Political opportunism… February 6, 2013
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From Leaders’ Questions this morning on the topic of the Magdalen Laundries…
Enda Kenny (in response to Mary Lou McDonald): I’m not going to rise to the bait of political opportunism…
And then, almost in the same breath…
You above all people and the party you represent …
(I paraphrase – but only very slightly)
Up there with Tony Blair’s announcement at the end of the talks that led to the Belfast Agreement that it was not a time for sound bites, immediately followed by the insight that he felt the hand of history on his shoulder.
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Yes, it has that feel to it. He’s not had a two good days. MLM was particularly good I thought.
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I walked away from the debate thinking that for all the greamhar nature of Kenny he is an out and out bollix.
a sickening bollix. I recgonise i’m not adding to the debate much with that but sometimes its sufficient to state it like that.
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Depressing how he (kenny) has taken precisely the same path as those who have come before him. Tight lipped ‘say nothing’, diversionary rhetoric.
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que, no that’s a perfectly succinct summation of Kenny’s character and a useful addition to the debate.
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honours english in the leaving cert dontcha know
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