Why is this man running our country?

sells

Why is he here, who the f*uck is he, what the f*uck does he want, I didnt even vote for him, did you. Im talkin of course about, Brian Cowan. Making more money than Barack Obama, why??? money, money, money, beautiful money, thats all he wants. So who would you like to be Taoiseach? Maybe its Pat Kenny, ......Chuck Norris or maybe Willie O Dea!:rolleyes: or even your woman off the news, Sharon Ni Bheolain.

Who would you like to be Taoiseach? It can be anybody, state your reasons and hopefully if theres enough votes, they will be the new Taoiseach.

TheZohanS

I vote for this guy.

He seems to have a plan.

Ricky91t

HE'S LIKE A POLISHED CHERRY

markok84

sells wrote: »

or even your woman off the news, Sharon Ni Bheolain.

pffft. Suibhan Ni Gearailt is ten times better than that dose.

sells

I wish I had a plan Zohan. No wait I vote for theZohan, Zohan for Taoiseach.

brummytom

Well he won't move out of his office and there aren't enough people in the world strong enough to lift him.

K-9

Whoever wins Big Brother. They'll have the popular vote.

mardybumbum

John Crown


If he's not up for it, then the viper will do

procure11

sells wrote: »

Why is he here, who the f*uck is he, what the f*uck does he want, I didnt even vote for him, did you. Im talkin of course about, Brian Cowan. Making more money than Barack Obama, why??? money, money, money, beautiful money, thats all he wants. So who would you like to be Taoiseach? Maybe its Pat Kenny, ......Chuck Norris or maybe Willie O Dea!:rolleyes: or even your woman off the news, Sharon Ni Bheolain.

Who would you like to be Taoiseach? It can be anybody, state your reasons and hopefully if theres enough votes, they will be the new Taoiseach.

Probably because there are no alternatives amongst the current crop....well unless you can mention 1.

Bannana

procure11 wrote: »

Probably because there are no alternatives amongst the current crop....well unless you can mention 1.

If I had to choose somebody, and this was a gun up to head situation, I would probably pick Richard Bruton (and Enda can be in government but promise never to talk in public, or be seen in public for that matter)

Seriously, Bruton has an Mphil in Economics from Oxford so surely he has more of an idea then our current government. He is more charismatic then Fine Gaels leader (wouldn't be hard I know) and some of his proposals have been quite decent and realistic considering the majority of his colleagues from the opposition have wimsical ideas on bringing us out of this recessions.

Best, realistic choice imo....any one else up for throwing out a name, extremely hard with the choice we are given I know

Jim

mardybumbum wrote: »

John Crown


If he's not up for it, then the viper will do

I dunno.

He can be a schlippery aule bastard.

Senna

NAMA defeated (hopefully), Lisbon defeated (hope not), general election in the next 12 months and who will win? F****** FF. FG need to get rid of Kenny now before its too late.

K-Ren

Rabble rabble?

Mr. A

Pfth. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

brendansmith

I dunno, i kinda like him.

He seems sound. Doin a good job too!

Bannana

K-Ren wrote: »

Rabble rabble?

K-Ren has my vote!!!!:D
Rumour has it your in charge of this NAMA lark too..

Fink Goddie

He runs the country because he's so damn sexy! big hunk of love! RWWRRRRR!

mickoneill30

sells wrote: »

I didnt even vote for him, did you.

Unless he was in your constituency you couldn't vote for him. You know how voting works in Ireland right?

thomond2006

Brian Cowen bring Taoiseach is like a bull with a spinning wheel, he's doesn't know how he got it and he has no idea how to use it.

tallaght01

Tony Gregory, if he was still alive, and Eamon Gilmore could sort this kip out, I reckon.

Oh, and I know he's a bit fruity, but your man Chuck, or David, Norris is a decent bloke too, even with his mental voice.

King of Kings

i love it
the same clowns who are so anti George W Bush have now filled the vacuum with lambasting Brian Cowen.

A Primal Nut

Here's a question; if Obama earned more than Brian Cowen; would Americans complain that Obama earns more than Brian Cowen therefore all he wants is money?

