Saturday, August 8, 2009

Economist describes Anwar as a Chameleon



blockquote style="font-style: italic;"/blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"blockquote style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" /span/blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"blockquote style="font-style: italic;"span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" /span/blockquote/divdiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"pa onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLl3u9VuWqSZWyzi7hu5jcveqd2zGa_VM7D28G2umdLO2lgfyA_h6hXLRWDK-NNJb8sb4q26mCLfsj9txQP71aLuNTivGCuCsvMqzVy4yoQ7rc8KY-xZIK_hq3XVvKUMfTT7c2LhoQHz8/s1600-h/chamaleon.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLl3u9VuWqSZWyzi7hu5jcveqd2zGa_VM7D28G2umdLO2lgfyA_h6hXLRWDK-NNJb8sb4q26mCLfsj9txQP71aLuNTivGCuCsvMqzVy4yoQ7rc8KY-xZIK_hq3XVvKUMfTT7c2LhoQHz8/s200/chamaleon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365664185447638082" border="0" //a/ppspan style="font-size:100%;"span style="font-size:180%;"Name-calling. /spanA fellow blogger /spanand I were just talking about the latest antics of Ibrahim Ali, the "Independent" MP in Kelantan who won the last general election with the help of PAS but who's now the Islamic Party's biggest pain in the ass. In Malaysian politics, Ibrahim is affectionately known as the Frog Prince because of his propensity to jump from one party to another in the past.br //ppNow there's a chameleon in Malaysia's politics, according to the Economist:/pspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" /spanblockquotespan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" "This points to a trap waiting to catch the silver-tongued Mr Anwar, who deftly tells different audiences—religious or secular—what they like to hear. The same blogosphere that helped his meteoric rise may one day pay more attention to his chameleon qualities. Malaysians would then come to ask more closely: who and what exactly does Anwar stand for?" /span- The Economist, Malaysia's Chameleon/blockquotepRead the full article here or a href="http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14140818"span style="font-style: italic;"here/span/a./pp/pblockquotepspan style="font-size:85%;"p.s. We were immediately thrown back to the early 80s, when Boy George's a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/e%20were%20imm"span style="font-style: italic;"Karma Chameleon/span/a was a huge hit:/span/pp/pblockquote style="font-weight: bold;"span style="font-size:85%;"I'm a man without convictionbr /I'm a man who doesn't knowbr /How to sell a contradictionbr /You come and gobr /you come and gotbr /br //span/blockquotep/p/blockquotep/pblockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"/span/blockquotep/p/div/blockquote/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28452020-5901507155486288196?l=rockybru.com.my'//div

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