'Today' Continues Trek to Discover Obama's Global Appeal

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Picking up from Al Roker's puffery about Barack Obama's Irish heritage from yesterday, NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Tuesday's "Today" show asked Ireland's President Mary McAleese to gauge the U.S. president's popularity on the Emerald Isle as she queried, "Barack Obama, our new president...I understand much loved here...What is it about Barack Obama that instills in, in the people of Ireland?" To which McAleese responded that Obama' is a "big favorite," and that "He arrived at a time when the world was in a very ugly mood of great despair. He had really captured the imagination, particularly of young people."

McAleese, after being prodded by Vieira, also revealed her own son campaigned for Obama in '08, and bragged that he predicted he would be President when he first met him at the 2004 Democratic Convention.

The following is a transcript of the relevant portion of the interview as it was aired on the March 17, "Today" show:

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MEREDITH VIEIRA: Barack Obama, our new president.

MARY MCALEESE: Yeah.

VIEIRA: I understand much loved here.

MCALEESE: Yeah, big favorite.

VIEIRA: In part because he's a native son, on his mother's side

MCALEESE: Of course in Moneygall, absolutely. Of Moneygall, County Offaly. Yes.

VIEIRA: So he's an Irish boy, right?

MCALEESE: Yeah.

VIEIRA: In your book?

MCALEESE: For sure. For sure. But even if he wasn't I think that we would have such faith and hope in him.

VIEIRA: Why? Why? What is it about Barack Obama that instills in, in the people of Ireland?

MCALEESE: Well he arrived at a time when the world was in a very ugly mood-

VIEIRA: Yeah.

MCALEESE: -of great despair.

VIEIRA: Yeah.

MCALEESE: He had really captured the imagination, particularly of young people. You know that's not easy to do. You know there's so much cynicism.

VIEIRA: Your son, your son is one of them?

MCALEESE: My son went over and campaigned for him. He did. My son saw him first in 2004, at the time that John Kerry was nominated.

VIEIRA: Oh and saw Barack Obama speak at the convention?

MCALEESE: He saw him speak at the convention. My son was a humble intern at that. And he rang us the early hours of the morning, I have to say interrupted my sleep at 4:00 o'clock in the morning to tell us that he had just meant a future President of the United States. I thought he was talking about John Kerry and I said to him, are you talking about John Kerry? And he said, "No, not at all. I'm talking about a man called Barack Obama." And I have to say, my immediate response was, "I've never heard of him, who is he?" And he said, "Mom, you'll never have that to say again."

VIEIRA: That is for sure.

—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Global Appeal vs. National Appeal

NBC should look for much more bonnie European Obamanites because the bloom is most definitely off the rose here in the US.

Honeymoon's ovah!!

BHO and his merry band are now LIARS

no matter what was said on the campaign trail to get votes, BHO is now a LIAR. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are LIARS and thieves. some government in place.

have bills passed that are not read, who knows what BHO may have in the stimulus. GWB inherited a bad economy and never said one word about WJC and his shaky accounting.

rats and cockroaches hate the sunlight.

Global Love-soon to be exposed as 

"BHO- ill equipped to lead America "

 

 

 

Mickey Mouse!

 He had really captured the imagination, particularly of young people. You know that's not easy to do. You know there's so much cynicism.

seriously that's the first thing I thought of.  Maybe Disneyworld should do a diorama.... some cartoons...

Micky Mouse, katainkent?

...He does have the ears for it. lol!

Yeah, O'bama was the

Yeah, O'bama was the hometown boy, McCain was a Czechoslovakian interloper.

You can't make this sh*t up. 

Czechoslovakian interloper!

Now I've heard it all. LMAO!

Oh, Mother, please don't

Oh, Mother, please don't tell me you didn't know his "real" name was Juraj Mokanocek?

OBAMA TREK:  These are the

OBAMA TREK:  These are the voyages of the Starship Socialize. Its 50-year mission: to enforce strange new regulations, to seek out failed old Marxist crapolla and old Europe uncivilization, to boldly lie where no man has lied before.

CAPT. BARACK H. KIRK: Beam me copy Rahmmy

RAHMMY: Cap'n I canee get tha' Teleprompter workin'... it's the dilithium crystals.. she's gonna blow... just like ya speeches without tha' ungodly machine

LT. MICHELLE UHURA: Hailing all frequencies Captain. Everyone is silenced.

Obama Amends The Constitution
Check out the poster @ Hollycrud checker-outers

Now that

is some funny sh@t right there! I don't care who you are

  Global apeal? Well if

 
Global apeal? Well if you don't ask out allies like England and Israel and several mothers and stick with dictatorships you might find some global approval.

"DumbAssity of Dope"

I just commented about this

I just commented about this not long ago over on Finkelblog...

The leftists are the same world-wide.

Glaring example set here with this pathetic gal....and Viera goes without saying anything about.

BT, does anyone really believe the MSM anymore

Oh yeah, that would be liberals...those to intellectually lazy to think for themselves. 

Angry White Dude

http://angrywhitedude.com

Sure he's Irish

Everybody knows PBO is Irish - Barry O'bama.  That's an Irish name if I've ever heard or seen one.

"I dont need to read a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber."

Walter Brennan, The Colonel, Meet John Doe, 1941

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