If retired MCA president Ling Liong Sik wants to contest for one of the delegate seat to MCA convention at any MCA branch, I strongly believe he will win hands down.
If ex-MCA President Lee San Choon, after 3 decades of retirement, would want to contest too, he too, will win hands down.
Should ex-president, Tan Koon Swan wanted to enter the fray, he too will win hands down.
This is their culture, their values, and their virtues ... respect for their leaders, past, present and future, excepting only those who were tyrannical, oppressive and an outcast.
But yesterday, at the UMNO Kubang Pasu branch election, their former leader, and former Prime Minister, and former president of UMNO, for more than 2 decades of leadership, spanning 22-years of premiership, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad lost in his bid to be elected as a delegate for the coming UMNO general assembly.
Ironically, his son, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir was elected.
Does it mean that UMNO rejects Mahathir and accepts his son?
For 22 years as Prime Minister and having help the Malays, particularly those in UMNO to attain prosperity and progression, Mahathir disasterous retirement has put paid his political career. UMNO members have decided to dig a six feet deep hole to bury his political career.
Would it spell the end of the legacy of Mahathir?
In the words of Mahathir: Melay Mudah Lupa!
Is it true? I don't know! Only the Malays can tell.
But as a Chinese, it is entrenched in our virtue and culture - we will never ever forsake our leader who we had loved, for what he had done for us.
Even in China, the question was recently posed:
Forgeting Mao for a reason?
The country ignored the 30th anniversary of the death of Mao ZeDong yesterday as Chinese authorities believes that bitter memories could unleash a wave of discontent. Govt feared high-profile public ceremonies honouring Mao could revive memories of tragic moments in history initiated by the ex-leader and maybe spark a torrent of public anger about current problems.
More and more ordinary Chinese, especially those who are hardest hit by the widening gap between the rich and the poor in the increasingly market-oriented country are using nostalgia to protest the harsh realities. The tendency to look back to the Mao era and longing to return to the days when China may have been poorer but was also a more innocent and fairer society, are increasing.
If ex-MCA President Lee San Choon, after 3 decades of retirement, would want to contest too, he too, will win hands down.
Should ex-president, Tan Koon Swan wanted to enter the fray, he too will win hands down.
This is their culture, their values, and their virtues ... respect for their leaders, past, present and future, excepting only those who were tyrannical, oppressive and an outcast.
But yesterday, at the UMNO Kubang Pasu branch election, their former leader, and former Prime Minister, and former president of UMNO, for more than 2 decades of leadership, spanning 22-years of premiership, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad lost in his bid to be elected as a delegate for the coming UMNO general assembly.
Ironically, his son, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir was elected.
Does it mean that UMNO rejects Mahathir and accepts his son?
For 22 years as Prime Minister and having help the Malays, particularly those in UMNO to attain prosperity and progression, Mahathir disasterous retirement has put paid his political career. UMNO members have decided to dig a six feet deep hole to bury his political career.
Would it spell the end of the legacy of Mahathir?
In the words of Mahathir: Melay Mudah Lupa!
Is it true? I don't know! Only the Malays can tell.
But as a Chinese, it is entrenched in our virtue and culture - we will never ever forsake our leader who we had loved, for what he had done for us.
Even in China, the question was recently posed:
Forgeting Mao for a reason?
The country ignored the 30th anniversary of the death of Mao ZeDong yesterday as Chinese authorities believes that bitter memories could unleash a wave of discontent. Govt feared high-profile public ceremonies honouring Mao could revive memories of tragic moments in history initiated by the ex-leader and maybe spark a torrent of public anger about current problems.
More and more ordinary Chinese, especially those who are hardest hit by the widening gap between the rich and the poor in the increasingly market-oriented country are using nostalgia to protest the harsh realities. The tendency to look back to the Mao era and longing to return to the days when China may have been poorer but was also a more innocent and fairer society, are increasing.
Mao ZeDong died in 1976
Was it a good reason to forget Mao?
However, Mao is dead for 3 decades and the country is going through an extensive and complex revolution in their political economy.
Have you kept yours?
Forgeting Mahathir for a Reason?
3 comments:
What Kubang Pasu did to Dr M says a lot about the Melayu culture. Are we then surprised that the UMNO man in power is only out to rake in what's best for himself now, given the evidence of how they'll end up once power is out of their hands?
They reap what they have sowed, in the mindset of their ppl.
Dats politiks !
The lamest PM telling his cronies to walk straight is akin to Alpha monkey askin' its off-springs not to eat their own faeces. kakakakaka. they will never learn.
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