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US president Barack Obama has urged the young people of Northern Ireland to build on the successes of the peace process and strive to heal the divides that still afflict the region.
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Addressing an audience of 2,000 invited guests at the city's Waterfront Hall, the majority of whom were school children, the president said it was up to young people to challenge hardened attitudes and prejudices and push the current generation of political leaders to drive towards lasting reconciliation.
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has paid tribute to those involved in the peace process but insisted more work needs to be done to bring people together.
Speaking at Belfast's Water-front Hall as he began his first ever visit to the north, the president praised the politicians who had helped negotiate and implement the Good Friday Agreement. However, he also urged them to continue working towards a genuinely shared society.
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However, he pointed out that there was "still much work to do" as there remained communities where "tensions and mistrust hangs in the air".
The president praised the work of the Stormont assembly and the executive before welcoming the recent shared future document.
But he criticised the prevalence of "segregated schools and housing", which he said encouraged division.
US president Barack Obama has urged the young people of Northern Ireland to build on the successes of the peace process and strive to heal the divides that still afflict the region.
...
Addressing an audience of 2,000 invited guests at the city's Waterfront Hall, the majority of whom were school children, the president said it was up to young people to challenge hardened attitudes and prejudices and push the current generation of political leaders to drive towards lasting reconciliation.
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has paid tribute to those involved in the peace process but insisted more work needs to be done to bring people together.
Speaking at Belfast's Water-front Hall as he began his first ever visit to the north, the president praised the politicians who had helped negotiate and implement the Good Friday Agreement. However, he also urged them to continue working towards a genuinely shared society.
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However, he pointed out that there was "still much work to do" as there remained communities where "tensions and mistrust hangs in the air".
The president praised the work of the Stormont assembly and the executive before welcoming the recent shared future document.
But he criticised the prevalence of "segregated schools and housing", which he said encouraged division.
He has NO business going around the world spewing everything he does NOT believe in. All rhetoric, it may be new to the Irish, but it's getting real danged old to us on this side of the pond ! And does he think the Irish are illiterate, that they don't pay attention to this lying thug? What a pile of doo doo he is spreading.
Oh sure, he knows all about division, he's done a good job of dividing this country every way possible and driving the USA into poverty. While fat a$$ horse face wifey lives in the lap of luxury on our dime for $3300.00 dollar a nite luxury suite at the hotel on this jaunt, with 30 people in her entourage! Who the H does she think she is, Queen Elizabeth !
And now we are going to pay close to $100 million dollars of taxpayer money to send this crew to Africa.
And, PS: speaking of religion which is this topic..... he doesn't have one !
He has NO business going around the world spewing everything he does NOT believe in. All rhetoric, it may be new to the Irish, but it's getting real danged old to us on this side of the pond ! And does he think the Irish are illiterate, that they don't pay attention to this lying thug? What a pile of doo doo he is spreading.
Oh sure, he knows all about division, he's done a good job of dividing this country every way possible and driving the USA into poverty. While fat a$$ horse face wifey lives in the lap of luxury on our dime for $3300.00 dollar a nite luxury suite at the hotel on this jaunt, with 30 people in her entourage! Who the H does she think she is, Queen Elizabeth !
And now we are going to pay close to $100 million dollars of taxpayer money to send this crew to Africa.
And, PS: speaking of religion which is this topic..... he doesn't have one !
The topic is a false narrative which is being spread by certain segments of the American press and media. The Irish themselves don't appear to be offended by Obama's comments nor do they appear to believe what was claimed in the OP and by title of this thread.
It seems to me those be divisive are those that are spreading this false narrative.
I'm sure you say this about the wives of all politicians you hate.
And since your parents evidently didn't bother to teach you decent human behavior, it's completely out of bounds to go after politician's children in that manner.
Stay classy.
I did not
GO After
his children
I said I shudder to think how they will turn out
and I do not need your lecture
I never said I hate the Obama's I said they are sickening
and did you rush to the defense of Sahara Palin's kids??
now they have really been attacked
someone need to just stick some tape on his huge mouth
he has done more to create division than any president I can think off
what a big DOPE!!
I do not even listen to his droning any more it is like scratching a black board!!
he and his fat ass wife area couple of the most sickening people on the planet!!
and I shudder to think what his girls will turn out to be
How the hell is a call for integration and working together being divisive? Is saying Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland shouldn't be segregated something divisive?
"Divine Grandeur" is an English concept which us Americans threw off when we defeated your British patrons.
We do acknowlege "In God We Trust" and "liberty and justice for all" which is more than can be said for your currently atheistic nation, whom under Queen Mary, burned people who simply acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
He needs to shut up and go back to arming terrorist in foreign conflicts so he can say he had no idea they'd wanna kill Americans 10 years down the line because history never repeats itseld ...
You mean in exactly the same way Reagan did with Hussein?
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Public schools hate God.
Riiiiight. You poor, persecuted, marginalized Christians.
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Don't believe Obama is intelligent enough to grasp the concept of God...
Really? It only takes the exact same amount of "intellect" as believing in Santa Claus.
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Catholics and Protestants in Ireland are not "at war" with each other, either.
Well, they were sure putting on a good approximation of it until a very few years ago.
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Originally Posted by QuilterChick
All rhetoric, it may be new to the Irish, but it's getting real danged old to us on this side of the pond !
Wow. A Democrat or Republican spewing empty rhetoric. I'm truly shocked.
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Oh sure, he knows all about division, he's done a good job of dividing this country every way possible and driving the USA into poverty.
Yes. Because before Obama took office we all lived in a land of magical rainbow unicors who excreted gold and the economy was doing swell.
News is reporting that in Obama's recent speech, he called Catholic schools divisive. What happened to religious freedom? Oh, that's right, the government thinks citizens don't have rights any
Why is Obama going to other countries and offending them? I thought he went to other countries to offend us and say we are wrong.
What indication do you have that Obama offended someone in Ireland or Northern Ireland. The Irish are acutely aware of the issue. The claims of offense are coming from certain segments of the American media.
In many cases, people who live just meters apart, divided by a 20 ft high multi layered barrier have never met or even have the desire to meet each other. Segregation permeates all areas of life both physically and psychologically, from housing where over 95% of social housing is either Catholic or Protestant to education where only around 5% of children attend integrated schools. Whilst most of the violence of the 90′s has stopped, rioting in flashpoints still does occur and virtually all residents who live next to the peacelines and interface areas do not want the walls to come down. At night, gates are closed to both traffic and pedestrians, effectively cutting off Protestant from Catholic areas. They feel safer, at least physiologically, with these physical barriers intact which they say they now hardly even notice.
Closing Catholic schools will only make the problems worse there. The Irish Catholics already feel the Brits have their boot on their necks.
England took over Ireland centuries ago and they are still fighting over it in some places. The Brits were horrid to the Irish. It's more nationalistic than anything else.
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