How Popular is MM Lee?

[Sangrawi]

It's a pity there is no contest at Tanjong Pagar GRC?

It's a given assumption that if there is a contest, PAP will win.

I wonder how popular is MM Lee in the recent years, given he does nothing much (his own words), lectures other countries' leaders on how to their nations, threaten Singaporeans and refuses to renew himself because hebthinks he is indispensable.

Any opinion?

 

[halsey02]

Very popular, you just love to hate him, or hate to love him! Anyway, it is time for him to go!! those over 50, will find him to be an irritating gramaphone, whose needle is stuck on the grove, for the vinyl have a cut on it...'krack!...crik, crik, crik, krack'.. the younger ones, don't play gramaphone....they have MP3 players...find him irrirtating also, for his recording is mono (tonus)...

 

[ivebert]

Any opinion?

Yes

 

[rise96]

Age will knock him out.

 

[Cestbon]

Age will knock him out.

Prepare for the state funeral maybe next year.

 

[ivebert]

Prepare for the state funeral maybe next year.

Do you know if he is going to be buried or incinerated?



I suppose lackey scientists going to freeze and store his brain somewhere?

 

[streetsmart73]

Prepare for the state funeral maybe next year.

hi there


1. honest, i really need a foc public holiday, mourning!
2. betterer go on either a fri or mon.
3. pretty good long weekend too!

 

[Cestbon]

hi there


1. honest, i really need a foc public holiday, mourning!
2. betterer go on either a fri or mon.
3. pretty good long weekend too!

Extra one day holiday.
There will be sad people .
And also happy people- those life have been taken away by LKY such as CSJ and many political exile).
In the end hope he can RIP. But I dont think so because he still not willing to give up the power.

 

[Confuseous]

UNpopular, you mean?

 

[RoyMcFarland]

MM has done a fantastic job when he was PM. His time is over. The longer he stays on, the more problems he's going to create for his son and for the younger ministers. If PM Lee really heard what the electorate said (as he says he did), he should, as the purported man in charge, make the right, and ONLY decision.... to retire his father.

 

[halsey02]

Do you know if he is going to be buried or incinerated?



I suppose lackey scientists going to freeze and store his brain somewhere?

incinerate a corpse....but this one a ZOOMBIE!

 

[Wang Ye]

Well hard to say. LKY got alot of die-hard supporters. But then again after what we saw at Marine Parade who knows!

 

[glockman]

If I were a CEO running a multi-billion dollar corporation, and my father is constantly being counter-productive, I would remove him immediately. Even if he was previously CEO. To retain him would be an insult to shareholders whom I am ultimately accountable to. But with the pap, it all works differently.

 

[Man On The Street]

Here is what others say of him:

“Lee is like a banana –yellow of skin, white underneath.”
-Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, at the Bandung Conference (1955)

“More like a Hitler or Mussolini but with less polish and skill.”
- Socialist Front on Lee Kuan Yew, Malay Mail, March 28, 1964

“A chameleon, a remarkable creature which can adjust its colour to its surroundings.”
- Tan Siew Sin, Malaysian Chinese Association, in Malay Mail, March 29, 1964

“Lee Kuan Yew’s political power has always been built over the dead bodies of his friends and allies.”
– Malaysian Chinese Association, circa 1964

“Harry, you’re the best bloody Englishman east of Suez.”
- George Brown, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom (1966-68)

“Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.”
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in 1975

“The fact that a leader of Lee’s breadth of vision was not able to act on a broader stage represents an incalculable loss to the world.”
-Richard Nixon, President of the United States

“Who is this ridiculous man who wastes my time? Running Singapore is like running Marseilles. I am running a whole country!”
-Francois Mitterrand, President of France

“[Lee] is bloody-minded and ruthless with his adversaries. He stomps them into the ground.”
- Dennis Bloodworth, journalist, 1989

“A little Emperor … of a tiny Middle Kingdom.”

