Obama and McCain want the Irish-American vote

[Zewuot]

McCain is NOT Irish he's a fucking scott

[MrQuinnmcdonagh]

@kingericni but the modern IRA has absolutely no replication to the origional IRA. the modern ira are a group of drug dealers who kill innocent people alright but dont let that overshadow the origional ira who faught and died for irelands freedom and we wouldnt be as free as we are today without them.

[xEcGAirborne]

Im From Northern Ireland and catholic and the Catholic Irish Person is not British He will always be full IRISH MAN

[karezza6]

I went to Eire once. It rained non-stop and was freezing cold. Everyone is drunk and no-one works. They dress only in green & they worship the Pope. They eat nothing but Irish stew and drink nothing but Guinness. They continually look to the past & believe in Leprachauns. Eire is the home of the paedophile priest who are exported all over the world. They speak English & play English sports & watch English television. I couldn't sleep at night due to the drunkards in the street. Avoid.

[TheIrishguy37]

@kermithehomo BECAUSE THEY ARE A SAD BUNCH OF LOSERS IM IRISH AND WE FIND IT SOOO FUCKIN ANNOYING ... YOUR AMERICAN NOT IRISH OR MORE OF THEM PRETEND TO BE ITALIAN OR FRENCH ... MAJOR IDENTITY CRISIS GOING ON OVER THERE 

[TheIrishguy37]

Im irish Born Bread and i live here. We Irish find most Irish Americans really sad and annoying. Be proud to be American as thats what you are. Also so called IRISH AMERICANS DO U realise u can only come here on a 3 month visa .. and then you have to get out of Ireland and go back home again.. That the facts !!! Sad but true

[MegaSlayerr]

@kingericni Ironic thing is that you the British caused that terrorism by "CHOICE"!!

When you take from people you have to exspect repercussions so next time you decided to whine about being attacked by the people from which you stole from and terrorized (Black and Tans??) just have a think about what ye did to cause it

Remember they experienced it during the war of independence when they too were terrorized at the hands of the British empire!

[mrtundra45]

Irish! NObama 2012

Vote RON PAUL

[Arsene1231]

@mrtundra45 Obama is half Irish.

[mrtundra45]

@Arsene1231 half kenyan / half irish

but 100% sellout

[Arsene1231]

@mrtundra45 sellout?

[mrtundra45]

@Arsene1231 NO SHIT and a LIAR.

[extrapressure]

obama and his green tie, dude come on. and McCain flaunting his surname, i wonder if he has ever actually been to an irish community before this day. lol.

[WillShakespeare2007]

I was born in the U.K. but I don't give a hoot about all this nonsense. I am glad my grandfather fought the nazis but that is as close to "national pride" that I want to get. Be proud of yourself and your family who cares about all this nationalistic and racist crap.

[TheQman89]

Europeans don't understand the Americas. Go to Argentina and as what they are, of course they are Argentines first but Italian or Spanish.

It is an Ethnic-Cultural thing, jesus. My Grandparents are from Ireland it doesn't mean that they told me that I had to be an American and I had to be ashamed to call myself Irish-American because of our cultural traditions. We have our own story different that the Irish citizens, but we are damned proud of what we have done over HERE 

[TheIrishguy37]

@TheQman89 YOUR GRANDPARENTS CAME FROM IRELAND BIG DEAL.. YOUR STILL AMERICAN BE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN SO MANY AMERICANS HAVE IDENTITY CRISIS SOME PRETENDING TO BE ITALIAN MORE IRISH ... YOUR AMERICAN BE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN...

[squakrock]

@GLORD99092 im irish and scottish

[kingneddy]

@kingdomofdalriada did you know the IRA are communist in philosophy?

[1scot4scotland]

look up Scottish Independence

[deadeye012006]

McCain isnt Irish he is Ulster Scots Descent he has mainly Scottish & English Ancestors with a little bit of German further back .

