The Malaysian Insider

"He will then stay on as party president and prime minister until March 2009. Presumably he will be given some time to complete some of the reforms he promised Malaysians and then be given a grand send off at the party assembly."

Reforms? What reforms?
He was speaking about reforms since he got the post in 2004 but until now what reforms have he passed?
All this talk about reforms is just a sleight of hand to extend his term and based on his performance, he'll take till eternity to implement them, if at all!!
In the meantime, the country will be completely destroyed.

he has used all his time as the PM of Malaysia and President of UMNO.

he has successfully DESTROYED UMNO and BN ...and DESTRROYED Malaysia reputation .

Undur Lah....sudah lama dah....patut pergi.

Generally we percieved AAB as a weak PM and keep on changing his decision. He is not focussed and always treats a mole as a mountain. UMNO should select a most suitable leader that can rebrand UMNO as a acceptable party to run Malaysia. From the list that seated the MKT UMNO there is none. I equate UMNO as a human body that heve met accident with multiples injuries that made the man speechless, do not know where exactly the pains in compared with man who are only get a small cut at his finger. He'll yelled to state his pain.UMNO has too much of dirty and smelly elements and it just cannot part with it but live with it. It that the party we want to rule Malaysia?

No point staying on to complete reform...
macam puppet..without power..how to bulldoze thro' reforms ?
waste of time , monies..
just quit will u...?? no nid waiting...until March 2008
maybe will give u a kick in the **s rather than a grand send-off

Pak Lah should just go and call it a day as there's no more face-saving formula available for him. The damaged was beyond repair. He should just accept it. As a responsible citizen, I am sure he would not want to bring the nation down with him.

When one talking about reforms, he must make sure he owns the quality of a very strong will and determined mindset, a very sincere and truthful heart, a very energetic and pro-active physical attribute, if not all, the least! Judging from subjective, AAB almost owns zero of the necessary requisites! So how his he going to reform or restructure the 50 years older vehicle, Umno, which is about to be scrapped?! How to reform the Nation, a bigger mass, if only a 50 years older old junk has also lost control of steering and rumbling like a bullock cart running into the ravine?!

Perhaps there is only one man who has emerged to posses some of the pre-requisite quality of being a man to do the reform for the Nation - DSAI is the better man!!

Time given to AAB is definitely fall short for any so-called reform but merely a grace period, for him to do some tidy up of loose ends here and there, to ensure his retirement a peaceful and unperturbed one after the golden hand shake!

As though the job of PM is something personal between Dollah and Najib and MT UMNO? The country is suffering. The country needs a new PM today, not tomorrow, after Raya, in december or by March 2009. That is too late. March 2009 is 6 months away. There is a financial crisis coming our way from the US. Abdullah will be sleeping. He wont know what to do. He should tender his resignation today. We cannot afford to wait anymore.

Rakyat has given Pak Lah the opportunity to correct the wrongs in Malaysia and earned himself a place in Malaysian history but he didn't take it. What a shame!
He should quit.

We should blame Mahathir for the silly choice he has made. Everyone knows that Pak Lah has been without a character , vision or leadership material for being a PM. Pak Lah has been a boring beaucract ever since he was in government. There is practically no innovative or challenging ideas that he has come up while commanding any Ministry he has held. He is sort of PM by default and he deserves to be removed. He was given an opportunity to be CEO of the country somehow he does not know how to utilise it. Being PM is a powerful position of power and influence. Sadly he just does not have that leadership attribute to use to the fullest.

Some years ago, I wanted to finish my MBA with a dissertation based on the Peter Principle. My University mentor suggested that I should drop it because the atmosphere for such a treatise would be decidedly negative. My argument was that promoting people to their level of incompetence holds grave repercussions for an organization's effectiveness and survival in the long run. Following my mentor's input, I chose a different subject to finish my studies.

Now that I am contemplating on doing my Ph D, I am once again toying with the Peter Principle idea. And with no tongue-in-cheek pun in mind when I say this, our Prime Minister is a prime example for such a study. And what more, we are not looking at the collapse of a measly organization (Lehman Brothers immediately leaps to mind) but we're on standing on the very loose earth of an entire nation on the brink of seriously going under.

Suddenly, I am aware that I am on the threshold of a very important study here. Beyond the Peter Principle, there's also Darwin's 'survival of species' truism - that the weak will just have to give way for the strong - the prevalent law of the jungle, as it were. Only this time with one additional caveat, and that is, this weak one prefers to die a slow agonizing death.

