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Gay Mitchell should have been President...

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gay Mitchell is an odious little man. He was the only candidate whose name I refused to put a number beside during the last election; I couldn't even justify giving him my number 7 out of the 7 candidates. Frankly I'd have been less embarrassed if we elected Dana or Gallagher.

    *He has hosted conferences on behalf of the homophobic and misogynistic Iona Institute
    *Reportedly has links with Opus Dei (not confirmed but also never denied AFAIK)
    *Defended homophobic remarks from an Italian MEP
    *Compared abortion to the Holocaust and blasted women who "sneaked off" to England to have a termination
    *Claimed that he wrote letters of appeal for a man on death row in America because he's against the death penalty (but in reality he only did it because the man's crime was blowing up an abortion clinic, which Gay would undoubtedly not see as a crime at all)
    *Constantly threw sly little digs at Martin McGuinness during the presidential campain, and threw a pathetic little temper tantrum at Pat Kenny during the final debate

    Not to mention his numerous gaffes, like making light of suicide by "jokingly" saying he'd to throw himself into the Liffey and how he'd be president of the "22 counties".

    A despicable creature and a conservative dinosaur who, along with his party colleague Creighton (and I'm sure there are many others in FG of that ilk), should be sent back to the dark ages where his views belong.

    As for President Higgins - a gentleman, a scholar and a renowned and respected human rights advocate. I'm very happy a man like him is representing us in the Áras, I just wish he had more power.


  • #33
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Apparently Michael D Higgins said in a recent interview "Miriam, I can't quite fathom why every other President I've met from abroad looks down on me?"

    I thought that would be pretty obvious.

    And this is the person we want as symbolic head of state?

    If that's the best you can do then it's plain to see that Michael D is doing just fine.


  • #34
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    kraggy wrote: »
    Michael D

    Why do people keep saying 'D'?

    His name is Michael, not Michael D.


  • #35
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Actually David Norris "should" have been President. The political parties behaved disgracefully during the election.


  • #36
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Why do people keep saying 'D'?

    His name is Michael, not Michael D.

    Earlier you stated
    Apparently Michael D Higgins said in a recent interview "Miriam, I can't
    quite fathom why every other President I've met from abroad looks down on
    me?"

    Do you have a source for that?


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  • #37
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    MadsL wrote: »
    Actually David Norris "should" have been President. The political parties behaved disgracefully during the election.

    Actually, the position should have been scrapped as a cost cutting measure


  • #38
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    MadsL wrote: »
    David Norris

    Maybe we should call him David P. Norris, and his first name as David P.

    Hell, let's be consistent and call that Eurovision crank Dana R.


  • #39
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Actually, the position should have been scrapped as a cost cutting measure

    A republic with no President..just like..um...um..wait...no they have one..um..um. Nope, can't think of one.


  • #40
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    MadsL wrote: »
    A republic with no President..just like..um...um..wait...no they have one..um..um. Nope, can't think of one.

    You'd find that if we didn't have a President people would be complaining why we don't have one.

    There's just some battles you can't win with the Irish people.


  • #41
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    You'd find that if we didn't have a President people would be complaining why we don't have one.

    There's just some battles you can't win with the Irish people.


    Is there some reason you can't answer my question? Do we just go ahead and assume that you lied and in fact made that 'quote' up yourself?


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  • #42
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    President Higgins is a fine representative of the Republic. The job is purely to be a Statesman on official occasions and he carries it out with dignity and without controversy. Serious question, what more do you expect of him?


  • #43
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    oldyouth wrote: »
    Serious question, what more do you expect of him?

    To do the admirable thing and abdicate.


  • #44
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    To do the admirable thing and abdicate.

    For somebody who makes up quotes, you've a bit of cheek to ask anyone to do anything "admirable".


  • #45
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Nodin wrote: »
    For somebody who makes up quotes, you've a bit of cheek to ask anyone to do anything "admirable".

    :confused:


  • #46
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    :confused:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85424221&postcount=36


  • #47
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    To do the admirable thing and abdicate.

    Yeah and replace him with your brother/cousin/uncle


  • #48
    apollo8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭apollo8


    Nodin wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85424221&postcount=36

    Don't waste your time on the OP he relish's posting unpopular views and the storm they provoke.


  • #49
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    oldyouth wrote: »
    Yeah and replace him with your brother/cousin/uncle

    Are they the one person???


  • #50
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Go home wretcheddomain. You're drunk. etc.


  • #51
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    At the moment we have a poetic dwarf in the Áras who vomits out the typical clichés you expect from a symbolic President i.e. no originality but mere empty utterances of nonsense and populism. We should have had someone in the Áras who has some degree of originality, maybe even David Norris. But maybe his ostentatious nature is more of a distraction rather than an attraction.

