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Had some good conversations with Tirath on this :)

I would like to stress again that a) I do not feel super strongly about this one way or the other at this point b) KeADILan’s official position is that this is not a priority for now (compared to say, running the state governments properly).

All that said, [...]

Rumours abound on Abdullah’s resignation, etc, etc.. As in all rumours, I don’t put much stock in them. Rumours have never been my friend, and while I definitely concur that his position is severely weakened after repeated bashings (Terengganu being the latest), unseating an incumbent is hard – as history clearly shows.

This climate of speculation [...]

Malaysiakini:

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today said his “biggest mistake” in disastrous elections was to ignore cyber-campaigning on the Internet which was seized by the opposition.

“We certainly lost the Internet war, the cyber-war,” Abdullah said.

Ah, better savour the moment, however briefly :)

As I said in the post directly below though, I certainly concur with the [...]

During campaign ceramahs, I talked about how Malaysians don’t get a chance to write the long letters they might want to on their ballots. We just get one X.

It’s unwise to try and discern too deeply why each Malaysian X’ed what they did, but perhaps we can look into what March 8 and the two [...]

Some Perak problems solved, other small ones emerge. On the whole, I have to tell you, I’m optimistic. Maybe just geared on by the recent resolution.

This is a good time as any to make a more general comment.

Some comments have been to the effect of “See, not even one week and all the cracks are [...]