I agree compare him to someone like Mary mcaleese who is just cool and natural, even during moments like meeting obama.

That said, remember the sinking feeling when looking at cowen. I’ll take enda over that any day.

never met him either. can see what youre saying. have heard one too many good stories ,first hand, to make me believe we have a good egg here. Is he the man for the job…………. i dont think he is but what choices are going to xome from an inept state run by inept public servants votedin by a public too caught up in p…. ill stop.

Katherine, yeah, I notice Enda’s odd behaviour. Even I notice he got up ready to leave while the President sat looking relax…..I think problem at home affects him, is it?

I absolutely agree. It is like he there is something missing with him. Judging by the look of Obama he would agree too!

Adrian, I am totally with you. I never really saw Cowen in these situations – if he came on TV while overseas I was hiding behind the couch curled up with embarrassment.

Yes Catherine. Said same before. His speech to the Nation address was particularly uncomfortable to watch. He held his hands clasped throughout the whole address, never moved. I watched it twice to check. He was not saying his own words. Everything he said that night was a lie.

Compare that to Davos when he pissed on his people. Calling us “mad” and “greedy”! That time he sat with his legs spread, he was expressing his version of truth that time.

I think he’s angry at the Irish people for disregarding him and his party so long. Revenge is sweet and we’re getting it in the neck now. But FG’s days are numbered. We will not forget this is a hurry. I’ve never voted FF or FG but I’d chose the cronyism of FF any day over the sheer destain FG has for us.

i have to agree with you reada… i think the level of destain is increasing everyday….. the household charge of course being the prime example…. the level of people that have not paid and with every passing day more and more are becoming steadfast in their refusal to pay…. and with that has come an all mighty level of bully boy tactics…. threats of doing this and that to make sure we all pay….. stopping at nothing…. thinking that they have a right to put their hands into our bank accounts even to take the money….. very aggressive approach they seem to be taking in a response to say how dare they refuse to do what we fine gael tell them to do…..
they will be waiting to get any more money out of me…..

Its Taoiseach Kenny by the way, and it IS so important that we use this opportunity to its maximum. Most countries have to wait uears to get a meeting with POTUS, and we have at least once a year.

But ahh yes I forgot, better to be bitter, small-minded and sarcastic than lift the peasant up for once

Oh, Kennys lifting the peasant up all right. He’s then turning the peasant upside down and shaking the last bit of change out of his pockets to pay people who don’t need it.

Give me a Gobshite over a yellow-belly anytime.

Bloody hell O’reilly. How could he not be? How could 95% of the worlds population not be, when you really think about it??

If she was with him people be giving out wasting tax payers money.

Endas been walkin around with that statesman swagger since the election he was full of beans then but now he realises that the teacher is way out of his depth but he got to keep faking it but there are no beans in this can

The canteen

An American president visiting is a long term tourism and business investment.
Plus its nice to watch something on the news that isn’t about the EU /recession.

I think the Americans picked up a big chunk of the bill last time. look at the amount of American companies who have increased since the visit paypal, Facebook etc plus the added tourism. done more for us in the last couple of years than the eu so always welcome in my book.