Now anyone can be the PM!

Our Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi never ceases to amaze me even at his end of his tenure as PM. He mentioned in a recent statement that ‘anyone can be prime minister' in Malaysia! Doesn’t this just tickle our rib?

Is it possible that an individual from a minority race - either an Indian, Chinese, Iban or Kadazan etc, - be accepted as a PM when the simple appointment of a Chinese woman to be the just an acting general manager of PKNS created such a ruckus? He didn’t even lift his finger when there was a hue and cry over the appointment more so to wet his lips. Now he has the audacity to tell us that 'anyone can be PM’.

Take the case in Perak for instance after the recent general election when DAP won the majority of the state seats? Instead of a Chinese assembly person from the major winning party being given the menteri besar’s post it was instead given to Malay assembly person whose party only won a few seats. They even dragged the Sultan into this issue and now he is saying that anyone can become the PM, who is he kidding?
Malaysia has a long way to go before it can emulate what Barack Obama has achieved in America because for the simple fact that Umno and their Malay leaders are too deeply entrenched in their Ketuanan Melayu, period. They are considered untouchables thus even the mere mention of the weaknesses of the policy draws wrath from the Umno leadership. Former Law minister Zaid Ibrahim was called a traitor and many derogating names by the Malays and UMNO leaders. Would these jokers change thus will a Zebra change stripes?

Americans have the shown to the world that they have moved beyond politics based on race and that even a minority race member can become their president. Unfortunately, in Malaysia we are still mired in racial and religious bigotry. Instead of uniting the various races with a multi-racial policy, they have instead embraced a divide-and-rule policy. So can a non Malay ever become the PM of Malaysia, well that is my dream definitely not UMNO’s!