Miriam O'Callaghan as president?

Kermit.de.frog

Fair shot down Alastair Campbell a few days back when he asked what her intentions were in relation to running for President.

She might not be as doable good looking by the next election. This might make a difference for males. However she can't be any worse than the stereotypical Irish president we now have.

Would you vote for her? BTW she refuses to deny or confirm running to suit RTE. This means she is indecisive and thus we should vote NO to Miriam.

Sure if all her kids vote for her, she'll be home and hosed.

darkpagandeath

Voting for someone based on appearance will work out well..

Kermit.de.frog

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Voting for someone based on appearance will work out well..

Can't accuse the peasantry of doing that the last time in fairness.

TheLastMohican

I'd give her one any day. My vote I mean.

harry Bailey esq

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Sure she'll be home and hosed.

She's not really presidential material, i could see her in a kinda 'mata hari" sort of role.
In leather pants and jackboots.

darkpagandeath

http://s38.photobucket.com/user/vgupload/media/PresidentMiriam.jpg.html

DEFTLEFTHAND

We should abolish the office of President. The Taoiseach of the day should also serve as head of State. The upper house should also be abolished.

DarkyHughes

No. But if Willie Frazer ran for president down here I'd vote for him.

darkpagandeath

sucking nipples should be brought back. :pac:

DarkyHughes

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We should abolish the office of President. The Taoiseach of the day should also serve as head of State. The upper house should also be abolished.

Can't we just get rid of the Taoiseach's office & make the President head of government & state and then get rid of both upper & lower houses & just concentrate all power in the President?

DEFTLEFTHAND

DarkyHughes wrote: »

No. But if Willie Frazer ran for president down here I'd vote for him.

Do you know the bould Willie played Gaelic Football as a child? Pat Kenny interviewed recently and he spat it out that he was juvenile member of the local Fenian games.:pac:

Another one is 'King Rat' Billy Wright, he played football up to minor level in south Armagh before moving to Portadown joining the UVF, falling out with the UVF, forming the LVF and getting shot dead inside the Maze prison by the INLA in 1997.

Tom Dunne

Not so sure about Miriam.

But if Sharon Ní Bheoláin ran, well she could run my country any day.

Autonomous Cowherd

Doable? Ugh. What a word.

Splendour

Miriam is not a 'people' person at all so no to her being President.

Sam Kade

If she got in she'd have a great time wal-coming people into the aras :rolleyes:

blueser

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

She's not really presidential material, i could see her in a kinda 'mata hari" sort of role.
In leather pants and jackboots.

Oh God, yeah. A woman in uniform. Win win.

Son Of A Vidic

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

She's not really presidential material, i could see her in a kinda 'mata hari" sort of role.
In leather pants and jackboots.

She certainly would make a convincing cross dressing transsexual.

iDave

Really don't get this country's obsession with her.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Nice looking woman.
Im sure there's plenty would like to have her in the aras.

yosser hughes

I assume she'd be running for Fianna Faíl? She has Fianna Fail connections,most notably her barrister brother Jim.
I get the impression all of this speculation is actually being carefully orchestrated. The impression being given that 'everyone loves Miriam she'd be great'!
Are the people being told she's a popular choice, therefore she's popular?
Why exactly?
I actually think she's not very good at the job she's paid too much to do. How that qualifies as anything I'm not sure.
The great 'sophisticated' Irish electorate will carry the day anyway.

Seamu$

Genuinely?...

foxy farmer

She's spent most of her life funded by the taxpayer both here and abroad. I wouldnt be giving her another opportunity.
That said she's as entitled as any other Irish citizen over 35 to run for office. Would be interesting to see what dirt the competition could dig up on her during the race. Presidential elections in this country can get dirty.

Red Kev

If she does run she'll have to take a hefty pay cut....on the other hand she'll have her guaranteed pension etc.

People always say to Joe Duffy that he should be a TD, but Joe isn't that thick that he's take a 75% paycut to do a proper job.

