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Is Pak Lah a good man who did nothing?COMMENTARY
By Leslie Lau
Consulting News Editor
SEPT 7 — Once again, Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi has shown that he is unable to keep in check his party politicians.
If racial tensions have risen in the past few weeks, the blame should lay squarely with him because he is the good man who did nothing while Datuk Ahmad Ismail postured and catapulted himself from an unknown regional politician to the national stage by standing up to his party president.
But it is not just Umno politicians he has failed to keep in line.
He also allowed anger to mount among Chinese parties in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, to the stage where both the MCA and Gerakan are facing pressure from within to pull out of BN.
Now he is asking everyone to cool it. He says it is the collective responsibility of all Malaysians to preserve racial harmony.
But that is not likely to end the debate.
The man who says he is the prime minister of all Malaysians is finding it difficult now to really be one.
He is now stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Stuck between the pressure of staying in power in Umno, and the reality that most non-Malays in this country perceive Umno to be racist.
Malaysia Insider