Ireland: What's wrong with you over there?

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Sarah Palin: a rogue is gooling you all!
by Cormac MacConnell

I know from experience that I'm going to get into hot water over this, but I don't give a tinker's curse whether I do or not.

There are times to keep your mouth tightly closed and there are times to yell. This is one of these occasions.

In the name of the sweet and suffering Christ Almighty what is wrong with ye over there? How is it even remotely possible that a significant number of the citizens of your mighty and well-educated nation have created a political climate which sees Sarah Palin emerging as the most likely Republican choice to contest the upcoming presidential election?

Has the world gone mad? Has America gone madder still? Are there Irish Americans out there supporting Palin?

What right has an Irishman living at home to make any comment on domestic politics in America? I have every right.

Your president is not just the president of the United States and the most powerful man in the world. He is also the leader of the free world and, as such, his international strategies and policies impinge powerfully on all our lives and futures.

We here are involved whether or not we like it. If your great nation shivers we catch double pneumonia.
Your Lehman Brothers crisis, for example, saw our banks go down the tubes and begin a recession from which we will not emerge for years. Ye have sufficient resources to survive the worst and begin a recovery.

We palpably do not and accordingly have had to grovel with our begging bowl before the IMF and the
European Central Bank.

Whatever one thinks about Barack Obama's term in office to date, it is certainly true that the election of a black man to the White House represented the bright and free and enlightened facet of the American Dream.
Incredibly, on the other hand, the soaring popularity of Sarah Palin reflects the exact opposite. I saw her on TV the other evening. She was appropriately dressed as a Hell's Angel for God's sake!
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