‘The Pefect Storm’
Remember last year where Cowen made his non state of the nation address and only Harry McGee was in the room? Well tonight An Taoiseach was back talking off the cuff tonight at the Dublin Chamber of Commerce AGM. (Sean Whelan in RTE reporting on the Nine O’Clock news said Cowen was speaking to an audience of business men. I assume this is not true and that Dublin Chamber of Commerce is an equal opportunities organisation!)
This time Harry was not alone and the press room was buzzing after it – well the keyboards were. I wonder if anyone was singing Kumbayah or the like.
You can listen to his speech here. Think of him on a trailer in Clara battening down the tarps against the wind or something.
(Thanks to Dublin Chamber of Commerce for the Audio)
I’ll have a think about it and be back to you! Things are going to get worse a bit before then get better or something but we’re all still in it together. Ah oh yes the Recession is to be known as The Perfect Storm
See Alexia for more on the film and the script or whatever you call the transcript of the off the cuffery!
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Irish Election » Brian Cowen’s Speech to Dublin Chamber // Feb 4, 2010 at 23:16
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This might become an annual event of charisma training for Brian. I bet the Chamber are thrilled that he chose their event once again to get all Obama on our asses.
The perfect storm was actually a natural phenomenon, whereas this mess/ recession/ depression is totally man-made by the arrogance of the elite…
Cowen is as wobbly/ dispassionate as Obama is, imo; and no amount of speechifying will remedy his leadership.
I caught a glimpse of him doing a speech (is this it?) and – if you turned the sound off – it looked like a game of charades where the answer was ‘playing the piano’. And the body language of the audience (silent, arms folded, looking at their plates, etc.) said how inspirational they were. I know, I’m completely a non-FF supporter, etc., but we’re on the road to nowhere with this lot.
So he saves his good stuff for the businesspeople and leaves us plebs flustered and leaderless. Ireland inc is alive and well.