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He [Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, above] doesn’t have the charisma, he hasn’t connected with the people,” said Pat Nolan as he strolled passed the 13th century stone church in the village of Graiguenamanagh [Co Kilkenny] (above) where Ryan’s great-great grandparents were married.

“It doesn’t matter what his name is, it’s Obama that has made the effort,” said Nolan, 62, a retired physiotherapist.

…Despite the Ryan connection, few locals are hoping for a Republican victory across the ocean.

“It would give a boost to a nice small town like this, but I would forgo it. I wouldn’t want to inflict him on the American people,” said Margaret, a 64-year-old cashier.

A straw poll of 20 people on a recent afternoon found 12 Obama supporters and none for Ryan and running mate Mitt Romney.

 

Paul Ryan’s Charms Fall flat In Irish Homeland (Reuters)

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Thanks Cathal O’Rourke

Pants.

On fire.

But that’s not all. He [Paul Ryan, Republican Vice Presidential candidate] attacked Obama for failing to keep open a Janesville GM plant that closed under Bush in 2008. He hit him for a credit-rating downgrade that S&P essentially blamed on GOP intransigence. He claimed that all taxpayers got from the 2009 stimulus was “more debt,” when most got a tax cut (and the stimulus is known to have saved between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs). He derided the president for walking away from the Simpson Bowles commission deficit-cutting recommendations when Ryan himself, a commission member, voted against those recommendations.

…Other than that, it was a great speech.

The Brazen Lies of Paul Ryan (Joan Walsh, Salon)

The anti-choice National Right to Life Committee stated, “Ryan has maintained a 100% pro-life voting record.” He is a co-sponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, what critics call the personhood bill, now in Congress, that would define in federal law that:

“the life of each human being begins with fertilization … irrespective of sex, health, function or disability, defect, stage of biological development, or condition of dependency, at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood.”

The law goes on: “a one-celled human embryo … is a new unique human being.” As reported in Mother Jones, this law would make normal in vitro fertilization (IVF) practices illegal, as the process creates multiple fertilized eggs, one or two of which might be used to help a woman have a child. The others are frozen, used for research or destroyed, which, under this bill pushed by Ryan, would become murder. 

Fun fact: Three of Mitt Romney’s sons have relied on IVF to give birth to several of his 18 grandchildren.

Awks.

Paul Ryan: The Small Government Champion Who Could Force Transvaginal Ultrasounds On Pregnant Women (Amy Goodman, Guardian)

Who Is Paul Ryan? (Paul Sirota, Nation of Change)

(Pic: Marco Grub/Time)