The ‘cornered tiger’ Startling ironies mark the results of the elections Mahathir benefited Najib’s simple majority otherwise with Pakatan victory Mahathir will be rotting in Jail FORrecord of abject greed during his years in power.How many more years can Mahathir live? Mahathir, we tell you now when you are still alive, the way you behave at this moment, your legacies and whatever history would be written of you would not be pretty. You go the way of dictator like Philippine’s Ferdinand Marcos. Mahathir is the real cause of BN doing worse in GE13. He spews racist venoms against the Chinese and he gets away with it.Mahathir, for campaigning for BN. Because of you, Pakatan secured a few more parliamentary seats, in particular Gelang Patah. They could not have succeeded on their own.Sorry to hear about your good friend, Ibrahim Ali, losing his Pasir Mas parliamentary seat. You win some and you lose some, I guess.
You thought Najib would do better than Abdullah and I thought you were some very savvy politician. Me? I thought Najib would lose the election which he did in actual fact.He should kiss your feet for initiating Project M. How else could he have “won”.His open support for the two Perkasa leaders led to the open rejection of non-Malays for BN. But obviously Mahathir’s game plan is to oust Najib and prop up his man, that is the DPM.What would you make of a set of people who have never ever received a word of appreciation – they are in fact reviled by the public at large.Theodore Roosevelt in mind “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” saw many incidents that underline the struggle to reconcile the many contrasting pulls and pressures that have followed in the wake of sweeping change over the last few years. It is now clear that the new came without any accompanying compass, and asked questions of the old that it did not have answers to. The larger question of change penetrating beneath the skin of the modern, into our everyday lives, and finding genuine and widespread acceptance is the really big one that we are left grappling withMahathir organic act of intensely felt outrage. A spontaneous movement without any leaders or political affiliation, it is a sign that something has finally given way. The idea of living in constant fear, and having to make do with the platitudes of those in charge is no longer going to be met with stoic indifference.The … Read more
Then Mahathir essentially gets to control the country once again. Perhaps Najib should beat Mahathir to it and slap a charge against the ex-PM.Datuk Johari Abdul Ghan said one were to try and tease out some patterns underlying the events of G13, they might broadly fall under two, somewhat related heads. For one, we are beginning to see the tentative first steps towards the formation of the idea of citizenry; the notion that as citizens there exists a reciprocal …first he loot, then he blame others, then his endless then therefining game, reports are ‘refined’ and justice is rarely served. A familiar never-ending process that continues to play untill day.shuns power; the other can’t wait to grab it. What contrasting styles! The race-baiting begins, a day after talk of “reconciliation” Tun Daim Zainuddin said Pakatan … Read more
Is it so simple? Congress fought a very difficult election e. Of course, preventing going to jail on corruption charges, and the same influential leader breaking away from the party, splitting the UMNO votes, it can be argued that UMNO should have an intimidating majority in the PALIAMENTSo how do you counter a less-than-moribund, which has a wily father-son leadership that conveniently claims an anti CHINESE pro-rural stance, and enter electoral fray as a natural contender for anti-incumbency votes? That too at a time when at the Centre, the Barisan government is battling corruptionThis election was difficult for UMNOand the results have proved it so.Mahathir organic act of intensely felt outrage. A spontaneous movement without any leaders or political affiliation, it is a sign that something has finally given way. The idea of living in constant fear, and having to make do with the platitudes of those in charge is no longer going to be met with stoic indifference.The … Read more
