August 24, 2012
Mahathir calls Anwar an Angel
Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has compared Pakatan Rakyat leader Anwar Ibrahim to current United States President Barack Obama for promising big changes but failing to keep them.
He said Anwar’s electoral campaign was similar to Obama’s — promising the rakyat many changes but with no guarantee of realising them.
Hence he urged the people to support BN.”Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t,” he wrote in his blog, Che Det, earlier today.
“The BN has listened to the people and has changed many laws and policies. All the people need to do is to urge the BN to carry out whatever change the people desire,” Mahathir said.
The former Premier said it would be dangerous to give the opposition party a trial as government for five years, since much damage could be done during that period of time.
“Many things can be destroyed in five years. Besides, the Opposition as government will ensure there will be no return for BN. Officers in the government will be used to threaten whoever tries to change the government,” he explained.
‘Country will be bankrupt’
Mahathir also said Pakatan would make the country bankrupt by turning it into a welfare state by promising free education, no tolls, a lower price for petrol and more.
He explained that the government needed sufficient funds to develop the country and to create subsidies, but if Pakatan cancelled taxes, tolls and fees, the country would be left with no funds and eventually, no reserves.
According to him, it is acceptable for the government to borrow money but 
only if it can give returns from investments, not for unprofitable spending. Not just that, Mahathir also accused Anwar of only being interested in becoming the future Prime Minister, and that he did not make any changes when he was in the government.
“Now, as Leader of the Opposition, he is claiming he will bring about change. What good change did he introduce when he was in the government? All he was interested in was getting up the leadership ladder of UMNO in order to become Prime Minister. How he achieved his objective does not bear scrutiny,” he said.
Thus, Mahathir called on the rakyat to not be deceived by the Opposition party, just like how he was previously deceived by (Anwar’s) appearance of religious piety.
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What does this senile Apanama know about President Obama? Mahathir is a racist true and true. Mahathir is an idiot.
Mahathir is hantu melayu numero uno. He cannot stop the tide of history. If it is Anwar’s destiny to be Prime Minister, no mortal can stop it. Ini Mahathir, bodoh punya orang.
“Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t.”
Huh?? Shouldn’t that be a misquote? Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t.
This Old Goat is losing his goatee.
This mamak is afraid of being prosecuted for past deeds if putarjaya falls , ABU !
Compared to someone who is a DEVIL INCARNATE of course Anwar Ibrahim is an ANGEL . So i do agree with this ASS that Anwar is an ANGEL – period.
I wish this old man would suffer some kind of disease that will prevent him from speaking. Every time he opens up his mouth sh*t comes out. Doesn’t he realise that he’s making a fool of himself and embarrassing his family members? Others at his age are getting closer to their creator and repenting but this old man is creating more ill feeling and poisoning more minds. I think he’s trying to outdo Lucifer and the Great Satan.
I’ve never been told before that I should befriend devils. . .syaitan laknatullah. . . I don’t ever remember. anything like that , really
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The opposition to President Obama has been so complete and overwhelming that he hasn’t really been able to get much of anything done. He’s been met since his election by a solid wall of allegations and rhetoric from all cabal members – Republican and Democrat – as soon as they saw they could not control him.
Mr Anwar would pobably have better luck than Obama,so he can do more for his own country.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad is correct to call Mr Anwar an Angel.God bless him.
Recently Bumburing from Sabah called Mahathir a TRAITOR. Before this , many have called Mahathir a PETTY THIEF, a PARIAH PRIME MINISTER , an ASS , a DEVIL INCARNATE , a DICTATOR , a RACIST , a CONMAN, a CORRUPT SCOUNDREL, ETC.
In the recent past , no one has had a kind word for this ARROGANT, SELF CENTRED SCUM.
Against all these derogatory terms, of course Anwar Ibrahim comes out smelling like a bouquet of roses – an angel so to speak.
Semper, I think Lucifer has just turned pink from embarassment reading your comment. The fires of hell would not be able to take the Old Goat. For him Lucifer will have to be satisfied with medium rare satay kambing at best.
