First of all I would like to apologize to any Anwar supporter if you find this article is unfair to your beloved leader. I am not against him but why don't we evaluate Anwar based on his own history.
Look, where is Anwar now? He is the Opposition Leader in the Parliament. He is the Prime Minister of his own shadow government. He aspires to be the next Prime Minister either through the hopping of the Barisan MP or through the success in the next General Election. No doubt, he is a good politician. He master the skill to leverage on the current situation. During the last General Election, the sentiment of anti-Barisan was so strong. Some might says if 'monkey' nominated against any Barisan candidate, that 'monkey' will sure win. What else to say if the opposition candidate is a person that only yesterday just came back from Shanghai [just because he is popular due to Linggam video] or someone that just been caught under ISA or someone that just had a name as blogger. As long as he against the Barisan, possibility of him to win the election is high.
Pakatan utilized all the stupidity done by Barisan. Some of the Barisan candidates were stupid enough having big house in the middle of nowhere; some of the Barisan candidates were stupid enough 'allow' his/her sensitive pictures [pictures of scandalous] to be taken and distributed to the public. [A little bit of advice to Malaysian politicians and the artists, if you all want to have scandals or stupid affairs, PLEASE do not take pictures together. Recently I saw a picture of a well-known Malaysian actor, hugging another woman and according to the article, this actor's wife is pregnant. Of course some outrageous statements come out from such behavior. My question to this actor is 'why on earth you want to take a picture like that with your scandal?' 'What do you want to prove?' 'Don't you think such digitalize pictures could come out in the internet and hence tarnish your reputation?' Sorry to say but that is so stupid.]
Pakatan also utilized the weak leadership and incompetency of the current government leaders. The picture of Pak Lah while he is sleeping became a very influential tools. The rumors of corruptions done by the Barisan leaders had been put into New Branding in which Internet became a very effective Marketing Tools.
As a result of that, Pakatan managed to get an impressive election result. I salute Pakatan and that is how politic power should be gained, 'either you kill or be kill'. When the Pakatan achieved such success, Anwar was 'located' in the right place and ight time. For Pakatan to have strong influence, PAS and DAP must wok together. And PKR play a role as the glue of this cooperation. PAS on PKR's right arm, DAP on PKR's left arm, PKR in the middle. When Anwar won the Kepala Batas by election, Haji Hadi and Lim Kit Siang knew they have no other alternative and allow Anwar became the Opposition Leader even though Haji Hadi and Lim Kit Siang are much senior in the opposition side of the Parliament.
Come to think about it, Anwar achieves his current political position on a silver plate. I believe Haji Hadi and Lim Kit Siang done much more than what had been done by Anwar as opposition candidate. But credit has to be given to him because he really know how to play his card. He really how to leverage his history ['unfairly' jailed and punched by the stupid police], his PKR status as the Party for all races, the unsolved issues between DAP and PAS especially on the Islamic Country and Hudud Law, and many more.
That remind me of the history on how Anwar got his position as Deputy Prime Minister long, long, long time ago. He was a student activist and because Dr. M did not want him to join PAS, Dr. M offered him Deputy Minister position. Evn at that moment we could see Anwar already leveraged his current situation in getting good position in government. From there onward, everything happened so easy for him. He did not have to stuggle like Dr. M in getting and mainatining his position. Dr. M had to fight KuLi, the Sultans, the Judiciary, etc. and all could potentially buried Dr. M political career. That is why when Dr. M placed 'in a ring' to fight Anwar, we should know already who will win. Anwar was very politically immature and naive [as compare to Dr. M] during those day.
So what is my point? My point is Anwar have not yet complete his 'learning curve' in his political career. If you say that Anwar already put in jail and that is a good experience for him, I just can give you a comment, experiencing jail term does not give you political intelligent. Without the 'learning curve' [same goes with Pak Lah], Anwar might become the Prime Minister because [as I said] he is a good 'leverager', but a little bit of tidal wave [we do not need tsunami for this], he will fumble. In fact, personally, I do not believe Anwar is capable enough to achieve the position of Prime Minister. Easy comes Anwar, easy go. That is the law of nature.
Feel free to disagree with me.
Thank you for you valuable time.
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