For decades before GE12, Umno-BN had already allowed for a Chinese Penang CM, but the people of Penang should still have the last say. They would certainly choose someone whom they believe can do the job well enough, and they certainly would not want some ‘donkey’ to be their CM.

Ridzuan Aziz: “DAP has to work out something to let the rakyat know that they are fighting for the rights of all citizens. I still feel and most of my friends too, that DAP is a Chinese party. PKR and PAS are Malays parties. So how are we going to get out from this race issues when PR itself look divisive?”

First, one has to look that DAP, PKR & PAS party names do not have words that indicate race. Then, one has to observe how Pakatan Rakyat governed states are being administered.
Umno-BN is already thinking about BN direct membership but Umno still wants to dominate the coalition while the relevance of its old partners MCA & MIC is in doubt…

chengho: “2 yrs ago PR promised to come out with list of shadow cabinet , till now you cannot agreed with anything , still a racist party.”

Remember the saying that Rome wasn’t built in a day?

Pakatan Rakyat can win GE13 but must start planning now.

KTC also said, “Anwar Ibrahim promised us defections from BN to Pakatan on Sept 16, 2008, but it never happened. Now it’s happening – but the defectors are from Pakatan. In any case, Anwar’s attempt to take over the federal government on Sept 16 was misguided and merely exposed his true ambition – to be prime minister, above all else”.

Although I am no fan of Anwar, KTC cannot hold it against Anwar in respect of “his true ambition – to be prime minister”. What’s wrong with that? Which politician does not, if he could, want to be a Prime Minister? What is of importance is whether in the process of realising his ambition he takes the country to a higher notch of better governance or down to the pits! It is measurement based on relative/comparative benchmark. It is not even an absolute one. No one, who has his feet on the ground, expects Anwar/PR, if they win, to be able to obliterate the twin scourges of racism and corruption/money politics. Just making the situation better by a notch or two would have sufficed.

Next how does one abstain, in Malaysian context, from all vestige of money politics when the other side is making full use of it in an electoral contest? Sept 16, 2008 did not happen perhaps because the “would be” East Malaysian frogs figured neither Anwar nor PR had sufficient funds, as compared to BN’s machinery to slug it out. (No frog would then jump to PR unless the other frogs jumped at the same time – which required lots of money – and no frog wanted to jump alone into the ocean without a a secure platform provided by Anwar for all frogs, so in the end no frog jumped!)

Today there will still be frogs contemplating jumping in reverse direction out from PR if there’s sufficient monetary enticement. Otherwise it is based on the other calculation that with Anwar’s conviction, PR has not the funds to leverage a successful electoral contest. Many would want to ally with right side that will win power – whatever the ideology. It is unfortunate but realistic to conclude that to fight elections – and win (especially when in KTC’s words “the next GE will be crucial”) – although ‘March 8 Spirit’ may play a significant part, however the ‘spirit’ alone might not carry the day unless the Opposition has a minimum war chest of election campaign funds to contest the vastly superior war chest of BN’s.

With MACC breathing down their throats, PR’s politicians can’t even make money from stationary (in saving towards the iminent election) without being called in for interrogation (raising spectre of what Teoh Beng Hock must have gone through).

Yet Anwar alone is commanding the stature in domestic/international terms to raise election funds. One of the key advantage, if he were convicted of sodomy, and incarcerated, is the possible assumption that PR’s access to the tap of election campaign funds will be switched off – rightly or wrongly, this assumption! The second advantage is calculation that, in his absence as a glue, PR will dissolve in 2nd echelon leadership struggle to fill his place. Indeed the fact that he is now in court see some jumping out of the PR’s ship. These factors appear important enough to override even risks of making Anwar a martyr or alienating a part of Malay vote bank (as Tun Dr Mahathir experienced in the 1999 GE!) Maybe it is thought that the risks may be mitigated by sentiments whipped up by ethnocentric NGOs that have, of late, proliferated and made their position known.

When Canada introduced GST in 1991, the government was brought down at the following general elections in 1993. The political party who introduced GST in Canada eventually disbanded in 2004!

http://www.malaysia-today.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30541:the-brewing-storm-of-gst&catid=16:from-around-the-blogs&Itemid=100132

Umnoputras (now taken over by perkumnoputras) gave malays the wrong impression that getting rid of non-malays from the country would have little adverse impact on the economy. In their minds, if the economy could be liken to a vehicle, then getting rid of “pendatangs” would be like replacing the missing vehicle driver. In short the vehicle would move on just the same. Wrong. Getting rid of non-malays means losing the vehicle engine not the driver!

What if all non-malays were to leave the country (hypothetical, yes I know)? Common malays would still have to compete (but amongst themselves) if they want a better life and worse, they would have to face perkumnoputras. In other words, competition would not dissapear even if non-malays are not present. And in any face off with perkumnoputras, who would triumphed and who would be trashed? Perkumnoputras would win and common malays would be trashed all the same. So poor malays would remain poor. Kampung malays would have stay on in their kampungs. Meanwhile perkumnoputras would continue with their abusive and corrupt ways till the country is bankrupted of all her wealth and resources.

So supporters of umno. Think again. Dont be hoodwinked by perkumnoputras! And what difference can pakatan make, you people might ask? Look at penang and selangor. With very, no extremely, little federal fundings, the two state governments could still move on with business as usual and could continue to develop. Now, how is that possible? Answer, by not adopting those proven-to-be-disastrous umno ways.

BN would be wary of redelineation of Sabah and Sarawak because the voters there could “turn” any time. In addition, the so-called BN component parties are not as UMNO subservient as MCA or Gerakan or MIC. Giving Sabah and Sarawak more parliamentary seats could also boomerang against these insecure people in UMNO.

No, Mr Kee, nobody is blaming the MSM for it, they only blame the UMNO/BN government.
With the country’s resources at their disposal, creating frogs is no problem at all! Nothing magical about it!
And you can be absolutely sure that they’ll do everything and anything to remain in power!
As for the 1Malaysia slogan, it’s nothing but something to pull wool over the eyes of the people.
What’s happening behind the scene may be the exact opposite of what is publicly announced! It’s something to fool the naive. But Malaysians are no longer THAT naive!
We must also know that the UMNO/BN government, in it’s attempt to stay in power, will try to discredit the PR at every turn. But coming from a completely discredited Federal government, I’m sure you know how to treat whatever that comes from them.
Malaysians are ripe for change and hunkering for it and each and everyone of them should go all out to garner support for the PR.
MAKE COMPLETE CHANGE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT A REALITY!

I guess, pointing blame on others is a sign that PR has no issues left to fight. Come on, Kit Siang, you can give us better than this. Tell us, what PR has achieved within these 2 years. Convince us that PR still has a chance.

Firstly I guess, DAP has to work out something to let the rakyat know that they are fighting for the rights of all citizens. I still feel and most of my friends too, that DAP is a Chinese party. PKR and PAS are Malays parties. So how are we going to get out from this race issues when PR itself look divisive?

When you walk the talk, then people will salute u.

Pakatan still strong despite exodus of lawmakers?

And the result is (drumroll…..):

91% YES
9% NO

I’d be really worried if I were Najib and all this is coming from one of his propagandistic news channels

Najib, can we have the next GE soon, I just can’t wait to vote.

It is obvious that Najib’s 1Malaysia is mere rhetoric.

LKS’s call for Najib to “tame” the government controlled media in order to give his 1Malaysia a chance to succeed is certainly no exaggeration.