Comments on: GEORGE LEE: ENTER THE BANDWAGON http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Wed, 23 May 2012 12:28:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/#comment-70106 Conor McCabe Fri, 08 May 2009 16:14:42 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/#comment-70106 Well, because county and city councilors are completely castrated when it comes to political power - and that´s a political decision dating back to the foundation of the state - people have to use their TDs in Ireland for same. George Lee will have absolutely no stomach for the medical cards and planning permission favours which are the bread and butter of Irish politics. That's nobody's individual fault - the problem is systemic. George Lee is going to do fuck-all about that, instead he'll end up getting eaten alive either by the public or by his "friends" in Fine Gael who are going to hate his parachuting guts, I mean, after all the hard work Leo Varadkar has put in stirring the headlines with his racist bilge and now he's got a blow-in stealing his light? Tea and scones in the afternoon it won't be. No. Fine Gael will use Lee to oust Enda Kenny as leader by presenting a "dream team" of Bruton as leader and George Lee as finance spokesman, then after that he's meat on a stick. He's a dead man walking, and the sad git can't even see it. We have to see a true reform of local politics before TDs can be allowed to do what they should be doing - that is, dealing with national issues which affect all citizens. George Lee is going to do nothing to change that, no more than Geraldine Kennedy did when she went into politics with the ALL NEW ALL DANCING PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS WHO CHANGED IRISH POLITICS SO MUCH BY MAKING SURE HAUGHEY STAYED IN POWER. The problem is systemic, and that's where the reform has to happen. I look at George Lee and I think of the old adage: you put a donkey on a plane and fly it around the world, it still comes back a donkey. Well, because county and city councilors are completely castrated when it comes to political power - and that´s a political decision dating back to the foundation of the state - people have to use their TDs in Ireland for same. George Lee will have absolutely no stomach for the medical cards and planning permission favours which are the bread and butter of Irish politics. That’s nobody’s individual fault - the problem is systemic. George Lee is going to do fuck-all about that, instead he’ll end up getting eaten alive either by the public or by his “friends” in Fine Gael who are going to hate his parachuting guts, I mean, after all the hard work Leo Varadkar has put in stirring the headlines with his racist bilge and now he’s got a blow-in stealing his light? Tea and scones in the afternoon it won’t be.

No. Fine Gael will use Lee to oust Enda Kenny as leader by presenting a “dream team” of Bruton as leader and George Lee as finance spokesman, then after that he’s meat on a stick. He’s a dead man walking, and the sad git can’t even see it.

We have to see a true reform of local politics before TDs can be allowed to do what they should be doing - that is, dealing with national issues which affect all citizens. George Lee is going to do nothing to change that, no more than Geraldine Kennedy did when she went into politics with the ALL NEW ALL DANCING PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS WHO CHANGED IRISH POLITICS SO MUCH BY MAKING SURE HAUGHEY STAYED IN POWER.

The problem is systemic, and that’s where the reform has to happen.

I look at George Lee and I think of the old adage: you put a donkey on a plane and fly it around the world, it still comes back a donkey.

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]]> By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/#comment-70099 Conor McCabe Thu, 07 May 2009 08:43:49 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/#comment-70099 It's true, sifu, apologies. I don't know if George Lee has ever become water, but have you noticed how he looks like he's holding in a really watery shit each time he's talking on camera? Boy, the day when he lets that go, whoosh! It’s true, sifu, apologies. I don’t know if George Lee has ever become water, but have you noticed how he looks like he’s holding in a really watery shit each time he’s talking on camera? Boy, the day when he lets that go, whoosh!

]]> By: Michael Taft http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/#comment-70098 Michael Taft Thu, 07 May 2009 07:45:57 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/05/07/george-lee-enter-the-bandwagon/#comment-70098 Conor, I'm not quite sure the point you're making regarding George and Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a genius. Reared in the traditional styles of Gung Fu he soon felt these formalistic styles were too restrictive. He struggled a lifetime to redefine Gung Fu to the point that he developed his famous 'style of no styles' - which was more than just synthesis of traditional styles; it was a negation of almost Hegelian brilliance. Even then, the restless Lee (the Bruce guy), was not satisfied. He was concerned not to be trapped in mere negation, not to be trapped in mere opposition to traditional styles. He struggled with this throughout his life - not only in his art (and truly he was an artist), but in his study of philosophy. Along with this he struggled against the bigotry among the 'elders' in the US who opposed his teaching Gung Fu to non-chinese and as well as facing the same bigotry from the white community. He met these attacks to his art and his ethnicity with grace and magnanimity. As he explained: "Be formless... shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be water, my friend." Now tell me - has Lee (the George guy, that is) ever struggled with principles of negation, exploring new forms to give his philosophical content outward expression, has he redrawn lines of engagement and self-exploration? In short, has Lee (the George guy) become water? Conor, I’m not quite sure the point you’re making regarding George and Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a genius. Reared in the traditional styles of Gung Fu he soon felt these formalistic styles were too restrictive. He struggled a lifetime to redefine Gung Fu to the point that he developed his famous ’style of no styles’ - which was more than just synthesis of traditional styles; it was a negation of almost Hegelian brilliance. Even then, the restless Lee (the Bruce guy), was not satisfied. He was concerned not to be trapped in mere negation, not to be trapped in mere opposition to traditional styles. He struggled with this throughout his life - not only in his art (and truly he was an artist), but in his study of philosophy. Along with this he struggled against the bigotry among the ‘elders’ in the US who opposed his teaching Gung Fu to non-chinese and as well as facing the same bigotry from the white community. He met these attacks to his art and his ethnicity with grace and magnanimity. As he explained: “Be formless… shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

Now tell me - has Lee (the George guy, that is) ever struggled with principles of negation, exploring new forms to give his philosophical content outward expression, has he redrawn lines of engagement and self-exploration? In short, has Lee (the George guy) become water?

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