Passionate authenticity and fearless attacks on the political establishment are a needed part of democracy, because government without accountability becomes tyranny.
It took a socialist in Ireland to call out the Obamas
Clare Daly of the Irish Parliament is not the person John Boehner or Mitch McConnell would select to give the response to the President’s annual state of the union speech. A firebrand union activist since her teens she was expelled by the mainstream left Labour Party and with other ejected members formed the Socialist party in Ireland. But last week she took to the floor of the Dail Eireann (Lower House) to launch a blistering attack against visiting American President Barack Obama.
