Voting is a bet Mr Koh?

"Don't Bet On Candidates", Says Koh as reported by Bernama on March 01, 2008

Are you telling Malaysians to bet on BN for another term?

Mr Koh has to realise here that there is an element of risk daily that we as humans undertake. It is in the same context that the risk here is in voting the right candidates for the coming 12th General Election. The situation as compared to 2004 is slightly different then when Malaysians were riding on a euphoria of a good growing economy and amidst development which had kept everyone feeling good. Malaysia then was a respected country worldwide and recognition of Chairmanship of various groupings was evident of the support as compared to now.

At that instance, BN had a resounding win thumping the Opposition while the Malaysian public had given a firm mandate to BN to further rule the country for another 5 years. The risk the Malaysian public had taken then was to bet on the BN candidates fielded then to continue develop the nation and grow further ahead from 2004. Promises of Cemerlang, Gemilang & Terbilang had been a dissapointment leading to this year's manifesto of Peace, Security and Prosperity which all points to a less enthusiastic ruling coalition manifestoin their 50 year history.

What revealed afterwards to the rakyat was that they discovered that their bet on the BN "horses" had turned ugly amidst the many revelations or "expose" that they were riding on the lame "horses" whom had decided to just be fed and lived a good life themselves ignoring their "owners" plea of good governance and trustworthy to the rakyat. The rakyat had felt that their bets had caused them a big hole in their purchasing power while the gap between the rich and poor gets bigger.

4 years now and how quick can the bet on the wrong "horses" in 2004 would encourage the owners to change and placed their bets on "horses" which would represent them well besides acting as a "check and balance" should BN win (formality).

The results had been less then encouraging and in any venture, a drastic decision would have to be made to aleviate the situation to ensure that from 2008, the elected Government would provide a better achievement and results for the people of Malaysia.

In this instance, the people of Malaysia would be willing to place their bets on Opposition rather then the "horses" which had been serving their masters for 50 years with the last 4 years as near disaster. Come March 8, it would be a mere formality for many constituency that voting would be a thumbs up for the People's Front (Barisan Rakyat).

So Mr Koh, BN had failed the rakyats' bets on you to deliver and it is time to bet on others. We gave you 4 years and there would be nothing wrong to give the Opposition a 5 year term to deliver their promises to serve the rakyat.