Barack Obama is selling T-shirts for St. Patrick’s Day at his campaign website.
But as The Blaze reported, Team Obama screwed up on the Irish symbol:

Less than one month out from St. Patrick’s Day, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign seems to be hoping to cash in on supporters’ Irish pride with some special campaign merchandise: “O’Bama” T-shirts and pint glasses.

“Gear up for Saint Patrick’s Day in style with this fun O’Bama tee,” the Obama online campaign store says.

But the merchandise — $30 for the T-shirt and $25 for the two-glass set — isn’t sitting well with everyone: The O’Bama design includes a large four-leaf clover, which is different from the three-leaf shamrock, the actual symbol of Ireland.

But there’s more…
Anyone who went to Catholic school and celebrated St. Patrick’s Day as a child knows the story behind the three-leaf clover or shamrock.

Patrick was born in Roman Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary, working in the north and west of the island. Legend credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a 3-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian belief of ‘three divine persons in the one God’. St. Patrick died in 493, and by the eighth century he had become the patron saint of Ireland.

The shamrock is representative of the Holy Trinity. Obviously, this was lost on the Obama Administration.
At his website Obama took Christ out of St. Patrick’s Day.

 

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  1. #1 February 23, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    Christopher Taylor commented:

    Nahh, he just knows he’s going to need a lot of luck to win.

  2. #2 February 23, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    Alana commented:

    He’s an idiot. So is everyone who works for him.

  3. #3 February 23, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    TheGoldGeneral commented:

    I think he wanted to add him as the 4th leaf since he is the next coming and has reveresed the rising seas.

    Either that, or the 4th leaf is for Mohammad

  4. #4 February 23, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    Eddie commented:

    The 4th leaf obviously refers to Obama lol.

  5. #5 February 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    dwd commented:

    Maybe Obama is adding himself to the Holy Trinity… that extra fourth leaf is St. O’Bama.

    He’s audacious enough

  6. #6 February 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    FurryGuy commented:

    So now Barry is trying to use an internationally recognized holiday as a campaign prop. What will this conman or his brain-dead supporters not do to see him play Lord and Master for another 5 years?

  7. #7 February 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    JB commented:

    He is just trying to do his version of the Boston Celtic jersey. Nothing original here.

  8. #8 February 23, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Redlite commented:

    The Obama version of the sacred Trinity is- Soros
    Ayers
    Obama.

  9. #9 February 23, 2012 at 8:01 pm

    Militant Conservative commented:

    Obama, the self absorbed evil SOB of our time.

    No different than Hitler or Stalin.

    All evil, posing as a nessary good.

    Obama IS the evil we were warned about.

    His color is a protective aura of the times.

    I have had one lady of color ask me if he is the one.

    She specified Obama as the anti Christ.

    I cannot discout her assumption, especially after

    All it has done.

    Obama is evil.

  10. #10 February 23, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    Fionnagh commented:

    I don’t believe this was intentional. Just another huge gaff, like Hillary’s “reset” button.

  11. #11 February 23, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Retired05 commented:

    Comment deleted and user banned for impersonating a fellow commenter. This was not written by retire05.

    Gateway Pundit Administrator

  12. #12 February 23, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    he’s a Capitalist, ergo, he figured he’d sell more
    merchandise if it was funny O’gaffe vs a serious
    Catholic one.. /s/

    and of course i could be as wrong as can be (perhaps from watching
    a tad too much of that antiques road show lol), but won’t it be worth
    more up the road due to the, ahem, the more memorable “mistake”..

    ==

  13. #13 February 23, 2012 at 8:28 pm

    democraps suck commented:

    The anti christ at it again….

  14. #14 February 23, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    proudredneck commented:

    It looks like 4h club of america tshirt….

  15. #15 February 23, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    11B40 commented:

    Greetings:

    I grew up in the Bronx of the ’50s and ’60s. St. Patrick was the patron saint of the New York Archdiocese so St. Patrick’s Day was a Catholic school holiday and of course the magnificent parade up 5th Avenue in which I got to march in my senior year of high school. Truly an event if you’re ever in that town on the Ides of March+2.

  16. #16 February 23, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    Patty commented:

    A four leaf clover means good luck. They are hard to find. And apparently Obama needs all the luck he can get.

    Now, with this administration faux pas the genius who decided this promo opt never read the Story of St. Patrick or did and didn’t care.

    Really, do you think Obama give a hoot about this Tee, he has more money than he can count on for Campaigning. And for the Catholics, I don’t think they will be buying to many thing Obama is hawking.

  17. #17 February 23, 2012 at 9:01 pm

    Carbon Pootprint commented:

    leaf #1 Satan
    leaf #2 Soros
    leaf #3 Alinsky
    leaf #4 O’Bummer

  18. #19 February 23, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Alvin commented:

    Fitting, as he is the sham president

  19. #20 February 23, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    DustyG. commented:

    That’s not a four-leaf clover, it’s a double exposure of his ears…

  21. #22 February 23, 2012 at 10:36 pm

    orisda423 commented:

    Am I behind or has any other president sold shirts and mug before?