Long Onion

Dearest ickle baby jebus,

I don't ask you for much (partly because I only believe in you when I think I am in a heap of doo doo) but today I have decided that it seems like a good time to pray.

I am looking for some help from you, and if you can see fit to help me, I promise not to worship Allah, Buddah or Twink. I promise that I will develop a passionate for the ghay and a passionate love for the babby boys.

My life has been made immeasurable hard over the last two years, I can no longer afford the SAT NAV for my Range Rover Vogue HSE, and my wife has to stick with her 18 month old Lexus 400h for another 6 months. Recently, I have had to cancel my subscription to sky movies, and I am terrified that my son's friends will find out and he will get bullied on the Blackrock dorms and wedgied in the second row.

This sudden insufferable in my life has been foisted upon me by the greatest threat to catholicism in living memory - Fianna Fail. Their leader is a fat, gruff sort who is fond of alcohol and surrounds himself with a number of Mary's - none of whom are virgins (except maybe the Harney one, though God knows that is not for want of trying, she's always giving O'Dea those 'come to bed eyes').

He has made it ok for the ghay and the lesbies to live together and is busy passing a law which will make it harder to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a developer to miss a skiing trip to Andorra. He is also from Offaly and touches cattle.

I am praying to you that you will deliver us from these days of bleak misery where the only hope for a good standard of living is to do lots of sexing an sign on the dole, (sure I would have a big ole catholic family, but hersel's gee would look like two pancakes flapping in the wind and then I'd have to buy a Thai bride and sure, they're all Buddhists/Afghani's).

So I think that it would be wonderful if you could send us a tall, well spoken Black fella (thanks for Ali, but he fails on the second requirement) who can save the world and work for less monies than the Biffo. I know that he's not strong on forcing raped teenagers to have babies and focing wimmins to stay with violent husbands, but we promise that we will work very hard on this one.

I was thinking Sidney Poitier or perhaps Denzel Washington.

Thanks very much

genericguy

Fink Goddie wrote: »

He runs the country because he's so damn sexy! big hunk of love! RWWRRRRR!

wait till we get rid of harney and you get your eye operation...

irish_bob

markok84 wrote: »

pffft. Suibhan Ni Gearailt is ten times better than that dose.

agreed , sharon ni bheolain is a robot

Fink Goddie

genericguy wrote: »

wait till we get rid of harney and you get your eye operation...

You're just jealous because he's bootilicious!

Run_to_da_hills

For those that have the signature option switched off

rossie1977

markok84 wrote: »

pffft. Suibhan Ni Gearailt is ten times better than that dose.

photo of said woman please :eek:

sells

A Primal Nut wrote: »

Here's a question; if Obama earned more than Brian Cowen; would Americans complain that Obama earns more than Brian Cowen therefore all he wants is money?

Americans wouldnt have a clue who Brian Cowan is or if they did, he is still not the president of America so they probally wouldnt mind.

Paddy Samurai

sells wrote: »

Who would you like to be Taoiseach? It can be anybody, state your reasons and hopefully if theres enough votes, they will be the new Taoiseach.

Bring back Pol pot,i think he's the man to get this country sorted out.
Kill all the educated edgeibicated people who got us into this mess.
Start Ireland off again at year zero ,and build ourselves a land of milk and honey beer and kebabs.
Just think no politicians,lawyers,bankers,..........no eddie hobbs(hes first to get the plastic bag treatment)

An Fear Aniar

I think it's unfair Brian Cowen should be getting flak for causing the near collapse of the global banking system, or for some of the dodgy policies of his predecessors. He had the misfortune to inherit a mess at a time of global recession so I think people should judge him on his own merits and his own record. I think he's a very intelligent and able politician and is probably the best man for the job right now. I can't see FG pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they never have done, they've only ever been slightly more photogenic.

And although I hope people reject the Lisbon Constitution, please don't do so to give a dig to Brian Cowen, that's a really stupid reason.

