Abhisit Obama

Change is coming! Or so the hip slogan goes: We congratulate pretty boy and Democrats’ leader Abhisit Vejjajiva for having been (s)elected as Thailand’s 27th prime minister. Some red shirts tried to prevent the unavoidable and attempted to copycat the yellow shirts’ chaos tactics in front of parliament. But their anger was a farce in comparison to Chamlong, Sondhi & Co. who – according to reliable sources – popped some soft drinks somewhere instead of champagne. With the good news being: For at least some weeks we’re all safe from them.

Mission Possible? In the true Obama-style Abhisit didn’t show much emotion after being elected. Statesman-like he kept his cool in parliament while accepting a handshake of gangsta face antagonist Pracha Promnok. But then again, the gentleman depended on not so gentleman-like tactics to become the kingdom’s political leader. Whereas U.S. President-elect Barack Obama promises and stands for a new style of leadership, Abhisit’s election roots in the same old business as usual with parliamentarians for sale.

Fact is, with Abhisit aka Khun Mark aka Obamark a nominee replaces nominees. Now please prove us doubters wrong Abhisit Obama – or else you’re weak coalition government becomes even weaker and will fall with the predictability of Thailand’s monsoons, as TIME implied already last year with “Is Abhisit Vejjajiva Thailand’s Next Leader?” He is, thanks to a little help from friends and fiends. Kudos in this regard to the new opposition for not having dissolved the house. Thailand just got some breathing space – and who knows, maybe Abhisit dares to play a little Obama. Abhisit’s selection could mark a stroke of luck for the kingdom. Unfortunately, his victory stands for the failure of the system.




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December 15, 2008 | Filed Under Politics 

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6 Responses to “Abhisit Obama”

  1. chang dek on December 15th, 2008 2.33 pm

    A sad day for any notion of democracy in LOS; a sad day for the farmers and labourers off whose backs the elitists and alien middle class thrive on. Let them eat som tam!

  2. ThaiCrisis on December 15th, 2008 5.09 pm

    He won’t be able to escape from the “quotas” system, AKA giving positions to the coalition members …

    So we will have a nice head (“U.K. born and Oxford educated”) as PM, and then ugly gangsters, old bosses, behind, at important positions.

    How such a government could bring innovative policies?

    Abhisit is going to play his Obama for a few weeks, we should get a few spectacular (but symbolic) announcements … then … business as usual … after 2 or 3 months, the first scandals will appear, the energy will be lost.

    Economy at that time will be seriously down …

    People will start to be angry … We will see some protests … The Reds will wake up. The Yellows too …

    I mean, the scenario is already written, unescapable.

    But until then, let’s celebrate a la Obama style. Let’s celebrate the new PM and his Frankenstein coalition, love, peace and the newly found unity in the universe … ;-)

    Like in the U.S., the people in Thailand will quickly learn that Messiahs are found only in holy books.

  3. puppetmall on December 16th, 2008 1.42 am

    BKKDan said: “If Abhisit wants to restore international confidence in Thailand, he must end a culture of impunity for protest leaders & their followers.”

    Didn’t that culture just end, by default, by his getting shoehorned in? Tho I’m sure that impunity certainly won’t apply to any attempts to form a government through democratic means.

  4. udon thani expat on December 16th, 2008 4.26 am

    Good luck to him but I give it 5 months before civil war in thailand the country is on the road to ruin
    greed is killing the whole world.

  5. CJ on December 18th, 2008 1.20 am

    It is a odd day indeed when the institutions of democracy are under attacked by the very people who claim to be defending it.

    Truly Thailand will become a case study as a land of many contradictions – there is a political grouping that calls itself “People’s Alliance for Democracy” professing to be staunchly pro-monarchy and calling for a reduction in the voting rights of the people. The very organs of the states, i.e. the courts, police, military stand by the side as the country is taken hostage by a mob, and the democratically-elected government forced into a state of paralysis.

    The people who had essentially staged a coup are calling this a victory for democracry, and the latest prime minister is from a party that did not win the last general election.

    It is an odd situation indeed.

  6. Jesse Jackson On Thailand on April 24th, 2009 9.30 am

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