  22. #23 February 23, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Redwine commented:

    Whether intentional or not, there’s always something contrived that attempts to cover who and what he really is. He is, first and foremost, a liar and thief.

  23. #24 February 23, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    proof commented:

    Have you seen Michelle? He’s just hoping to “get lucky”!

  24. #25 February 24, 2012 at 12:27 am

    Vicky Hernandez commented:

    It’s good that there are four leafs on that clover. You don’t want Obama to be confused with the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, after all.
    Oy!

  25. #26 February 24, 2012 at 12:30 am

    MVH commented:

    It’s good that there are four leafs on that clover and not three. You don’t want Obama to be confused with the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, after all.
    Oy ;-]

  26. #27 February 24, 2012 at 1:07 am

    TheGoldGeneral commented:

    #19

    So he is a Shambarack?

  27. #29 February 24, 2012 at 1:21 am

    Lord Sandwich commented:

    Should not it be O”Bamaghh ?

  28. #31 February 24, 2012 at 2:59 am

    Crystal commented:

    “/ Let’s HOPE and PRAY for CHANGE with a new president to ROLL his term OVER IN THE CLOVER, and send his policies off the Cliffs of Dover!

  29. #32 February 24, 2012 at 3:14 am

    Kevin71 commented:

    Four leaves, 57 states…what’s the difference?

  30. #33 February 24, 2012 at 3:47 am

    Todd commented:

    Take Christ out of St. Patrick’s Day? The only thing I have known this holiday for is drinking beer and wearing something green.

  31. #34 February 24, 2012 at 4:46 am

    Gini commented:

    How dumb can anyone be? But then muslims know nothing about St. Patrick and how the shamrock is a symbol of the Trinity.

  32. #35 February 24, 2012 at 5:07 am

    squeaky commented:

    how can we take the irish out of barack. he has more in common with these irish…….
    http://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-most-infamous-irish-mobsters/public-enemy

  33. #36 February 24, 2012 at 5:50 am

    Toejam commented:

    The Irish won’t care. They’re almost all Socialist sheeple so they think the “one” walks on water and they’ll still go nuts over anything with his name on it.

    The Galway City Council is considering erecting a larger than real life Statue of Che Guevara in the center of the city. Socialist, terrorist monster…………..beloved and adored by the Irish. So why shouldn’t they love O’Bama?

    http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/che_guevara_irish_roots.htm

  34. #37 February 24, 2012 at 6:11 am

    squeaky commented:

    obama rode to victory on a lot of backs – not just irish.

  35. #38 February 24, 2012 at 6:53 am

    Adi commented:

    Legend credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a 3-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian belief of ‘three divine persons in the one God.

    Yes, but now O’bama is the fourth leaf. The Holy Trinity is now the unholy quadruply.

    Bow down to the Church of O’bama you infidel, and accept The Truth.

  36. #39 February 24, 2012 at 7:24 am

    Chris in N.Va. commented:

    Obama’s just counting on the “luck” of the 4-leaf clover. (He certainly can’t count on his past job performance to count in his favor.)

    He’s already got the gift o’ the Blarney.

    Besides, in the deluded, malignantly-narcissist mind of Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac, the Holy Trinity is Me, Myself and I.

    (An egotist: one whose “I”s are too close together.)

  37. #40 February 24, 2012 at 8:04 am

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    what would the media say if bush made this mistake.

  38. #41 February 24, 2012 at 8:09 am

    Obamas regulation destroy jobs commented:

    Valerie Jarrett , Lisa Jackson, Holder all his entire BLACK racist staff are clueless…they have no history of the Christian white history. Too bad we don’t have a white history month so we can teach them our white history (before) they change all the history books AGAIN to make themselves heros (yal right)..they HATE white CEOs they want the money for all their golf and vacations.

    GAS? He and democrats did this…thanks

    This is what we got since he been in OFFICE

    TRIPLE GAS (he wants to tax them again)
    FOOD doubles
    NASA canceled
    TRIPLE prices on everything!
    Schools attacked on lunches
    KEYSTONE canceled

    OIL Leases Canceled
    COAL mines shutdown
    Religion attacked
    Military axed

    We need crude OIL refineries! We had 120 now only 60…we must refine our own oil versus having it refines in other countries..CLINTON did that and now this guy is stopping lease in VA, gulf and Anwar!

  39. #42 February 24, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Finncrisp commented:

    He was confusing the symbolism with the four horsemen of the apocolypse, which he is now leading. This apocolyptic administration has us on the highway to h*ll.

  40. #44 February 24, 2012 at 11:53 am

    Sparky commented:

    This is ridiculous. A four leaf clover, in folklore, represents extreme luck. Talk about stretching a story!

    http://holidays.kaboose.com/saint-patricks-day/history/patrick-history-traditions-symbols.html

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