TDM is showing his deep fear of BN losing power after GE13, and he knows that once it happened, BN is unlikely to regain power again for a long,long time. The new PR government will uncover all the mismanagement of the BN government, and you can be sure that the majority of the rakyat who had been supporting the BN will cursed themselves for their stupidity.
TDM also mentioned that the country will go bankrupt because the PR government is going to turn the country into a welfare state by providing free education, free tolls etc,etc. However, If the country is going to go bankrupt, I will prefer we go bankrupt because of free education, free tolls etc, instead of rampant corruption, mismanagement ( as shown in the AG’s report year in year out) of the country’s resources,enriching of cronies at the expense of rakyat’s welfare, and many more.
Finally, i believed he must have received intelligence report from his sources indicating a strong likelihood of BN losing badly. I wonder if he realized his action is making the opposition more confident and more hardworking in their pursuit of victory. And it is also making those frogs more eager to distance themselves from BN.
Semper fi,
I have tasted it when I was studying in uk. My heart Sank when ringgit drop to 7.7 to a pound. Mine you the tuition fee then was 8k per year.
Yup Bean, he’s lost his goat.
Haha.., Octo is really misquoting proverbs from a bully pulpit.
Bloody desperate. Despicable but really, who cares..
Mathahir is the most racialist, corrupted, biased, partial, incorrigible former mamak pm!
“Mahathir also accused Anwar of only being interested in becoming the future Prime Minister, and that he did not make any changes when he was in the government.” Mkini
Dai Al Kutty, how was he going to make changes when you nullified all his attempts at making changes. Poorah…
The 10 mistakes of Mahathir Mohamad
Written by Nawawi Mohamad, Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
The 10 mistakes of Mahathir Mohamad]
Former premier Mahathir Mohamad has criticized every prime minister of Malaysia from the late Tunku Abdul Rahman to the current leader Najib Razak, sparing no one except of course, himself.
Mahathir has also criticized other world leaders including UK’s Tony Blair and of course George W Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.
So far none of his local peers have swung back at him, which is not surprising considering that several are already dead and only Najib and 5th prime minister Abdullah Badawi are alive. As for the international leaders, they have largely ignored Mahathir’s existence, which only adds to his frustration, but there is nothing he can do to them.
However, he can make life miserable for his successors here, and this he is already doing.
When Mahathir retired in 2003, after 22 years as PM, there was talk about his ‘great’ legacy and he was even called Bapa Pemodenan or Father of Modernization.
Some 9 years after his retirement, the excesses and sheer ill-judgement of his economic, social and political decisions have come back to wallop the nation with a backlash stronger than the ferocious tsunami of 2006 that devastated much of South Asia.
At 86, Mahathir is now reviled by most Malaysians, blamed for the massive corruption that may soon bankrupt the country if no remedial economic action is taken, and for the apartheid-scale racial fissures amongst the various ethnic groups in the country.
1). NEP
Just pick the New Economic Policy, which was the brainchild of the policymakers of the 1960s but which he abused to the maximum. This abuse alone is enough to ensure that he will stay in the Malaysian Hall of Villains rather than in the Hall of Fame which he still thinks he belongs in.
His peers with better memories including former Finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said last week that the NEP was never meant to create or to be used to incubate a class of Malay capitalists, but to address poverty and to raise the level of Malay participation in the economy.
It was never meant to be abused by the government of the day to handpick a select group of Malay entrepreneurs, load them with sharply-discounted government deals and then expect them to prosper and create enough economic ripples to help lift the rest of the community.
This was Mahathir’s first and major mistake. But was it really a mistake? Doubters and critics point to the enormous wealth he accumulated for his cronies and proxies through the money-making schemes hatched under the guise of the NEP, and by privatizing government assets to favored Malay entrepreneurs, one of whom is the disgraced former MAS chairman Tajudin Ramli. Not only this, his sons all benefited from his nepotism and cronyism.
One of his son used San Miguel Corporation in Philppines to siphon his ill gotten wealth out of the country. This is the same company that helped Marcos to rob the Fillipinos for 30 years.
