Challenge: Barry O'Bama, President of Ireland

How might we get it someone who is recognizably Barack Obama is elected President of Ireland?

Bonus points if he really Hibernicizes his name like in the title.
 
Honestly not likely. You need far sooner immigrant into Ireland. So Obamas father settles in the UK then moves to Ireland with Barrack. If Trevor Phillips thinks it’s hard for Obama to get elected it will be tougher in Ireland.
 
Honestly not likely. You need far sooner immigrant into Ireland. So Obamas father settles in the UK then moves to Ireland with Barrack. If Trevor Phillips thinks it’s hard for Obama to get elected it will be tougher in Ireland.

Part of the issue Trevor Phillips raised was that he felt the population would vote for an Obama character but that the political structure meant he would find it harder to become party leader.

My personal feeling is that Obama is a man who strives to achieve and in the USA being president is perhaps the greatest achievement you can make. I feel that in the UK being PM isn't such a great achievement-being successful businessman or great doctor would be seen as a greater achievement...or possibly winning Big Brother:rolleyes:

My knowledge of politics in Eire is limited but I think the same applies there so either the Obama has to want to achieve through politics or achieving high political office has to be seen as a greater achievement.
 
- Obama become truly radical early on and his marxist handlers send him to Northern Irland. Due to brains and charisma, he manage to throw out the Brittish and unite Irland under his rule.

- Obama join the FBI after law school and since my prejudice says that it is full of Irishmen, Obama become somewhat Irishified. Maybe he even find a nice Irish girl. He manage to bring down the head of the Texas mafia, Don Paul, and the Baseball Commisionary (guess who) but he have to leave the country, the treats to his life become to big. They rename him Barry O'Bama and move him to Ireland. Due to brains and charisma, he become president.

- The Irish like Obama so much (at least more then McCain because they are Europeans) so they make him president.

- Óbama joins the CIA and they decide to send him to Ireland and infiltrate. He become president.
 
As the President of Ireland is mainly a honourable position considering it to the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) position. This perhaps is more likely then if Obama did run for the Prime Ministership. Barrack’s parents stay together and take an Irish name to try and fit in better. Obama perhaps follows the route of the current Presidents and becomes a exceptional lawyer like Mary Robinson.



The key to the Irish Presidency either is to be a loyal party member and minister and earn your place as a safe pair of hands. Or you need to excel outside of politics and come in to take the Presidency like Mary Robinson did after been the United Nations high Commissioner for Human Rights.
 
The mirror does like to make a big deal of Obama's "British mother" i.e. his dad's first wife. Through her perhaps?
 
I think the major POD in this is that Obama's Kenyan father Barack Obama Sr. goes to Oxford University in the mid 1950's on a scholarship. In 1959 he graduates and gets his BA degree from Oxford and then goes to Trinity College in Dublin for his graduate studies. Shortly after matriculating in autum of 59 he meets a 19 year old female Irish student whom he was tutoring. Well that's the start of a AH story of Barack O'Bama, perhaps I'll work on it a little bit more shortly and if anyone has any feedback or suggestions by all means put in your 2 cents.
 
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