A I S E H M A N . O R G

Dumbfounded. Baffled. I am lost for adjectives for this already. Even slyer than his predecessor.

Dear Tun Mahatir,

Please come back and take control asap!
All is forgiven.

Now, now Aisehman, let's call a spade a spade; Badawi's denial is downright stupid, not laughable as you would have it. Unless, of course, you were thinking of Ole Blue Eyes' or the late Raja Din's (remember RTM's maiden edition of Musik, Musik, Musik) Funny Valentine whose laughable smile was unphotographable! But I digress, sir. The point is this.

If Badawi chooses to play dumb, that's his inalienable right as a Malaysian which is guaranteed under our much amended constitution. But if he thinks we are stupidly idiotic, then I have a bleeding bone to pick with him. Notwithstanding his pathetic manoeuvring to paint his administration in a kinder light, his is no better than Mahathir's autocratic and thin-skinned government; especially in the light of the government of the day's stumbling from one disaster to another. And to compound it all, Badawi's continued tolerence for politics of patronage, corruption, nepotism, etc will signal the beginning of the end of whatever is left of the very much weakened Malaysian democratic practices.

We used to snigger at the woeful state of affairs of some of our neighbours' politics. At the rate we are going, it will not be too long before the table is turned on us -- after all we now have tin pot little government organisations defying Cabinet decisions!

And the Malaysian tradegy is this -- there is presently no alternative to the confederation of political parties forming the administration. Semangat is a bleeding joke. PAS is too busy wanting to run this country using the Sharia and in the process scaring both the non-Muslims and Muslims alike. And DAP? God helps the Malays if they formed the administration; nobody else would be able to! Which begs the big Q : why don't you and I form a political party and go for it? Should we? Naah, in the winter of my discontent, this tok pa will seek solace in his pretty little cucus. Cheers old chap.