Transition Plan, Follow the Grassroots and Greed

According to one article in The Star (online), the current president of the women's wing said that the transition plan (where she will be out-going in June 2009) is still intact. This was supposedly said in the presence of the president-in-waiting (for June 2009). Or at least the picture in the article seems to imply.

According to another article, also in The Star (online), the president in waiting "is keeping her options open as to whether she will contest...." And that while she "wanted a smooth transition of power but did not rule out the possibility of challenging" the current president for the post.

Why they talk like this? I dont understand. So how now? Transition or challenge? Perhaps the politicians really wants the rest of us to be happy and will say anything to make whoever is in front of them happy. Not that they will do, but at least they will say things to bring harmony and happiness to the naive.

Also, I noticed a terrible thing about the transition too. According to the current (and out-going) president, the people who insist on speeding up the transition are greedy and impatient. Impatient I can understand. But greedy? How can they be greedy? Afterall, there is very little to gain by the president personally. It is a sense of responsibility and duty that is the calling to serve the rakyat.

This accusation is absurd. Greedy? As if there is something to monetary gain by being president. Look at the current president, what has she gained? She has gained nothing, so how can the new one be "greedy"?

It is not like she has gained a lot, for if she did gain a lot of monetary benefits, she wont want to let go of the benefits. See how she is letting go of all the power (no benefits) with the transition plan? it is only 3 months. What is 3 more months in a career that can span 10-20 years?

So, I think in essence, the current president (out-going) message is: "I can do anything I like while I have the power".
And the president-in-waiting (incoming) is from a position of little power: "I will say anything to please the powers in order to gain the power."

Great strategies.
I should have thought of that!