    Of all the other Presidential candidates that we had to suffer listening to - I'd say Gay Mitchell stood out as a solid candidate with years of experience, relatively good speaker and author of 'By Dáil Account', which became a best seller on the New York Times.

    If you watch this clip, you'll recall why he would have been the ideal Presidential candidate:



    So, in hindsight, now that we've had to suffer the musings of our current President, would you have changed your vote or voted for someone else?

    I think Gay Mitchell should have been President.
    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Apparently Michael D Higgins said in a recent interview "Miriam, I can't quite fathom why every other President I've met from abroad looks down on me?"

    I thought that would be pretty obvious.

    And this is the person we want as symbolic head of state?
    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Why do people keep saying 'D'?

    His name is Michael, not Michael D.
    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Maybe we should call him David P. Norris, and his first name as David P.

    Hell, let's be consistent and call that Eurovision crank Dana R.
    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    To do the admirable thing and abdicate.

    Aldi are doing a special on goat meat next week, you should stock, do you have a freezer?:D


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  • #52
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Mitchell thought it would be a great idea to bring the Olympics to Dublin. That says it all. Ireland struggled with building the infastructure for the special Olympics which is considerable smaller and cheaper to run. But Mitchell had some notion we could get the money and skills to host the Olympics. He sounds like he would make a balls of being a president.

    Michael d comes across as intelligent and gives the impression of Ireland being culturally rich society. The only reason why we have a president


  • #53
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    tricky D wrote: »
    Are they the one person???
    I'd imagine so ;)


  • #54
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Why do people keep saying 'D'?

    His name is Michael, not Michael D.

    Why is T.S Eliot called...?
    Why is it JFK?
    Why is it J.D Salinger?

    It is, because that's what they are known as. Furthermore, because of his honesty and decency, Michael D. Is referred to as such with affection. He's a very popular figure in Galway due to the fact that he stands out amongst other politicians, not because of his appearance, but due to the fact that he's probably the last politician in the whole country that you could imagine taking a backhander. And probably the first politician that comes to mind when one thinks of a politician who is truly passionate about what he believes in, because he believes it is right. Not because he thinks it will get him votes.


  • #55
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Mitchell's notorious and violent gangland-criminal cousin would probably make a better statesman than himself.


  • #56
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    At the moment we have a poetic dwarf in the Áras who vomits out the typical clichés you expect from a symbolic President i.e. no originality but mere empty utterances of nonsense and populism. We should have had someone in the Áras who has some degree of originality, maybe even David Norris. But maybe his ostentatious nature is more of a distraction rather than an attraction.

    Of all the other Presidential candidates that we had to suffer listening to - I'd say Gay Mitchell stood out as a solid candidate with years of experience, relatively good speaker and author of 'By Dáil Account', which became a best seller on the New York Times.

    If you watch this clip, you'll recall why he would have been the ideal Presidential candidate:



    So, in hindsight, now that we've had to suffer the musings of our current President, would you have changed your vote or voted for someone else?

    I think Gay Mitchell should have been President.

    I love the way the only thing you can say against Michael D is that he is small and writes poetry. Try the other one, or just get on with your life. Mitchell was the epitome of verbal diahorrea and an atrocious candidate


  • #57
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Maybe we should call him David P. Norris, and his first name as David P.

    Hell, let's be consistent and call that Eurovision crank Dana R.

    The reason for the "D" bit is because there was another more well established politician when he just started named Michael Higgins. It stuck. Who cares?

    Is this really the best you can do? He's small, writes poetry and initials his middle name in - therefore Gay Mitchell should be the President (despite the fact that over 1 million people voted for MDH)? Really?


  • #58
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Nodin wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85424221&postcount=36

    That was so obviously a joke - I mean, how naive do you have to be to think he'd say that in an interview. :confused:
    apollo8 wrote: »
    Don't waste your time on the OP he relish's posting unpopular views and the storm they provoke.

    Not at all - as I've said, that particular post was evidently a joke. However, my first post outlining the basis for my argument is an honest attempt to find out whether boardsters here would have preferred a different president to the thing we have now whizzing around the Áras.


  • #59
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    That was so obviously a joke - I mean, how naive do you have to be to think he'd say that in an interview. :confused:.

    So why didn't you say that?

    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Not at all - as I've said, that particular post was evidently a joke.

    Your OP looks far more like a work of satire.


  • #60
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Nodin wrote: »
    So why didn't you say that?




    Your OP looks far more like a work of satire.

    So my first post looks like a work of satire but my comical quote concerning Michael D was serious according to you?

    If that's the way you think then I can't help you.


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  • #61
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    So my first post looks like a work of satire but my comical quote concerning Michael D was serious according to you?

    If that's the way you think then I can't help you.


    Well I asked you about it in 4 separate posts, before getting any sort of response, so I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for 'help'.


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