Not able to deal with the ‘instant success’ or the stress of big time business, many succumbed to debt during the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Tajudin and friends like Halim Saad fell from hero to zero, losing enormous amounts of money and requiring massive government bailouts.
2). Cronies are rich but the masses get nothing
The second mistake Mahathir, in his foolishness, made was to pool the major part of the nation’s wealth in the hands of a few. This time he included non-Malays millionaires such as Vincent Tan, Robert Kuok and Ananda Krishnan.
Tan has just announced his retirement, but already moved his wealth to China, Kuok unhappy with the worsening racial system in the country has chosen to stay in Hong Kong, while Ananda lives in UK, is wanted by the Indian authorities for allegedly having corruptly wangled a telecoms licence to buy into Aircel.
This pooling of wealth in the hands of a few inevitably left the ordinary Malays and Malaysians with just a few crumbs to share amongst themselves, a slow-boil situation that has blown up to today’s red-hot disputes about social and economic fairness.
Not only is there not enough money for scholarships, education, healthcare, employment and welfare for everyone, even the Malays who have been repeatedly told by Mahathir’s Umno party that they will get priority, have been left in the lurch.
Malays now form 96% of the poorest 40% lowest income earners in the country. As for the non-Malays, of course, they have felt the pinch more. Many have been forced to go overseas to work and to study.
That’s right, educational and employment opportunities are scarce for the non-Malays in the country. Again, the only group that benefited were the elite in the Umno party, their families and cronies.
So Mahathir – despite his self-praise – was in fact rather shortsighted. Money was far more important to him than he cared to admit.
3). Trusting the wrong people
The third mistake that Mahathir made was choosing the wrong people for the wrong jobs. He also trusted the wrong people. All of the Malays tycoons that he picked had no real business savvy but were merely the trusted aides of former Finance minister Daim Zainuddin.
That is why guys like Tajuddin, Halim, Rashid Husein of RHB Bank, Mohd Noor Mutalib and Abdul Rahman Maidin of MRCB fared poorly in the end.
Some have even been hauled to court to settle debts. Only Daim Zainudin remains ‘filthy’ rich. His nominees ended up owning all the various banks and business enterprises meant to be transferred into Umno Baru.
Somehow, as the Umno legend goes, Daim managed to secure these for himself. This was obviously a huge letdown for Mahathir. Instead of ‘tricking’ people over to his point of view, for once, he had been had!
4). Set Malaysia off on the borrowing habit
Mahathir did not foresee that the National Debt could be as high as it is today, having ballooned to over RM450 billion.
Despite several ‘begging’ trips to Singapore and Brunei, he was politely rebuffed. In the end, he borrowed from overseas by issuing bonds and ‘stealing’ every spare sen from Petronas and the other Government-Linked-Companies to fund his mega projects.
Throughout his 22-year rule, Mahathir never saved a sen for Malaysia for a rainy day. And this was his fourth mistake.
5). Weak grasp of economic principles
Mahathir is just an ordinary doctor; a general practitioner and not a specialist. His understanding of economics is as rudimentary as the average Malaysian. His idea of increasing the equity of the Malays is so simplistic – use the GLCs.
Mahathir’s vision of doing business is by profiteering through controlling shares in as many companies as possible without considering the possibility of losing money. Sad to say, real life businesses involves losses, not just profits.
Mahathir’s economic policy was not based on any solid foundation and had never been tested in any country before. It was based on his opinions and viewpoints. If these had been any good or worked, many countries would have already implemented similar ideas centuries ago.
Even established capitalist and communist economic systems have come under fire and economic collapse is a norm these days, part of a man-made boom and bust cycle.
Several economists have even urged nations to revert back to gold-based currencies, an ancient and established type of monetary system, so what are Mahathir’s child-like economic concepts by comparison?
This fifth mistake is therefore his skewed understanding of the economy. It led to the controversial de-pegging of the ringgit from the US dollar and the overnight closure of the CLOB share market trading in 1998 – two events that investors have still not forgiven Malaysia and Mahathir for.
