tomder55
Apr 17, 2023, 05:09 AM
Is Clueless Joe back from Ireland yet ? I can't tell . While he was there he certainly made the impression that he would rather be there than here.
The Compost reports ;
DUBLIN — President Biden stood in a lavishly decorated room at the Irish president’s residence on Thursday, declaring just how comfortable he feels during this visit to his ancestral homeland.
“I’m not going home,” the American president said. “I’m staying here because — isn’t this an incredible place?”
He looked out and addressed “all you American reporters” as he remarked on how much the Irish president’s home looks like the White House, suggesting he might as well stay in the Irish version.
That sentiment pervaded a day of ceremony here as Biden met with Irish political leaders, addressed the Irish Parliament and engaged in Irish sport (which turned out to carry more risks than his speeches, as a ball whizzed by his left shoulder and nearly struck him).
An Irish reporter asked for a selfie (which he granted). He rang a bell three times — the first, he said, “for Ireland” and the second for “all my Irish ancestors." And the third? “For peace.”
Biden may have been born in Scranton, Pa., have spent a half-century in Washington and own two houses in Delaware, but this week, Ireland sounded like his true native land.
“It feels wonderful. Feels like home,” he said on Wednesday afternoon.
“It feels like home,” he said in the evening.
“When you’re here, you wonder why anyone would ever want to leave,” he added. “No, I mean it.”
It was a notable message for the president of the United States, whose job description includes repeatedly extolling it as the greatest country in the world, as he wondered aloud at times why his ancestors ever left.
Biden, the American president, seems awfully at home in Ireland - The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/13/biden-home-ireland/)
His ancestors probably left because they were starving to death .
Then he turned to the lawmakers and said, “If you forgive the poor attempt at Irish: Tá mé sa bhaile. I’m at home. I’m at home. I only wish I could stay longer.”
We have something in common after all. I wish he would stay there too .
The Compost reports ;
DUBLIN — President Biden stood in a lavishly decorated room at the Irish president’s residence on Thursday, declaring just how comfortable he feels during this visit to his ancestral homeland.
“I’m not going home,” the American president said. “I’m staying here because — isn’t this an incredible place?”
He looked out and addressed “all you American reporters” as he remarked on how much the Irish president’s home looks like the White House, suggesting he might as well stay in the Irish version.
That sentiment pervaded a day of ceremony here as Biden met with Irish political leaders, addressed the Irish Parliament and engaged in Irish sport (which turned out to carry more risks than his speeches, as a ball whizzed by his left shoulder and nearly struck him).
An Irish reporter asked for a selfie (which he granted). He rang a bell three times — the first, he said, “for Ireland” and the second for “all my Irish ancestors." And the third? “For peace.”
Biden may have been born in Scranton, Pa., have spent a half-century in Washington and own two houses in Delaware, but this week, Ireland sounded like his true native land.
“It feels wonderful. Feels like home,” he said on Wednesday afternoon.
“It feels like home,” he said in the evening.
“When you’re here, you wonder why anyone would ever want to leave,” he added. “No, I mean it.”
It was a notable message for the president of the United States, whose job description includes repeatedly extolling it as the greatest country in the world, as he wondered aloud at times why his ancestors ever left.
Biden, the American president, seems awfully at home in Ireland - The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/13/biden-home-ireland/)
His ancestors probably left because they were starving to death .
Then he turned to the lawmakers and said, “If you forgive the poor attempt at Irish: Tá mé sa bhaile. I’m at home. I’m at home. I only wish I could stay longer.”
We have something in common after all. I wish he would stay there too .