a triumphant homecoming three years later to a town 20 miles from Graiguenamanagh.

    But pockets of Irish Americans in the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania could still play an important role.

    “The Irish Catholic vote went for (Democrat) Bill Clinton. It went narrowly for (Republican John) McCain over Obama. I’d say on this occasion it will be 50-50,” said Niall O’Dowd, publisher of the U.S. newspaper The Irish Voice.

    “It’s a vote that tends to be a bellwether vote. If it swung decisively behind Obama, it would certainly mean that he would win the election,” O’Dowd said.

    Romney’s choice of Ryan, just like Obama’s choice of Biden, was clearly influenced by targeting white Catholics, he said.

    The lobby group Irish American Democrats says it is targeting Cuyahoga County in Ohio, a bellwether Irish area in a state where the election could be decided.

    Ryan will find it far harder than Biden to take advantage of his Irish heritage, said Stella O’Leary, who heads the group.

    “I find there is a kind of mild embarrassment on the half of Irish Americans who are Republicans,” she said. “They would all have originally have been Democrats, so the question is when did they change. Was it when they got a few dollars?”

    The Republicans’ strongest card among Irish Catholics is their social conservatism, something used by Ronald Reagan, the most successful Republican in mobilizing the Irish vote.

    But Ryan and Romney are facing an election where social issues have not been dominant.

    “It’s really all about Ohio. Both candidates are looking to gain footing any way that they can,” said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell, who said working-class Irish American Catholics were one group being targeted.

    CHICAGO IRISH SCHOOL

    Obama learned to play the Irish card when he was an Illinois senator scrambling for votes on the streets of Chicago.

    A regular participant in Chicago’s St Patrick’s Day parade, Obama planned his triumphant trip to Ireland last year based on the work of a distant cousin and amateur genealogist, who tracked down the village where some of the president’s ancestors had lived.

    By contrast, when retired anti-drugs officer Rick Barrett let the Ryan campaign know he had traced their candidate’s great-great grandparents’ homestead to near Graiguenamanagh, Republican staff made clear they didn’t have time to discuss it.

    “He’s a numbers guy. He’s concentrating on the future of the country, but maybe he’s concentrating on that too much,” Barrett said. “Maybe needs to shake hands, pat a few backs and have a pint or two at an Irish bar.”

    (Reporting by Conor Humphries; Editing by Paul Taylor)

  4. You folks are ahistorical morons. The Irish have been part of the backbone of the English King’s Army and Navy for centuries and especially after they finally won their independence in 1921 as shown by the large numbers of Irishmen who signed up during WWII. If it was the Waffen-SS all the better.

    As one of your hated damyankee hyphenated-Americans and a nominal Lutheran who is 3/8th’s Irish I thoroughly resent your anti-Irish prejudices. Especially all you fucking wimps like John who aren’t even combat veterans or even adults. Fuck y’all (and I don’t give a shit who your great-great grandfathers might have fought for or even which side they were on. Piss on ’em.)

  5. That is of course the other side of the coin. Half approx the wicked things scribed to the British were carried out by Irish soldiers in the King’s service.

    Here you should look at voting patterns. The Irish in the US vote 50/50 Dem Republican at best. So they are a political wash. In Ireland proper they appear to identify most closely with Obama than they do Ryan. By a ratio of 11:0. That an unscientific straw poll but it’s very telling.

  7. The only white guy I see who is belligerently defending the honour of the HNIC, while offering a fist fight happens to be called O’Donnell. It’s not a coincidence.
    Read the excerpt from the Reuters report and you might see why…

  8. John cites cherry-picked news items but temporarily forgets about both selection bias and the toxic nature of the MSM. Always trust John source material when making important decisions!

    “I know how the Irish think.” Oh do you now. In any event I don’t care what or how the Irish think, I live in America, not in County Dinglesquabble, and the “Irish” don’t get to vote here.

    You have no idea, jack zip zero, what Irish Americans think. Stop trotting out cherry-picked news items whose deeper semiotic meaning you clearly don’t understand, and your dopey half-conned take on figments of an American history you can’t grasp, as bases for your ignorant twaddle.

    You’re both a bore and a boor. Well that’s an achievement of sorts, I suppose.

  9. Have tried three times, on two different devices, to reply to John, keep getting denial messages. I have no idea what’s going through and what isn’t.

    Hunter whatever is going on (I believe it must be some sort of attack) your site is in serious trouble. I can barely ever get it to load, and I apparently can’t get comments through.

    Better have a professional look into what’s going on.

