'We can't continue living with same devil'

YOURSAY 'If we continue living with the same devil, we may never have a chance to live with a lesser one, or even an angel for that matter.'

Mahathir: Anwar is as bad as Obama
Keturunan Malaysia: Dear Dr Mahathir Mohamad, don't you know by now that we already have more than enough of the devil we know.

Anyone else cannot be any worse, at least not more than one term before we, the voters, exercise our right to pick and choose again.

If we continue to live with the same devil, we may never have a chance to live with a lesser one, or even an angel for that matter.

Cascara: Malaysian voters, get the message? You have been urged by Mahathir to trust the devils and not the angels.

Dev Anand Pillai: Tun (Mahathir), we have heard all that from you before.

Had you not tolerated corruption, cronyism and abuse of power, then perhaps it may have been different but you just allow them to fester. So now we are fed up of hearing from you, we want reform and equality for all.

Swipenter: Mahathir is not so subtly endorsing ‘Janji Ditetapi' (Promises Kept) propaganda by his rantings against Anwar and Pakatan for "promising big changes but failing to keep them".

We promise to confine your legacies of racism, cronyism, corruption, religious indoctrination and discrimination to the dustbin of history.

Heller: When you don't give a chance to Pakatan Rakyat, how can they fulfil their promises? So we should all vote Pakatan into power at the 13^th general election (GE13) and see if they can keep their promises.

And we will also get to see if Umno-BN can keep their promises as opposition when they get no allocations whatsoever.

Mushiro: How can Anwar be accused of not fulfilling his promises when he has not even taken over the rein of the country? How does Mahathir expect Anwar to fulfill his promises when even Umno and Najib has failed to deliver their promises?

Mahathir should look at how Penang and Selangor has performed in the past four years, especially the surplus budget which is unheard off when the states were under Umno control.

Absalom: Dr M must take the Malaysian people for a bunch of forgetful idiots the way he is talking down to them. How can Pakatan, or any other for that matter, do more damage than has been done by the BN administration already?

Like all those incredibly lop-sided toll concessions where companies make huge profits but still allowed to increase the toll rates every few years or be compensated with taxpayers' money?

I think most Malaysians cannot wait to see the current administration voted out, not so much because Anwar and the Pakatan are the better choice but that the BN is the worst of the alternatives as far as the past record goes, as well as confronting the challenges Malaysia has ahead.

I hope Dr M lives to see this change, eat his words and made to pay for his deeds.

Hang Babeuf: If Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is half as good as United States President Barack Obama, then he is five times better than all the Umno "heavies" combined.

Boon Hor Loy: Obama is unfortunate because of what was left behind by former president George W Bush. Same here, our ‘Bolehland' is near bankruptcy because of you (Mahathir).

EugeneT: Seriously, Mahathir should keep updated with world affairs. In a documented post about Obama, he has worked on keeping as many promises as he could, and the ones he couldn't are mainly due to being stonewalled by the Republicans.

At least, it's better than all the hot air about ‘Rakyat Didahulukan'(People First).

Be-End: At least those you labelled as bad have our respect, unlike what we have for you. You are the worst of all combined.

Telestai!: Judging from the comparisons Mahathir is making, it is obvious he sees himself an international statesman in the mould of Henry Kissinger and Kofi Annan.

What he doesn't realise is that the better part of the world regards him as a pariah politician with a loud mouth. A former judge even called him the devil incarnate, but I think it is flattery.

Tholu: Mahathir, forget about all the wild accusations you made about Anwar, but tell me the name of one US president whom you liked?

For that matter, tell me which of your deputies did you like since you became PM - Musa Hitam; Ghafar Baba; Anwar Ibrahim; Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?

You are beginning to even dislike Najib and you want to tell us that Anwar is bad. To you Tun, all are bad except you yourself but we, the rakyat know who the devil is.

Malaysian Bersih: A bad angel is still better than a devil because it is still an angel. A devil will always be a devil and there is no good devil in this world - that is why nobody worship devils, except you and your cronies.

Yellow KundiChai: Nothing surprises me about Mahathir, he is a bigot and a racist. Corruption is written on his forehead. Since the time when Hussein Onn selected Mahathir over Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to lead the nation, Malaysia has been on a downward spiral.

Abdul Rahman saw the danger of this "bad and evil man". I think Hussein must be turning in his grave. He made a grievous error. Malaysia would have reached great heights with Razaleigh.

Mahathir used corruption to stay in power. His own children were bailed out using public funds with billions of ringgit that were meant for the poor bumiputeras, as well as billions more went to support his failed investments.

Wira: By the way, Mahathir, the biggest change Anwar brought to your government which no finance minister had consistently done before him was to give this country a balanced budget and a surplus.

Now you are accusing him of being a spendthrift with public money. If you are senile, please google and confirm this fact to refresh your memory.

Samuel Low 1f5a: Out of 266 comments, including number 267, nobody seems to favour what Mahathir said. In fact, whenever he opened his mouth, everyone will ‘hammer' him. so why does he still want to talk?

Another thing is everyone knows Anwar is not an angel and he is far from perfect. So why Mahathir kept repeating his attack when it backfired time and again.

Kinikid: Dr M, the biggest mistake that you have made is you live too long to see your failure in life. - Malaysiakini