[noodles1916]

@deadeye012006 holy shit, well spotted

[gneasuil]

Barack o bama is as much american as hitler is american

[GLORD99092]

@DorkTheNerdInvader1, No you are a yank only, you belong in America as birthright only

[squakrock]

My kind of Scotch Irish is my Irish and Scottish ancestors came here and from Ireland and Scotland and had babies

[GLORD99092]

@squakrock, Scots are Scottish, they were initially called Picts.

So there is no such thing as Scotch Irish.

And Scotch is a whisky

[Ballyhook]

If you got irish in your blood and in your heart you are IRISH no matter where you live. Im irish in ireland. And give great respect to irish americans who fly the flag.. God bless you all. ...... Sean o cuileann choanite mayo

[GLORD99092]

@Ballyhook What if you only had 1/4 Irish blood?

[tbailey10191988]

Got to love Obama's pronunciation of Celtic...what a douche

[lotofhate]

has to be O LOLOL like mine O'neill

[albanyoglaigh]

lol... atta boy McCain boast about your scotch-irish heritage (which just means ulster -scot) in front of all the irish catholics on st. paddy's day. wonder why he didnt get the irish vote.

[toppaz79]

@albanyoglaigh The 'Irish vote'?! Lol! Classic.

[GLORD99092]

@albanyoglaigh Scotch is a whisky from Scotland

[mizzoulibertarian]

@GLORD99092 LOL and that scotch is SO SMOOTH. When me and my friend get a bottle it tends to be a wild night. LOL

[toyotaprius79]

aww crap, McCains Irish besides McCain is a scottish maiden name.

[Stevenbfg]

theres no such thing as an irish-amerian unless your parents are irish and you were born in america that makes you irish but if its something like a grandfather your not irish think about it my grandmother is german but the rest of my family are irish and I have lived in ireland my whole life so does that make me a german-irishman NO

[hollyboo21]

DID YOU KNOW? Barack Obama's speech writer is a 20-something Irish American lad who's worked with him since the election campaign.. Mmm hmm! Poor oul Barack though, he LITERALLY CANNOT PRONOUNCE THE WORD 'CELTIC'. McCain really was a hero for the immigrant cause- he was behind a lot of projects for the naturalisation and support of immigrant families that, it was hoped, would keep them in jobs and schools and out of slums. Too bad for him he was in the wrong party.......Excellent vid!

[cameramanAL]

They say the exact same thing but Obama does it with a little bit of humour

[djc807]

mccaine said they built our economy twice

[Smiley8569]

@djc807 that's right he did. Gotta emphasize the point laddie

[ttiiyy]

Sign, the race is always a factor in the election. There is even division within the white community.

America is fucked, and "white people" need to own it and stop bitching about minorities playing the race card......

[flabbyllama]

Stop saying 'Seltic', its Celtic, sounds like Kel-tick.

[blahmehblah1]

McCain is scottish name (i am scottish)

[gxcope]

@blahmehblah1

Actually Mc, Mac, Ma and Fitz mean son of, ancestor of, child of and grandson of in Gaelic. McCain is Irish.

[R0undAboutMidnight]

To be Irish you need to be born in Ireland. You can still be 'Irish-American', but you cannot be Irish per se.

[tonylee1973]

@R0undAboutMidnight Irish americans know that, we are not whining,

[HerrWagnerfreund]

So if I had been born in Ireland (f.e. during my parents' vacation), I would be Irish per se although my parents are Germans and I don't have anything to do with Ireland?

[Dandman22]

@leegwalker you're ancestry is Irish, but you're not.

[nofalltoofar]

"Seltic name" Good goin' Obama. You're really Irish.

Only 1 "Seltics" in the world, and that's the basketball team. And as much as he wishes, Barack doesn't play for them.

And as for the anti-American sentiments in Ireland, you forget Americans bought the guns that freed the Republic. Most kids in Ireland today are ignorant of their language, history, and legends. Geographical location is hardly a means for cultural identification.

[donald809]

i want a irish american woman under 24 years old

[seonidh]

@TraxX11191 the republic ws well on the way before american irish donated money. BTW the ira killed protestant irish and catholic irish in the 1980s. They even killed English irish people in manchester and london with just as much irish blood as you. In the end they didnt win and what was all those killings for. It all just devided the island again and again.

