Anwar Ibrahim needs to practice what he preaches. The Xenophobia outside the PMO cannot be reflected within the PMO. What Anwar needs to pick up the courage to do is to bring in foreign advisors who are independent and not necessarily on a leash from the White House, the NED or Chatham House all of who funded his ascendancy for one reason or the other.
There is a playbook authored by his closest neighbour, Singapore from which he could tear out a few pages and educate himself with on the run. Quoting Shakespeare (out of context often) may impress those around him. But it does not make for good leadership or pay the piper.
Shock and awe is sometimes a good way to start. Malaysians have become too complacent and seem to thrive in an environment of lies, rumours, exaggeration and corruption. The problem is they've done it for so long they can't tell the difference between vice and virtue. Their legal fraternity is a glaring example of the point.
The opportunity to make a difference is with him. How he will avail himself of it and exploit it is up to him. Thus far he has been a man of pious platitudes and rhetoric. Like the roadrunner and the wily ole coyote he is now faced to face with the coyote and doesn't quite know what to do with it.
From the day PMX took office as PM, you and also the other bloogger Outsyed the Box whom I used to respect is now down the drain.
I read about nothing but negative articles after negative articles, critisism after criticism about this administration...even to the extend of can't wait for this admin to fall. As a follower of both of you, I can even 'feel' the hatred both of you have for Anwar.
Yes, I agree Anwar is no angel but looks like what both of you is subscibing is PAS ministers, Mahiaddin, and even Sabri is so, so much better than him. You mean to tell me you would prefer eg Hadi to be our next PM compare to Anwar? You mean to tell me he can do a better job running this country or even Mahiaddin is better From what I have read so far, looks like both of you would say yes to this.
Sorry, my respect for both of you whom I always thought are one of the better and intelligent ones in our blogging spheres has just gone down. the drain. I can't help but to think there might be some 'fishy' trnx or offerings to the both of you.
The problem is Anwar the man. Having worked as a business reporter in Malaysia in the mid 90s I have first hand experience of a man who could tolerate nothing but praise and flattery.
His budgets were always in deficit, the surplus achieved only by moving big items out of the headline "Federal Budget" ; the real story was always in the overall public sector accounts deficit which were seldom if ever reported.
The foreign currency reserves were non-existent, for the holdings of foreign currency and gold were financed almost entirely by the SDR. As was demonstrated by the currency crisis of '97 , the reserves cannot be financed in that way .
His only solution to actual reporting on the reserves was to have his Business Times run an embarrassing fluff piece in defence of the management of the reserves. That was about 12 months before the crash.
The #1 wider problem is that, so far, the unity government under Anwar has been all talk and no action. The PM is a master at saying the right thing but he has done nothing to back it up, and everything in the press leaves the rakyat with the impression that the government is hanging by a thread. This is truly frightening when one considers what is waiting in the wings to take over. The news seems to be reporting a slow motion collapse of the so-called 'unity' government.
When Anwar became PM there was hope that a new day had begun in Malaysia; that endemic corruption would soon get pushback from those in authority; that political criminals like Najib and Zahid would be behind bars. Najib is there but there is a widespread public feeling that he won't be there for long, and it looks like the Zahid might be able to engineer a dismissal of his charges.
Zahid needs to go, NOW. As another commenter said, if this means the collapse of the government then so be it. Right now Anwar is doing nothing to inspire confidence in the rakyat, nor is he able to really get to the bottom of corruption in the country.
Pre 1998, anwar was a dpm and look good enough to be a potentially successful pm.
How so?
He had azmin as his strategist. azmin would follow through whatever anwar had promised to the public and ensured he is always in mainstream news. hence anwar always looked good.
As a dpm then, Anwar also had tun m to fall on to whenever he made wrong decisions. With his oratory talent, his flawed covered and his promises delivered, he gave the impression that he will be able to be an extraordinary pm.
Now theres no azmin and theres no tun m. Anwar is on his own. he is a PM. He realises he has no skill, ability nor the interest to govern.
