Posts Tagged ‘ahmad ismail’

(Four parts : This 4th part looks the Umno nominations and the year end subterfuges)

The final quarter of 2008 was a bit of getting back to old basics, but with a twist.

When Umno elections are around the corner, all party members let go of all other preoccupations and focus on it. A position in the [...]

(four parts: part 3 , talking about the months of july to september)
Any casual reader of Malaysian newspapers for the third quarter of 2008 would be comprehensively confused. There were developments but they had to be seen through the lenses of the situation preceding and the players involved.
Easy for avid soap opera viewers, not so [...]

Abdullah Badawi has been against the ropes for the better part of six months, and surely he must set the agenda -  for a change.
Everything he has done in the past months have been pure reactions, and nothing more.
And yet when he has the chance to end the whole matter – batter the external attacks [...]

The prime minister I am always falsely convinced has hit his nadir, but Abdullah Badawi will always find a way to outdo his previous gaffes and misjudgements with ease that the rest of us can only say is the sign of a drunken bumble-bee.
“We should all stop inciting race matters.” My good man – you [...]




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