Iqbal Abd Ghaffar

Archive for October 2008

Memoirs of an Iron Lady

In Politics on 20 October 2008 at 1am

Who is Rafidah Aziz to make such a request from UMNO not to do so? Members of UMNO particularly the women’s wing have every right to nominate a new leader. A party dictated not by the principles of choice and democracy will see its downfall as it will percieved as an authoritarian and feudal organization.

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Time’s Up Samy Vellu!

In Politics on 19 October 2008 at 12am

With all his peers leaving the political foray and into retirement, does this man not get the cue? There’s a malay saying that sounds like “Dunia suruh pergi, kubur panggil mari”. Translated it means, the grave beckons. If Malaysians thought that Abdullah was deaf and dumb, then Samy Vellu is even deafer and dumber!

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The Day Pak Lah Finally Hears!

In Politics on 8 October 2008 at 8pm

The question that still lingers is, how will he deliver his reforms that he had promised in 2004? If he had problems working on it for the past 5 years, what gives him the surety that it will be delivered in the next 5 months?

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IAG to Anwar: Enough With The Wayang Kulit

In Politics on 4 October 2008 at 9pm

But his goal of becoming PM with an “will do all it takes at whatever cost” attitude has only caused his name to bear the same meaning as Badawi, i.e “to over promise and under deliver”. His name now also means “to bravely state a date to achieve a goal, make everyone believe that it will be achieved, and then telling everyone in their face that it was only a symbolic gesture”. Read the rest of this entry »