{"id":4482,"date":"2013-03-12T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T05:37:31","slug":"good-luck-najib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/good-luck-najib\/","title":{"rendered":"Good luck, Najib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Wan Hamidi Hamid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/najib_pening-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4483\" style=\"padding-left: 20px;\" title=\"najib_pening web\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/najib_pening-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/najib_pening-web.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/najib_pening-web-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/najib_pening-web-154x175.jpg 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>A simple Google search will show that indecisiveness means \u201ckiss of death for leaders\u201d, \u201cmark of poor leadership\u201d and even \u201coxymoron\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps when one thinks of indecisiveness, the picture of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi comes into mind. He was known then as the flip-flop prime minister, failing to deliver his promises. He made political history when the opposition won five states and denied Barisan Nasional\u2019s two-thirds Parliamentary majority in the 2008 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, when Najib Razak took over from him in April 2009 \u2013 almost four years ago today \u2013 Malaysians, in particular leaders, members and supporters of BN, were hoping for something different, expecting a more decisive leader.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, despite his stylish sense of dressing and correct pronunciation of English, i.e. the upper class look, Najib has failed miserably. Perhaps even worse than that of Pak Lah\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>The group Political Studies for Change (KPRU) in its report early this year summed up everything in the title: \u201cNajib as the most indecisive Prime Minister of Malaysia\u201d. KPRU provides some example of the Najib administration\u2019s flip-flops including the handling of the Lynas issue, the MAS-AirAsia shares swap, the misnomer Peaceful Assembly Act, the kid-glove treatment of racist group Perkasa, the new salary scheme for civil servants, and the profits-for-crony Automated Enforcement System (AES).<\/p>\n<p>The worst achievement for Najib is of course his feat of being the one and only Prime Minister of Malaysia who has yet to call for general elections after FIVE years. At the time of this writing, he is STILL mulling over the date.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another simple Google search found a quote from George Canning, a British statesman of the early 19<sup>th<\/sup>century, who said, \u201cIndecision and delays are the parents of failure.\u201d -The Rocket<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wan Hamidi Hamid A simple Google search will show that indecisiveness means \u201ckiss of death for leaders\u201d, \u201cmark of poor leadership\u201d and even \u201coxymoron\u201d. Perhaps when one thinks of indecisiveness, the picture of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi comes into mind. He was known then as the flip-flop prime minister, failing to deliver his promises. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}