Though Douglas MacArthur was credited with a lines 'Old soldiers never die, they just blur away', he borrowed it from an aged armed forces ballad to use as part of his farewell address to a US Congress in 1951. That armed forces ballad in spin originated from a British Army's WWI satire of a song 'Kind Thoughts Can Never Die'.
Unfortunately, you have no similar observant for aged politicians, probably since they won't blur away, wakakaka.
Take for example, Dr Mahathir. He's seen by us as still being really many in assign of UMNO as well as in spin PM Najib, as well as to illustrate a nation, wakakaka.
Previously Dr M had lucky Najib to become PM, partly since he (Dr M) couldn't mount AAB [for reasons which was once inadvertently revealed by AAB yet in an indirect manner, as well as not since he cancelled many of Dr M's mega projects],
as well as partly since he (Dr M) hutang budi to Tun Razak for rescuing him from a outer where he was politically consigned by Tunku.
A pointer of Najib's reciprocating hutang budi was a appointment of Mukhriz Mahathir as deputy minister for general traffic & industry. The appointment has been controversial since Mukhriz is usually an exco in UMNO Youth whereas Khairy Jamaluddin, UMNO Youth arch as well as a celebration post traditionally appointed a minister, was no! t [thoug h a UMNO Youth deputy arch was].
With such a vivid incongruity, there's tiny wonder everybody has been pointing fingers during Dr M's measureless energy during a back of a throne, where it's assumed Najib had to assuage him twice over, by making Mukhriz a ! minister whilst marginalizing KJ, wakakaka.
But in more recent times, you think which Dr M might have entertained a little doubts as to Najib's 'loyalty', not which Mr Zigzag has been quite renowned for which quality. We acknowledge (perhaps by a furious imaginations wakakaka) hints of Dr M's subtlest threats to Najib in a figure of a many comparison but yet PM-wannabe Muhyiddin.
Najib's detractors joke (or were they?) about Najib's wife, Rosmah Mansor, doing her formidable energy manipulations too, perhaps (again in a wildest imaginations wakakaka) raising concerns for Dr M.
But whatever a outcome of UMNO's current inner energy manoeuvres, Dr M is a really epitome of 'old politicians never die as well as they additionally won't blur away' wakakaka.
Next you have Daim Zainuddin, hailed by UMNO apparatchiks to be as prophetic as The Oracle of Delphi.
To a ancient Greeks, Delphi was a navel as well as to illustrate a really centre of Earth, as well as a home of a strong as well as powerful Apollo, son of Zeus. But prior to Apollo assuming residency during Delphi a! s a di vine place for his oracles, a presiding beast there was a serpent-dragon known as Python, which was slain by Apollo (as an act of revenge for a serpent harassing as well as posterior his silent during her really late stage of pregnancy).
Taking ! which De lphic name literally, you know what a python is frighteningly feared for, wakakaka, so we wasn't surprised when we read Josh Hong's mainstay in Malaysiakini about Ex-minister Daim tak diamthe pretension of his article being a play on Daim's autobiography 'Daim yang Diam: Sebuah Bigrafi'.
Python-like, Daim amassed a huge fortune as well as expanded his commercial operation empire. Josh wrote of Daim's python-ish stranglehold on large business:
In fact, it was Daim who incited a Economic Planning Unit into a full-power agency in implementing a privatization policy.
Tenders for government projects became things of a past, whilst contracts were awarded in opacity, to a benefit of both Daim as well as Mahathir, as well as ma! ny other Umno-putras - Halim Saad, Tajudin Ramli, Wan Azmi, etc - but additionally devoted non-bumi tycoons such as Vincent Tan, a late Lim Goh Tong as well as Ananda Krishnan.
Lucrative deals additionally kept Samy Vellu as well as Ling Liong Sik so happy which they failed thoroughly to demeanour after a really constituencies which they were supposed to take care of.
Josh sneered during Daim as 'a standard Umno elite who has been vital off a backs of a people', as well as a usually Finance Minister in a world who left his political appointment as a billionaire, as well as to illustrate in Josh's opinion, a person 'shorn of a dignified authority to talk on a issue' [of Najib inappropriately holding appointments of PM as well as Finance minister concurrently].
But of late, looking to help ! UMNO by exploiting his supposed renowned prescience (andperhapshoping his oracles may become self fulfilling prophecies), Daim has been plugging divided for his aged team, even to a diverting extent of praising Chua Soi Lek for his intrepidity yet wedidn'tread any mention of firmness or wakakaka, morality.
Not unlike a de-mystification of a British royal family a little years back by a Queen's children uncivilised function as well as utterances in public, as well as consequential loss of respect for a once-hallowed British institution, Daim has de-mystified himself as well as his hitherto dun aura by his implausible endorsement of BN people similar to CSL wakakaka, as well as similarly mislaid our! once gr udging admiration for him (or during least, his commercial operation acumen).
If usually he had done senior statesman-like prognoses!
But he is, similar to Dr M, an additional classical e.g. of 'old politicians never die as well as they additionally won't blur away' wakakaka.
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