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Voting for someone based on appearance will work out well..

Not always. Look what happened when we voted in hunky Brian Cowan.

iDave wrote: »

Really don't get this country's obsession with her.

+100

Dirty Dingus McGee

I've never campaigned for anything before but if she runs for President I will actively campaign for whoever her opposition is.

A rule should be put in place that people have to have served for at least 5 years in a County/City Council or Dáil or shown some way of being actively involved in politics before being eligible to run for president as it would prevent the presidential contest from every becoming a celebrity filled popularity contest which is unfortunately the way it could go in the future.She's shown no interest in running for elected office before and no way in hell should she be allowed to run for President when showing zero interest in any other branch of politics before.

_Brian

What harm and what difference does it make.
All that is needed is someone presentable, sober and capable of delivering a bit of a speech that is written for them.

It's a bit of a non-office.

She'd be as good as any other candidate and probably better than most.

Dubl07

Seamu$ wrote: »

Genuiiiiinely?...

Drives me bonkers.

Surion

DarkyHughes wrote: »

Can't we just get rid of the Taoiseach's office & make the President head of government & state and then get rid of both upper & lower houses & just concentrate all power in the President?

...did someone say a Fianna Fail government??

jimgoose

Boobs. Enormous, veiny, MILF-y boobs. Make a pleasant change from a little tit.

Sam Kade

iDave wrote: »

Really don't get this country's obsession with her.

The country isn't obsessed with her it's some of the fools in the country that are obsessed with her

jimgoose

Sam Kade wrote: »

The country isn't obsessed with her it's some of the fools in the country that are obsessed with her

I'm obsessed with her boobs, if that's any good to you chief??

RayM

If she runs, she'll be the Sean Gallagher of the election. Basically, the idiots' candidate. The fact that she hasn't ruled herself out suggests that she doesn't think it's a ludicrous idea. That in itself suggests an abundance of entitlement and a massive lack of self-awareness. Why Miriam O'Callaghan anyway? Why not David McCullagh? He's good on Prime Time too. Or maybe Philip Boucher Hayes or Grainne Seoige? They're both really good on Crime Call. Just because the Sunday Independent has bestowed some kind of inexplicable 'national treasure' status on somebody, doesn't mean they're qualified to become head of state.

I have nothing against her (genuinely), but I'd be just as likely to vote for Dana.

NachoBusiness

Could she even take it in the Áras? I bet it's not as easy as people think it is.

Fistycuffs

_Brian wrote: »

What harm and what difference does it make.
All that is needed is someone presentable, sober and capable of delivering a bit of a speech that is written for them.

It's a bit of a non-office.

She'd be as good as any other candidate and probably better than most.

I agree with you for the most part but I always sense a glazed disinterest in other people in her. Her interviews are always so planned like she's reading questions from a script, she's incapable of distinguishing a moment to stop and change course in response to a meaningful answer that might call for a little thought. As a result I can't see her really in a diplomatic role.

I think shes yet another one who we've seen too much of too. A victim of the Irish media's penchant for overkill exposure.

SpaceTime

Olivia O'Leary I would consider voting for.

Mariam, no.

jimgoose

SpaceTime wrote: »

Olivia O'Leary I would consider voting for.

Mariam, no.

Olivia O'Leary appears to have been replaced by alien pod-people around 2012. All boobification aside I would consider Ms. O'Callaghan as adequate a presidential candidate as any.

Harry Palmr

I'm genuinely not sure I could take the tsunami of prattle that would issue forth for five years if she won. Or indeed the mini-tsunami of same if she ran but didn't win.

_Kaiser_

We might as well just abolish the office of President if this is the standard of candidate being put forward.. then again we had Gay Byrne as head of the RSA - "we" do love our minor celebrities. :rolleyes:

Maybe we need a TV reality show like X-Factor or Big Brother to decide who wins!

Sam Kade

jimgoose wrote: »

I'm obsessed with her boobs, if that's any good to you chief??

