In Puchong Indah, Selangor yesterday, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi declared: Support me and I will not disappoint you.
He said the support of the people give him greater sense of responsibility to strive even harder to ensure prosperity, harmony and development without leaving out any group.
Abdullah just don’t get it – that he has already disappointed Malaysians who had given him the greatest mandate ever secured by a Prime Minsiter in any general election in the nation’s 50-year history in 2004.
Is Abdullah’s denial so serious and even terminal that he is simply not aware of the widespread and deep-seated popular disenchantment over his failure to honour his catalogue of pledges when he became Prime Minister in October 2003 and during the 2004 general election to be the Prime Minister for all Malaysians, to hear the truth from the people however unpleasant, to wipe out corruption and abuses of power, to open up spaces for greater democracy and press freedom and to lead an administration of excellence and meritocracy towards a First-World Malaysia?
I cannot but ask whether the recent spate of unprecedented events had failed to make any impression on him whatsoever to shake off his denial complex – whether the nation-wide pickets of MTUC and workers for fair wage, the March for Justice of the 2,000 lawyers in late September to demand judicial independence and integrity, the 40,000-strong BERSIH demonstration on Nov. 10 for electoral reforms for free, fair and clean elections or the 30,000-strong Hindraf demonstration to end the long-standing marginalization of the Malaysian Indians?
Has the Prime Minister been completely isolated by his Putrajaya Fourth Storey gatekeepers from the people on the ground to the extent that he has totally lost touch with the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of ordinary Malaysians irrespective of race, religion or region?
If so, then the country is faced not only with a crisis of confidence in the judiciary, the Election Commission and the various national institutions, but with a national crisis of confidence in the political leadership of the Prime Minister!
Abdullah’s request for another blank cheque from the people, promising not to disappoint the people, after causing the greatest disappointment to the people by any Malaysian Prime Minister in his first four years in office, is very eerie.
Is Abdullah’s latest request for real?
#1 by Mr Born In Malaysia. on Thursday, 20 December 2007 - 5:50 pm
I always remember the phrase he said ” To hear the truth from any Malaysian however unpleasant they are”.
Now , we see people trying to convey what thay want to say and they are stopped before they even have a chance to utter their complaint. Yes!Complaints are unpleasant but he said it before that he would hear it out. Citizens are even sent to ISA detention for raising a complaint. And there I thought ISA is only for criminals who will jeopardise National security.
Isn’t it true that Majlis Perbandaran destroyed the Hindu temples or are those pictures shown in the Youtube web site cooked-up by somebody.
The fact is , I have even seen it once with my own eye at my Taman how they ran a bulldozer into a Hindu temple and flattened every thing. But before that they allow the indians to take out the deities and when all were flattened they are allowed to place the deities back on to the ground without a single shelter left. What an insult to the Hindus and the whole religion.
#2 by Leo on Friday, 21 December 2007 - 11:18 am
If his request is real, he should start listening than being in denial syndrome. As a prime minister, there’s a lot of things he can do to improve the resent condition. However nothing solid being done.
As a lightweight, he will remain as a lightweight. He is just not capable of leading the country. He is only capable of leading the country into destruction.
Any vote for you? Not from me, sir.
#3 by ktteokt on Friday, 28 December 2007 - 9:10 am
How can he hear anything, including the truth when his ears are stuffed with wax poured in by the UMNOPUTRAS!
#4 by ktteokt on Saturday, 29 December 2007 - 9:28 am
“Support him?!!
To let him have more time to sleep and travel overseas?
To have more corruption and social contracts?
To have more backward development for the country?
To have more abuse of power and scandal?
To have more suffer and injustice to the people of Malaysia?” – Pocket
Pocket, you forgot one more item – “To let him marry a second time or may be third?”