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  • #52
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Ellis Dee wrote: »
    What's the point of doing that? Aren't they all deaf?:rolleyes::rolleyes:

    No, only partially deaf. Tinnitus, mainly.


  • #53
    celticcrash
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭celticcrash


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    What exactly does the President do that a minister can't do?

    Meet foreign dignitaries? Minister for Foreign Affairs.
    Turn a Sod? Minister for Agriculture.
    Kiss Babies? Minister for Children.
    Create Employment? Department of Jobs, Enterpriseand Innovation, Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment.

    And what's the story with all the debates? The US only have 3 debates normally. Whereas we have had 5 FFS.
    I guess, the whole thing fills the news and papers. When it's all over it's back to saving the euro etc etc.

    And who did the U.S.A vote in twice, George W Bush.
    I would like to see more TV debates, after a while they start to
    Show their true colours, like losing their composure, temper, knowledge
    The more they are on TV debates, the more we can see what they
    Are made of.
    And what I have seen so far, is that martin MG
    Is the only true statesman up there.
    He not cosy with the bankers, political elite who watch out only
    For them selves, He will take a 80% haircut on the presidental wage.
    All other candidates want their 250,000 euro a year.
    All other candidates have ducked the question of pay.
    All the other candidates are afraid to rock the rotten political landscape.
    And if there was a country that needed to be rocked, it`s Ireland.
    Martin McGuinness is the only one there that can do that.


  • #54
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    celticcrash wrote: »
    All the other candidates are afraid to rock the rotten political landscape.

    The bold Martin rocked plenty of landscapes in his time.


  • #55
    Dannyg90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭Dannyg90


    Saila wrote: »
    just let the current one keep it for another term, I know shes had her time but she did a grand job :)

    a grand job? her only real job is to make sure laws passed in the Dáil are in line with the constitution and she couldn't even do that. Allowing the banks to be bailed out = against the constitution as it is paying back private debt
    she should've done her job and refused to to sign the banking bill into law, she didn't even refer it to the supreme court for **** sake


  • #56
    donutface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭donutface


    I care op, Paddy Power will pay for my xmas shopping if my chosen candidate wins.


  • #57
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,615 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    longhalloween wrote: »
    Has anyone realised yet that it doesn't MATTER who the next president will be?

    All they have to do is meet the odd foreign dignitary, go to GAA games, turn a sod, cut a ribbon, meet old people and kiss babies.
    THAT'S IT!

    So it doesn't make a blind bit of difference who gets in. The president does what they're told, end of. Any decision they make has to be approved by the government, any real work* is done by the Taoiseach and ministers.

    It's purely a symbolic office, the same as the monarchy in England, so to all those saying the Gallagher is going to bring jobs, McGuinness is going to unite Ireland, Norris is going to legalise gay marriage, it's all pure sh1te.

    the term 'real work' may not actually refer to real work

    Well the president does have the nuclear launch codes so it is a pretty responsible position.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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