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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Kadir: Khairy must prove he’s not just a talker

“The young people in front of whom he made his latest statement would remember what he said for a long time to come.”
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KUALA LUMPUR: A former veteran newsman has warned, in his latest blog posting, that if Khairy Jamaluddin does not move beyond just talking and talking, he will go down in history as an Umno Youth Leader who missed the opportunity to do something good for his party, something great for the country. “He has been alternating between dithering, hedging and pontificating.”
Khairy has been in a dilemma in recent months, agreed former News Straits Times Group Editor-in-Chief Kadir Jasin, not knowing exactly how to protect his own flank without being seen to be disloyal to his beleaguered party president and Prime Minister.
“The young people in front of whom he made his latest statement would remember what he said for a long time to come,” he added. “They would have shared what he said with their friends online.”
Kadir referred to the Umno Youth Chief speaking during the Malaysian Student Leaders Summit in Kuala Lumpur on August 9, on the trust deficit the country was facing, the crisis of confidence seen in the free fall of the ringgit, and the fact that the party, Umno, was more than one man. “Like many in Umno, Khairy knows that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak was a goner as far as public confidence and trust are concerned.”
“As long as Najib remains, educated and independent leaders in Umno know that public trust and confidence will be lacking.”
Would Khairy be willing to lead the Charge of the Light Brigade to topple Najib and help rebuild public trust and confidence? asks Kadir. “Or would he continue to dither, waver, vacillate, falter and hesitate?”
“Where does he stand and what’s his feature in all the formulations and permutations concerning the future leadership of the country in the post-Najib era?”
Kadir added that Khairy could seize the occasion to either prove that he dares to walk the talk or affirm that he’s yet another self-serving, sweet-talking fake pejuang (fighter).
He recalled that he had written a blog piece, KJ: Daripada Shooting Star kepada Underdog”, to which Khairy’s mother, whom he knows quite well, took exception. “Khairy had described himself as a shooting star and tall poppy to explain widespread resentment against his meteoric rise under the patronage of then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, his father-in-law.”
“In Malay, shooting star means tahi bintang i.e. the excrement of a star – a burning asteroid plunging down to Earth.”
Kadir, who has ceased to have anything to do with Umno since June, nevertheless still thinks that the party has a good chance of surviving, if not as the ruling party in Putrajaya, at least as a strong Opposition party in Parliament. “If the latter turns out to be the case, Khairy would make a good candidate for Parliamentary Opposition Leader,” said Kadir seriously. “At the rate that Umno was going down the chute under Najib and his merry men and women, the latter – warming the Opposition benches in Parliament – is a distinct possibility for the party.”
Kadir who hastened to add that he’s no Khairy admirer thinks that given the dearth of promising young leaders in the party, he comes across like a distant star, shining in the dark void of space. “I have not met him for some years now.”
“All that I know about him is from the media and from the people who dislike him.”
There are many Khairy-haters and sceptics out there, he cautioned. “I have been condemned many a time for suggesting that Khairy Jamaluddin is the future leader of Umno and the country.”
However, said Kadir, no matter how much he tried, he does not seem to be able to find another equally visible candidate to take over Umno in the years to come, assuming that the party survives the current leadership crisis, witch hunt, vendetta, and MADness (mutually assured destruction).

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