Anwar Ibrahim needs to practice what he preaches. The Xenophobia outside the PMO cannot be reflected within the PMO. What Anwar needs to pick up the courage to do is to bring in foreign advisors who are independent and not necessarily on a leash from the White House, the NED or Chatham House all of who funded his ascendancy for one reason or the other.
There is a playbook authored by his closest neighbour, Singapore from which he could tear out a few pages and educate himself with on the run. Quoting Shakespeare (out of context often) may impress those around him. But it does not make for good leadership or pay the piper.
Shock and awe is sometimes a good way to start. Malaysians have become too complacent and seem to thrive in an environment of lies, rumours, exaggeration and corruption. The problem is they've done it for so long they can't tell the difference between vice and virtue. Their legal fraternity is a glaring example of the point.
The opportunity to make a difference is with him. How he will avail himself of it and exploit it is up to him. Thus far he has been a man of pious platitudes and rhetoric. Like the roadrunner and the wily ole coyote he is now faced to face with the coyote and doesn't quite know what to do with it.
From the day PMX took office as PM, you and also the other bloogger Outsyed the Box whom I used to respect is now down the drain.
I read about nothing but negative articles after negative articles, critisism after criticism about this administration...even to the extend of can't wait for this admin to fall. As a follower of both of you, I can even 'feel' the hatred both of you have for Anwar.
Yes, I agree Anwar is no angel but looks like what both of you is subscibing is PAS ministers, Mahiaddin, and even Sabri is so, so much better than him. You mean to tell me you would prefer eg Hadi to be our next PM compare to Anwar? You mean to tell me he can do a better job running this country or even Mahiaddin is better From what I have read so far, looks like both of you would say yes to this.
Sorry, my respect for both of you whom I always thought are one of the better and intelligent ones in our blogging spheres has just gone down. the drain. I can't help but to think there might be some 'fishy' trnx or offerings to the both of you.
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The problem is Anwar the man. Having worked as a business reporter in Malaysia in the mid 90s I have first hand experience of a man who could tolerate nothing but praise and flattery.
His budgets were always in deficit, the surplus achieved only by moving big items out of the headline "Federal Budget" ; the real story was always in the overall public sector accounts deficit which were seldom if ever reported.
The foreign currency reserves were non-existent, for the holdings of foreign currency and gold were financed almost entirely by the SDR. As was demonstrated by the currency crisis of '97 , the reserves cannot be financed in that way .
His only solution to actual reporting on the reserves was to have his Business Times run an embarrassing fluff piece in defence of the management of the reserves. That was about 12 months before the crash.
The #1 wider problem is that, so far, the unity government under Anwar has been all talk and no action. The PM is a master at saying the right thing but he has done nothing to back it up, and everything in the press leaves the rakyat with the impression that the government is hanging by a thread. This is truly frightening when one considers what is waiting in the wings to take over. The news seems to be reporting a slow motion collapse of the so-called 'unity' government.
When Anwar became PM there was hope that a new day had begun in Malaysia; that endemic corruption would soon get pushback from those in authority; that political criminals like Najib and Zahid would be behind bars. Najib is there but there is a widespread public feeling that he won't be there for long, and it looks like the Zahid might be able to engineer a dismissal of his charges.
Zahid needs to go, NOW. As another commenter said, if this means the collapse of the government then so be it. Right now Anwar is doing nothing to inspire confidence in the rakyat, nor is he able to really get to the bottom of corruption in the country.
Pre 1998, anwar was a dpm and look good enough to be a potentially successful pm.
How so?
He had azmin as his strategist. azmin would follow through whatever anwar had promised to the public and ensured he is always in mainstream news. hence anwar always looked good.
As a dpm then, Anwar also had tun m to fall on to whenever he made wrong decisions. With his oratory talent, his flawed covered and his promises delivered, he gave the impression that he will be able to be an extraordinary pm.
Now theres no azmin and theres no tun m. Anwar is on his own. he is a PM. He realises he has no skill, ability nor the interest to govern.
The public is frustrated.Nothing gets done.
Anwar is a clueless PM.