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Do we need a President?

  • 11-09-2011 1:37pm
    #1
    bayern282
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭


    No obvious candidates, what does such a person actually do apart from the perfunctory hand-shaking, attending functions and sporting events, and spouting soundbites provided by speech writers.

    If the office was discontinued, people would still go to work every day, the sun would still rise and go down, etc, etc, similar analogy applies to the Eurpoean monarchies etc.

    Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this.


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  • #2
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    The president is our chief diplomat and is a figurehead for the country. We cant have people from the government meeting and greeting every foreign dignitary or head of state that comes to visit.


  • #3
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Do we need another thread on do we need a President?


  • #4
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    As long as you mind your P's and Q's ,it's the type of job anybody could do but overall not all that important .Rubbing shoulders with the great and good seems to be the main appeal of the job .


  • #5
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Pointless waste of money to be honest. We have a Taoiseach and they could easily do the "job" of the president in there spare time.


  • #6
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    hondasam wrote: »
    Do we need another thread on do we need a President?

    We always need more thread about everything. :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    DoneDL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭DoneDL


    +1. We need someone without any political baggage and a lot of charisma.


  • #8
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Throw up a poll there sure.

    Personally I'm beginning to think the office is a waste of money and it along with the senate, should be scrapped. The only reason I'll be voting in this year's "I'm a Celebrity put me in the Aras" is to keep out FG, FF or SF candidates.


  • #9
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Add a poll OP, be easier seeing the poll than reading all the thread ;)


  • #10
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    Sufferin' Jasus! Just read where the Bearded Cookie Monster has become a phoenix. Where's my scatter-gun? Does this guy not realise what the tabloids (in other countries) will print? Has he got no shame? No dignity? If his resignation from the race was caused by, er, his own hand ........ has the problem gone away? Or have society's mores changed so quickly?


  • #11
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    PeterIanStaker wrote: »
    ...The only reason I'll be voting in this year's "I'm a Celebrity put me in the Aras" is to keep out FG, FF or SF candidates.

    Give it time, Simon Cowell will come up with some idea like that! :pac:


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  • #12
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Biggins wrote: »
    Give it time, Simon Cowell will come up with some idea like that! :pac:

    If that's the case, can we make Cheryl Cole the president? I'd stand to attention for her . . . :D


  • #13
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    aslong as its not norris or higgins , yeah id say keep them


  • #14
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    hondasam wrote: »
    Do we need another thread on do we need a President?
    Do we need another post complaining about another thread on do we need a president?


  • #15
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    TBH Id get rid of the presidency before Id do away with the senate.
    Teutorix wrote: »
    The president is our chief diplomat and is a figurehead for the country. We cant have people from the government meeting and greeting every foreign dignitary or head of state that comes to visit.

    Obama seems to manage to juggle it with his day job okay and he has a bigger country to preside over ?
    DoneDL wrote: »
    We need someone without any political baggage.
    And we are going to achieve this through former/current politicians participating in an electoral process under the banner of their respective political parties ?


  • #16
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Pointless waste of money to be honest. We have a Taoiseach and they could easily do the "job" of the president in there spare time.

    Ah now. One step at a time. Most of them have struggled with just their main job.


  • #17
    Shoulder to the wheel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Shoulder to the wheel


    Yes we do need a President, someone who is above politics, as decreed by our constitution. We need someone who can represent us with dignity abroad and someone who can assure us individually and as communities that we are of value. We need someone who can relate to all strata of society and it needs to be someone that people can relate to as genuine, approachable and honest. Mary McAleese has done a wonderful job under these headings even though many of us knew very little of her prior to the election of 1997 (myself included).


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