6). Dictator syndrome
Mahathir’s ego and unconscious desire to be a dictator is his sixth mistake. He amended the constitution to weaken the Agong and the Sultans and then made sure that the law and enforcement bodies obeyed him. He sacked the Chief Justice Tun Salleh Abbas and closed both eyes when judges were openly bought by those who had money. It would be tough for Malaysians and their investors to fully trust the judiciary system again.
This is why the Umno-BN has lost its integrity and the people their faith in the coalition. Malaysians will always distrust whatever Umno-BN does even if it may be well-intentioned.
7). Racist policies
To prevent the disintegration of his policies and his misdeeds from being exposed, Mahathir had to resort to his favorite racial politics. He had to convince the Malays that what he had done was necessary and in their interests. He kept for himself the great jewels and gave out the small chips so as to convince the Malays that the war against the other races was real. The non-Malays had to be kept back. Thus the budget allocations for places like BTN or the National Civics Bureau where Malay graduates and civil servants were openly taught to be suspicious of the other races.
But not all the Malays bought it. Such teachings were against Islam and also against universal values. The Malays were left confused, while the non-Malays totally sidelined. So being racist is Mahathir’s seventh mistake.
8). Corruption
If Mahathir and Umno have been successful in making sure Malaysia achieves developed nation status by 2020, why does the record show so many serious faults to date. Yes Malaysia will achieve the Developed Bankrupt Nation status by 2020. There are only eight years to go but the economy is still in a shambles with the national debt soaring to 55 % of GDP, racial and religious harmony in disarray, and the political situation
worsening with Umno-BN now openly resorting to physical violence to stop the opposition from holding their rallies. Mahathir and the Perkasa goons are turning this country lawless.
The education system is also leading nowhere, healthcare is getting worse and more expensive, the much-touted and corrupt 1Care already rejected before it can even come on-stream, law and order is still questionable, mismanagement and graft more entrenched than before in
the Umno-BN government. Instant of all cylinders kicking in, and culminating into the realization of Vision 2020, Malaysia may go bankrupt instead. Not fighting corruption, but perpetuating it is Mahathir’s eighth mistake.
9). Meddling with the running of the country
The majority of the Malays are poor and still need government help despite 55 years of Umno “successes“ (read failures). The non-Malays have been patient enough and have given Umno enough chances. They have waited until the third generation after the nation’s independence in 1957 and they are now fed-up with Umno-BN. The same too is happening with the Malays. Those not in the direct line of the Umno gravy train, and this would be the great majority, are getting fed-up too. More have voted for the opposition and will continue to do so.
When Mahathir realized that things were turning sour, he handed over the baton to Abdullah Badawi, thinking that he could still control the running of the government by ‘remote control’. But when things were not carried out as he had wished, Mahathir forced an ouster and replaced Badawi with Najib. Granted, the disorganized Badawi was in no capacity to lead Malaysia but Najib is just as incapable too.
All through, instead of giving a helping hand, Mahathir continued to meddle with the running of the country. Interfering with the running of the country and
disallowing the current leaders to put in solutions that suit the era is Mahathir’s ninth mistake.
10). Causing trouble in Umno and pushing his son, Mukhriz up the ladder
Yet Mahathir stubbornly refuses to accept or to admit to his mistakes. This is one man who refuses to face up to reality. He is not really interested in the welfare of Malaysians at all, not even the Malays or Umno. He only wants to save his ass and to make sure that his son Mukhriz will become prime minister no matter what deals he has to execute with the current batch of Umno warlords to effect this.
Ruthless and completely selfish, Mahathir would think nothing of creating chaos just to fulfill that ambition. Malaysian must not forgive this criminal. PR must charge him and hang him, if need to.
After all, he could de-register Umno just to stay in power. Imagine what he won’t dare to do to get Mukhriz in as Umno president.
But it is this incessant interfering and trouble-making in Umno that will be his tenth and last mistake.
Mahathir will doom Umno, and in imploding, Umno will very likely take Mahathir down for the count.
