Anthony at Public Enquiry reproduces an excellent piece on Bertie's snivel defence in the latter months of his time as Teethshock by Eamonn Sweeney in the Sunday Independent. In Eamonn's case he traces his own antipathy to Bertie as simply not getting him.I can clearly trace the origins of my *ahem* dislike for Bertie Ahern. I started to hate him when he promised a referendum on Ireland joining the Partnership for Peace and then reneged on it and signed us up anyway.
So over to you. What was it that made you start to hate Bertie Ahern?
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His stutter. The freak.
For me it was when he claimed to be a socialist, although the fact that he was being interviewed by someone I hate even more (Hector "Gobshite" O'Hickey-Gone) took the edge of it a bit. Then the whole BertieGate thing came to light and fear turned to anger, anger turned to hate and before I knew it I was gone over to the Dark Side.
Yeah, it was the socialist comment for me too.
Shortly after he became Taoiseach is when it happened for me. I can't point to an exact event, but it happened pretty shortly afterwards.
When he called Joe Higgins a waffler. Obviously rattled by a real socialist, his nasty and vicious attempt to belittle the man only served to emphasise Joe's intelligence and genuine public service contrasted against his own brand of politicking. The absurdity of the insult was further proof of his bankruptcy of wit. Whether you agree with Joe's politics or not, (i don't fully). He was, and will again be, one of the greatest Dáil performers. Any doubts i may have had (none really) were banished entirely when i saw the gang of beauts he left us as senators
I didn't he's a fuckin legend.
And you're a fucking plank.
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