DUBLIN - President Barack Obama said solidarity between the United States and the Ireland who have difficulties on the economic plan with a symbolic gulp of beer and a rousing speech, telling a huge crowd of Dublin Monday: "your best days are still to come."
From four-nation European tour with a celebration of his Irish roots, Obama arrived in Ireland as a man called a "cousin lost for a long time."
Crowds packed the streets for a moving speech in Dublin and a visit to the tiny village of Moneygall, where an ancestor of the Obama lived before moving to the United States.
Presented by the Irish Minister Enda Kenny as "it happened in the American dream home", Obama told the crowd in central Dublin: "my name is Barack Obama, of the Sung Moneygall."
For the Ireland, the arrival of the Obama and the visit of Queen Elizabeth of Britain last week, are a welcome distraction of the world's attention to its financial difficulties and the international rescue plan that followed.
Obama is also due to visit Britain, the France and the Poland on a trip of the week including the agenda includes discussions on issues such as the Afghanistan and Pakistan after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the world economy and the uprisings of 'spring from Arabic '.
AUSTERITY
Economic depression of the Ireland led to a debt crisis and the drastic Government, reduced spending. Apart from the minds of the Irish, the visit examined the value to provide some lift images powerful back for the Obama 2012 re-election campaign.
It reduces the expression of the signature of his 2008 presidential campaign, "yes we can," but he said in Gaelic.
"This small country that inspires the greatest things - your best days are still to come," said Obama.
"And the Ireland, if anyone ever said otherwise... don't forget that whatever difficulties winter can bring, in the spring is always just around the corner, and if they keep arguing with you, just answer with a simple creed"is feidir linn. ""Yes we can. ?
The pub its Dublin, revelers cheered and some chanted "USA!" USA! "as the President emerged on stage for his speech.
"I believe that this will give the country a big lift, the kind of lift that we desperately need," said Jennifer Kearney, a mother of two children who brought her two daughters aged 13 and 15 in the Centre of the city of Dublin for the event.
In Moneygall, Obama hoisted a glass of Guinness stout in the pub in Ollie Hayes as fiddle played music, and his wife Michelle fired pints in the bar.
Thousands of wet people lined a street of the village, decorated with American flags and roared with delight as the motorcade rolled.
The sleepy village of 300 was the birthplace of grand-back-back-grand-father of the Obama, Falmouth Kearney, a shoemaker who left in 1850 to start a new life to the United States.
This is Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and mother Irish-American, one of the 37 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry.
LONG LOST COUSIN
"I'm here to see the Obama...". "Our cousin lost long ago," said resident Rob Lewis, 28 Moneygall.
In the Interior of the pub, which was lined with photos framed of Obama, the President met Henry Healy, a distant cousin of 24 years. He joked with the bartender to ensure the Guinness had set correctly before he and Michelle took sips.
"I don't want to spoil this," he said before the bar with a "Slainte" - Irish for "cheers" - and a long gulp salvation.
"You look a little like my grandfather", he said at one of the men inside.
Back out on the street, three babies were handed a barricade of security for the pictures taken with Obama and women hugged and kissed under the watchful eye of his security detail.
Moneygall is capitalizing on its famous connection, sale of all, of the Obama to Obama of lighters fridge magnets plastic.
T-shirts with slogans such as "what is the craic, Barack?" ("How things?") ("What?") and "Is feidir linn" are top-sellers.
Irish radio offers frequent broadcasts of the popular song "there was zero as Irish as Barack Obama," playing on a family name sounds almost typically Irish.
"We are a small nation of 4 million people, it's a nice gesture come." Given that we had the Queen so it was a memorable week. "It is a lift for the Ireland device," said Susannah Moore in Dublin.
Obama was forced to leave for London for the next stop of his trip on Monday night instead of Tuesday because of a new cloud of volcanic ash of the Iceland.
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