Bertie's definition of friendship may explain digouts

[mollox]

Is there anything sadder than regarding people are your close personal friends when those sentiments are not reciprocated?

Bertie clearly regards Padraic O’Connor, Brian Cowan and Ned O’Keeffe as close personal friends.

From his tribunal testimony it’s clear that Padraic O’Connor regards Bertie as an acquaintance rather than a friend. (Could Bertie have confused him with the famous FFer FFer Pat O’Connor Pat O’Connor?)

All the poll corrs seem to agree that there is little “personal” relationship between Bertie and Brian Cowan and they expressed some surprise at the personal warmth of Bertie’s annointment of Brian as his nominated successor.

Now Bertie is claiming Ned as a close personal friend. Could the poll corrs all be wrong, as they seem to think that Ned hates Bertie’s guts?

However, this apparent disconnection may an explanation of Bertie’s “digouts from friends”.

For if you can categorise almost any living human being as a friend, without regard for their reciprocal feelings, then you can categorise any fund-raising operation as a dig-out from friends.

And if they’ve had the good grace to pass away in the interim then, truly, God alone knows how many such fund-raisers they may have actually contributed to. Or if the events actually took place at all.

[farnaby]

Perhaps Bertie should read this article - the politics of friendship. It describes how democracy and friendship are in conflict.

Choice quote:

For Plato, the best friends are truth-seekers

[digoutday]

Its all very Irish, i.e. backwards, most other places have people all over the leader trying to be his friend, here in Ireland its the opposite, the leader wanting to be everybodys friend but nobody wanting to know him, he must smell or something

[cyberianpan]

I would take it as signs of megalomaniacal narcissistic personality disorder:

"Everyone's my friend, 40% of the people love me"

It ties in with his inflated sense of entitlement (moaning about lack of yacht recently) , tall stories (£29,000 interior decorating bill for a rented house), vicious streak (DGDS) , delusions of grandeur (LSE, ACA) etc.




Maybe the Irish people will give themselves the gift of clear perception for Christmas.

cYp

[JaneHJ]

I find it shocking and more than a little disturbing that this guy's evidence, which basically flatly contradicts Bertie's sob story on RTE all those months ago, has passed by most people with barely a whimper of outrage.

Have things really come to this in Ireland? Does someone assert, with corroboration from others, at a Tribunal, that the Taoiseach of this country has lied under oath in relation to donations received while in political office and nobody cares at all??

[toxic avenger]

Bertie is already dissembling, he's now saying that his point was that the non-existent 'dig-out' was ORGANISED by close friends, wriggle room being the natural habitat of the Fibbus Bertiensis...

[loner]

I find it shocking and more than a little disturbing that this guy's evidence, which basically flatly contradicts Bertie's sob story on RTE all those months ago, has passed by most people with barely a whimper of outrage.

Have things really come to this in Ireland? Does someone assert, with corroboration from others, at a Tribunal, that the Taoiseach of this country has lied under oath in relation to donations received while in political office and nobody cares at all??

Unfortunately yes---this is current day Ireland.

[Norfolk Enchants]

Is there anything sadder than regarding people are your close personal friends when those sentiments are not reciprocated?

Bertie clearly regards Padraic O’Connor, Brian Cowan and Ned O’Keeffe as close personal friends.

From his tribunal testimony it’s clear that Padraic O’Connor regards Bertie as an acquaintance rather than a friend. (Could Bertie have confused him with the famous FFer FFer Pat O’Connor Pat O’Connor?)

All the poll corrs seem to agree that there is little “personal” relationship between Bertie and Brian Cowan and they expressed some surprise at the personal warmth of Bertie’s annointment of Brian as his nominated successor.

Now Bertie is claiming Ned as a close personal friend. Could the poll corrs all be wrong, as they seem to think that Ned hates Bertie’s guts?

However, this apparent disconnection may an explanation of Bertie’s “digouts from friends”.

For if you can categorise almost any living human being as a friend, without regard for their reciprocal feelings, then you can categorise any fund-raising operation as a dig-out from friends.

And if they’ve had the good grace to pass away in the interim then, truly, God alone knows how many such fund-raisers they may have actually contributed to. Or if the events actually took place at all.

Similar to BJ Clinton's definition of "sexual relations" !!