.

markok84

rossie1977 wrote: »

photo of said woman please :eek:

I spelt her name wrong, sorry. She usually does the six one news.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishcelebs/3024066043/

ejmaztec

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I think Brian Cowen should be getting flak for causing the near collapse of the global Irish banking system,
.

I've de-centralised your post.:P

CAPSLOCK365

sells wrote: »

Why is he here, who the f*uck is he, what the f*uck does he want, I didnt even vote for him, did you. Im talkin of course about, Brian Cowan. Making more money than Barack Obama, why??? money, money, money, beautiful money, thats all he wants. So who would you like to be Taoiseach? Maybe its Pat Kenny, ......Chuck Norris or maybe Willie O Dea!:rolleyes: or even your woman off the news, Sharon Ni Bheolain.

Who would you like to be Taoiseach? It can be anybody, state your reasons and hopefully if theres enough votes, they will be the new Taoiseach.

He's here
a) because he is an elected official, i.e. he received enough votes to place in the top 5 in his constituency, thus entitling him to represent his constituency in the dáil.
b) he is a member of the Fianna Fáil party. All parties require a leader.
c) Once Bertie Ahern stood down as leader of Fianna Fáil (and Taoiseach), the party required someone else to lead it. Cowen put his name forward and was unchallenged. He therefore became leader of Fianna Fáil.
d) Fianna Fáil are the largest party, in terms of dáil representation, in the country. As such, they formed a coalition with a few smaller parties and some independents. It makes sense that the leader of the most represented party gets the number one job. i.e. Brian Cowen.

Secondly, lots of people make more money than Barrack Obama. It may surprise you, but Barrack Obama is not the yardstick by which most people measuretheir income.

Thirdly, how do you know that all he wants is money? Unsubstantiated rubbish and perhaps a libellous comment.

Finaly, no I don't want any of those people as Taoiseach as
a) all but one of them have not been elected to represent us.
b) one of them isn't an Irish citizen
and
c) the one who has been elected could never get the job as he isn't really a party politician.


If there is anything else I can help you with, please ask.


I would however be in favour of some sort of intelligence test before people could vote. This wold benefit us all by removing the votes of people who have no idea how politics work.

ScumLord

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I think it's unfair Brian Cowen should be getting flak for causing the near collapse of the global banking system, or for some of the dodgy policies of his predecessors. He had the misfortune to inherit a mess at a time of global recession so I think people should judge him on his own merits and his own record.

He was the fall guy, FF had no intention of trying to prepare for, or fix the mess we're in. The reason Ireland is doing worse than any other country is because we where building towards failure, it was no surprise that we ended up in a recession, it's just unfortunate the rest of the world that we where piggy backing on collapsed as well making our situation worse.

FF do nothing, their not actually making any changes to this failed system we call a government their just doing the same thing they always do throw money at it, except there is no money left so they raise taxes. They haven't made any changes to the way hospitals are run from what I can see. There are no changes other than financial in local government. Money isn't really the problem and they don't seem to realise that at all.

Coriolanus

CAPSLOCK365 wrote: »

I would however be in favour of some sort of intelligence test before people could vote. This wold benefit us all by removing the votes of people who have no idea how politics work.

I'll second that, considering it would also clear out 90% of the Dail who were voted for because "Sure my mam and dad have always voted for X".

CAPSLOCK365

Nevore wrote: »

I'll second that, considering it would also clear out 90% of the Dail who were voted for because "Sure my mam and dad have always voted for X".

How would it do this?

johnl

There was no plan for
Biffo. Said we'd all be grand.
We knew better, shame.

CAPSLOCK365

johnl wrote: »

There was no plan for
Biffo. Said we'd all be grand.
We knew better, shame.

Jesus.

limerick_man

Cowens doing the best he can with what hes got, hes always going to be hated... anyone in charge of taking services away would be. Its just more fustrating that he has to play politics and keep as many people as possible content so his party dont fall. sad truth of democracy though.

if there were a rerun id still vote FF, best keep with the programme - probably switch my vote to FG when the recession passes and Enda with it.