“All those who met the great man from the little country were lectured on how Malaysia should be run.”

“Singapore is a tiny country. Don’t talk big.”
- Mahathir Mohamed, Prime Minister of Malaysia

“Why is he still so afraid? I honestly think that through the years he has accumulated enough skeletons in his closet that he knows that when he is gone, his son and the generations after him will have a price to pay. If we had parliamentary debates where the opposition could pry and ask questions, I think he is actually afraid of something like that.”

“Mr Lee Kuan Yew kept on repeating how he built up this country and how much he has stored in the reserves. That is the tragedy of the man. For all his intelligence, he does not possess the wisdom of life. …

Mr Lee Kuan Yew fights all his demons within himself to try to shore up his reputation. In the process, however, he destroys the very legacy that he so desperately desires to establish.”
- Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Do you know if he is going to be buried or incinerated?



I suppose lackey scientists going to freeze and store his brain somewhere?

I suggest we emblam our founding father and bulid grand mausoleum cum museum to honor him. It will be a top tourist attraction.
We should also put his brain in deep freeze until future advancement in science can transplant it to a youthful body so that our future generations can still benefit when he can be brought back to rule us again.

 

[Man On The Street]

Madhatter to Harry - "Singapore is a tiny country. Don't talk big!"

 

[insomia23]

if that day comes where the old man find his lovely wife in 18th floor below. then

then

then

alot of them including me will REJOICE.

 

[sirus]

There is a local hokkien song during the 60s, the lyrics: Lee Kong Yiau cho cheng hu sia suay kong meng chu......(When LKY became the government, is a disgrace for the citizens.....
Any old timer bro care to comment?

 

[Sperminator]

Here is what others say of him:

“Lee is like a banana –yellow of skin, white underneath.”
-Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, at the Bandung Conference (1955)

“More like a Hitler or Mussolini but with less polish and skill.”
- Socialist Front on Lee Kuan Yew, Malay Mail, March 28, 1964

“A chameleon, a remarkable creature which can adjust its colour to its surroundings.”
- Tan Siew Sin, Malaysian Chinese Association, in Malay Mail, March 29, 1964

“Lee Kuan Yew’s political power has always been built over the dead bodies of his friends and allies.”
– Malaysian Chinese Association, circa 1964

“Harry, you’re the best bloody Englishman east of Suez.”
- George Brown, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom (1966-68)

“Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.”
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in 1975

“The fact that a leader of Lee’s breadth of vision was not able to act on a broader stage represents an incalculable loss to the world.”
-Richard Nixon, President of the United States

“Who is this ridiculous man who wastes my time? Running Singapore is like running Marseilles. I am running a whole country!”
-Francois Mitterrand, President of France

“[Lee] is bloody-minded and ruthless with his adversaries. He stomps them into the ground.”
- Dennis Bloodworth, journalist, 1989

“A little Emperor … of a tiny Middle Kingdom.”

“All those who met the great man from the little country were lectured on how Malaysia should be run.”

“Singapore is a tiny country. Don’t talk big.”
- Mahathir Mohamed, Prime Minister of Malaysia

“Why is he still so afraid? I honestly think that through the years he has accumulated enough skeletons in his closet that he knows that when he is gone, his son and the generations after him will have a price to pay. If we had parliamentary debates where the opposition could pry and ask questions, I think he is actually afraid of something like that.”

“Mr Lee Kuan Yew kept on repeating how he built up this country and how much he has stored in the reserves. That is the tragedy of the man. For all his intelligence, he does not possess the wisdom of life. …

Mr Lee Kuan Yew fights all his demons within himself to try to shore up his reputation. In the process, however, he destroys the very legacy that he so desperately desires to establish.”
- Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party

Dear Man On The Street,

Thanks for these collected quotes... thanks for your effort.

LKY, the person who lives in a tiny country, and the person who loves to think big, and talk big, but in reality couldn't do big...