'PKR, don't split votes against BN'
'United you will stand, divided you will fall. Look at the bigger picture. Break the BN hold on what they claim as their fixed deposit.'
Batu Sapi: Pakatan on collision course with SAPP
Disgusted: Both SAPP and Pakatan Rakyat will be the losers if they compete individually as they will split the opposition votes, and this will favour BN. Perhaps Pakatan should be magnanimous and let SAPP compete and support them. SAPP should pledge not to return to BN's fold should they win but consider joining Pakatan.
Pakatan should learn to share Sabah seats amongst their component parties and encourage SAPP, being a Sabah-based party, to share with them in preparation for the bigger election ahead instead of going head-to-head in this by-election and thereby jeapordise future cooperation amongst all Sabah-based political parties opposing BN.
United you will stand to gain, divided you will fall and lose everything. Look at the bigger picture. Break the BN hold on what they claim as their fixed deposit.
Lesungbatu: The best bet is to let SAPP contest. Let see if the Chinese voters in Batu Sapi are as ‘matured' as Sibu Chinese voters.
Those PKR candidates to be put in Batu Sapi are considered unpopular. They may be coming with Bajau/Suluk/Bisaya origins, but these people are only well-known and popular amongst their small groups and cronies - they will only help their own ethnic groups and could be ‘kataks' in the making. Right now they're tadpoles.
Anonymous: SAPP, stand your ground. There is logic and implications to the national scene if you stand your ground, whether you win or lose, and whether PKR contests or not.
Kgen: If both Pakatan and SAPP contest, BN will win. But if votes for BN is less than total votes for Pakatan and SAPP, then this will be a lesson for both opposition parties. There is no point taking BN in a three-corner fight as this is a waste of time. Both sides must learn to compromise.
Lover Boy: I feel local sentiments play an important role in the choice of candidate. However, I call on the Sabahans to look at the matter beyond local issues. Look at the big picture of PKR coming into Sabah. SAPP should make their stand with PKR and not act like a spurned former-BN party out to take a swipe at BN.
If this area was a Christian area, I feel PKR must be sensitive over the candidate they are fielding. Politics in Sabah is quite different from politics in Semenanjung.
Ghkok: I think either Pakatan or SAPP will win, even if both parties contest against BN. Pakatan's strategy of DAP leading the campaign and PKR providing the candidate is innovative and splendid. It is a mark of maturity and teamwork.
Let's hope it is a fair election and that BN doesn't drop money from the sky. Then again, even if they do, would it still work?
Mahathir is wrong - Pak Lah saved us
KSN: Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the last person alive in Malaysia qualified to criticise Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, because Abdullah inherited the most corrupt and inefficient party and government - greedy men with absolutely no integrity - from Mahathir with no national interest or pride to start with. Mahathir left a country suffering from a terminal illness.
Can't Beat Us: Dr M thinks he could never be wrong and that all his former deputy prime ministers were not of the right calibre. If that was so, why did he pick Musa Hitam, Abdul Ghafar Baba, Anwar Ibrahim and Abdullah? Either he's a poor judge of people or his deputies would not bow to his whims and fancies. Whatever his decision, he is a failed leader.
In spite of the 22 years, he could not beat ‘red dot' Singapore as a developed nation. He had set the year 2020 to make Malaysia a developed nation, but minister Idris Jala warns that the nation might become bankrupt. So instead of becoming a developed nation, it might become a bankrupt nation! That was an ominous warning by the minister.
For that, he placed the blame on Abdullah, and now he may even be looking for another scapegoat - Najib Razak. In short, nobody can be the ‘right' PM, only Mahathir.
YES: Abdullah could not do get everything right, but the point is, the rakyat under his (somewhat inept) watch at least were given some breathing room and managed to cast away the fear dogging them from the Mahathir era. If he made March 2008 possible, then surely that supports letter-writer Meng Yee's assertion that without really planning to, Abdullah did reform the country.
Save Malaysia: Mahathir is an expert fear-monger. Pak Lah was a blessing in disguise. If not for Pak Lah, there would not have been space for democratic reforms and the March 2008 political awakening would not have happened, although it was long overdue.
During Mahathir's time, he used the fear factor to silence the BN component parties and cow them into submission. He denied he was a dictator, but now says dictatorships can be good.
2nd angkasawan plan under 10MP mid-term review
WanM: Will minister Maximus Ongkili tell the nation what how exactly Malaysia benefits from this plan in the area of science and technology? Why commit our nation much needed money for development when on one hand the government has cut subsidies on sugar, fuel and gas in order to save RM750million?
The money on these items benefit a huge percentage of the population, but in continuing with the second angkasawam plan, the amount spent will hurt the nation's purse.
Eugene: What have we gained from the first trip to space? What happened to the results of the supposed research done up there? If we had not gained anything, there's nothing to justify the exorbitant price tag just to send one man up and boost the ego of a few people.
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