Ceist Beag
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So long as you know that you'll be the one paying for Bertie's pintAlso I would much rather go a pint with Bertie and Michael than Enda and Pat!!
You really gotta wonder about the advisors that are behind these people that they can't work out such simplicities. Then again, remember Enda's drunk tank speech. Couldn't expect any better really.
As was mentioned on the radio this morning, the fact that Enda and Pat asked multi-layered questions was enough to totally screw up the way they appeared, and to let Bertie off the hook.
Asking such questions let Bertie answer only the ones he wanted, and ignore the ones he didn't like or want to answer.
All either of them had to do to show they were a proper opposition was to stand up and ask one question each.
1. Do you think what you did was wrong? (Seeing as they were intent on asking this question)
2. Where did you get the €50,000 savings that you keep talking about?
Pushing for answers of only those two questions would have done a lot more than they achieved yesterday.
You really gotta wonder about the advisors that are behind these people that they can't work out such simplicities. Then again, remember Enda's drunk tank speech. Couldn't expect any better really.
I like my opposition to come up with ideas of their own.
All either of them had to do to show they were a proper opposition was to stand up and ask one question each.
1. Do you think what you did was wrong?
They could not comprehend I had sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
Cause that's a great topic to bring up at any sort of interview
For me, he just doesn't inspire any conviction in what he says and his stance most issues is to just take the opposing view to the government. This really goads me as while the government certainly don't get it right in a lot of areas, not everything they do is wrong but Enda and Co. will still voice an alternate opinion.
Ahern 1996 to the Dail (While in Opposition)
We would regard any attempt to push Partnership for Peace or participation in Western European Union tasks by resolution in this House without reference to the people who under our Constitution have the right ‘in final appeal to decide all questions of national policy’ as a serious breach of faith and fundamentally undemocratic.
1997 Fianna Fail Manifesto (While in Opposition)
We will oppose any moves to edge Ireland closer to membership of an alliance still committed to the deployment and use of nuclear weapons. We oppose Irish participation in N.A.T.O. itself, [and] in N.A.T.O.-led organisations such as the Partnership for Peace
January 1999 (Having been elected to government)
I would envisage, all going well that Ireland will join the Partnership for Peace on a mutually agreed basis in the second half of this year, and the Government will be working towards that timetable.
May 1999
The Government is to publish an information paper on its plan for Ireland’s membership of the NATO-linked Partnership for Peace organisation. But the Taoiseach told a news conference it remained the Coalition’s firm position that the issue did not require a referendum.
Pick your favourites if you must, and for whatever reasons you see fit. But make sure your reasons are valid.
-Rd
Or:
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
-- Groucho Marx
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