SODOMY I CREATED PAKATAN RAKYAT; SODOMY II DESTROYS IT.
…TOO BAD THEIR MARCH TO PUTRAJAYA TAKES THEM TO THE HIGH COURTS AND THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION WITH SOME WHO MIGHT FIND A CONVENIENT TRANSIT AT SUNGAI BULOH INSTEAD.
By Mansor Puteh
IF THE PRIME MINISTER WAS SAID TO HAVE USED BAD JUDGMENT FOR DISCHARGING OR SACKING HIS DEPUTY, THEN DID HE ALSO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE BY APPOINTING HIM TO THE POST IN THE FIRST PLACE?
SO HOW COULD ANWAR BLAME OR COMPLAIN WHEN HIS FORTUNES CHANGED FOR THE WORSE?
ISN’T THERE LIFE BEYOND THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER? FEW OF THEM HAD FOUND THAT A DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DID NOT NECESSARY MEAN THAT IT IS JUST A STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING THE PRIME MINISTER.
All these create unnecessary pitfalls they have to face before they can start to chart their way to realize the personal agendas of their senior and veteran leaders who were mostly representing the views and passions of an earlier era of the country.
The sad fact is that Pakatan is led by the same group of losers. Many are former Barisan members. Others are politicians who have failed to trust their main agenda to the country.
So it is not surprising how the voters do not know what they want to do if their parties and coalition won the general elections so they could seize the government and place themselves at Putrajaya.
But the voters and citizens of Malaysia have managed to get some inkling of what they had wanted to do despite them knowing how their goals could never be attained.
From external factors, they are also now starting to face some internal ones, with the bombshell happening with the revelation by Zulkifli Noordin and the actions by Zaid Ibrahim.
Who else will join in their bandwagon that can cause PKR to be so tamed?
Many will want to ask themselves, if they could not conduct their party general elections properly and well, then how on earth could they conduct well in the administration of the federal government?
As yet, their state governments in Selangor and Kedah are facing problems, other than those faced by their Pulau Pinang government.
Kelantan, too, is not spared.
The recent flooding in Kedah and Perlis has not brought the best from Pakatan. The relief work was taken over by the federal government and Barisan who seem to be soaked in the thrill they are getting from the spills of their nemeses.
The floods have indeed drowned whatever hopes and aspirations Pakatan of retaining the four states and wresting Putrajaya.
They should first concentrate on wresting Zaid and some others back to the fold before they can ever think of wresting Putrajaya while trying to get the court of law to validity Anwar of all charges that have been leveled against him and to shape public opinion so that they do not depend too much on those leftists who seem to enjoy proclaiming them as the successor of the federal government when the last two by-elections have proven otherwise.
Pakatan and their supporters are still grappling with the freedom of speech and of the press and of the other things which they claim to be the champions of. Their own track records do not show they too respect these things as much as they would want everybody to think.
Some of that had been spilled by renegade Pakatan leader, Zulkifli Noordin which was only published in Utusan and not in the other papers. None of what he has said has got any reaction from his former party stalwarts.
What does this mean? Does it mean what he is saying is true, or does it mean that they did not care what he says, since they are nonsensical?
Some other inkling of what Pakatan had wanted to do if they are able to seize Putrajaya has been well documented.
They were exhibited by some of their party leaders when they tried to construct road signs in Mandarin over those that are in Melayu which is the official language of the country.
They failed to do this and this plan was aborted. But they had left an indelible mark in the minds of many of their non-Melayu and Melayu supporters and other senseless voters who had crossed the box to their party symbols in the 2008 general election.
In Perak where they managed to seize the state on a slim margin, yet they tried to behave as though the whole state was behind them.
They redesigned the ‘menteri besar’s’ office and state assembly so they looked like stylized Chinese temples or shrines, bright red in color.
Bringing in some feng shui elements in Pakatan Perak did not serve them, so in no time, they were booted out of the state.
For a while they tried to sit under a tree and later in a hotel, but their drama failed to create anything substantial. They have to sit out through the rest of the term Barisan was given by them, until the next state or general election.
And in Selangor, Pulau Pinang and Kedah, Pakatan is again under intense pressure to deliver.
They have so far failed to do much, other than to take control of the administration of the states and do not seem to be in full control of any of them.
What can they do that Barisan had not done or tried to do before?
This is therefore their greatest challenge. Can they tell everybody they are champions of democracy? Can they claim to have developed human capital in the states they now governed? Can they also say to have rescued projects which had been left to rot by the previous state governments?
Who have the developed to take over the government-link companies or GLCs should they be able to wrest control of the federal government after the next general elections which are expected to be held in 2012 or the following year?
What have they developed in terms of sports, the arts and education?
Pakatan leaders are mere politicians. They are not leaders in their own right. Many cannot speak or write properly to engage better educated persons. They have not expanded their horizons to go beyond petty party squabbles.
They seem to enjoy party squabbling that seems to give them a lot of kick.
And none of them are able to stand out in the international arenas.
So the structure Pakatan has is no different than Barisan’s, where there are leaders and supporters followed by lackeys and other cronies.
It’s true that Barisan has a longer list of those men compared to Pakatan because of how long Barisan has been in the business.
Yet, from their short experience, Pakatan has failed to realize the importance to engage the new generation of Malaysians who are qualified in their respective fields so they could garner more support around them, to push for the Pakatan agenda or agendas which is to develop the country and not just the states they now control which they could lose in the next general elections.
