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Irish Echo editorial: Welcome words

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

All we need now is verbal elaboration and a good debate between both Democrats and Republicans in advance of the November presidential elections.
The latest presidential hopeful to issue a statement on Ireland is Sen. John Edwards, whose candidacy has attained a status sufficiently serious as to warrant Secret Service protection.
It’s good to hear that candidate Edwards, or at least those who have his ear, have included Ireland in their list of foreign-policy priorities for the campaign ahead.
It was positive indeed that Sen. John Kerry, who leads most polls coming into his party’s Super Tuesday primary bonanza, expanded on an initial Irish statement with a release that left little ground uncovered.
It was positive indeed that Irish Americans loyal to the Republican party took umbrage and rapidly responded to a jibe aimed at President Bush’s Irish record by General Wesley Clark, who may yet return to the Democratic contest as a vice presidential candidate.
All these words are good to hear. Given the stalled state of the Northern Ireland peace process in particular, the active interest of presidential candidates, the incumbent president and senior administration officials, in the concerns of Irish Americans can only be viewed as a most positive development.
And it’s still only February.

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