[smithy2402]

I vote for Obama...I hope he wins...

[TraxX11191]

Actually my ancestors are from Ireland, all 4 grandparents...

Anyway, I agree that culturally, I'm American. Even though my family was all based on Irish culture, I've grown up in America therefore am culturally American. Not being from the States, you might not get where we are coming from. We take pride in America but also take pride in our heritage. Our families came here and brought their culture with them. Irish culture does not only exist in Ireland.

[TraxX11191]

You're so misinformed. There is DNA that separates the Irish, scots and English. The Picts inhabitaed Scotland, they were their own people...same with celts in Ireland and the Anglos on in England...then the Saxon invasian of "England" created Anglo-saxons...plus roman with years of roman domination under hadrians wall..You can't say Norse and Albanians look alike, but they're both Caucasian...so your theory is shot to shit...Irish isn't a race, it's an Ethnicity...

[seonidh]

"The Picts inhabitaed Scotland, they were their own people...same with celts in Ireland"

@TraxX11191 The picts of scotland were called the Cruithne in Ireland and were of the same stock as the irish cruithne. With only 15 miles between both countries people have been moving across the straights of moyne for 5000 years taking culture, language, wives and husbands. Trade and culture moved and still moves between both gaelic nations.

[TraxX11191]

I never said it made anyone Irish, I said the republic wouldn't exist without it. A black girl raised in Dublin is Irish...I'm Irish by blood, I have the physical features but I'm American in culture and thinking... I'm Irish American...get it.

[msbeth20]

There should be a wall

[TeamEdwardAndBella11]

obamas muslim

[MyMadra]

Obama has a more recent connection to Ireland than mccain does! (I've been to the village where Obama's most recent Irish ancestry comes from, yes he has Irish heritage on his grandfathers and his grandmothers side, muslim is a religion dummy, not a nationality or a persons heritage. Irish americans annoy me!, they come over here saying "I'm Irish" when the know nothing about Irish culture (todays culture), I don't mind the ones like obama who don't go around bragging about it though

[20Tomas08]

Tig actually comes from an irish name, rabharaTAIG, in english it is rafferty. He was an irish king. Rafferty means son of rabharataig.

[ParamoreWorshipper]

It comes from Tadhg.

[20Tomas08]

Tadhg is an irish name, meaning poet, I think it think it is equal to Tim. Anyway Taig could come from tadhg, I was just always told it came from rabharataig (rafferty) which is my name btw lol.

[kaneworldchamp1]

scotsirish fuck u mcCain

[berrier123]

no he is a filthy proso from the north

[seonidh]

The term Taig is actually a Northern Ireland term for a catholic Irishman. It didnt originate in scotland and was addopted in part by the filth of a football team. Not all scots will use or want to use that word.

[apincle]

erm, that's very nice, but I'm not Scottish.

[kez1979]

So why use their terms?

[apincle]

do I?

[kez1979]

Yes. Wikipedia it. I bet you read those Scottish/Northern Irish wannabe Loyalist spazs' using it on YouTube. Sad really. There's plenty of offensive and discriminatory terms an Englisman can call his own without looking elsewhere.

[ErnstBecker]

The Perwinkle is good trout bait.

[nitrobyname]

(Continued)--- Before I win the award for longest rant on Youtube, I just want to say that all in all fair play for your passion and dedication in your heritage, And sure if what your saying was true, ye know, your father is Irish, You lived here with him and relatives for a while,, And for Christ's sake you have Irish citizenship,,, How could you not be seen as an irishman,,,, Sure bud,,,, Id go have a fucking pint with you right now if ye were here...... Hahaha!!!!

[nitrobyname]

(Continued)--- should of been proud of it,,, And it now makes me happy to think that these people are,,, You see it seems weird to us over here,,, Like my ancestry like many of my friends originates in Ireland for which can include up to and even over 1000 years, So we usually get lost trying to trace our roots or never even bother,, I know I had Great Grand Uncles and Aunts that ended up in the U.S a long time ago and unfortunately neither me our my family have ever been in touch, But anyway---

[nitrobyname]

(Continued)---- And they have the right to do so, And the reason why you will sometimes find people so opposed to the idea mostly comes from the fact that every American person they meet all say the same thing,,,"Im half Irish",,,"My grandparents were Polish and Spanish",,,"I have English Descendants".......

