Surat terbuka anak Tok Mat

Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed adalah Ahli Parlimen Pulai (Johor) selama tiga penggal, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara, Ketua Bahagian Umno Pulai dan antara pemimpin pelapis Umno. 

Kata Nur Jazlan,

"Dua projek utama Najib yang mulanya dicanang akan membawa Malaysia kepada tahap ekonomi yang lebih baik iaitu 1MDB dan penubuhan Felda Global Venture (FGV) Bhd kini seakan menjadi api dalam sekam kepada pentadbiran beliau dan pasti akan bertukar menjadi isu politik kepada Umno.

Ramai pihak sudah mula mempertikaikan kewibawaan dua projek ini terutama sekali 1MDB dan jika selama ini, pucuk pimpinan kerajaan dan parti menyatakan serangan itu bermotif politik daripada pembangkang tetapi kini ia datang daripada Tun Dr Mahathir sendiri selain Tun Daim Zainuddin.

Kedua-dua tokoh ini walaupun sudah bersara daripada kerajaan dan politik hampir 15 tahun lalu, tetapi masih berpengaruh besar memandangkan mereka mempunyai rekod sejarah yang dibanggakan rakyat Malaysia sehingga kini.

Di sinilah letaknya perbezaan utama Mahathir dan Najib sebagai Presiden Umno dan Perdana Menteri kerana pada zaman Najib, beliau tidak mempunyai barisan menteri Kabinet yang berpengaruh terhadap rakyat.

Najib dikelilingi penasihat ‘pandai memandai’ yang sebenarnya lebih banyak mementingkan perut masing-masing untuk mendapatkan projek daripada bermatian mempertahankan beliau dengan apa cara sekalipun daripada serangan-serangan ini.

Lebih menyeksakan Najib lagi, pemimpin yang lantang bersuara mempertahankan beliau tidak mempunyai kredibiliti dan pengalaman sehingga segala hujah mudah dipatahkan bukan sahaja di kalangan pemimpin pembangkang malahan di kalangan rakyat biasa sahaja.

Sama ada Najib masih boleh bertahan sehingga tempoh akhir Parlimen pada 2018 dengan segala serangan ini atau tidak, wallahhuallam…tetapi yang pasti lakon layar Umno ini bukan sesuatu yang memelikkan atau mustahil kerana tiada perkara yang pelik atau mustahil dalam parti ini."

Baca sepenuhnya luahan hati pemimpin pelapis ini di Accountant Speaks 

From Perth to Hawaii - Is Najib heading in Pak Lah's direction?

Our Prime Minister Najib in pink, in the background 

HONOLULU — President Obama has generally refrained from mixing business and pleasure on the golf course. On vacation here in Hawaii, he has mostly hit the links with the same circle of longtime friends and White House aides he usually pals around with. Until Wednesday, when a newbie joined the First Foursome — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

The White House said Najib, along with aides Joe Paulsen and Mike Brush, was playing with the president on the course at the Marine Corps base at Kanehoe Bay. Turns out Najib was in town on his own getaway, and it is not unprecedented for Obama to do a golf summit with a world leader. Last year in Hawaii, he played with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. (In 2011, Obama famously played a round with House Speaker John A. Boehner at Andrews Air Force Base that did not exactly lead to a good working relationship off the course.)

Obama has established perhaps a better working relationship with Najib, after making the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to Malaysia in nearly half a century last spring. It was unlikely they had an in-depth discussion of their foreign policy agendas on the course, however, but perhaps focusing instead on trying to avoid the sand traps.

In a statement, the White House said: "The two leaders took the opportunity to discuss the growing and warming relationship between the United States and Malaysia. The president said he looked forward to working with Prime Minister Najib in 2015, during Malaysia's chair year of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations."

On the 18th hole, reporters were allowed onto the course briefly. Obama missed a putt to the left off the hole, then tried to tap in but "picked the ball up before it missed again," according to a pool report. Najib also missed a second putt, but Obama consoled him with a pat on the shoulder. - WASHINGTON POST

Newbie in a foursome, avoiding sand traps and about being consoled by none other than the US President certainly makes a good read. 

If you take golf out of the equation then the whole paragraph above would send different signals to different people. Painting a perception, in most instances, is vital. 

Ok, don't underestimate the perception when our Prime Minister is engaged in a foursome with Supreme Commander of the US Military, the most powerful war machine in the world. 

Obama 'looking forward to working with Najib in 2015' paints a perception that the Malaysian PM will most probably remain in his seat despite the growing uneasiness to his lame, flip-flop leadership. 

The possibility of Obama and Najib focusing on how to avoid sand traps would certainly be useful for both leaders. Obama has his problems too, from Russians to the Republicans. 

Najib in the meantime could probably use the 'how to avoid sand traps' manual to handle the 1MDB saga. I see Najib's strategists, advisors and all those bangangs are still busy shooting messengers. 
  
Oh ya, don't worry Najib Tun Razak with the fact that more than 100,000 people have been displaced in Malaysia due to floods and at least one or two states may opt to declare a state of emergency if the situation worsens. 

The fact that the Prime Minister is away on holiday while the country is wrecked by disaster is nothing new. Jangan mudah lupa. 

Najib is certainly heading in Pak Lah's direction. 

Nasi Kandar (banjir) dah bungkus will lead you to Nasi (Kandar Perth) dah bungkus. 

In December2006/January2007 when Johor experienced its worst floods in a hundred years, Pak Lah was on holiday in Perth. Jangan mudah lupa. We, the pro-government guys had hit out at him.

If its the same set of rules, start counting. 

p/s I wonder if Obama and Najib also discussed Anwar Ibrahim. I really wonder.