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Somebody out there likes him

efb · 2010-08-18 20:24:17

Typical Irish perhaps, reject our own? http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/16/go-to-the-head-of-the-class/the-fiscal-taskmaster-brian-cowen.html

18-08-2010 8:24pm

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Typical Irish perhaps, reject our own?
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/16/go-to-the-head-of-the-class/the-fiscal-taskmaster-brian-cowen.html

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#2 18-08-2010 8:38pm

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Wow a whole paragraph! (with no mention of NAMA or his former job as minister of finance during the booom)

I'm certainly convinced anyway :rolleyes:

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#3 18-08-2010 8:44pm

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5 page thread already going http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056003539

Think i saw one over on AH as well

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#4 18-08-2010 8:59pm

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Why would not "someone out there" (hint bondholders and investment firms) not like him?

He put the country on the hook for an unprecedented levels of debt to save their arses and allow them time to bailout of the bad investments they made ....

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#5 19-08-2010 12:48am

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surely builders and developers loved him, even now

Ignoring idiots who comment "far right" because they don't even know what it means

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#6 20-08-2010 8:48am

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I've just realised that people outside this country would read that thinking that we're not happy with all these austerity measures...when it's nearly the other way around. A lot of Irish people think that we need to do more.

We're a strange bunch.

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#7 20-08-2010 10:02am

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There's already a thread on this in the main Politics forum, as For Forks Sake said above.

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