Now Being Irish and when traveling around america I will admit that that was very annoying, But the fact is these people all more than likely had these ancestry and had every right and----

[nitrobyname]

Hahaha,,, You'd rather die than be black!!!!!

Tell you one thing leegwalker, you sure never let go of an argument just like an Irishman....

Fact of the matter is, that because America is such a young nation, Sure over half the populous nowadays only came there within the last 100 years, So everybody has very recent ancestry which can stem from all over the globe...

I think it is this reason that most american people try find identity and unity within their heritage.....

[DaedrikBreton]

What do you mean "Let go of an Arguement Like an Irishman?"

[nitrobyname]

Ahh I was just joking saying that because he is so passionate about his heritage that he'l argue till the end like most people from here do,,,,

Im aware that you could use that generalization for any nation of people really,,, But just saying "like an Irishman" to be relevant towards the argument...

[DaedrikBreton]

Ah no problem. Thought you were racist or some shit.

[Semir313]

How come there aint many Irish in Michigan..over here we got many Slavs and Italians and Germans and blacks...and may other things but not much of Irish ?? and its the 2nd largest ethnic group in the USA

[ErnstBecker]

Second largest "nationality in the USA"? What is the first? There are people of Irish decent in Michigan amonhst other nationalities. No one has cornered any area..

[Semir313]

In Mich the largest ancestry is German and other ...but the Irish don't have a community like they do in other cities...there is more poles then Irish here

[ErnstBecker]

Michigan has about 20.4% German ancestry.

[Semir313]

Thats the largest...I looked it up

[ErnstBecker]

Right you are.

[ErnstBecker]

NINA -- "Irish Need Not Apply" and in front of every bar door, no dogs or Irish need apply. Senator McCain it is not "Scotch" it is "Scots".

[sluddzy09]

im pretty sure its a county

[simonkrk]

no im pretty sure its not i live here

[ErnstBecker]

It's a city.

[MANHOODLUM]

I never heard of Scranton...then again, I'm in Tampa. I assume they have a large Irish-American population lol Nice.

[ErnstBecker]

Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was a Senator years ago.

[EannaNiNeill]

haha from county leinster idiots

[irish4eva101]

go on da irish

[sluddzy09]

my grandad was from county leinster

[RourkieWicklow]

leinster aint a county. It is a province with 12 counties

[SiMags]

Lenster isn't a county, its a Provence made up of several counties.

[joshanddelads]

Yeah it not a county,only someone who is not Irish would say that. Your name is obviously of German desent.

[ErnstBecker]

You are an amadan. No doubt.

[DaedrikBreton]

Haha. He is an Amadan!

[ErnstBecker]

I'm half Irish.

If I were born in a barn would it make me a horse?

[joshanddelads]

Yeah maybe,ya can believe to be from timbucktoo if ya like and nobody should really give a shit,I'm from Dublin though and was just leaving a sarcastic comment on this.

[ErnstBecker]

There isn't much left of Timbucktoo -- expect mud huts. There is far too much sarcasim in the World.

[joshanddelads]

hey my grand da was irish

[eireboy17]

america aints great buddy. i know what your saying but do you hold that against any non-european irishman whether they be in argentina or the us?

[deldrn]

lol, did you know that the irish culture has intermingled into our culture. Our country music came from your culture. You do not understand america eather. What I am trying to explain to you in simplistic terms is that america does not have only one culture like the your's. We are far more diverse then you can possibly imagine. Thank you for explaining what irish people are.

[deldrn]

Why do you care so much about what americans think? Do irish want to be americans or do they just want to others to understand that you are were you are born?

