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hibernia | quote unquote “The American people have spoken and the American people have elected their new champion. I come to this moment deeply humbled and grateful to God for his amazing grace.”
Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the second, town hall style debate in St. Louis October 9.
“To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it’s time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country. [...] “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We are going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. We will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. We will also finally take care of our great veterans.”
Donald Trump in his acceptance speech to become the 45th President of the United States.
“They killed us but they ain’t whooped us yet.”
Tim Kaine, channeling Faulkner in one of the losing team’s biggest applause lines.
“Acknowledge that Donald Trump is not crazy. Obviously, he has been known to act crazy in public. But if you met him at a private social occasion you would probably find him to be a fairly pleasant person. I say that as someone who once got a letter from Trump telling me I had the face of a dog. But the next time I saw him at a lunch meeting he was fine. Told interesting jokes about how much money he got for product placement on his TV show. Obviously, this isn’t the equivalent of ‘Theodore Roosevelt reincarnated.’ But we’re trying to work with what we have here.”
Step two of New York Times columnist Gail Collins’s “10 Steps For Trump Trauma.” Step one: “Start with a night of heavy drinking. Already done that? Good, you’re on your way.”
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“He took over the Doonbeg [golf course] complex for something very reasonable, I think it was €5 million, and that created up to 250 to 300 jobs. He is one of the biggest employers in west Clare outside of Moneypoint [a local power station]. The amount of people he brings in during the summer and I think that is only going to get better. It’s really going to put Clare on the map and the whole of west Clare. Of course we have double-connections, Mike Pence has close connections in the parish of Doonbeg. His people originated on both sides from Doonbeg. So not only do we have the president but also the Vice President. I’d say 99 percent of the people here are behind Trump. It’s a great day for Doonbeg and America.”
Local publican Tommy Tubridy speaking on the Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio One.