Comments on: Who Doesn’t Love Him http://absolutelybangkok.com/who-doesnt-love-him/ Welcome to Bangkok Thailand, Airport, Politics, Food, Nightlife and Thai Culture of the Big Mango! Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: stefan http://absolutelybangkok.com/who-doesnt-love-him/#comment-3310 stefan Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:19:04 +0000 http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=3835#comment-3310 Well I don't for starters. This wallflower looks like the perfect result of a carefully orchestrated and cynical PR campaign, except that there is no such intelligence in place; Thai corruption and nepotism bumbles on ... the real story about what goes on behind the scenes is the interesting one, the one no one dares to talk about ... Well I don’t for starters. This wallflower looks like the perfect result of a carefully orchestrated and cynical PR campaign, except that there is no such intelligence in place; Thai corruption and nepotism bumbles on … the real story about what goes on behind the scenes is the interesting one, the one no one dares to talk about …

]]> By: ThaiCrisis http://absolutelybangkok.com/who-doesnt-love-him/#comment-3309 ThaiCrisis Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:21:39 +0000 http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=3835#comment-3309 I'm not ... impressed. At all. Sure it's a refreshing change from ... Samak or Somchai. And by Thai standards, it's probably huge. But it's merely cosmetic changes (and haircut style). That's the advantage of being Westerner ... We already saw this kind of "new look" politicians (Tony Blair in the U.K., Nicolas Sarkozy with his totally gorgeous singer-top-model wife etc.). But fundamentally, the same bullshit remains. In crisis time, we would need a real leader, more than a man who is "cool" and who listens to Guns N’ Roses ... Abhisit is clearly unable to pass the Acid Test. His first decisions are exactly on the same level than the previous government policies (Surayud, Samak, Somchai), AKA zero. Give us a Churchill, then we could talk! ;- I’m not … impressed. At all.

Sure it’s a refreshing change from … Samak or Somchai. And by Thai standards, it’s probably huge.
But it’s merely cosmetic changes (and haircut style).

That’s the advantage of being Westerner … We already saw this kind of “new look” politicians (Tony Blair in the U.K., Nicolas Sarkozy with his totally gorgeous singer-top-model wife etc.).

But fundamentally, the same bullshit remains.

In crisis time, we would need a real leader, more than a man who is “cool” and who listens to Guns N’ Roses …

Abhisit is clearly unable to pass the Acid Test. His first decisions are exactly on the same level than the previous government policies (Surayud, Samak, Somchai), AKA zero.

Give us a Churchill, then we could talk! ;-

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