You could forgive President Obama for pushing to add Ireland to the Electoral College.
He received a thunderous reception that rivaled any stop on the presidential campaign trail, as he spoke to thousands of cheering Irish at College Green in Dublin Monday.
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“I’ve come home to find the apostrophe we lost along the way,” Obama said, referring to his great-great-great grandfather, an Irish shoemaker — a genealogical discovery the president has repeatedly tapped in an appeal to Irish Americans.
Joining Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Obama couldn’t resist uttering, “Is feidir linn” — or yes we can in Gaelic.
It was a light start to a six-day, four-country European trip for Obama that will center around talks with western allies on economic and political turmoil sweeping the globe.
Obama joins a long list of U.S. presidents to visit Ireland — John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
