Politician behaving badly.

I am not trying to save the world nor am I on a crusade to propagate Islam or Ketuanan Melayu. I am one of those people who wants to add my voice to the many that wants common sense and decency to come back into our lives. No doomsday pronouncement of racial or religious Armageddon! No more chest thumping by politicians drunk on power and arrogance intent upon annihilating anyone that stands in their way to gain power. Just a quiet voice that says enough is enough! 

Enough of politicians that behaves badly.

I was one of those living in Bangsar when Sharizat lost to Nurrul. While we cheered for Nurrul we were sorry for Sharizat because we knew then that she was the real deal! A hard working Minister that was the new face, hopefully of Wanita UMNO and for UMNO too. Now look what UMNO has done to her a few years later! Corrupt her to the very core of her Bumiputra challenged root. Sharizat….not taking responsibility for NFC is simply not on. You of all people, should have know better. You have enough common sense and judgement to know that this should be a “nolo contendere” situation – ask your hubby to bite the bullet and take his punishment as any responsible CEO should do when what he is CEO of a company that goes ‘kaput’. Then you Sharizat should do the only honorable thing – resign.   

But greed makes you blind to many things.  My only regret is that when it is your time to go, you will be remembered for two things and two things only. Your loss to Nurull and NFC. And you may ask why life is so unkind? Well Sharizat you have to lie in the bed that you make. No one else will!

In the aftermath of the general assembly where all the posturing by the Alpha UMNO’s male and females have been done accompanied by enough hot air to lift a dozen Goodyear blimp – all of them have now come down back to earth. We await the outpouring of contrition’s and rebukes to come from within UMNO itself for all the UMNO politician who had behaved badly during the assembly. Now that the general assembly is over it is time to mend the fences with the other people of Malaysia – the non-Malays of Malaysia! Every vote counts! And after what happened in 2008, every vote from the non –Malay will be needed to take UMNO, hopefully, over the finishing line. 

So folks wait for our Prime Minister to go into his '1Malaysia', 'Malaysia for All'  and his 'UMNO will safeguard the rights of every Malaysian' mode! So UMNO is for all Malaysians after all! Thank God for that!

What is worrying about politicians behaving badly is the cycle that they go into. In and out of their comfort zone just so they can score points with their peers – not with the voters but with their peers! Najib is comfortable in championing 1Malaysia because he has enough grey matter in between his ears to understand the need for 1Malaysia. Now as to why he goes off at a tangent and play up to an UMNO general assembly audience with a rabid display of an all out and out ultra Melayu is beyond my ability to understand. He is preaching to the converted! It is the non-Malays that he needs to get votes from. Why antagonize them?

But politicians will be politicians. They will do whatever they will have to do to go to politician heaven. And, until further notice, that will surely be Putrajaya! Jom kita gi!