Debate or just another political caramah?

The highly anticipated political debate between the President of MCA and Secretary General of DAP was a bit of anti-climax in my view albeit the first political debate of such nature and intensity conducted in our country. Both LGE and CSL were merely attacking each other but failed to conduct a healthy and fruitful debate on the subject topic. It was as though putting together a DAP ceramah and MCA ceramah into a same hall with their own supporters shouting from the floor and even the questions from the participants were highly polarized into DAP supporters criticizing MCA and likewise MCA supporters trying their level best to put down DAP. 

Even the former president of MCA “was put on the stage” by LGE and CSL with his usual cynicism, very quick in bashing his former president for not being able to conduct his duty as a president and thus voted out by its members. All in all, the debate was not a debate after all and LGE stick to his script by illustrating on the progress of Penang under the rule of DAP-led Pakatan Rakyat and highlighting more on the anti-corruption agenda while CSL was attacking DAP for its inability to stop PAS from setting up an Islamic state should Pakatan takes over Putrajaya. 

Both debaters were not focusing on the topic “Is the Two-Party System Becoming a Two-Race System” but kept on attacking each other just like the usual political ceramah we often see before election. If CSL thought that LGE, after becoming the Chief Minister of Penang should carry himself like the Emperor of Shu, Liu-Bei but not his fighting cock General Zhang-Fei, he should also look at himself whether he is not reacting like Zhang-Fei. 

The fact is that when the politicians are throwing slanders at each other, they failed to see that the rakyat will always be the judge at the end of the day. 

As both of the debaters were happily shaking hands after the debate, there was no winner or loser so to speak but I was not especially disappointed with the outcome as I didn’t harbor high expectation before the debate. The debate was proclaimed to be the face-off between the two Kings of the Chinese community no doubt but these two Kings are not the “Real King” that going to change our life anyway. 

So would the Real Kings debate?