5 of 9 new NMPs list MM Lee as their “favourite politician"
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5 out of 9 new NMPs list MM Lee as their “favourite politician”
Friday, 10 July 2009, 1:51 pm | 1,541 views
In a Straits Times report on 10 July, five out of the nine new Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) list Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as their favourite politician. United States president, Barack Obama, is second with two votes of confidence, with one each for former South African president, Nelson Mandela and another US president, Benjamin Franklin.
New NMP, Associate Professor Paulin Tay Straughan, who is also vice dean of NUS’s Arts and Social Sciences faculty, gushes as she says, “I never envisaged that I would enter politics, but I had hoped that I would get to meet Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and tell him how much I admire him,” she told the Straits Times. “I hope to do that soon.”
To Mr Terry Lee Kok Hua, a veteran unionist, MM Lee is the “Father of Singapore”. “He has transformed Singapore from a Third World to First World nation that now provides Singaporeans with better jobs, better pay and a better life.”
MM Lee is admired for his “wisdom, vision and foresight” by Mr Teo Siong Seng, managing director of shipping company Pacific International Lines, for “transforming this tiny city with virtually no natural resources into one of the most developed countries in the world today.”
Indeed, MM Lee seems to be admired by the oldest and the youngest of the new NMPs. Mr Laurence Wee, 63, related how he had watched the debate between Mr Lee and Singapore’s first chief minister, Mr David Marshall, in the 1950s and went away awed by Mr Lee. “I was impressed with MM Lee’s calmness and composure during the debate,” says Mr Wee, who is Executive director of Presbyterian Community Services. “I thought to myself then that Mr Lee held the future of Singapore.”
To Ms Jocelyn Yeo, 30, winner of numerous medals for swimming for Singapore, MM Lee “epitomizes leadership”. “His wisdom, strength and courage in making decisions that shaped Singapore are greatly admired,” she says. “He was and is truly a leader among leaders.”
Nominated Members of Parliament are said to be selected because they can provide alternative views. Hopefully, their seemingly deep admiration for the Minister Mentor will not prevent them from doing so.
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So fast start to bootlick?
Not bad.
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thats why they all stay landed lor
then we staying in HDB lor
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Pay them to go parliament and bootlick Lee Kuan Yew.
It seems like a ludicrous affair to me.
I thought state media bootlick enough already?
Why still come up with this type of rubbish?
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To Mr Terry Lee Kok Hua, a veteran unionist, MM Lee is the “Father of Singapore”.
A baba bastard a father of the dialect chinese, malays and tamils?
You still sleeping haven't wake up?
Wow, this peranakan come and suppress my language and kill off my dialect and impose colonial language on me, he is my father.
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It seems to me that the mainstream "politics" in Singapore is really quite worthless.
All just a big wayang.
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Ts, why are you being racist?
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Ts, why are you being racist?
In what way racist?
Come and explain to me.
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So the criteria is that to be an NMP, you need to support the ruling party and agree with their policies?
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I think you must be able to admire Lee Kuan Yew in order to qualify for NMP.
Those who despises Lee Kuan Yew, sees Lee Kuan Yew as an anglo dog, colonial stooge, kill off chinese culture, suppresses dialects, Japanese dog, despot, moron, full of rubbish racial crap ideas, backstabber, I think hard to qualify for NMP.
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They should interview the rejected ones and see if they give a different reply. Might be interesting to see the results :)
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
I think you must be able to admire Lee Kuan Yew in order to qualify for NMP.
Those who despises Lee Kuan Yew, sees Lee Kuan Yew as an anglo dog, colonial stooge, kill off chinese culture, suppresses dialects, Japanese dog, despot, moron, full of rubbish racial crap ideas, backstabber, I think hard to qualify for NMP.
what do you expect, NMP is dominated by him behind the black curtain. How on earth can LKY dominate a person who dun like him, if so, my Uncle Andrew also can be NMP liao.He can go Parliament and F n F LKY
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Originally posted by holygoh:
They should interview the rejected ones and see if they give a different reply. Might be interesting to see the results :)
rejected ones are on ISD list -
These people love the perfect Lee Kuan Yew. ha ha ha h aha! he the only perfect politician in the world le. They wanna emulate him. wahahahahahah
we have potential candidates for dictator liao
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Needless to say they will only select their own people what!