[deldrn]

Do you know how old america is? It is 230 years old. In that time people from all over the world have come here and shared there diverse language with the English language creating our language. Would you say that if some one from your country came here and got an american citizenship should just give up all they know because of the reason that they are americans now not irish. How diverse is ireland? I guarantee you it is not as diverse as my country.

[deldrn]

Have you ever been to america? Go to chicago if you haven't. America is a very diverse place. On one side of the city you might have poles living there and on the other side mexicans. There cultures are very different. So do not say that americans have there own culture. We are a people united by one thing and that is the beliefe that all people were created equal. I Know I have irish ancestory because of stories past down for generations.

[ParamoreWorshipper]

America's diverse because it's where everyone else goes.

The natives have been pushed away and every other culture is now there.

It has no one culture, it has several.

[deldrn]

i didn't know there was a certain way to talk black. What does black have to do with any thing?

[TheBleedingIrish]

Fail. Neither of them received my Irish American vote.

[apincle]

and yet you still speak our language, taig.

[irishtrotsky]

im irish.obama is actually irish.he has irish blood in him but at the end of the day there both fucking puppets

[apincle]

Yes, they're talking about plastic paddies, the ones with those big green hats, novelty Irish theme pubs, sorry, bars, and parades with kids dressed as frikin leprechauns.

[mrgod06]

john mc cain is the man

[Laddre]

fuck you punk

[dubmait]

thet should have just had a hurling match to decide who won

[SteveK9797]

What is Ironic is that Mccain is right & Obama is Right !! Only if Knew anything in American History is that McCain being a Republican doesn't understand that Republicans are all Ex-Brits who first Enslaved the Irish before the Chinese and the Blacks !! So maybe if McCain studied American history he would be a Democrate !! The Irish started the Democratic Party to gain Independance from a Republican(British)Government !! Hell and I am Canadian !!! Lol !

[apincle]

Tis worth pointing out that most U.S. presidents have been of British American stock.

[AMason8634]

Good video.

[CelticLittleHawk]

In my adult life my vote has been "courted" because I'm Christian & Native American never becaue I'm Irish.That's a new one.When are they gonna want my vote simply because I'm an American?

[WolfArden44]

Well The Irish American vote is important to them, Irish-Americans represent a key demographic.McCain hasnt always been a great friend of Ireland.

McCain ridiculed Clintons efforts in the 1990s to help bring peace to Northern Ireland and opposed giving a visa to Gerry Adams to visit the United States, which is now regarded as a key development in the peace process.

Hes not had a great record on Ireland.So now they want the votes,so now they kiss ass.

[nitrobyname]

Wtf...

Im gonna have to check that out,,,

I remember very clearly that day when Gerry Adams got refused a visa to travel over to the states for talks and meetings, It was all over the news...

You would think by his name McCain that his Irish heritage would influence him and he should of been a major backer of the peace process...

[deldrn]

what do sirnames have to do with anything

[nitrobyname]

I was just saying cause the fact McCain is an Irish name...

Like at some point he had decendants from Ireland, and you would think that would keep some sort of pride and interest of his heritage,,,

Like to totally blast Clinton over the peace process talks seems horrible to do for someone who has Irish ancestry...

As I said though, I dont know if it was true and I still havent researched it....

Man Im a lazy bollox...

[IamDaReAlSeaN]

McCain is in fact a scottish surname, but celtic all the same.

[ParamoreWorshipper]

McCain's Scottish, and there have been blacks with Irish names.

[metallica0019]

McCain is an Ulster scot name

[crumlin08]

mccains scots-irish fuckin hun

only messin

ill tell ya how to get the irish vote free guiness and tatto cheese and onion

theres yer fuckin irish vote

[DaedrikBreton]

Ulster Scots. And the Irish moved to scotland when there wer only picts so technically they are irish

[NCCAJAX]

What a surprise stumbling app on you here piggy. I see your comments are as well thought out as ever.

[NCCAJAX]

Stalking you? Don't flatter yourself piggy. As for what's in my best interest, get to the shallow end. I do as I please.

[WolfArden44]

Not flattering myself moron.Your a creepy dude.

[NCCAJAX]

@WolfArden44 .