Mahathir: "I mean we can have a foreigner as Prime Minister"

• iamgoondu

  27 Jul 05, 20:38

  In an article in TheStar:
  
  http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/7/27/nation/11596461&sec=nation
  
  Dr Mahathir made the following comments:
  
  "We have seen foreigners running Nissan and doing very well. Actually Malaysians are not very capable and we should get foreigners, including to run our country. I mean we can have a foreigner as Prime Minister, why not, if he has the brains."
  
  Any view on this statement?
  
• alexkusu

  27 Jul 05, 20:47

  notice he said 'he' not 'she'..
  
  so a foreign woman cant be PM
• gorby107

  27 Jul 05, 21:07

  Dr Mahatir says he that Malaysia can have foriegner as PM what if really a foriegner come aboard and do something wrong or not that PM but foriegn companies whose CEO did something wrong will he break his promise like that or do it without nothing happened just suddenly? So we should monitor this closely as it maybe affect on our country
• SMAPLionHeart

  27 Jul 05, 21:11

  I don't he said that , a PM can never be replaced by a foreigner.
  
  Foreigner will be focused about what happens in their own home country .
  The one who will care about his country will be the one with the roots at home.
  
  
• skyfoo

  27 Jul 05, 21:28

  not our problem, malaysia's problem
• TwilightZone

  27 Jul 05, 21:30

  I think he is just being sarcastic and he think that he is smart. He had passed such remarks against Singaporeans before. His words are not worth a dime. In fact, if he wants some respects left for him, he should fade out of the political scene, and stitch his mouth.
• ditzy

  27 Jul 05, 21:47

  He is honest and thinks out of the box?
• tripwire

  27 Jul 05, 22:02

  he probably implying that abudllah is a bad PM?
  
  or he is implying that having a foreigner as PM would be no different from the current PM who doesnt seem to give a damn about protecting proton... mahatir's little pet industry...
• sbst275

  27 Jul 05, 22:05

  Aiyah...
  
  He talk say Proton cannot get into foreign hand...
  
  Now say this...
  
  WTH?
• iveco

  27 Jul 05, 22:37

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  He talk say Proton cannot get into foreign hand...
  
  

  But they are the owners of the Lotus brand.
• dragg

  27 Jul 05, 22:42

  let the malaysians worry about he says.
  
  nothing to do with us.
  
  we have enough to worry about in singapore.
  
  
• oxford mushroom

  28 Jul 05, 02:37

  I agree with him....why not? I want Clinton...probably cheaper than LHL...
• Atobe

  28 Jul 05, 03:25

  
  If Mahatir say that a foreigner can be PM, maybe the entire cabinet too can be occupied by foreigners too ?
  
  Why not send MM LKY, SM GCT, and perhaps PM LHL too, and throw in the entire Singapore Cabinet as well ?
  
  It will be a 40 year dream fulfilled for MM LKY to be the PM of Malaysia. (See Footnotes below)
  
  Surely, Singapore will benefit from this ?
  
  Footnote:
  It was a "premature dream" of LKY that got him involved too early into Peninsular Malaysian politics, which broke a tacit agreement with the Father of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and scared the daylights out of the Tunku, who then kicked Singapore out of Malaysia when the Tunku could not "control" LKY and his gang of "Action Men".
  
  
• SOP

  28 Jul 05, 10:17

  If foreigners can be malaysian PM either it means for the last 30 over years when he was the PM no foreigners are capable enuff or he was too smart liao. Totally indispensible...
• shade343

  28 Jul 05, 10:24

  mahathir likes to talk rubbish....
• alexkusu

  28 Jul 05, 10:24

  What happen if the next PM is Jewish?
• Cindyfeh

  28 Jul 05, 10:36

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  I agree with him....why not? I want Clinton...probably cheaper than LHL...

  Yeah great idea. We will save at least a million. To let Clinton earn his millions, we can let him be CEO of Singtel or Singapore Power too.
• alexkusu

  28 Jul 05, 10:41

  Agree. Clinton makes a good president..so far no wars or whatever during his time. Only that scandal thing pull him down.
• Agressor

  28 Jul 05, 16:54

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  Agree. Clinton makes a good president..so far no wars or whatever during his time. Only that scandal thing pull him down.

  And he boomed US economy at that time. We really need him now.
• Cindyfeh

  28 Jul 05, 17:04

  Originally posted by Agressor:

  And he boomed US economy at that time. We really need him now.

  Anyone dare to start an online petition to get him to come here?
• Heartlander

  28 Jul 05, 18:31

  Dr MOHAmad could not even tolerate a talented Malaysian Chinese or a Malaysian Indian to be a PM or DPM, how could he been able to accept a pure foreign PM, hope he is not talking through his nose, maybe he should shut his big gap in order not to offend his over-sensitive bumiputras-the princes of the heartland!