Pakatan has therefore become sore losers. While Barisan has become the sore winners.
By Mansor Puteh
IF THE PRIME MINISTER WAS SAID TO HAVE USED BAD JUDGMENT FOR DISCHARGING OR SACKING HIS DEPUTY, THEN DID HE ALSO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE BY APPOINTING HIM TO THE POST IN THE FIRST PLACE?
SO HOW COULD ANWAR BLAME OR COMPLAIN WHEN HIS FORTUNES CHANGED FOR THE WORSE?
ISN’T THERE LIFE BEYOND THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER? FEW OF THEM HAD FOUND THAT A DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DID NOT NECESSARY MEAN THAT IT IS JUST A STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING THE PRIME MINISTER.
All these create unnecessary pitfalls they have to face before they can start to chart their way to realize the personal agendas of their senior and veteran leaders who were mostly representing the views and passions of an earlier era of the country.
The sad fact is that Pakatan is led by the same group of losers. Many are former Barisan members. Others are politicians who have failed to trust their main agenda to the country.
So it is not surprising how the voters do not know what they want to do if their parties and coalition won the general elections so they could seize the government and place themselves at Putrajaya.
But the voters and citizens of Malaysia have managed to get some inkling of what they had wanted to do despite them knowing how their goals could never be attained.
From external factors, they are also now starting to face some internal ones, with the bombshell happening with the revelation by Zulkifli Noordin and the actions by Zaid Ibrahim.
Who else will join in their bandwagon that can cause PKR to be so tamed?
Many will want to ask themselves, if they could not conduct their party general elections properly and well, then how on earth could they conduct well in the administration of the federal government?
As yet, their state governments in Selangor and Kedah are facing problems, other than those faced by their Pulau Pinang government.
Kelantan, too, is not spared.
The recent flooding in Kedah and Perlis has not brought the best from Pakatan. The relief work was taken over by the federal government and Barisan who seem to be soaked in the thrill they are getting from the spills of their nemeses.
The floods have indeed drowned whatever hopes and aspirations Pakatan of retaining the four states and wresting Putrajaya.
They should first concentrate on wresting Zaid and some others back to the fold before they can ever think of wresting Putrajaya while trying to get the court of law to validity Anwar of all charges that have been leveled against him and to shape public opinion so that they do not depend too much on those leftists who seem to enjoy proclaiming them as the successor of the federal government when the last two by-elections have proven otherwise.
Pakatan and their supporters are still grappling with the freedom of speech and of the press and of the other things which they claim to be the champions of. Their own track records do not show they too respect these things as much as they would want everybody to think.
Some of that had been spilled by renegade Pakatan leader, Zulkifli Noordin which was only published in Utusan and not in the other papers. None of what he has said has got any reaction from his former party stalwarts.
What does this mean? Does it mean what he is saying is true, or does it mean that they did not care what he says, since they are nonsensical?
Some other inkling of what Pakatan had wanted to do if they are able to seize Putrajaya has been well documented.
They were exhibited by some of their party leaders when they tried to construct road signs in Mandarin over those that are in Melayu which is the official language of the country.
They failed to do this and this plan was aborted. But they had left an indelible mark in the minds of many of their non-Melayu and Melayu supporters and other senseless voters who had crossed the box to their party symbols in the 2008 general election.
In Perak where they managed to seize the state on a slim margin, yet they tried to behave as though the whole state was behind them.
They redesigned the ‘menteri besar’s’ office and state assembly so they looked like stylized Chinese temples or shrines, bright red in color.
Bringing in some feng shui elements in Pakatan Perak did not serve them, so in no time, they were booted out of the state.
For a while they tried to sit under a tree and later in a hotel, but their drama failed to create anything substantial. They have to sit out through the rest of the term Barisan was given by them, until the next state or general election.
And in Selangor, Pulau Pinang and Kedah, Pakatan is again under intense pressure to deliver.
They have so far failed to do much, other than to take control of the administration of the states and do not seem to be in full control of any of them.
What can they do that Barisan had not done or tried to do before?
This is therefore their greatest challenge. Can they tell everybody they are champions of democracy? Can they claim to have developed human capital in the states they now governed? Can they also say to have rescued projects which had been left to rot by the previous state governments?
Who have the developed to take over the government-link companies or GLCs should they be able to wrest control of the federal government after the next general elections which are expected to be held in 2012 or the following year?
What have they developed in terms of sports, the arts and education?
Pakatan leaders are mere politicians. They are not leaders in their own right. Many cannot speak or write properly to engage better educated persons. They have not expanded their horizons to go beyond petty party squabbles.
They seem to enjoy party squabbling that seems to give them a lot of kick.
And none of them are able to stand out in the international arenas.
So the structure Pakatan has is no different than Barisan’s, where there are leaders and supporters followed by lackeys and other cronies.
It’s true that Barisan has a longer list of those men compared to Pakatan because of how long Barisan has been in the business.
Yet, from their short experience, Pakatan has failed to realize the importance to engage the new generation of Malaysians who are qualified in their respective fields so they could garner more support around them, to push for the Pakatan agenda or agendas which is to develop the country and not just the states they now control which they could lose in the next general elections.
Pakatan has therefore become sore losers. While Barisan has become the sore winners.
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i want to write guilty of being malay..