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Ma is a lame duck
Thursday, Mar 04, 2010, Page 8
When people realized that “all that glitters is not gold,” we lost faith in
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who we thought could inject new momentum into the
rotten politics in Taiwan. After reading your thought-provoking editorial (“KMT’s
paternalism is self-defeating,” March 2, page 8), I can’t help but want to
shout: “It’s the faith, stupid.”
I clearly remember the TV presidential campaign slogan Ma used: “Are you ready?”
It implied that he was ready to defeat the administration of former president
Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) and turn a new page in Taiwan’s political history. After
almost a year in office, it is hard for us to see the original hope raised by
that touching campaign commercial. We have witnessed how Ma has deconstructed
the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and an unbearable internal party power
struggle where those who resign are being replaced by Ma’s allies. The poor
performance of the administration has resulted in a lack of intergovernmental
communication on some critical issues, such as the US beef deal and the locally
produced swine flu vaccine.
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