The Prez Ma fan club (not)
Dear Johnny,
After reading your correspondence with President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) last week (“You know you’re really one of us (II),” Aug. 15, page 8), I thought you might like to continue the editing of Old King Cole. I realize that “jeou” doesn’t rhyme exactly with “soul,” but what the hell — it’s near enough!
Ma Ying-jeou is a merry old soul, and a merry old soul is he
He calls for his mirror in the middle of the night
And he calls for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler has a fine fiddle, and a very fine fiddle has he
Oh there’s none so rare as can compare
With Ma and his fiddlers three.
AN ADMIRER
Dear Johnny,
US president Harry Truman had a sign on his desk at the White House with the phrase: “The buck stops here.”
I’m sure the Republic of China’s US-educated head of state and commander-in-chief Ma Ying-jeou must have something equally inspirational on his desk at the Presidential Office in Taipei. Would the Neihu News Network please find out what it says?
DON CROPPER
London
Dear Johnny,
With that lying SOB of a man called Ma having stymied initial typhoon relief efforts by refusing foreign aid and then shifting the blame for “his” abortion onto others, may I suggest you have a quick whip-round in your office and buy the idiot a one-way ticket home to China on one of his beloved direct cross-strait flights?
GEORGE BERNARD BLAZE
Taipei
Dear Johnny,
Does Ma think he’s in China? Seems to me that this is possibly the case, since Chinese Communist Party officials always get away with scandals — even after poisoning their own children. Maybe President Ma is simply emulating the Chinese.
Look! I can sit and wait and let my own purported brethren slowly suffocate in mud!
True colors are shining brightly, showcasing the current Taiwanese government’s overwhelming “love” and “effort.”
A nationally televised lie detector test of government officials would do wonders for Taiwan!
HOPE
Dear Johnny,
I am astounded that the president and all the staff he is supposed to command can’t for the life of them do a better job.
The KMT, with Ma and Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) at the helm, has proven how ridiculous its approach to the Taiwanese people has been.
Some people do indeed have their minds on China and not the folk who sadly died for nothing.
If Ma cared about Taiwan and its people, then he’d step down and let other more responsible and competent people run the show.
With a heavy heart, I wish all the survivors the best of luck, because they really need it.
TEACHER HARRY
Johnny replies: No need for me to edit Old King Cole, I’m afraid: The version submitted here cannot be improved on.
Teacher Harry might want the president to step down, but I’ll tell you something: the Democratic Progressive Party doesn’t. It wants Ma to keep on like this for the rest of his term.
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