Tomorrow August 25th 2009, voters in Permatang Pasir will cast their votes to elect their new assemblyman for the Penang state legislative assembly. The by-election is held following the death of the former PAS state assemblyman Datuk Hamdan Abdul Rahman. It will be a straight fight between BN candidate Rohaizat Othman and PAS candidate Tuan Hj. Salleh Man, both being lawyers by training.
Ilham Centre, an independent field research organisation that ran a four days poll to determine the popularity of the two candidates, has found that the PAS candidate is ahead and is most likely to win the by-elections. However, there is still the 'unsure' category of voters or 'fence sitters' that can tilt the results to be in favour of the BN candidate.
It appears that PAS and its DAP and PR 'coalition partners' have fully exploited the disbarment and the second marriage denial of the BN candidate. Rohaizat seemed to have failed miserably in the 'integrity and honesty test', but BN is not rattled by the poll results and remained hopeful of a winning chance. BN attempt to cast the PAS candidate for embezzlement have little impact on the largely Malay voters.
Like in all previous by-elections, the pattern of campaigning has remained consistent i.e. candidate's character assassination prevails over real issues that will benefit the constituency and the rakyat. And having followed the campaigning issues by both the candidates in the print and electronic media, there is absolutely nothing worthy that I can say of both the candidates. I do not know what their visions and their aspirations are, and it is the party leaders and others that is doing lots of talking; but not the candidate.
Personally, I do not have any particular choice of candidate, and even if I were a Permatang Pasir voter, I will have difficulty in making a choice.
CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION
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DIRTY POLITICS THAT'S IT
THE NAME OF THE GAME
They said winning a seat in election for any BN candidate is winning a gold mine, that's the vision and aspiration of Rohaizat, the gold mine can rid him out of many if not all his woes and worries and a victory will serve him a revenge so sweet onto his enemies.
Permatang Pasir is worth more than king's ransom to Rohaizat. It worth more to UMNO than to him for Najib's Merdeka present and it worth more to UMNO to act as a staging ground from where another political coup can be launched to wrest Penang from PKR. Permatang Pasir is UMNO's objective deep in enemy's territory and Rohaizat is UMNO's ground commander for its deep penetration operation into enemy's stronghold.
Najib's grand design for political takeover of all PKR's territories has taken place and Najib has started it by attacking the weak side of PKR - the West Flanks, starting with Perak, Selangor, Penang and Kedah. His weapon of defection is working its way into the ranks of unsavoury PKR's commanders, his combating corruption strategy has been specifically directed to rock PKR's state governments more and more with exposed corruption scandals. Where Najib failed to win by democratic election, he made good by defection tactic and turned the PKR's weapon of corruption against themselves. What PKR made on Toyo's RM 24 millions, Najib retaliated by attacking Khalid's RM 60 millions.
These had played well into Najib's hand for his retaliatory actions had certainly shaken Anwar and the impact has been felt by PKR, across the board and most importantly the rakyat have shown a mixed sentiment towards BN and PKR, the rakyat is being confused as confused as a dame in picking her Mr Right.
There is nothing much left for the rakyat's vision and aspiration to matter when it is the political visions and aspirations of the candidates that matter most now.
So I say, when the power of the people is made powerless by the power game, we are at the mercy of the few power brokers who play the game by their rules, not by the people's rules. The people have the power, but the one who rules the game has the abosute power.
FOLKS NAJIB'S BEST THINK TANK GURU IS ALREADY GONE....
HE IS ALREADY A VERY RICH MAN...STAYING IN LONDON....
NO NEED TO THINK ANY MORE...JUST ENJOY THE MONIES.....
THE ONES HE HAS NOW ARE ALL:
"HALF PAST SIX"
SO WHAT TO EXPECT BUT BIG TIME FARK UPS AND COCK UPS..
MANY MORE SCREW UPS COMING..FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AND EAST TO WEST
JUST MARK MY WORDS....
SO PAS WINS AGAIN..NOT SURPRISE
THE WAY UMNO IS RUNNING THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING VERY SOON
THEIR UNDERPANTS INCLUDED !
RAKYAT DAH FEDUP DAN BOSAN DENGAN UMNO DAN SEGALA KERJA BODOH MEREKA !
The rakyat has spoken, but UMNO is deaf and very dumb...!
If anyone think that the loss of UMNO in Permatang Pasir is another blow to BN, you better see that the blow is not to BN but to UMNO and solely UMNO because UMNO was the only soul of all other souls that made BN, who has been defeated in all by-elections in the Peninsular, since Permatang Pauh. The rest of BN particularly Gerakan, have long been defeated in the last General Election, that they are too weak to come to the fore in helping UMNO, and in Permatang Pasir, Gerakan was totally nonexistent, while MCA and MIC were absent.
UMNO can now boast that in losing they managed to record a reduced majority vote of 900 for PAS in continuation of their prediction after Manek Urai that the Malays are swinging back to UMNO's fold. The myth has been proven wrong and Najib was made to sit and bite his nails, like a sore loser, to now ponder what went wrong, not with UMNO's soldiers, but with all his mighty generals.
Even without other components, UMNO is still a formidable force to be reckoned with. But in democratic system, a strong team cannot claim victory until the last man in the team crosses the finish line. And that UMNO's last man and the weakest man, was Rohaizat who has been beaten and weakened ahead of the starting line and being made by PKR from UMNO's asset to UMNO's liability.
UMNO blamed it on PKR's way of winning by character assasination but in the first place why did UMNO go against the principle of good governance by fielding a not- good-enough candidate?
It certainly was a 'D-Day', a Doomsday and it has spelt doom on UMNO. And Tun Faisal of UMNO's New Media Group has sent a storm warning that from now on until the next general election, it is war that UMNO must prepare for, and nothing else.
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