# A Blackhawk woke me this morning. Obama's in Ireland **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872 "2011-05-23T09:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/21 "2011-05-23T16:27:45Z")
Now, if he gets into a fight, he’ll truly be Oirish. /i keed. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/22 "2011-05-23T16:53:45Z")
What’s up with this speech from the Taois… Toeais… the Irish PM? He’s ranting and raving like a madman! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/23 "2011-05-23T16:54:30Z")
He’s about to give his speech in Dublin. [http://www.rte.ie/news/player\_newsnow.html](http://www.rte.ie/news/player_newsnow.html) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/24 "2011-05-23T16:56:53Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > What’s up with this speech from the Taois… Toeais… the Irish PM? He’s ranting and raving like a madman! He’s just excited, that’s all. 😃 And Obama just ballsed up that _seanfhocail_. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/25 "2011-05-23T17:07:56Z")
He is tearing it up. The man is a natural speechificator. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/26 "2011-05-23T17:20:25Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > He’s about to give his speech in Dublin. > [http://www.rte.ie/news/player\_newsnow.html](http://www.rte.ie/news/player_newsnow.html) Thanks for the link. I had to log on to check it out. (I love the internet!) ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/27 "2011-05-23T17:22:40Z")
Is Féidir Linn(Yes we can) Pretty strong end. Obama will always have somewhere to holiday and be the toast of the town. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/28 "2011-05-23T17:24:54Z")
Not “Yes we are a Berliner”? I’m disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/29 "2011-05-23T17:38:10Z")
I’d love to know who was on the phone. “Yeah, this is President Obama. S’up?” That was great. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/30 "2011-05-23T18:04:09Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > What’s up with this speech from the Taois… Toeais… the Irish PM? He’s ranting and raving like a madman! Good oldschool back of the cart Irish speechifying. I’m no fan of Kenny or his party but I thought he was great and I suspect the majority of Irish would agree with me. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/31 "2011-05-23T19:53:34Z")
Ah, you’ll be one of the Moneygall O’Bamas, to be sure!\ (I really thought you were making some sort of joke with “Moneygall,” but apparently not!) ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/32 "2011-05-23T22:10:44Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > Ha! He just went into the local pub gave a speech, got a family photo taken and then went to the bar plonked down some cash and ordered a round. Then drank the Guinness in big gulps and is currently shooting the shit with the barman. He’s playing the Irish even better than Clinton did. Removed from local politics he’s a PR master. [Here’s the video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nYTEqejXFE&feature=player_embedded) “The President pays his bartender.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/33 "2011-05-23T22:28:35Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > [http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72373379&postcount=14720](http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72373379&postcount=14720) Can you explain this to me? Who are the guys with the anime hair, and why would Obama kneecap them with a shillelagh? Actually, scratch that last bit - I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to beat those guys with a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/34 "2011-05-23T22:31:19Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > Ha! He just went into the local pub gave a speech, got a family photo taken and then went to the bar plonked down some cash and ordered a round. Then drank the Guinness in big gulps and is currently shooting the shit with the barman. He’s playing the Irish even better than Clinton did. Removed from local politics he’s a PR master. > > Class act. So he’s doing better than Queen Elizabeth II. (According to Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! (American comedy/news quiz radio program), she declined the pint of Guinness that was offered to her at the brewery last week.) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/35 "2011-05-24T08:23:07Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > [Here’s the video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nYTEqejXFE&feature=player_embedded) > > “The President pays his bartender.” Didn’t Clinton leave without paying once. By accident of course, he expected someone to pay the tab. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/36 "2011-05-24T09:45:00Z")
I got to spend a long afternoon with the Geezer Brigade of my family yesterday at a funeral home. So, I brought up “Obama’s in Ireland searching his roots”. The Irish Catholics Republican possibly birthers were so annoyed by this " stunt" that a bee went up all their collected arseholes. So, naturally, I brought it up to all the geezers as they settled in. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/37 "2011-05-24T10:21:06Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Can you explain this to me? Who are the guys with the anime hair, and why would Obama kneecap them with a shillelagh? > > Actually, scratch that last bit - I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to beat those guys with a stick. He was given a [hurley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurley_%28stick%29)as a present by our Taoiseach, that’s the “shillelagh”. The twins are [Jedward](http://www.planetjedward.net/)who sang at his welcoming concert in Dublin, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/38 "2011-05-24T10:43:25Z")
Sounds marvellous. I saw Clinton speak in College Green in 1995 (the day I lost my job - had nothing better to do that afternoon). Contrast with [GWB’s visit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5006875&postcount=16) in 2004. > [@Me](#): > > There is a 10km exclusion zone around the castle and the road that Bush travelled on, a similar air exclusion zone in which anything flying will be shot down, there are tanks all over the area (what use would tanks be against terrorists..?), anyone using Shannon airport has been told to allow 4 hours waiting time before their flight, and all the area’s local residents have had to apply for security passes, listing their friends, relatives, anyone who’s stayed in their house during the last year - and if they refused to answer these questions, then they have been under effective house arrest. There are also something like 2,000 police and God knows how many soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/39 "2011-05-24T10:58:00Z")
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackhawk-woke-me-this-morning-obamas-in-ireland/582872/40 "2011-05-24T11:10:23Z")
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