Mahathir on Samy - the pot calling the kettle black........

Dr Mahathir Mohamad has once again lashed out at MIC president S Samy Vellu, describing him as a liability to the Barisan Nasional coalition.Mahathir said he was concerned that support for BN would decline in the coming elections because Samy Vellu continued to helm MIC.

The former premier said the 73-year-old MIC president should relinquish his post for his party's failure in the last elections, where Samy Vellu was also defeated in his parliamentary stronghold of Sungai Siput.

"In other countries, when a leader fails, he resigns voluntarily. In Japan, he would commit harakiri (suicide). We are not asking him (Samy Vellu) to commit harakiri.

"You have failed to lead MIC to the point that you lost yourself," he said.

Comparing Samy Vellu to his successor and former premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir said Abdullah had resigned due to his poor performance.

"Samy's performance is worse than Pak Lah (Abdullah), but he still does not want to give up his post," he said, adding: "He should have resigned before things got to this stage."

The former premier said leaders must realise that the post they held was not for life. "This is not directed at Samy Vellu alone because there are others who are like him," he added. As for himself, Mahathir said he had wanted to resign in 1998 but because of the economic crisis and the Anwar Ibrahim issue, he had to continue leading the nation until 2003.

"I resigned not when people criticised me. I resigned because I had stayed too long.

"Malaysian leaders still do not understand that when they fail they should resign of their own volition, no need for others to tell them. When you fail, your party fails. You are responsible," he said.

source:malaysiakini

Mahathir said, "In other countries, when a leader fails, he resigns voluntarily. In Japan, he would commit harakiri (suicide).

You are right there,but you yourself had failed in a number of instances yet you carried on. So are the current UMNO leaders....the Lingam tape revelations,the TBH case...PKFZ fiassco etc,etc.....

As for himself, Mahathir said he had wanted to resign in 1998 but because of the economic crisis and the Anwar Ibrahim issue, he had to continue leading the nation until 2003.

When you found out that Anwar was a threat to you and UMNO, you cooked up a conspiracy theory to bring Anwar down and with the economic crisis, you seized that opportunity, so that you can stay longer as PM.

"I resigned not when people criticized me. I resigned because I had stayed too long.- Mahathir

No...no...no, people did criticized you, but the media had no balls to report, so were the UMNO ball lickers. You became a liability to UMNO, thats why you were asked to step down gracefully before the 2004 GE, if not you will stay on longer just like Samy Vellu and if you did, BN will fair badly in the 2004 GE.

Mahathir dan Samy Velu ini adalah 2 x 5 dan 5 x 2, sama-sama bukan mabuk todi tapi mabuk kuasa.........

Baca di sini.

cheers.