Obama speaks Gaelic in Ireland

[democracy1st]

Run time: 01:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gvnek9cDLE   Posted on YouTube: May 23, 2011 By YouTube Member: CBSNewsOnline Views on YouTube: 6810   Posted on DU: May 31, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 523

 
Speaking at College Green in Dublin Monday, the president introduced himself as "Barack Obama of the Moneygall Obamas" and spoke Gaelic to the cheering crowd.

Barack Obama drinks Guinness and tells jokes in Moneygall pub on official visit to Ireland and UK

Barack and Michelle Obama share a pint of the black stuff with locals in a pub in the US President's ancestral home of Moneygall in Ireland.

http://youtu.be/5206QjFWmAk

[lillypaddle]

1. We were just happy

when dubya spoke English.

[demwing]

2. which explains why we were so often unhappy :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijz1CdUj5fg

[Cannikin]

3. In Ireland he speaks Gaelic. Here he says we have 57 states.

Something tells me if I brag about him doing the former, the latter will be pointed out to me.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Moneygall, eh?

That's a "foreigners thicket".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneygall