Barack Obama

In fact, I'll tell you an awful secret if you promise to keep it confidential. Really I can hardly hate anyone. Even when it's a rotten dangerous scumbag, I'm just not that good at it. What I do have the most implacable hate for is the evil they do, the waste they make of their own lives and others'. If they were to turn from those ways, as happens once in a very blue moon, I'd have to accept them. Trouble is, the world is over run with sociopaths, and you know how often they change.

As far as the Celtic thing goes, I have no beef against the English in general. As someone else said, it's the vile notion of royalty and serfs that I'm duty bound to hate. And that most odious system prevails in one form or another around the world, throughout millenia, and will never be fully eradicated. We are simply duty bound to hunt it down and beat it to a pulp, then stomp it for bleeding whenever we can. I also am deeply aware that some of the most ardent supporters of complete Irish independence and unity are our friends next door. High principles know no national boundary.