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Originally posted by pearlie27:
Needless to say they will only select their own people what!
that is of course. fei shui bu liu wai ren tian! ha ha ha! even if cmi also get him in, good example is leehsien loong. -
lol they want to get high pay mah..
so must praise MM Lee.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
that is of course. fei shui bu liu wai ren tian! ha ha ha! even if cmi also get him in, good example is leehsien loong.
fei fei? -
New NMP had joined Young PAP “out of curiosity”
IN A country where lines get blurred in so many areas, Nominated MP aspirant Calvin Cheng’s decision not to resign his Young PAP membership the moment he launched his bid to enter Parliament is understandable.
If those lines were clearly drawn into our collective DNA, I am quite sure Mr Cheng would have officially cut his links with the youth wing of the ruling party the moment he had made up his mind that he wanted to enter Parliament.
He did that only after a Today report highlighted the issue on Wednesday.
This 34-year-old media entrepreneur must have felt all that was needed was to be honest and upfront with the high-level committee that sifts through NMP applications and picks people it thinks will make a contribution to debate in Parliament. Mr Cheng says that he told the committee he was an “inactive member” and that the committee did not question him on this.
In defending his decision subsequently, he said his Young PAP membership expired two years after he joined the political organisation in 2006 and that he never even bothered to pick up his membership card. Now here is the real rub. He joined the Young PAP out of … you need to be ready for this word … curiosity.
Let me quote from a letter he wrote to Today: “I joined YPAP in 2006 when I visited the Teck Ghee PAP branch with a friend, and I signed up out of curiosity. Due to many reasons, I never returned.”
My, my … what does this say of this intelligent young man who graduated from Oxford and wants to be a member of the highest and most august chamber in Singapore?
Shall we dismiss this curiosity episode as a case of boyish candour?
I would have not bothered much if Mr Cheng had added this line in his letter: Looking back, I realise how wrong I was to treat my application to join an organisation like the YPAP in such a cavalier manner.
The burden is now on Mr Cheng; he has to prove to Singaporeans that the decision by the Special Select Committee, which includes two ministers and several backbenchers, to pick him is not misplaced.
As for the Young PAP, perhaps it needs to make sure that the people who want to join it do so for the right reasons and not for whimsical reasons like curiosity.
A veteran journalist, P N Balji is now the director of the Asia Journalism Fellowship, a joint initiative by the Temasek Foundation and the Nanyang Technological University.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/07/new-nmp
Why never join SDP out of "curiosity” Calvin Cheng?
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LMAO. this calvin cheng guy thinks really 1 dimensional. or "maybe" they stuff gold nuggets in his mouth, so that he wont badmouth "them". And he comes from Oxford Uni, walao eh, disgrace man!
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Originally posted by OHSheet:
LMAO. this calvin cheng guy thinks really 1 dimensional. or "maybe" they stuff gold nuggets in his mouth, so that he wont badmouth "them". And he comes from Oxford Uni, walao eh, disgrace man!
is he another good for nothing? -
BOOT LICKER
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Originally posted by Ah Chia:
So fast start to bootlick?
Not bad.
Nonono... i wont say bootlick , i'll say since when LKY has bring in so many doggies to flatter him? Quite a good job eh? Then after the election , these dogs will eventually become his slaves -
Originally posted by Ah Chia:
A baba bastard a father of the dialect chinese, malays and tamils?
You still sleeping haven't wake up?
Wow, this peranakan come and suppress my language and kill off my dialect and impose colonial language on me, he is my father.
Then i wonder when LKY die , how is his funeral gonig to be like? -
Kelong?