Malaysia Chronicle
I hope that BN falls then we’ll know the meaning of phrase ‘when the shit hits the fan’!
well said by ‘steven’ make education free from school to university level, let meritocracy rule and in no time you’ll see malaysia prospering. actively stop brain drain. give work for malaysians and not import workforce unneccessarily to enrich the cronies.
this old goat is not losing his marbles, he is planning for the situation after the polls. the extend of damage they have done to the nations koffers will only be visible after the change of government. so now he is making his statement that PR will bankrupt the nation, later he’ll tell us ‘didn’t I tell you before’.
he has been taking malaysians, especially the malays, for a ride all this while.
The country is already in a worst condition as far as bankruptcy as a result of corruption at all levels in BN is concerned. How worst can bankruptcy be if PR controls Putrajaya?
Dr M’s main concerned is to make his son the PM in the near future ala BN dont lose in the coming GE..How can he be so worried that BN will never return to power if not for all the ugly fiascos that it had created all these decades. Why should he be so worried that PR will be able to open more cans of worms of BN men if at all there arent any? That means is he admitting in one way or most BN mean concerned are not innocent until proven guilty?your guess is as good as mine!
If Anwar is the angel we don know of, is Dr M and his BN mean old devils whom we know and should be sent hell forever?
He said Obama did a bad job after he became the US President..didnt he realise when Obama took over,US was in bad financial crisis thus economy was already very bad? Thus they cant blame him for being not doing a good job for only in his 1st term in service,given another term most americans confident he can lead the country into sunny weather.
Similarly Msia,already in bankrupt level,the best PR can do initially is to mend the holes left behind by BN and of cos it will take time to do so..but at least PR can totally put a full stop corrupted BN men for further fattening their bank accounts, some very good examples..buying condos for cows,buying diamonds,weddings for children billed as official expenditures and many more uncountable closed up corruptions yet to be revealed when PR comes into office..thats the main worry of this old man here.
Firstly Mahathir is wrong to say “better the devil you know than the angel you don’t know. Angel is always better than devil whether you know or don’t know.
Secondly Mahathir has admitted that he, UMNO and BN are the devils. And thirdly Mahathir has also admitted that he and UMNO-BN had done lots and lots of wrongs by saying that the government is now making amendments to the wrongdoings after listening to the rakyat.
Well God is great! The devil is now admitting the facts of the matters one by one.
It clearly show how little Apanama knows about the workings of the US government and the powers of the President of the US. He needs to go back and study US Government 101 and the US Constitution. Otherwise shut up as you only expose your idiocracy and stupidity Poorah Apanama
“… the Opposition as government will ensure there will be no return for BN. Officers in the government will be used to threaten whoever tries to change the government.” – Mahathir
So, now we know how BN has been able to hang on to power all these years.
I think we must give Tun M credit for telling it as it is. He knows we are living in HELL!!! But he must really think we are all are as dumb as the proverbial frog who is so comfortable adjusting itself in water that is being heated, that it ultimately gets cooked. Are we dumb or is he dumber?
Malaya,
Does he need to know? As long as he carry out his task & objective, good enough. He doesn’t care
Anak,
Sure? Look what happen to Neil kinnock. Kinnock supposed to win 1992 ge. Ask bean what happen
Semper,
When I was studying sec school, every students rejoiced when mahathir suffered a heart attack. Yeah, right! Rpk says that non melayu never open eyes to support oppo wor.
Jack,
Yes! Obama should be reelected. Frankly 1 term is not enough. Lest they follow Italian style. Pm or ministers must have experiences in public admin.
Raja,
Bottom line is mahathir richer than you. Larger at life. Get away with everything he goes. He may even call himself god. Or godfather
Finally from the Old Horses mouth, all the tricks BN played to remain in power. I’d take my chance 5 years with a PR government after having 50 years of the same kaka and being force fed policies by the BN government. I’ll take an angle anytime over the devil.
By the way stop scaring us with threats and saying that a change in government will not work. Stop this bogeyman trick, it doesn’t work anymore. We have now discovered who the real bogeyman is – UMNO and BN.
” We have discovered who the real bogeyman is – UMNO and BN.” – orang malaya
Add ” Mahathir ” and the bogeyman list will be complete .