  13. Here’s the editor/writer in the Irish Voice.

    “It doesn’t mean that every individual is racist, but conservatism tends to suggest that if you’re not white you’re less American,” MacDonogh says.
    “The greatest blight on America is the history of racism and slavery. That’s the historic baggage it carries with it. Even to this day you have golf courses whose history is associated with thorough antagonism to people who are not white.

    “Obama is correct in saying one day we may get beyond racism in America, but that day hasn’t arrived. His election does not signal the end of American racism.”

    This goes beyond normal liberal pablum. This Irishman is claiming Obama as an Irishman. It’s astounding. McDonagh is no different than O’Donnell in this respect.

  15. “Reports say the Pew poll left the 44th president with a 54-39 percent lead over Romney among American Catholics.Analysts say Obama is running even with Romney among white Catholics but has overwhelming support with Latino Catholics.
    The new poll is a major boost for Obama who led by only two points, 49-47 percent, among Catholic voters in June.”

    At what point do you stop and say hmmmm there is a pattern here! My god they DO reflexively line up on one side. And it’s not neccessarily ours.

  17. Why are the Irish such rabid race mixers? What happened to them?

    They seem to be the worst among all types of yankee.

    What a shame! Obama is very representative of the “Irish” of the future.

    Deo Vindice

  18. Hey John, when’s the last time you visited your home country? The British press loves Obama even more than the American press does. And they utterly crucified Romney, a man of literally their own blood, when he visited the UK this summer.

  20. If these comments represent how whites are bickering even add the Mongol hoards are literally inside the walls of the society we built, ransacking and raping outside the window of the room we are arguing in, then we probably deserve our fate.

  21. “Here’s an out and out Irish American paper”

    I’ve never heard of any of these publications in my entire life. Their circulation is nil.

  22. Here you go John, cogent analysis by a fellow Brit.

    “About the only European-descent Americans who vote ethnic are from Jewish or Italian families.”

    http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2012/08/there-is-no-irish-american-vote.html

    The fact is except for some working class neighborhoods in Boston, and to a lesser degree New York and Philadelphia there is no “Irish vote.” The vast majority of Irish immigrants have been thoroughly assimilated into the American population just like the Germans (from the founding stock of Pennsylvania “Dutch” right on through to the 19th Century.)

    Here’s an American Irish Catholic lass:

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3571/3416354232_55b3257ff6.jpg

    I say we need to import a lot more from her stock!!!

  24. As a Yankee Irish Catholic I’m fully able to admit there is a large part of our ethnic identity that finds solidarity in thumbing our nose at “elites.” We pride ourselves on our working class roots, our street toughness and at the same time our bleeding heart Irish Catholic goodness. Yeah, we’ve got some pig-headed ideas, many of us. Kind of like our neighbors to the South, who pride themselves on their identity. No matter how much money or fame we get, we’re still just dumb old doorknob workhorses, and fuck all who say different. I think many of us would like to be buried with our right hand above ground, hand stiffly bent to proudly assert the middle finger to the living world for eternity. And that’s on our good days.

    I didn’t watch the interview, but I’m impressed by Romney’s family. No slouchers there. That’s the result of high intensity parenting, and I respect it very much. Still, I can’t bring myself to give a crap about them. They’re doing fine. Give ’em hell O’Donnnell, you bloody Irish tard, just for kicks.

    John is a troll. What, is he up to 500 comments a day now?

  25. Something tells me her stock won’t be worth so much in the long run. She’s part of a now vanished Irish heritage. Back when the Irish were presumably pro-white.

    Between avowed race traitors such as Bono, homoerotic negro fetishists such as Chris Mathews, oil drillers such as Paul Ryan, and idiotic buffoons such as Joe Biden and the this O’Donnell character, it looks to me like the Irish have decided to place their future entirely into black hands.

    Even “conservative” Irish like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity only cease their Lincoln worship long enough to acknowledge their anti-racist bona fides. I guess MLK and Irish blowhard politician Peter King (R-NY) are Irish soul brothers of one sort or another.

    When you consider Irish immigration policy is dumping nogs into Ireland faster than you can say “Jack Robinson.” Make that “Jackie Robinson.” Move over Sweden, I think we have finally found the most ethnomasochistic white people ever.

    Why no Golden Dawn type movement in Ireland? I guess we know why…

    Deo Vindice

  26. And yet ironically everyone knows the legend of the Yankee/Boston Irish Catholic ethnic identity, and it continues to this day, as one of the most celebrated in the country, with no indication of diminution.

