What you said reminded me so much of our lost JBJ.
He got everyone respecting and supporting him, but MOST DON'T EVEN really UNDERSTAND what he said.
Which is very ironical.
Especially the dialect speaking aunties and uncles those days many of them already join him over that side.... they had NEVER be able to understand most of JBJ's Queen's English! They will strongly cheer for him and clap hands and vote for him like magic.
Malay elders as well, don't really communicate well with late JBJ, really 鸡同鸭讲! But the smiles and gesture works very well. This is what KJ have to learn. He need to have is daddy's typical trade mark grins...
I can not forget how he speaks his Queen's English slowly, adjust his reading glasses as he pause and put on his trade-mark grin looking at the audience showing his teeth, then the clapping of hands come strongly for him. KJ is not JBJ. Very different.
hahaha...uncle......kukubird's feelings and opinions as follows:
1. KJ does not have the "qing min" look, he appears aloof and not so approchable.. I do not feel an immediate connect with him at all.
2. His speeches and delivery style do not excite me at all. I would have fell asleep through if i will to listen to him.
3. I still do not understand when he said that he and PJ paid off JBJ' debts in 2006., then how did JBJ missed the 2006 GE? The money to PJ must be peanuts, and knowing JBJ's age, 2006 would have been his last chance and yet they missed it. Are they wayanging?
I do not have high hopes on RP.
Again I hope I am proven wrong.