Saint Patrick Drove O’Bama Clan out of Ireland

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There are really only three world famous Saints. Let’s think about it now.  We have St. Valentine (of love and massacre fame), St. Nicholas (of Santa Claus fame) and St. Patrick who is popular for many reasons.

One of the reasons for Saint Paddy’s popularity is his banishment of the O’Bama clan and exiling them to Kenya, where they prospered for many years until the O’Bama’s pissed off the Hard Left Kenyans and escaped to America. Hallmark cards dearly love all three and so, of course, does the Catholic Church.

St. Patrick and his pet snakes

St. Patrick, by the way, was not Irish. According to myth (or not) he was born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461. He was born and died in towns with Patrick in the name. Now that’s what I would call a stunning coincidence.

He was a Romano-Briton, and as a young lad he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland, where he was a herdsman. He was there for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the Church and returned to Ireland after hearing voices telling him: “We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us.”

There is very little evidence of his presence in Ireland in the 5th century. There were a couple of letters, that historians claim were written by him, but the Irish Celts were big on telling stories and the oral history of the time is very strong.  It is likely that a Christian missionary, who came to be named St. Patrick actually existed in that time.

Considering that Ireland, even in the 5th century, wasn’t a tropical paradise, the story of him driving the snakes out of Ireland is far fetched. One theory suggest that the Druids of the day had a serpent symbol on their coinage, so Patrick driving the pagan Druids away is a little more reasonable.

The fact that no nation celebrates St. Patrick’s Day more than the United States, is because of marketing and the desire of Irish Americans to claim their day,  and I don’t blame them.  The Irish have contributed mightily to American culture.

Did you know Shaquille O’Neal, Eddie Murphy and Barack O’Bama are all Irish Americans?  Now what do you think about that?  Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Edited and modified by Michael J. Scott. The original version was published at MadMikesAmerica on March 17, 2011.

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Jess
11 years ago

I miss Holte. That is all 🙂

Reply to  Jess
11 years ago

I do as well, but some things cannot be fixed.

Rachael
11 years ago

How delightful. Goes to show there’s nothing like oldies but goodies.

jenny40
13 years ago

I went to a place called “browntree” or something like that to check it out after seeing it on facebook and it was a hate Obama place. The depressing thing is they were libs. I won’t go back there for a lot of reasons, one being inferior writing in come cases, and the other being that is all they say. Hate Obama! I darn well don’t like everything i see here but at least Mr. Mad and his guys offer a variety of stories and opinions. That’s what I want…not hate…not hate, especially hate for our president. I think they hate him because he’s black and don’t have the nuts to say so so they make stuff up.

13 years ago

The best thing that came out of Ireland was Guiness.
The idea of making Green Beer is just so wrong, only an Irish-American could contmplate it let alone drink the stuff.

Michael John Scott
Reply to  Robert Douglas
13 years ago

My mother, who is 90, drinks a bottle of Guinness every day and has for 60 years. I like it myself, but I like it chilled and my mom hates when I do that :-).

Stimpson
13 years ago

You keep using that term ‘hard left.’ You do not know what it means.

Reply to  Stimpson
13 years ago

I’m thinking it is a person with both Priapism and Peyronie’s disease simultaneously. Try to drive THAT snake out of Ireland without a dose of green beer!

Stimpson
Reply to  Stimpson
13 years ago

In all seriousness, the terms “hard left” and “far left” shouldn’t be tossed around so much. Nor should “Obama haters.” I rather doubt that Communists and anarchists who hate – not just dislike, but hate – the current POTUS have much influence.

Besides, do you know who else says “far left” all the time? Bill O’Reilly. You don’t wanna sound like Billo, do you?

Michael John Scott
Reply to  Stimpson
13 years ago

Mike I agree with you on the use of the term “Far Left,” but last I looked Holte didn’t use that term. The term, Hard Left however, is an apt descriptor of those who hate the president because he was unable to change their world with a whisper (I would add IMHO but that would be disingenuous).

For example, I know dozens and dozens of Democrats (always wondered if that should be capitalized) who, like me, are unhappy with some of his decisions. However, those who label him as “George Bush,” or those who swear they won’t vote for him are the party extreme, the Hard Left.

I submit that the damage we do, if any, is far less than the damage done by those Democrats and Progressives who write prolifically and passionately about how bad he is based on the slimmest of all evidence. These folk are the Hard Left, the same ones who will be whining all over again if the president loses to a Republican in 2012. Peace to you and yours.

Obama 2012!

14 years ago

I forgot about O’Bama being Irish. And don’t forget O’Mygod, O’Dear and O’blong.

Happy St. Patty’s.

Admin
14 years ago

Beach I think that was one of the Star Trek shows. Roddenberry was good for bringing up religious myths.

14 years ago

Was genocide committed? Not according to this.

Also, were the Druids all sweet and cuddly? We could ask the corpses of the people they threw in the peat bogs.

Whatever the church/christians have done throughout history, it doesn’t automatically mean the pagans they displaced were wonderful.

14 years ago

What the hell Gwen. A wonderfully written piece and I would imagine all of it to be true. However, I will still try, at ever chance, to wander down to New Orleans where they have a great time celebrating the old boy’s day. Never believed all the blarney anyway but we all love the chance to dance and drink.

14 years ago

He was a Roman named Patricus who was sent by the Vatican to begin the conversion of the ‘pagans’ on Erie. His ‘driving the snakes from the Emerald Isle’ was the systemic genocide committed against my Ancestors, the Druids (Holte tells you the tale of the serpent standard).
Can you imagine my Mom’s face when I explained that as my reasoning for not attending any more of our family’s “Annual Drunk’s” ??? A huge, social tradition that was kept by folk far and wide! LMFAO. Tis true.
In Erie these days “St. Patrick” is not as held as he once was, and neither is the Catholic Church. It has taken eon’s but everything comes around… the Irish people are awakening to the hypocrisy and cruelty of the ‘church’. Even Bostonians have taken up stance across the street from the church and St Pat’s day is just an excuse to drink…and watch the shinny constabulary of New York (fine fellows and gals that they are!!!) march down 5th Ave.

14 years ago

Some syndicated sci-fi show from the mid-90’s whose name I have long since forgotten had St. Patrick an alien from space. I think Gene Roddenberry might have had some input in the show and it was set in mid-21st Earth. In the show aliens have made contact with humans promising all sort of nice toys and solving our problems but an underground group of humans thinks the aliens are up to no good.

I have forgotten why they made St. Patrick and alien but I believe it had something to do with the overall storyline which was slightly X-file-ish.

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