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Compared to Brian Cowen

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    #32
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    scr123 wrote: »
    What a terribly silly thread.

    Slagging Brian Cowen over his appearance and at same time Gilmore and Kenny are all dressed up with nowhere to go !

    Can I remind those with an obsession about FF that THE WORST DAY IN GOVERNMENT IS BETTER THAN THE BEST DAY IN OPPOSITION

    Surely there is something better to do ?

    They've got their job-interview suits on, waiting for the call.:P


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    #33
    Raiser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


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    #34
    Noffles
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    I always thought he looked like one of those creatures from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.... like attached.


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    #35
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    With scruffy FF politicians in general, it's tempting to say that the only thing they ever took to the cleaners was the electorate.


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    scr123
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    They've got their job-interview suits on, waiting for the call.:P

    Have had a look at their CV, unless they make huge improvements the 3 week interview with the electorate will be a wasted effort. There are signs the competition are gearing up and will be fighting like never before .

    Oh, as they have been out of work for so long maybe they should start immediately a course on modern economics and politics


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    #37
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    danman wrote: »
    Cameron is a boyband type leader, a boyzone, a westlife, a spicegirls leader.

    He is the epitimy of the exact opposite of what I would like in a leader.

    Is that you, Dunphy?;)

    Presentation does matter - it's the only reason anyone thinks Brian Lenihan is competent.


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    scr123 wrote: »
    Can I remind those with an obsession about FF that THE WORST DAY IN GOVERNMENT......


    .....and FF have certainly had a fair few of those! ;)


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    Jenneke87
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Jenneke87


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    If Cowen could actually do the job he's paid to do (or better still, had done his previous job) then I wouldn't care if he showed up naked

    This man has childeren right? Someone must have turned off the light, otherwise........ugh!


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    Laminations
    Registered Users Posts: 4,693 ✭✭✭Laminations


    scr123 wrote: »
    There are signs the competition are gearing up and will be fighting like never before

    You're only gearing up now? That explains it. Are you saying you haven't been running this country during this time of crisis in top gear?? You should have bloody geared up years ago.


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    Biggins
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    bad2dabone wrote: »
    ...still I wonder how he manages to look like a drunk at a wedding considering the salary he's on. It's baffling.
    He always come across to me as someone that just fell out of bed in the morning after falling into it, still wearing the same crumpled suit.

    If he was able for the job of running the government circus in Dublin - genuinely - I wouldn't care if he turned up in a clowns outfit.
    As it is, he is just one in disguise, in a rumpled suit instead half the time.


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    #42
    Darsad
    Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Darsad


    Well he looks to me like a man who is beat and has given up , he carries himself terribly and I would liken him against against a leader with real substance like listening to your favourite song as a ring tone on a phone when it should only ever be played in pro logic Dolby surround sound.


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    #43
    scr123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭scr123


    Though FF I have to admit Brian Cowen when he is in Dail listening to Gilmore and Kenny has too much of a dismissive look on his face. As we all know when these two clowns open their mouths their heads vanish but it should be acknowledged they are doing their best with very limited resources in the brains area


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    #44
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    scr123 wrote: »
    Have had a look at their CV, unless they make huge improvements the 3 week interview with the electorate will be a wasted effort. There are signs the competition are gearing up and will be fighting like never before .

    Oh, as they have been out of work for so long maybe they should start immediately a course on modern economics and politics

    Was that the course that FF missed out on due to unforeseen circumstances?


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    scr123
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    Laminations wrote: »
    You're only gearing up now? That explains it. Are you saying you haven't been running this country during this time of crisis in top gear?? You should have bloody geared up years ago.

    Obviously you do not support FF so would you mind telling me who you support and why your party has not geared up to defeat FF in an election since 1982 ?
    Perhaps you could also tell me how to deflate an economy and at same time reflate it. In fact, if there is anyone on this board who has the answer there are many governments around the world who will pay big money for a working solution


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    #46
    Stroke Politics
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Stroke Politics


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhYb6ZM-vds


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    Liam Byrne
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    scr123 wrote: »
    Perhaps you could also tell me how to deflate an economy and at same time reflate it. In fact, if there is anyone on this board who has the answer there are many governments around the world who will pay big money for a working solution

    Well, we told FF how not to inflate it in the first place, and Ahern told us all we'd be better off committing suicide!

    And if anyone in FF wants to forego their half-a-million quid, or hire us as consultants like they did their buddies, then maybe we might actually look at giving them some help.....

    .....but at the moment, considering they shafted us with NAMA, why would we ? If they're devoid of ideas, let them quit and let someone competent and ethical have a go.


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    #48
    BroomBurner
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    Obviously, substance should win out over style, but is there anyone who doesn't cringe when they see Cowen with Obama Berlesconi and Sarkozi.

    I can hardly wait for the shudder of despair when he meets the Wonderboy Cleggeron.

    How can you take him seriously at all? Going by his reaction to those portraits hung in the gallery, Cowen is the only one that takes Cowen seriously.


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    #49
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    What is the bet that whenever they first meet, David Cameron will go back to his aide saying along the lines of; "Nice chap that Mr. Cowen, but one didn't know what he was bloody on about half the time." :D


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I think this pic of me outside the US Embassy last year says more then I can about how I feel about this administration compared to others!

    3280857417_f4ed07dba5_b.jpg

    DeV.


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    #51
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    DeVore wrote: »
    I think this pic of me outside the US Embassy last year says more then I can about how I feel about this administration compared to others!

    3280857417_f4ed07dba5_b.jpg

    DeV.

    You jokingly meant Ireland to be invaded, right?


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    #52
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Jokingly....... yesssssss, thats right.... *ahem*.





    (which would you rather have rule you, Cowen or Obama?)


    DeV.


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    #53
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Apologies for the confusion!

    I would rather have Obama, but I suppose he has the potential to be dangerous, unlike Cowen who only has the potential to be incompetent!


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    #54
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    steelcityblues wrote: »
    Apologies for the confusion!

    I would rather have Obama, but I suppose he has the potential to be dangerous, unlike Cowen who only has the potential to be incompetent!

    What do you mean the potential to be incompetent? I would consider that theory well and truly proven.


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    #55
    Biggins
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    Video alone says it all!



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    #56
    juuge
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    BroomBurner wrote: »
    Obviously, substance should win out over style, but is there anyone who doesn't cringe when they see Cowen with Obama Berlesconi and Sarkozi.
    How can you take him seriously at all?

    Exactly right!
    Like it or not, how we display ourselves to the world is crucial in many ways. Cowen, Jackie-Healy Rae, ‘little willie’ O’Dea etc etc. perpetuate the image of Ireland as being a land of gombeens. – Thanks lads!


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