November 20, 2012
Longing for Enlightened Leaders
Before Malaysians grant Prime Minister Najib's ask for a mandate in a entrance election, you should examine his opening during a past 4 years. It has been mediocre, satiated with slogans, as great as flapping amidst an contentment of acronyms.
If Malaysians have been confident with KPIs as great as PEMANDU, or One Malaysia This as great as Two Malaysia That, afterwards design some-more of a same, this time with ever dubious inanity as great as pompous fatuousness.
Najib has not demonstrated any capability or desire to purify up his executive house. An early indication of his second tenure opening is this. Thus distant no Cabinet Minister has voluntarily withdrawn from being an electoral candidate. As Najib will not dump them, if they win they will end up in his cupboard again. Nothing would have changed.
A wisecrack definition of stupidity is you do a same thing over as great as over, as great as awaiting a opposite result. That is true usually if you let a same expel of amateurish characters carry out a charge after they have obviously as great as regularly demonstrated their incapacity to do so. Pick others some-more efficient as great as diligent, as great as a outcome might great warn you. It would be distant from insanity.
The most appropriate recommendation a scholarship teacher could give a tyro who regularly fails to perform an experiment is to suggest which he pursues music instead, where "practice, practice, practice!" (doing a same thing over as great as over) might take him to Carnegie Hall. Likewise, a kindest gesture to Naj! ib after he has obviously demonstrated his incapacity to lead would be for Malaysians to force him in to an additional line of work, by not choosing by casting votes him as great as his celebration in.
After over half of century in power, what has UMNO, a celebration which claims to hold up Malays, achieved? Malays currently have been even some-more implicitly corrupt, deeply polarized, as great as economically disadvantaged than ever before. Those have been not my observations. I am merely summarizing what Mahathir, a man who led a country as great as UMNO for over dual decades, said.
Take any social indicator rate of incarceration, drug abuse, families headed by singular mothers as great as a village is over represented. Our tutorial as great as economic achievements have been zero to be proud of; they have been an embarrassment.
Yet UMNO Supreme Council members march their 'doctorates' from degree mills as genuine intellectual achievements. The sorry partial is which their colleagues believe them! Spouses as great as families of ministers brag which their lush condominiums have been a fruits of their entrepreneurial aptitude where others see those as reflecting a crime as great as cronyism of a system.
Current UMNO leaders have been identical to which inept scholarship student; it is time to force them to pursue alternative lines of work, anything alternative than heading us. Voters contingency be identical to a despotic teacher; fall short a tyro who regularly fails to perform his reserved task. Letting him go upon would not do which individual any service; it would usually be unpropitious to a rest of a class. Voters contingency fall short these hurtful as great as amateurish UMNO leaders by choosing by casting votes them out.
UMNO Not A Lost Cause
This does not mean which UMNO is a mislaid cause; zero is. Even a most unseaworthy sloop could through imaginative ! as great as clever craftsmanship be brought up to Bristol condition. The operative word or caveat is "imaginative as great as clever craftsmanship." Is Najib imaginative as great as skilful? 
I never blink a capability of an individual to learn or change.
The diminutive, uninspiring as great as uncharismatic Deng Xiaoping (right) was great in his 70s when he assumed power. He afterwards took his giant nation in a in essence opposite as great as distant better direction.
Unlike Deng, Najib is distant from being petite physically, but he exceeds Deng in being uninspiring as great as uncharismatic. Again unlike Deng whose trail to power was dirty with a carcasses of personal as great as domestic tragedies (his son was paralyzed by Red Guard goons as great as Deng was once paraded in a blockhead cap upon a streets of Beijing), Najib's rise to a tip was great paved by others.
Deng was gradual by life's bitter lessons; Najib's a beneficiary of a many blessings. If Najib considers which a handicap as great as an excuse for his underperformance, afterwards he should look up to an additional transformative personality of complicated times, Franklin D Roosevelt, for inspiration.
Roosevelt, whose name equates to a margin of roses in Dutch, was born in to privilege. Yet he uplifted a lives of Americans especially a bad through his New Deal initiatives. His progressive redistributionist policies warranted him a sobriquet, "traitor to his class."
Najib's name is similarly rosy; it equates to wise, intelligent, or high bieing born in Arabic. Like Roosevelt, Najib was additionally born in to payoff though not upon a same scale as FDR or today. Corruption as great as cronyism were not nonetheless a norms when Tun Razak was Prime Minister.
Going back to Deng, Najib as well outlayed his formative years as a immature man abroad, in Britai! n, to De ng's Europe. When Deng left, his father asked him what he hoped to learn. Deng replied, "To learn believe as great as a law from a West in order to save China."
I do not know either Najib had a identical conversation with his father, but a single thing I do know. Tun Razak sent all his children abroad to shun a very Malaysian complement of preparation he was championing! Hypocrisy is a great word to describe such a stance. That is a single trait Najib inherits from his father.
I risk flattering Najib by referring to him in a same sentence with Deng as great as FDR (left). My you do so merely reflects a longing upon my partial for a personality who could enthuse us.
Najib could beginner change right away to give us a spirit which he is indeed able of being a "transformative leader" as he so often bragged, as great as not be calm with merely mouthing slogans.
He could make known his "shadow" cupboard should Barisan be returned to power. Better yet, revamp his cupboard right away as great as collect his brand brand new group to go in to a election so adults could have a reason to opinion for Barisan as great as not merely against Pakatan.
Malaysians do not design miracles or direct a super team, merely able as great as honest ministers. It is not a high order. Begin by removing rid of those seared politicians in his cabinet. If they haven't nonetheless done their mark, they have been unlikely to do so in a next couple of years.
Characters identical to Nazri, Rais, Rastam, as great as Hishamuddin have been identical to durians which have remained unsold for distant as well long. They have been tak laku (unsellable), not even great for making tompoyak! . All th ey do is stink a place up as great as lower the value of what couple of superfluous great durians Najib has. Nor have been his youth ministers, a next harvesting machine of leaders, any better, as exemplified by a recent stupid utterances of a single Dr. Mashitah. She is supposedly better educated, sporting a doctorate of some sort.
I could supplement a couple of some-more names including which of Muhyyiddin, but which would usually be divisive. After all a DPM has as much claim as great as legitimacy to a tip post as Najib. Instead because not join forces as great as together collect a brand brand new mental condition team.
While he is during it, Najib should additionally collect a brand brand new Attorney General as great as Anti-Corruption chief. If Najib were to name individuals with impeccable credentials as great as professionalism to those dual offices, afterwards those aged tak laku durians he dropped from his cupboard would not brave create trouble for him.
Najib's address to a UMNO General Assembly later this month will reveal either he is calm with an additional event of sloganeering or critical about transforming his celebration as great as country. The larger stress is this. By indulging in a former as great as fixing a same aged nincompoops to his cupboard as great as tip positions, Najib soils a repute of a community. It gives a impression which a Nazris, Raises, Rastams, Mashitahs as great as Hishamuddins paint a most appropriate a race is able of producing or which you have been bereft of talents. The shame reflects upon all of us.
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