dreamdancer 0 #1 May 23, 2011 farming stock eh.... QuoteWhen a 19-year-old cobbler’s son called Falmouth Kearney fled famine-ravaged Ireland for the New World 161 years ago he could never have imagined that his great-great-great grandson would return as US President Barack Obama. Kearney, who hailed from the sleepy village of Moneygall in County Offaly, was one of 289 passengers who boarded the 903-ton ship Marmion in Liverpool and reached New York on March 20, 1850. The ship was following a well-worn route used by hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants. Kearney was listed as a “labourer” and his fellow passengers included carpenters and bricklayers. He traveled with his sister Margaret Cleary and her husband William, and they left behind a country plagued by a potato blight that had destroyed families and livelihoods and left people starving. From the 1840s to the end of the 1850s, about 1.7 million Irish immigrants came to the United States. Kearney was destined for Ohio where a relative had left him property. He married, had 10 children and later settled in Indiana, where he worked as a farmer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/8528827/Barack-Obamas-Irish-roots-traced-back-to-village.htmlstay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #2 May 24, 2011 too much Guinness blocked "The Beast" VIDEOOOO scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #3 May 24, 2011 A campaign trip, to bolster the idea that he's American, just like everyone else, and put behind him the birthplace controversy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #4 May 24, 2011 Quote A campaign trip, to bolster the idea that he's American, just like everyone else, and put behind him the birthplace controversy. it's not an idea. it's a fact stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #5 May 24, 2011 Quote A campaign trip, to bolster the idea that he's a plastic paddy, just like everyone else, and put behind him the birthplace controversy. fixed it for you scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idrankwhat 0 #6 May 24, 2011 Quote A campaign trip, to bolster the idea that he's American, just like everyone else, and put behind him the birthplace controversy. Don't worry, I'm not laughing with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #7 May 24, 2011 QuoteA campaign trip, to bolster the idea that he's American, just like everyone else, and put behind him the birthplace controversy. ...which he should have done back during the 2008 campaign, when all the random jerk-offs who were questioning his birthplace, citizenship, religion, Moozlim name and national loyalty were publicly making fools of themselves. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
