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(The Malaysian Insider) - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s ringing endorsement of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as prime minister perhaps came 99 days too early, when he rejoined Umno on April 4.
The beaming smile that Saturday has now turned into a smirk, not quite a good sign from the straight-talking fourth prime minister, who turned 84 yesterday. For the past few days, he has been irked by the Najib Administration’s decision to scrap teaching science and mathematics in English by 2012, a policy he initiated in his last year of power in 2003. Dr Mahathir, who has been taciturn about Najib’s performance as prime minister unlike his very public opinion about Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s time at the helm, is now slowly venting steam and spleen over the government’s policy switch. And the nearly 50,000 votes in his blog show that many think he is right. He has publicly disagreed with the U-turn, pointing out he never agreed to it, contradicting a statement by Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s claim that the grand old man of Malaysan politics understood the reasons for the switch. The irony is Muhyiddin has been instrumental in getting Dr Mahathir to endorse both Najib as more than an able replacement for the embattled Abdullah, who was hobbled by his predecessor’s criticisms, and Barisan Nasional’s disastrous electoral outing in 2008. And Muhyiddin was the one who pointed out Dr Mahathir’s presence at the Umno general assembly last March when Abdullah passed the party’s stewardship to Najib, in what some critics said marred Abdullah’s last days as party president and prime minister. All said and done, it must be grating for Dr Mahathir to see another of his anointed successors march to a different beat and walk another path than the one mapped out by him in his 22 years of power. READ MORE HERE: http://themalaysianinsider.com/
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22 years ago he should have stamped this as one of his foundation vision.
22 years ago he should have put education as the NO 1 priority for this country instead of Malaysia boleh and the megastructures which by themselves do not mean anything to us. An emphasis in world class education should have been his vision which would have put us now at the same level as some European countries. However he short changed himself and brought the standards lower for political reasons for the Malays to catch up...that is what he said..36 years and they are still catching up.
22 years ago he could have put up 3 or even four public U's in every state making one core university specializing in one subject which would have made it easy for every child..brown, black or yellow to go into the U and study with affordable tuition fees...he did not do.. we had the money..OUR OIL MONEY.
He could have made sure that the deans were of good standing and of good character without any bigotry...no he did not..
22 years ..he had 22 beautiful years..but he wasted it on political wheeling and dealing and made every child who is now 22 years different. He or she does not think Malaysian...he or she thinks..Malay, Chinese or Indian or others.
as he drummed up ketuanan melayu...and vision 2020..faded and is fading away..
2ndly...for a nation to be developed its health care service must be excellant.
...is it??? We are still using the old hospitals for a 10 million population and he has not prepared anything for a vision of 70million people. I am sorry to say even the sewage system is not ready...can you imagine 70 million people shitting everyday and where is it going to...???
in the same way he could have ensured that instead of getting foreign doctors he could have given our brown, yellow and black children the opportunity to be doctors instead of sending them overseas..that is if he had envisoned the need for doctors for 70 million people....you had 22 beautifulyears...
I can go on Dr Mahathir...but even if I had a chance to personally tell you...
the child of 22 years today from your time is as good as gone...you killed the Malaysian I was hoping would have been...and could have been.
So all your raving and huffing and puffing like tired old man is of no use..
you see ...your had a vision..but it went crooked...and everytime we told you..you attacked us...you have an ego that cannot be contained and that is why you are still out there ...huffing and puffing..and I can go on..but I do now want to be sick like you.