  29. Apparently the Irish have always had a special affinity for negroes.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/nyregion/how-green-was-my-surname-via-ireland-a-chapter-in-the-story-of-black-america.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

    Perhaps impotence from too much whiskey led to miscegenation…hmm.

    Upon reflection, I think almost every single mudshark I have ever met or heard of has been of Irish heritage. Seems Irish girls do like huge dongs…of the Alabama black snake variety.

    Sorry LandShark…

    Deo Vindice

  32. john and apeulis or what ever his name is are anti-whites, go divide and conquer somewhere else, the MSM is obviusly not the heir to the lands of erin

  33. so how is this “not white nationalist” southern secession thing gonna break the white nationalist model of bickering and fragmentation?

  34. John you can cite news articles all day long but you have no grasp of the context or the subtext of what you’re reading, or of why it’s been printed. This is simply a world you do not understand, and which is not easily or simplistically explained.

    Go have opinions about something else. You’re filled with opinions and you enjoy having them. The world’s your oyster boyo. Have at it.

  35. Unlike WNs, White Southerners are an ethnic group with a shared history, culture, and ancestry. There is less ethnic diversity in the South and less of a reason to fight over those issues.

  36. Southerners are more heterogeneous than is commonly thought, but White ethnics like the Germans, Irish, French, and Italians assimilated more easily into the Anglo population in the South than the North due to the presence of slavery.

  37. Which is it then? First you say “White Southerners are an ethnic group”, implying a kindred cohesion, and distinction from the rest of white Americans, but then you contradict yourself by saying “Southerners are more heterogeneous than is commonly thought”. If they are heterogeneous, than they are ethnically no different than white Northerners, other than geographic location.

  38. What a binding agent to the Irish in the media are, eh? Matthews, Odonnell, Dowd…same in politics: Kennedy, Moynihan, King…

    Obscure blog commentators deserve the wrath of the Hound of Cuchlain though.

  39. You know, in my extensive, lifelong experience of Irish American society in three major cities, I know exactly one mudshark. Her father was a hard-bitten big city cop, which her DWL education told her meant he was an eeevil raaaaaacist, so she rebelled against Daddy by defiling herself with a nog. The psychology was so plain-ass dumb, no one could believe it. Now of course she’s stuck with a hideous little niglet, ineducable and uncontrollable, and Nog Daddy is long gone. She may as well have given birth to an octopus, she’d have about as much in common as she does with this… thing. It’s a pity because she’s a fine-looking girl, and now no decent white man will touch her, ever again.

    But the point being, in forty-plus years of daily contact with Irish Americans, that’s the only mudshark story I got. The only one.

  40. “Southerners are more heterogeneous than is commonly thought, but White ethnics like the Germans, Irish, French, and Italians assimilated more easily into the Anglo population in the South than the North due to the presence of slavery.”

    More than half of the nation’s 3,143 counties contain a plurality of people who describe themselves as German-American:

    http://go.bloomberg.com/multimedia/measuring-the-u-s-melting-pot/

    Looks like they left out the niggers or else they considered them “English” since most of them have English surnames.

  42. even in the vaunted “war between the states”, the non-homogeniety of both sides was evident 14 words (but fuck the rats who call irish white niggers, they are why o’donnell can even make a case)

  43. “so how is this “not white nationalist” southern secession thing gonna break the white nationalist model of bickering and fragmentation?”

    Fragmentation is good. Large centralized states like the BRA empire need fragmentation. Fragmentation allows whites to establish homelands.

    Centralization and the globalization that followed has lead to the multicultural mess we are in now. Such is the nature of empires. Empire is anti-white.

    Deo Vindice

  44. The Irish need to cease promotion of their multicultural annihilation at the hands of negroes.

    Abandon PC multicuturalism and the yankee BRA empire. Or face continuous ridicule…

    …and the curses of whatever is left of your progeny in the future.

    Deo Vindice

  45. i meant in the way that White nationalists circles tend to attack each other incessantly, yes politically i am with you, but not inside our little tiny electronic bastion, in here we should spread ideas and learn and provide criticism not euro-ethnic (which is retarded as we are all Yanks to the euros) taunting

  47. In Oirland there is one or two brews. In Britain go 5 miles and there’s another brewery. That’s the basic difference.

  50. “When you consider Irish immigration policy is dumping nogs into Ireland faster than you can say “Jack Robinson.” Make that “Jackie Robinson.” Move over Sweden, I think we have finally found the most ethnomasochistic white people ever. ”

    Well, no one will ever accuse the Irish of being clever, that’s for sure.

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