Coriolanus

CAPSLOCK365 wrote: »

How would it do this?

Only speaking from a WW perspective, but the village idiots who turn up every year at my polling booth, who would be hard pressed to name a candidate and vote by looking for the pretty logo beside the pictures would presumably fail the test.

Turd Ferguson

Michael O Leary

/thread

Coriolanus

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Michael O Leary

/thread

The full page ads giving out about the opposition would be amusing at least.

CAPSLOCK365

Nevore wrote: »

Only speaking from a WW perspective, but the village idiots who turn up every year at my polling booth, who would be hard pressed to name a candidate and vote by looking for the pretty logo beside the pictures would presumably fail the test.

But who would the others vote for?
Who did the 'village idiots' vote for before there were pretty* pictures on the paper? and before there were logos?

sells

CAPSLOCK365 wrote: »

He's here
a) because he is an elected official, i.e. he received enough votes to place in the top 5 in his constituency, thus entitling him to represent his constituency in the dáil.
b) he is a member of the Fianna Fáil party. All parties require a leader.
c) Once Bertie Ahern stood down as leader of Fianna Fáil (and Taoiseach), the party required someone else to lead it. Cowen put his name forward and was unchallenged. He therefore became leader of Fianna Fáil.
d) Fianna Fáil are the largest party, in terms of dáil representation, in the country. As such, they formed a coalition with a few smaller parties and some independents. It makes sense that the leader of the most represented party gets the number one job. i.e. Brian Cowen.

Secondly, lots of people make more money than Barrack Obama. It may surprise you, but Barrack Obama is not the yardstick by which most people measuretheir income.

Thirdly, how do you know that all he wants is money? Unsubstantiated rubbish and perhaps a libellous comment.

Finaly, no I don't want any of those people as Taoiseach as
a) all but one of them have not been elected to represent us.
b) one of them isn't an Irish citizen
and
c) the one who has been elected could never get the job as he isn't really a party politician.


If there is anything else I can help you with, please ask.


I would however be in favour of some sort of intelligence test before people could vote. This wold benefit us all by removing the votes of people who have no idea how politics work.

Yeah I think I know how politics works.:rolleyes:
I would however be in favour of some sort of common sense test before people could post a reply on boards.ie. This wold benefit us all by removing the stupid, serious comments, of people who have no idea how boards.ie(after hours) work. Yes one other thing, I cant get rid of all the bees in my garden shed, can you please help me.:rolleyes:

Euro_Kraut

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I think it's unfair Brian Cowen should be getting flak for causing the near collapse of the global banking system, or for some of the dodgy policies of his predecessors. He had the misfortune to inherit a mess at a time of global recession so I think people should judge him on his own merits and his own record. I think he's a very intelligent and able politician and is probably the best man for the job right now. I can't see FG pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they never have done, they've only ever been slightly more photogenic.

And although I hope people reject the Lisbon Constitution, please don't do so to give a dig to Brian Cowen, that's a really stupid reason.

.

Brain Cowen was been a Senior Cabinet Minister (including Finance) for 10 years before becoming Taoiseach. He has been one of the most influential voices in FF for about 20 years.

While I accept some of his criticism is unfair, let’s not pretend he just woke up one morning and was landed with the job.

W1ct0ry

sells wrote: »

Why is he here, who the f*uck is he, what the f*uck does he want, I didnt even vote for him, did you.

Did you vote for Bertie Ahern?

sells

nah I was too young.

W1ct0ry

sells wrote: »

nah I was too young.

But you can only vote for him if he is in your constituency, so not having voted for Brian Cowen makes no difference. Its not like you elect them to a certain post.

And Brian Cowen was elected, so yes we did vote for him.

TheInquisitor

Realisticly the country should be run by a group of 5 successfull business people that make decisions based on 3/5 voting for it.

People running the department for health should be five consultants

People running the department for finance should be 5 accountants

People running the military should be 5 generals

People running anything should be successful and the best in that field

What is the point of putting people with no clue of what their doing, no education in that field in charge of it?

eddiehead

I would definitely vote for Face Kicker