Just like Americans who had no idea why did they put Bush into the presidential office in 2004, Taiwanese had no idea why did they put Ma into the presidential office in 2008. Ma's incompetence as the President of Taiwan shows clearly in his handling of Morakot rescuing efforts in Taiwan.
First, during the 8/8 flooding event, he and his key cabinet members were in a wedding banquet. After Morakot Typhoon was over, he forgot about his President office position as the commander-in-chief to order Taiwan military to mobilize the rescuing efforts. He had delayed such an order for two days causing many innocent villagers to be buried alive. Third, he refused all foreign aids except the Chinese aids. After public strong reactions to his decision, he finally allowed Americans to send helicopters to participate in the rescuing and the release efforts on August 17, 2009, 9 days after the flooding.
How bad was this 8/8 flooding? According to NPR (National Public Radio), Ma said to the foreign press that Taiwanese lost about 500 lives. I spoke to my Qi-Kong Taiwanese friends on the Skype yesterday (8/18/09). She said it was at least 3 to 4 times of 500 lives. She said that in Pingtung, there was a mountain whose peak height were originally at 800 m before the flooding. After the flooding, the remaining peak height was measured at 400 m. Almost half of the mountain mud, stones, trees were carried by the flood to bury the village near-by.
A CNN poll conducted on August 17, 2009 asking "Should Taiwan's leader stand down over delays in aiding typhoon victims?(Quickvote at CNN.com )" , 82% of the voters out of 13417( http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1033430&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_taiwan&cate_rss=TAIWAN_eng) said "Yes". Ma although apologized for his mishandling of the rescuing effort, said that he would not resign. In fact, Taiwanese are stucked with the incompetent Ma.
Taiwanese are even stunned by his several "remarks" to the news reporter after the flooding: Here are few examples that my Taiwanese colleagues sent me via e-mail:
On August 10, a young man in the Taitung county saw Ma and cried uncontrollably. He said that in the presidential election, our whole family voted for you. Why it became so difficult to see you after this flooding? Ma replied, "Didn't you see me now?"
According to August 13, Apple Daily's report (Apple Daily is a Taiwanese newspaper.) that a baby of 29 month old in the Na-Ma-Hsiau village of the Kaoshung county (高縣那瑪夏鄉) was buried alive and was pronounced dead. Her two old sisters were eventually rescued after being buried for as long as 2 and 5 minutes. Ma praised these two sisters for their abilities to consciously hold the breath and stayed alive for that long. The doctors said later that no one can consciously holding breath that long. The two sisters were forced out of the breath (or due to suffocation) for 2-5 minutes by the debris they were buried from.
During an interview with foreign press on August 15, Ma used the word 'they' to describe the victims among 5- Q/A sessions as if those 'victims' have nothing to do with him.
Bush's presidency in America cost Americans trillions of money spending frivolously in the Iraq war. Ma's presidency in Taiwan has cost many Taiwanese lives in this flooding disaster. Even worse he could possibly sell-off Taiwan to China.
First, during the 8/8 flooding event, he and his key cabinet members were in a wedding banquet. After Morakot Typhoon was over, he forgot about his President office position as the commander-in-chief to order Taiwan military to mobilize the rescuing efforts. He had delayed such an order for two days causing many innocent villagers to be buried alive. Third, he refused all foreign aids except the Chinese aids. After public strong reactions to his decision, he finally allowed Americans to send helicopters to participate in the rescuing and the release efforts on August 17, 2009, 9 days after the flooding.
How bad was this 8/8 flooding? According to NPR (National Public Radio), Ma said to the foreign press that Taiwanese lost about 500 lives. I spoke to my Qi-Kong Taiwanese friends on the Skype yesterday (8/18/09). She said it was at least 3 to 4 times of 500 lives. She said that in Pingtung, there was a mountain whose peak height were originally at 800 m before the flooding. After the flooding, the remaining peak height was measured at 400 m. Almost half of the mountain mud, stones, trees were carried by the flood to bury the village near-by.
A CNN poll conducted on August 17, 2009 asking "Should Taiwan's leader stand down over delays in aiding typhoon victims?(Quickvote at CNN.com )" , 82% of the voters out of 13417( http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1033430&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_taiwan&cate_rss=TAIWAN_eng) said "Yes". Ma although apologized for his mishandling of the rescuing effort, said that he would not resign. In fact, Taiwanese are stucked with the incompetent Ma.
Taiwanese are even stunned by his several "remarks" to the news reporter after the flooding: Here are few examples that my Taiwanese colleagues sent me via e-mail:
On August 10, a young man in the Taitung county saw Ma and cried uncontrollably. He said that in the presidential election, our whole family voted for you. Why it became so difficult to see you after this flooding? Ma replied, "Didn't you see me now?"
According to August 13, Apple Daily's report (Apple Daily is a Taiwanese newspaper.) that a baby of 29 month old in the Na-Ma-Hsiau village of the Kaoshung county (高縣那瑪夏鄉) was buried alive and was pronounced dead. Her two old sisters were eventually rescued after being buried for as long as 2 and 5 minutes. Ma praised these two sisters for their abilities to consciously hold the breath and stayed alive for that long. The doctors said later that no one can consciously holding breath that long. The two sisters were forced out of the breath (or due to suffocation) for 2-5 minutes by the debris they were buried from.
During an interview with foreign press on August 15, Ma used the word 'they' to describe the victims among 5- Q/A sessions as if those 'victims' have nothing to do with him.
Bush's presidency in America cost Americans trillions of money spending frivolously in the Iraq war. Ma's presidency in Taiwan has cost many Taiwanese lives in this flooding disaster. Even worse he could possibly sell-off Taiwan to China.
This calls to mind Bush's infamous comment after Katrina: "You're doing a heckavu job there, Brownie!"
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