The Learning Performance

Politicians, the world over, are a special breed of people. They are liars with immense sense of responsibility and integrity. They can tell you a complete untruth, and firmly believe that it is for your own good. Case in point:- the Iraq War. President GW Bush stands firm and still believe it was the right war to fight, even though those around him have reckoned otherwise, and American soldiers are dying by dozen every other day.

You might not think highly of politicians. That is actually alright with the politicians. In fact, I don't think politicians ever thought about themselves. To them, thinking is for the weaklings, for the commoners, but to do is not their err; they have God-given right to achieve greatness, and they are not going to achieve that by mere thinking.

So, with a great sense self-importance, deep sense of righteousness, tremendous desire to do good for mankind in general, and with a conception of integrity (or lack of it), politicians are determined to bring utopianism into this miserable world, to establish morality, peace and prosperity to a world of decadence, wars, and poverty. Invariably, they fail flat on their face.

Just ask Tony Blair.

However, if politicians manage to put their mind (a contradictory in terms!), they can achieve some undeniable greatness. They may not have any great mind or intellectuals to speak of, but somehow they do possess an immense good sense of timing. Lately, in this Boleh-land of ours, our politicians have re-defined the meaning of "bocoh" ("leaking"). Beside ascending themselves to popularity stratospheres, the politicians concerns and couple of other, also manage to help call on god's hand in that, one after another, Government buildings started to have collapsing ceilings, burst pipes, and guess what, water, water, everywhere! When it leaks in this Boleh-land, it really LEAKS!