would you vote for George Yeo, if he run for President?

[sengkang]

George Yeo running for President?
Posted: 01 June 2011 1611 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Former minister for foreign affairs George Yeo said he is thinking hard about running for the Presidential Election.

Writing on Wednesday on his Facebook page, Mr Yeo said he is "praying for wisdom".

He also indicated many Singaporeans had asked him to reconsider his decision.

Mr Yeo had previously said he did not have the temperament to become President.

The Elections Department on Wednesday distributed seven certificates of eligibility for the Presidential Elections.

First to pick up the forms was seventy-year-old Ooi Boon Ewe.

Mr Ooi failed in his bid to contest the recent General Election as an independent candidate.

He said he has resigned as chairman of his political party -- the People's Liberal Democratic Party -- in order to run for President.

Meanwhile, former People's Action Party (PAP) Member of Parliament (MP) Tan Cheng Bock also collected his certificate of eligibility.

Dr Tan said he would go back to his roots to rally support, and intends to carry out walkabouts at his former ward of Ayer Rajah.

He said he came personally to collect the forms along with supporters to show he is serious about contesting the Presidential Election.

Dr Tan said he believes Singaporeans should vote for a presidential candidate based on individual merit.

"I would prefer that people take a deep analysis of the individual candidate, irrespective of his (past) party," Dr Tan said.

"I will lose some votes maybe because of my past association with PAP. But that's all in the game, it's ok.

"If they don't like me because I belong to the PAP, they are free not to elect me. But I want to believe that Singaporeans generally would assess me on a slightly different view."

-CNA/wk

 

[sengkang]

yes, i will vote for him. what about you guys?

 

[HTOLAS]

It all depends who he is up against. If any, some or all of the following ran against him, I am likely to vote for him:

• LKY
• LBH
• MBT
• WKS
• LHH
• Yong Pung How

I'm not likely to vote for him if he is up against:

• Tommy Koh
• Tan Cheng Bok
• Kenneth Jeyaretnam
• Walter Woon
• Judge S Rajendran

Anyone else, is 50-50 for me.

yes, i will vote for him. what about you guys?

 

[lianbeng]

lianbeng doesn't mind having a much younger president leh!
why must president always be laoahpek?

 

[po2wq]

would you vote for George Yeo, if he run for President? ...

during erections, tis burger pledged 2 work hard 2 make changes ... nax day, he said he quit! ...

u want tis burger? ...

 

[steffychun]

No I will not vote for him. The Dark sie of the Force still surrounds him.

Bring back OTC!

 

[sengkang]

during erections, tis burger pledged 2 make changes ... nax day, he said he quit! ...

u want tis burger? ...

Remember the last election, the voter of Aljunied vote for wp and told him to run for president.? so the next GE
we can kick another minister out...

 

[po2wq]

Remember the last election, the voter of Aljunied vote for wp and told him to run for president.? ...

did he say he agreed 2 dat pact? ...

anyway, dat has nutting 2 do wif rest of peasants woh! ...

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

NO DIFFERENCE WHO'S PRESIDENT.........................


go toilet also must ask Lee Kill You's permission 1st.......................

 

[kampongboy]

NO,NO ................still NO

 

[karmabear]

I do not feel he did enough to stand up against the PAP on the basis of principles. TCB, although PAP man, still had some form of independence. This could be because he had his own practice.

 

[ivebert]

I do not feel he did enough to stand up against the PAP on the basis of principles. TCB, although PAP man, still had some form of independence. This could be because he had his own practice.

When he's thinking about it, it's already confirmed that he's the next president of Singapore

Good for you guys
He will be a good President since he was MFA anyway

 

[NoNewsGood]

I will not vote for one who needs to "pray for wisdom".

 

[Windsor]

lianbeng doesn't mind having a much younger president leh!
why must president always be laoahpek?

You want Rin Tin Tin? She young enough for you?

 

[Windsor]

I will not vote for one who needs to "pray for wisdom".

He wants to be one that God anointed, as in the bible.

 

[Windsor]

GY runs with the PAP Wolf pack and has no moral standing. As a Christian, he should have made a stand against the evils of gambling and not accept the 2 casinos. Anyway he is not the only Christian minister, the others too betray their faith, but then again money is a more powerful god.

 

[lianbeng]

You want Rin Tin Tin? She young enough for you?

why not? lianbeng also dun mind have a female president for singapore.
who says women cannot be president? germany, philippines, indonesia, etc... all have female presidents mah.

 

[Cruxx]

I will not vote for one who needs to "pray for wisdom".

As a rule of thumb, anyone who professes belief in supernatural beings and phenomena loses credibility in an instant.

 

[IR123]

My vote goes to Ho Ching for President.

Sorry George Yeo. You are destined for better things.

 

[Silencer]

Without a doubt, NO !

For this statement;

DEBATE YES, BUT DO NOT TAKE ON THOSE IN AUTHORITY AS "EQUALS'.

20 February 1995


REMEMBER your place in society before you engage in political debate, said Information and the Arts Minister George Yeo yesterday.
Debate cannot degenerate into a free-for-all where no distinction is made between the senior and junior party, or what the Hokkiens describe as "boh tua, boh suay".

"You must make distinctions - what is high, what is low, what is above, what is below - and then within this, we can have a debate, we can have a discussion," he added.

Speaking to reporters at the end of his Moulmein tour on the parameters of debate, an issue sparked off by the Catherine Lim controversy, he made it clear that people should not take on those in authority as "equals".

The Prime Minister responded to writer Catherine Lim for her article on his governing style because her tone showed disrespect for authority.

Brig-Gen (NS) Yeo recalled that in 1991, the National Trades Union Congress raised a rumpus when Straits Times columnist Sumiko Tan criticised then union-MP Goh Chee Wee for his speech in Parliament.

Mr Goh felt that Miss Tan was "wagging her finger at him", he said.

Likewise, during last year's Budget debate, Parliament took issue with ST columnist Cherian George for his comments on the Speaker's handling of the guillotine.

"He had no right to speak to the Speaker as an equal."

Pointing to a more recent example, he noted that the judiciary responded when American academic Christopher Lingle took "pot shots" at it in an article he wrote in the International Herald Tribune.

He added: "This is not to say that MPs, ministers, Speakers or judges cannot be criticised ... They ought to be criticised if they are wrong but it should always be done in a way which doesn't tear the social fabric."

He said that these individuals did not arrogate to themselves the right to receive respect: MPs were elected while judges were appointed in a solemn ceremony.

Turning to examples abroad, he said the British monarchy had fallen into disrepute because newspapers criticise the royals to increase circulation. But the Thais threw those who criticised the monarchy into prison.

"Every society creates immune systems to defend its own key organs and we must have the immune system in Singapore. Otherwise, by slow increments, we allow these organs to be infected and degraded. And that is not good for us, it is not good for the health of whole society."

The gall of it all and the promise of what ?

I just don't believe !