Kudos to Dato Zaid Ibrahim – Apologies Accepted

I am confident that a man who could walk out of a Ministerial post with the purpose of standing by his principles, a man who could further own up in public to his mistakes and apologise - is a man of high dignity. Don't we need more people of his calibre as our representatives?

By Babulal, A Malaysian

I find it rather amusing that UMNO-BN had to stoop so low by starting the campaign on a character assassination route. I personally do not care if Dato Zaid had consumed beer before – he was gentleman enough to own up to his mistakes and apologise. Well, it is accepted. I take his words by saying it was a mistake done some time back and a mistake done by a human. After all we are all human, I am fine with the fact that he has not squandered our money like the leaders of Kamalanathan. I also do not want to elaborate on the gay tag on Kamalanathan or is it Kamal.

Why Kamal? So you could be mistaken as a Malay? You are so lost now with the race factor until you are so confused to choose which race you should be? In Indian majority areas, you are Kamalanathan, in Malay majority areas you are Kamal, in Chinese majority you are what? Kam Lan? (Kam lan is suck cock in Hokkien or better still, cocksucker.) I have never come across such a low life. Kam Lan started selling his race even before he was elected.

Kam Lan said he agrees to Perkasa because they are fighting for their race, religion and language and he is doing the same fighting for his race, religion and language. Fight my balls. You are selling your race – lock, stock and barrel, that’s what you are doing.

Most of the UMNO guys I know drink – they booze more than some of the MIC guys I know. I find this revelation as just another desperate attempt by UMNO-BN. I once bumped into a present UMNO Minister in the PM’s department at the Ritz-Carlton guzzling away some red wine – he was so stoned that his volume became higher by the hour, until his bodyguards whisked him away.

As a citizen and a non-Muslim, I do not really care about these habits, what more when Dato Zaid has owned up to his mistakes. All I care is his ability for good governance without being partial to any race, religion or creed. Ability to bring in Change is what we are all longing for. This, I am sure, Dato Zaid would be able to execute with ease. Only a great man could own up to a mistake made boldly and my respect for you has doubled.

I am confident that a man who could walk out of a Ministerial post with the purpose of standing by his principles, a man who could further own up in public to his mistakes and apologise - is a man of high dignity. Don't we need more people of his calibre as our representatives?

If we review the Leadership in Customer Service: Delivering on the Promise report, we could see that Singapore is leading the index with 89% satisfaction and Malaysia with a poor 44%. This shows our present government has failed to deliver on its promise, if we base 50% as a passing point. We call this “cakap tak serupa bikin”, where the promises made are not delivered. This is international statistics, not doctored nor fabricated information. We lag way behind and if we keep having “thengga’s” (coconuts) running and managing this country, we would be doomed in due course. The report could be viewed at (http://nstore.accenture.com/acn_com/PDF/2007LCSReport_DeliveringPromiseFinal.pdf).

This is where one should gauge the performance of the delivery system of a particular government, not via biased, doctored and fabricated media. Put PR in Putrajaya, have professionals in the system, then we will note progress in this index. Have a dual party system for check and balance. Performance should be the objective, not gauging from which race I am from. Race based politics are no longer relevant.

The white elephant projects of the South, North, East corridors are money guzzlers and not churning out the revenue nor attracting investments as anticipated or projected. The projects are entirely funded by our reserves and Petronas money – and contracts are awarded to the bigwigs of UMNO-BN cronies. We are currently losing out in FDI to Indonesia and Vietnam – this is rather obvious. The fools can point the finger at the 2008 Financial Crisis, but don’t you think Indonesia and Vietnam had similar problems? What are the national policy changes being implemented to prevail Indonesia’s and Vietnam’s – None – we have only a concocted illusion of 1Malaysia – where the DPM himself is sceptical. It is simple why he is. It is because if he were to choose he is Malaysian First, the relevance of UMNO's existence would be in question – or at least his position in UMNO would be questioned, as this organization only champions for a single race.

I would also like to touch on the two new frogs, Dr Halili of Hulu Selangor and Tan Wei Shu from Kedah who resigned recently – jump now and as DSAI said “baik berambus”, we do not need such representatives. Dr. Halili got cheesed because he was not picked as the representative. From what I gather, he had already held talks with UMNO to jump if he is selected and wins. DSAI is getting pretty good at detecting frogs – well done – the frog detector is working, I guess. Tan got cheesed off because he was dropped from the state exco as they introduced a professional to replace him. We need professionals. If he was sincere, he would have stayed on and learnt from his predecessor – unless he is “bodoh sombong”.

With Kam Lan selling his race even before he is in an “official” position to do so, here comes another disappointing news. I was informed from a very reliable source from the inner-circle of movers and shakers of KL/Putrajaya that the PM’s team is in talks of power brokering with the Moorthy brothers for 15/38. It is not finalised yet as both teams are waiting to see if MIC is still relevant or not – and Hulu Selangor polls would be the deciding factor. More to come on this.

20/04/10

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