She's more than likely padded especially with the amount of youngsters she's had so if saggy boobs are your thing your welcome to her

padd b1975

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

She certainly would make a convincing cross dressing transsexual.

She certainly does, doesn't she?

efb

SpaceTime wrote: »

Olivia O'Leary I would consider voting for.

Mariam, no.

Agreed. Miriam is a bit too casual and I'd have no reason to vote for her

padd b1975

SpaceTime wrote: »

Olivia O'Leary I would consider voting for.

Waay too preachy and pompous.

efb

padd b1975 wrote: »

Waay too preachy and pompous.

Gravitas I think that's called

conorh91

SpaceTime wrote: »

Olivia O'Leary I would consider voting for.

Mariam, no.

Olivia O'leary is the biggest bullsh1tter going.

She should stick her nose out of most of the things she sticks her nose into, pontificating to the nation on matters of constitutional law, finance, healthcare -- anything. If it's in the news at all, Olivia and Olivia alone has the answer.

I can't stand her. It's like when you have a group of experts at an office party, and one of them has brought his wife along, and she keeps preaching her uninformed opinion, and trying to henpeck everyone into submission.

I wish she'd give it a rest tbh. She doesn't have a clue what she's talking about most of the time.

I'd vote for Miriam because she seems like a compassionate, responsible person who respects others' opinions. Essentially, she'd be a good chief-ambassador for the State.

the dark phantom

DarkyHughes wrote: »

No. But if Willie Frazer ran for president down here I'd vote for him.

Yea, Willie is some bang. Wonder if he would run for the craic ?

efb

conorh91 wrote: »

Olivia O'leary is the biggest bullsh1tter going.

She should stick her nose out of most of the things she sticks her nose into, pontificating to the nation on matters of constitutional law, finance, healthcare -- anything. If it's in the news at all, Olivia and Olivia alone has the answer.

I can't stand her. It's like when you have a group of experts at an office party, and one of them has brought his wife along, and she keeps preaching her uninformed opinion, and trying to henpeck everyone into submission.

I wish she'd give it a rest tbh. She doesn't have a clue what she's talking about most of the time.

I'd vote for Miriam because she seems like a compassionate, responsible person who respects others' opinions. Essentially, she'd be a good chief-ambassador for the State.

Olivia is very knowledgeable on the topics on which she speaks- she doesn't ever seem out of her depth in any interview whereas sometimes Miriam can.

Olivia is a journalist and a Current Affairs analyst- it's her job to review and give her opinion on things.

Care to cite an example where she "butted in"?

jimgoose

Sam Kade wrote: »

She's more than likely padded especially with the amount of youngsters she's had so if saggy boobs are your thing your welcome to her

Why that's shockin' daycint o' ya. If you ever meet a woman who isn't made out of rubber I'll let you know how best to deal with the gravity of the situation.

jimgoose

efb wrote: »

Olivia is very knowledgeable on the topics on which she speaks- she doesn't ever seem out of her depth in any interview whereas sometimes Miriam can.

Olivia is a journalist and a Current Affairs analyst- it's her job to review and give her opinion on things.

Care to cite an example where she "butted in"?

Olivia O'Leary was once quite knowledgeable, but these days speaks with the certainty of a fool and the dogma of an ignoramus.

efb

jimgoose wrote: »

Olivia O'Leary was once quite knowledgeable, but these days speaks with the certainty of a fool and the dogma of an ignoramus.

Care to cite an example?

jimgoose

efb wrote: »

Care to cite an example?

Inheritance. Socialsed private debt. The Fair Deal scheme. Listen to her on the radio anytime, I think the poor creature has dementia, or else she's a complete Blueshirt zombie.

Berserker

the dark phantom wrote: »

Yea, Willie is some bang. Wonder if he would run for the craic ?

He might do for the fun of it and stick a Union flag up on the Aras. The office of President has had it's day and needs to be abolished. Would love to see a referendum on that but no government would have the guts to do it.