Moneygall is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland. It has a population of 298 people. It has a Roman Catholic church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a police station and of course two pubs.
President-elect Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County, Indiana. Yep – that makes our lad 3.1% Irish!
And now for the SONG...Crank up your speakers and enjoy.
No one as Irish as Barack OBama
O'Leary,
O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
There's no one as Irish as Barack
O'Bama
You don't believe me, I hear you say
But
Barack's as Irish, as was JFK
His granddaddy's daddy came from
Moneygall
A small Irish village, well known to you all
Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama
There's
no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
He's as Irish as bacon and
cabbage and stew
He's Hawaiian he's Kenyan American too
He’s
in the White House, He took his chance
Now let’s see Barack do
Riverdance
Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
From Kerry and
Cork to old Donegal
Let’s hear it for Barack from old
Moneygall
From the lakes of Killarney to old
There’s no one as Irish as Barack
O’Bama
O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
There's no
one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
From the old Blarney stone to the
great hill of Tara
There's no one as Irish as Barack
O'Bama
2008 the White House is green.
Their cheering in Mayo
and in Skibereen.
The Irish in
Are cheering for President Barack
O’Bama
O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
There's no
one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
The Hockey Moms gone, and so is
McCain
They are cheering in
In Moneygall town, the greatest of drama,
for
our famous President Barack O'Bama
Toor a loo, toor a loo,
toor a loo, toor a lama
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
The great Stephen Neill, a great man of God,
He proved
that Barack was from the Auld Sod
They came by bus and they came
by car,
to celebrate Barack in Ollie Hayes’s Bar
O'Leary,
O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
There's no one as Irish as Barack
O'Bama
By
Hardy
Drew
All Americans should add our support to our past presidents well wishes for Obama as follows:
"May Obama be successful because he represents all Americans."
And as Obama said, "My election is not about me, it is about America."
And, my favorite Obama quote, "In order to survive the megalomania of becoming President,
I have to see all the threads that come together to make my election possible."
I have wished him well in my political creation, HOPE.
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