Barack Obama

Interesting thing reading your profile, other than the fact that you grew up in the North (I in the South, mostly), we have a lot of similar experiences. I am half Irish (my mother was from Dublin) and my father (from WV so that was a mix) was in the Marines and the Air Force, thus I spent a lot of my early life at various military bases until he died when I was six (I was born at Camp Lejuene in NC). I was raised Catholic, went to military school for six years and am utterly mystified as to why Britain could give Hong Kong back to the Chinese, it can't give Northern Ireland back to the Irish (I have relatives in Enniskillen, just outside Dublin and an aunt in Locarno, Switzerland whp married as Swiss national).

I am unapologetically to the left of Ghandi in my politics.

Currently I live in NC, which has suffered greatly as our government has been bought by billionaire Art Pope who pretty much runs the state and is busy destroying the North Carolina's former reputation as the most progressive state in the South.