Presidential Elections 2017

[Zeit]

And who’s this deacon from CHC rooting for Mdm Halimah? Thought they are all behind bars at Changi liao?

[MyPillow]

lee_yl:

Is being the first female Speaker of Parliament an achievement enough?


Anyway, I don't quite care.
KFC said he has done his best for the past 6 years and I also don't know what exactly he has done for Singapore thus far.

:rotflmao:
not any aunty Mary, Jane, Lucy can garner such Strong Force
So quite a substantial achievement .... kekekeke
leeyl , u oso scgs ex flower?

[Zeit]

lee_yl:

Zeit:

[quote=\"lee_yl\"]Who are the other two potential candidates? Probably just coming out to raise their own profiles in the community and also for their own company.


Support Halimah lor, at least she is the first minority female president in Singapore and she has done women proud!

I don't know about the other 2's motives. But I was disgusted when Mdm Halimah was the GOH at the KK Human Milk Bank event which Temasek Cares supports. Salleh Marican was also there (as Temasek Foundation's board of director), but Ch 8 news completely did not feature Salleh but an ex-speaker of parliament. LOL.

Is the SCGS Alumni vouching for Mdm Halimah? Haven't heard anything from the AA yet. Good to hear from her pre-U Tg Katong Girls' School as well. I'm sure all the SCGS and TKGS parents, alumni, staff and pupils are rooting for Mdm Halimah. She will make their schools proud.

SCGS yeah! :rahrah:
Btw, the newly appointed High Court JC, Valerie Thean was from SCGS too. :rahrah:[/quote]OK, good good. Do us a favour. Go dig up your SCGS yearbook, as well as the sec year book and tell me how Mdm Halimah looked like in the SCGS uniform. So curious about her younger days.

[Zeit]

She’s the most qualified no doubt from the Establishment’s point of view. I also think she is, as I’d read about her cases during my younger years. She was most impressive in the courts.


But tolong, pls let the people have a choice. Let the people speak. It’s all about being democratic. Some segments may not like her type you see…

[janet88]

Zeit:

I don't think many Chinese loved Nathan, looking at the number of people who went to pay their last respects, as well as the stark absence of a 'Remembering Nathan' thread and chatter on this Kiasuparents forum.


That's how it is. You 硬硬 install your preferred president, but no one else loves him/her. Only you ownself publish your own narrative to exalt and extol your chosen one!

Nathan and Tony Tan have something in common...they didn't do anything.
as for Tony Tan...it's even worse!!! no power as a president and furthermore 样子没人缘.
硬硬 put someone unlikeable there and this is what happens.

[Zeit]

janet88:

Zeit:

I don't think many Chinese loved Nathan, looking at the number of people who went to pay their last respects, as well as the stark absence of a 'Remembering Nathan' thread and chatter on this Kiasuparents forum.


That's how it is. You 硬硬 install your preferred president, but no one else loves him/her. Only you ownself publish your own narrative to exalt and extol your chosen one!

Nathan and Tony Tan have something in common...they didn't do anything.
as for Tony Tan...it's even worse!!! no power as a president and furthermore 样子没人缘.
硬硬 put someone unlikeable there and this is what happens.

Oh no, janet, I like Dr Tony Tan. I still keep his PE2011 cap in my closet, believe it or not!

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He's not a people person but a very principled leader. He did/said 2 things when he was in the education sector that made me support him. Shan't elaborate, as he's leaving in 2 days' time.

Mdm Halimah, fyi, said she's a mere 'foot soldier' when media asked about her migration to Yew Tee Marsiling from Jurong GRC in 2015. She's just a servant lah. Nothing like Dr Tony Tan who can bo-hiu LKY.

[floppy]

Zeit:

Mdm Halimah, fyi, said she's a mere 'foot soldier' when media asked about her migration to Yew Tee Marsiling from Jurong GRC in 2015. She's just a servant lah. Nothing like Dr Tony Tan who can bo-hiu LKY.

In summary, she is a 'yes woman'.
When boss says 'jump', she asks 'how high'.
Just what we need.

P/S: Speaker of Parliament isn't an achievement, it's an appointment.

[Zeit]

floppy:

Zeit:

Mdm Halimah, fyi, said she's a mere 'foot soldier' when media asked about her migration to Yew Tee Marsiling from Jurong GRC in 2015. She's just a servant lah. Nothing like Dr Tony Tan who can bo-hiu LKY.

In summary, she is a 'yes woman'.
When boss says 'jump', she asks 'how high'.
Just what we need.

P/S: Speaker of Parliament isn't an achievement, it's an appointment.

I presume the above postscript is for lee-yl?

lee_yl:

Is being the first female Speaker of Parliament an achievement enough?

Anyway, I don't quite care.
KFC said he has done his best for the past 6 years and I also don't know what exactly he has done for Singapore thus far.

To answer lee-yl, nope, it's NOT an achievement, because she wasn't supposed to be up there, if Michael Palmer the Eurasian who was widely tipped to be the next MINORITY President at that time, didnt have to resign!!! PM put Mdm Halimah up there as his replacement.

If you look at achievements, browse through her NTUC and MCYS contributions. Interrupting Chen Show Mao and Low Thia Khiang in parliament when they questioned the PM isn't a quite an achievement I want to remember her as speaker of parliament for!

[floppy]

Zeit:

floppy:

[quote=\"Zeit\"]

Mdm Halimah, fyi, said she's a mere 'foot soldier' when media asked about her migration to Yew Tee Marsiling from Jurong GRC in 2015. She's just a servant lah. Nothing like Dr Tony Tan who can bo-hiu LKY.

In summary, she is a 'yes woman'.
When boss says 'jump', she asks 'how high'.
Just what we need.

P/S: Speaker of Parliament isn't an achievement, it's an appointment.

I presume the above postscript is for lee-yl?[/quote]Not directed at anyone lah... just pointing out that a Speaker of Parliament isn't an achievement but an appointment.

I think for a 40yrs (I think) veteran in the public sphere, she is still relatively unknown with achievements that hardly ring a bell (maybe her constituents may want to speak up for her). In that respect, she really isn't any more outstanding that the other 2 candidates - they are all equally impressive, or equally unimpressive as President-wannabe.

[pirate]

Zeit:

She's the most qualified no doubt from the Establishment's point of view. I also think she is, as I'd read about her cases during my younger years. She was most impressive in the courts.


But tolong, pls let the people have a choice. Let the people speak. It's all about being democratic. Some segments may not like her type you see...

She is no doubt the most qualified from the ruling party's point of view, but not so sure of 'the Establishment's\" point of view. Practically all professional and business people I have spoken to do not disagree that she is the least qualified of the three so far as financial knowledge is concerned.

Let's see whether the 2017 PE gets remembered as the one where the qualification criteria turns into a farce where someone who has held office that has only seen $40m budgets is deemed eligible, while the other two who have headed $250m and $400m companies are deemed not to have satisfied the financial knowledge criteria. :evil: