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How can you plan to take the next steps when you haven’t learnt from your missteps?
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The launch, a few weeks back, of the Fianna Fail campaign site and slogan “The next steps forward” really caught my ear.
I strongly believe that this particular election is entirely about where we as a nation go from here. Of course, when trying to decide where to go it is a very good idea to know exactly where you are. And my belief is that the Ireland that FF talk about doesn’t exist. So I decide to create my own site, Missteps rather than nextsteps, to reflect the reality of Bertie’s Ireland not the hype. How can someone offer to guide us on the next steps when the place they are describing doesn’t look like the Ireland you and I know.
The other small matter about taking one step after another is if you have no sense of direction the whole process can lead you right back to where you started from.
Most people would agree with me that it is difficult to have any sense of where you are going if you can’t recognise where you have been or how you got there. As FF weren’t too inclined to look at where we as a nation really are, and where they have taken us over the last 10 years then I reckoned I might as well do it myself.
So have a gander yourselves at http://www.missteps.ie/ and let us know what you think. It is intended to encompass the various missteps the current government have taken and mistakes that they have made.
It is about as content rich as the FF site was up to 2 days ago and I do intend to expand it and refresh it as the campaign goes on. Maybe I’ll be a tad slower than the government in refreshing but remember I’m just this guy, not an army of government advisers.
daniel.danielsullivan at gmail dot com
Comments, corrections, suggestions and criticisms are all welcome.
Nice site Dan - I like the links to Tim O’Malley’s oscar performance on Prime Time with regard to Mental Health.
Looking forward to see the expansions on the site.
Oh come on Dan. Why is there no mention that your new site is not a Fine Gael creation. You have created a site pretending to be neutral when any review of your posts on this and other sites will show that at the very least you are a die hard member of Fine Gale if not actually in their pay. That site is pure propaganda by a desperate party and an even more desperate party lacky trying to curry favour with his masters. We are all used to the bile you spew out here on a daily basis but innocent visitors may hit on your site and not be aware of your reputation for blind bias.
Where did I say or even hint that it was neutral. As we used to say during the Emergency we know who we’re neutral against. The site is blatantly anti-government as am I, or hadn’t you noticed.
Neither Fine Gael nor any other party have any hand, act or part in the site. I suspect it is too bloody for their likely, while at the moment it isn’t bloody enough for mine. It is no more a Fine Gael creation than it is a Catholic creation. As for being an FG lacky, you’ll be claiming I’m a senior FG member who goes about ringing Sunday Newspaper’s with stories about suitcases next. I think FG would regard me as a more of an errant offspring who might scare the mainstream.
stv, come on, why not come out from behind that pseudo and make some real contribution to the debate.
stv, get a grip, you’re an anoymous poster who has contributed little or nothing to this site or to discussions on the election, maybe you should be constructive firstly before taking a standard soldier of destiny line of dribble.
As for desperate party, the turn in the latest polls this weekend might make a claim that desperation could be more readily felt in Government than in Opposition circles.
The latest poll and all the previous ones point to one result. Fianna Fail and Labour. The people in Fine Gael HQ pulling Dan’s strings are shitting themselves because they are staring at 30+ years never going into government after an election. They would not have been in government at all but for the one time Bruton picked up the phone and phoned their lady in the park. Apparently it’s OK for a Fine Gael leader to phone a labour president and have her keep the Dail running when a government collapses but not ok for a Fianna Fail member to phone a Fianna Fail president 20 years before but then again that’s Fine Gael for you. Double standards r us.
I’ll make a real balanced and fair contribution to the debate when Fine Gael die hards like Dan O’Sullivan do. There are far too many card carrying members of the blueshirt propaganda bureau spewing their wares on Irish blogs, newspaper and radio and STILL after all their efforts Fine Gael are losing the election.
stv, repeating the same old jaded line is rather boring. I did ask you to add some ‘constructive’ comments, I’m afraid that a snide and personal attack on someone who has put some effort into creating a mechanism for expressing their democratic views and is genuinely adding to the national debate is rather sad and well, pretty pathetic actually.
If I wanted to make a snide remark about the innate arrogance of anonymous Fianna Fail posters I could but it doesn’t constructively add to this site or to the genuine democratic process. A simple viewing of Dan’s site shows some figures and facts to support his argument, I’ll admit I don’t know where they came from, I’d assume the opposition policies but at least he researched his points and did make a balanced counterpoint to the debate in a constructive fashion. I’m afraid I can’t see your balance addition anywhere, in any shape, in any forum.
It’s at this point, where the old argument for Karma comes into play where Trolls are removed by the online community members (acting individually but in collaboration) from the forum by the virtue of their continued conduct resulting in a rating that prevents their contributions from being initial seen on a page. Their contributions are still present but you must dig down to read through what is generally deemed to be rubbish by the particular community.
I will again ask that contributors who wish to add to the debates on IrishElection do so in a constructive manner and please stop the anonymous postings, its beyond juvenile for a serious forum such as this.
stv - “I’ll make a real balanced and fair contribution to the debate when Fine Gael die hards like Dan O’Sullivan do. There are far too many card carrying members of the blueshirt propaganda bureau spewing their wares on Irish blogs, newspaper and radio and STILL after all their efforts Fine Gael are losing the election.” Where should I be making balanced contributions?
Where are all the FFers on the net, stv? I realised today that members of all political parties outnumber FFers on the net. Even the PDs tend to have more people on the net than FF. Where have ye been since 2002?
As for the circumstances of Bruton’s ascension to the office of Taoiseach, perhaps if members of your party had not made such botch of trying to appoint someone to a senior judicial position then your lads not might have lost power.