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| TAOISEACH Enda Kenny |
The Taoiseach is viewed as a frontrunner for the powerful post of European Council president, as he is seen as "capable but not a big name with an ego".
The European Council president chairs the meetings of EU leaders where all the major decisions are made.
The post is up for grabs in December 2014.
And Mr Kenny has an outside shot for European Commission president, the head of the EU cabinet, which becomes available next June.
The Taoiseach's name is being mentioned following the success of Ireland's EU presidency, where he "impressed in his handling of the EU budget negotiations".
The frontrunners for the elite posts are identified by Burson-Marsteller, one of Europe's leading public affairs and communications consultancy firms.
"Kenny has a good profile for the European Council job in particular – a consensus-builder (he is in a coalition government with Labour) from a small member state who has had some success at EU level with his successful steering of negotiations on the EU's long-term budget during the Irish presidency.
"Possibly a better bet for the Council job than for the Commission," Burson-Marsteller says.
Mr Kenny's spokesman said the Taoiseach's "sole focus" was on his current post.
He continued: "We don't comment on speculation" – while declining to rule out the move. He added: "The Taoiseach is completely focused on the job in hand, which is exiting the bailout and creating jobs."
The European Council president will be picked directly by the 28 EU leaders. They will select a current or former EU leader, so the candidates come from a limited pool.
FOOTNOTE: As the Antichrist was always thought of as being the president of the EU, if appointed as the next president of the EU does this then make Edna Kenny the Antichrist?
Even if he were to be selected as the president of the EU, if the first and current president of the EU Herman Van Rompuy is any sort of an indicator at all then most certainly the answer to that could only be a resounding NO! As was the case with Van Rompuy, this individual appears to be rather mild looking, hardly any sort of an Antichrist type when we are possibly looking for a sterner looking individual by a long shot. It seems to me that is the intention anyway, to appoint someone who does not comes across as being much of a threat to the larger body of the EU members? In the long run the Christians are looking for someone who comes across as a strong man, a leader, who will be able to take over the reins of the running of the EU as a powerful dictatorial Super President of types. God bless
WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.
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