Come on Pak Lah. If there's any dignity left in you, you should just stand up to the nation and declare that you have failed the rakyat in more ways than one. You have sought to reform this fair land of ours and cure it of some of the ills plaguing our well-being but you did not have enough Machiavelli in you to carry out your resolve. You were given that mandate and you blew it. And now the time has come to stand down like a true statesman and admit squarely that you didn't make it.

And guess what? Through all the lumbering days of your premiership, you have now suddenly earned the respect of every Malaysian if you will just stand down honourably.

Nevertheless, Sir, I thank you for having taken up the mantle when it was your turn. In your retirement, you can still do this country good by turning to your Hadhari ideals and do your utmost to promote goodwill, peace and harmony among all the races of this country.

You think Pak Lah was bad? Wait until the next fellow comes along. It's a choice between a man implicated in a brutal murder and a man recommended by the dictator who put us all in this huge mess in the first place. I for one am grateful for Pak Lah's reign. He freed Anwar. Under his watch, it seems like Proton is finally getting its act together. He apologised to the judiciary. He tried, albeit in a hopelessly inadequate way, to get Malaysians to move towards responsible energy use by cutting subsidies and then placing the price of fuel on a semi-float. He took the first step towards reform, by actually voicing the dire need for the fundamental reforms that are closest to Malaysian's hearts - which is more than can be said of any BN politician since the day I was born. Under his watch, free speech and dissent flourished. Sadly, Malaysians seem quick to forget that if it Dr. M were still in charge, we would long ago have seen a second Ops Lalang, with dozens of dissenting figures swept up in the dead of night and silenced for years. Or there may even have been active incitements to violence. I think Pak Lah has his heart in the right place, or at least a better place than most of his peers, and he did the best he could with his severely limited wriggle room and lack of killer instincts. Intentionally or not, his half-competent attempts at reform weakened Umno and BN severely, and that needed to happen. Finally we are moving towards proper democratic freedoms - whether this was his intention or not, this is the reality. But now the crooks have noticed, and they want to turn back the clock, they want to take it all away from us. Let's not let Pak Lah's time in office go to waste.

At least he can now doze off without the Press making a big issue out of it.......ZZZZzzzzzzzz.

It simply goes to show how amazingly high our expectations have risen on the Mahathir Index when many are 'grateful' that Mr Nice And Clean 'gave space for dissent' among his other record-breaking contributions to wiping anew Malaysia's slate, not forgetting its coffers, crime, corruption, cops and capacity for more of the same. The icing on the cake is of course the box office hits of Mongolian Goodbye and Saifool Strikes Back.

I guess this PM was only a Pontius Pilate wiping his posterior on someone else’s face when he said the IGP and AG were trustworthy, the ISA was conferred on a journalist, an MP and whistle-blowers, his Buddy had powwows with sodomy practitioners while providing bodyguards and invisible immigration records for Mongolians, French submarines were competing in the Monsoon Cup, billions became a matter of zeroes, government contractors were being screwed for 300 ringgit a driver, flip-flop debuted as a national past-time, and UMNO re-invented itself as a Salvation Army for the really destitute and racially blind Malaysians.

Though he’s leaving us, let’s not forget to remember Pak Lah for our sleep-induced amnesia.

Lets remember him as the person who did many positive changes, there was more press freedom, more openess but only for a time, until his SIL took over.

His end came when his beloved wife ENDON passed away. When she was around, all things were good. When she was gone, everything tumbled.

Now, he has to show that he is doing good before he moves on. Freeing RPK from ISA, duing the Holy Month of Ramadan should be his top priority plus releases all HINDRAF leaders.

The Malaysian Raakyat will all pray for his goodness then

I just wonder everybody putting the blame on Pak Lah as if all Umno, BN, failures due to one man, but I don't think anyone can fill the shoes of Dr M, no way near, so don't expect Najib or his new Deputy to be any different from now, sure Ministers will change, and for good as some are hopeless, but the same peoples will be there...only hope is a new group of peoples... Thats PKR !!!

Why is Pak lah leaving so soon. He wanted to wipe out corruption and free the Judiciary, but he has yet to achieve these. Please, Pak Lah, stay on to finish the good work so that history will remember you for your good work. We don't want to remember you as the PM who failed to deliver his promise.

compared with Dr.M he really provides more freedom to the people in everything I can think of. Might be has no supporters in his office and party to give him a hand for whatever he wants to do, he is by himself all the time,his reform will sure hurt a lot of ministers deep pockets. So he looks not capable in every reform he says.

If Pak Lah exit today, surely the share market will go up tomorrow...
his SIL has no chance to be the UMNO youth when Pak Lah exit!