DUBLIN (AFP) - a star-struck Ireland opens his heart to Barack Obama Monday and US President returned the favour, claiming that his homeland had a future bright despite the current economic crisis.
Obama presented to offshore of a dose of vintage rhetoric fueled by hope at a gathering of campaign-style of 25,000 people in Dublin, after shooting a pint of Guinness stout in the town of Moneygall tiny that spawned his grand-back-back-grand-father.
Distribute hugs and handshakes, Obama savoured the adulation of the Irish, a contrast to the bitter stew political return to Washington, and struck a personal note, saying wife Michelle "felt much at home."
Guests were also hit. Anne Maher, a teacher who lives in Moneygall, gushes about his meeting with the most powerful man of the world.
"He held my hand, he pulled me towards him and kissed my cheeks. I'm not going to wash that plays for a life - and my husband is not get or near it, "said Maher.
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Later, utopian out a massive crowd, the President proclaimed Ireland would overcome a crisis that saw him go cap in hand to the Monetary Fund International and the European Union for a rescue by roaring "is Feidir Linn", its famous slogan "yes we can" in Gaelic.
"Yours is a story often marked by the greatest trials and the deepest sorrows, but yours is also a story of endurance proud and provocative," Obama said, noting that America had also overcome an economic crisis.
"And in Ireland, as try these times are, I know that our future is still as great and also brilliant that our children be expected it is."
"If someone never said otherwise, if someone tells you that your problems are too big or your challenges are too great, that we cannot do something, that we should not try yet, think about what we have done together."
"If they keep arguing with you, just answer with a simple credo,"Is Feidir Linn"- Yes we can." Yes as we can. ?
Irish Minister Enda Kenny had previously warmed the crowd welcoming the son of a Kenyan father and a mother return white American Irish his "family" as the first black American President born in Hawaii.
"The 44th President is different - because, ladies and gentlemen, it is not just talk about the American dream, it is the American dream."
Obama, speaking between two bullet-proof glass screens, opened his speech with a joke: "my name is Barack Obama of the Sung Moneygall."
"We find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way".
Earlier, Obama braved rain and wind to helicopter to the town of the County of Offaly's where defined his ancestor Falmouth Kearney, humble 19-year-old son of a shoemaker of the course for the new world 160 years ago.
He met Henry Healy, a 26-year-old resident and eighth cousin of the President, who said Obama was now nicknamed "Henry the eighth.". Crowds greeted the tricolour capillary Irish of city and the Stars and Stripes.
It is in the picturesque room of a crowded pub that Obama enjoys a creamy Guinness, while his wife sampled valiantly a half pint.
Obama, "I want to know that the President pay his bar tab," said after having spent 25 minutes in Ollie Hayes pub.
The only downbeat moment of the day came when the White House announced that Obama leave to his next stop, London, Monday night instead of Tuesday to behind a cloud of ash spewing out of a volcano in Iceland.
This meant that the President would not spend one night on Irish soil, after flying in on reuniting long-awaited kinds on Monday morning.
The Ireland was the first stop on a four-nation tour which will be also at the Summit of the G8 in France and a Poland stop, with the visit likely to be dominated by the operation led by NATO in Libya and the Afghanistan war.
Obama said in his speech that stories of Ireland and America were embroidered together and Irish said "brain and brawn" had fed the United States since its Foundation, through the civil war and up until today.
He also congratulated the Irish people to make courageous choices to help forge peace in Ireland North, recalling a visit to Dublin by one of his predecessors Bill Clinton 15 years, which contributed to relaunching the peace process.
"Throw you your voice, and you make your voice for peace." And you answered heroically when disputed, Obama.
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