Hot, hot Khairy

Khairy Jamalaudin is hot. Not politically hot. But sexy hot. His intelligence makes him hot, at least to me when I first saw him on Dateline Malaysia long time ago. He was wearing an oversized blazer. Poor boy, I thought then.

When he got hitched with Nori Abdullah, I didn't know it was the "Khairy" formerly of Dateline. Only when there's a lot of noise about him I came to realise that it's the "Khairy" I "fell in love with" before even Nori knows of his existance.

Anyway, going back to his Dateline days, he just blew my mind away. I could see the rawness of his youth but he asked matured questions.

Unlike other young broadcast journalists or comperes, Khairy didn't rely on a set of prepared questions by his producer. He posed questions like a veteran. He peeled the subject of discussion layer by layer.

If you watch Undi 2008 on Astro Awani, you'll know what I mean. Those young punks other than Suhaimi Sulaiman and Amir Mahmood Razak, would have been yelled at by Ghazali Shafie aka King Ghaz during this heyday. They're so hopeless. Don't know the issues well.

I didn't know then that Khairy was from Oxford. So, I wasn't influenced by his academic qualification. He does seem like a refreshing addition to Umno.

But his intelligence has also hurt him, at least partially. In his hurried effort to reach the top, he has made a lot of mistakes. Khairy being away from the country for way too long, detached him from the values of the local politics.

In Umno, you have to have the grassroot. If you're up there by appointment, it's a lot of hardwork just trying to be accepted. And Khairy can't even use his fingers to eat rice like the Malays. That makes him an alien to the heartland Malays for a start.

So, he thinks by making ultra Malay statements would make him more Malay. That's the saddest part. When I thought that there's finally a Malay who could inject fresh ideas into Umno, he wants to be just one of them.

Khairy courted and later married Nori while her father was the Deputy Prime Minister. He was following the footsteps of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed who married Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali who comes from a very prominent family in Selangor then.

The wedding of Dr. Mahathir to Dr. Siti Hasmah came out on the front page of Straits Times not because he's Dr.Mahathir. But because Dr. Siti Hasmah's father who was a very respectable man. Khairy even quoted what apparently was said by Dr. Mahathir once upon a time. "You must marry into a good family to gain respect for yourself," was Dr. Mahathir's quotable quote, Khairy's favourite.

Hmmm.....seems like this is how you launch yourself into a grand political career if you don't come from the family of historically important people.