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Watching Hussein Obama and his brother Pak Johari Bidin talking on CNN all about ‘change’ and ‘making the world a better place to live in’ remind me of a promising politician just five years ago.

‘Work with me not for me’, and he promised to rid of corruption and reduce wastage, make your lives better, etc.

Old hat.

When Al Gore was standing against George W Bush years ago, many Malaysians hated Gore because he was the guy who turned up at a PWTC dinner (an APEC dinner) with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

This was 1998, and I heard Gore praising Reformasi and the Anwar movement in his speech, and then he walked out without eating with Mahathir.

So when it was either Gore vs George W. for president, a former Cabinet minister wrote in a letter published in a newspaper something like: ‘I know George Bush will win, because I have faith in God’.

George W. did win, and nearly destroyed the world with his denial of global warming and his war against Muslims (America should indeed invade Afghanistan after 911, I feel, but to invade Iraq using false reasons and to grab the oil is unforgiveable. 1million Iraqis have died or have sustained injuries since, you idiot!).

Now, we have Barack H. Obama and Joe Biden (I liked to joke that these two are actually Melayu braders Hussein Obama and Pak Johari Bidin, heehee), the world is getting excited over nothing again.
About changes and hope and making the world a better place to live in.

And often forgetting that to Americans, and who can blame them, making the world a better place is seen from THEIR perspective, not from yours.

So, no, I have no big hope that Hussein or Pak Johari will make positive changes to the world. I have seen too many Western governments come in and go, and do things from their perspectives.
Just like Abdullah Badawi – as far as he is concerned – and his idiot advisers, Malaysia is today in a better shape than before.

They have left a poor public struggling with high costs, endless debates about everything and a direction-less government that even the Muslim world does not respect anymore. In just five short years.