(25-08-2023, 07:31 PM)Clyde Wrote: [ -> ]Cannot comment on other people's wife, but others can make fun of his granddaughter as being molested by their grandpa
BTW, TKL did not comment on other people's wives
Let's be clear about that
He is just emphasizing that he believes locals prefer local bred local born as President and 1st lady
If you do not think so, it's your prerogative but many do know that as a fact
That's why when the China's 2nd team win at table tennis, we always ask if they are locals or not
This shows we still prefer locals
Now, in the disastrous aftermath of the CECA debacle, this notion of appreciating LOCALS is even more intense!
(25-08-2023, 07:32 PM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]Is he referring to Tharman's Japanese wife leh? 
Both other candidates wife. Foreign born but became Singaporean.
However for Mrs Tharman, she lived in Singapore since 3 years old. I felt it is sad for TKL to claim she is not true blue Singaporean.
My parents from China but worked in Singapore whole life. Anyone claim they are not true blue Singaporean will be curse to hell...
(25-08-2023, 07:41 PM)moonrab Wrote: [ -> ]Both other candidates wife. Foreign born but became Singaporean.
However for Mrs Tharman, she lived in Singapore since 3 years old. I felt it is sad for TKL to claim she is not true blue Singaporean.
My parents from China but worked in Singapore whole life. Anyone claim they are not true blue Singaporean will be curse to hell...
You again.....trying so hard to conjure up sob stories
It is a fact she is not true-blue local born local bred Sinkie
Not only that, she has a Japanese father!
As a commoner, no issue, but as representative at the highest office, it is an embarrassment, to say the least
Pangsai!! Oops, I mean Banzai!!!
(25-08-2023, 07:45 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]You again.....trying so hard to conjure up sob stories
It is a fact she is not true-blue local born local bred Sinkie
Not only that, she has a Japanese father!
As a commoner, no issue, but as representative at the highest office, it is an embarrassment, to say the least
Speaking to the media before a walkabout at the Geylang Serai Market and Food Centre on Friday morning, Mr Tan Kin Lian said that he wanted to re-introduce his spouse, whom he said also goes by the married name Mrs Tan Kin Lian.
He said that he had done so in order for Singaporeans to have “a choice of the 'first lady'”.
“There are three (potential) first ladies, so you can have a choice. My wife, like me, we are born in Singapore. We are blue-blooded Singaporeans,” said the former chief of NTUC Incom
Very obviously he is deliberately comparing his true blue Singaporean wife with the other two wife's.
(25-08-2023, 07:45 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]You again.....trying so hard to conjure up sob stories
It is a fact she is not true-blue local born local bred Sinkie
Not only that, she has a Japanese father!
As a commoner, no issue, but as representative at the highest office, it is an embarrassment, to say the least
Japanese blood flows within her body leh!
(25-08-2023, 07:29 PM)p1acebo Wrote: [ -> ]It’s just like jobs.
Would you go full retard on an employer who says he prefers to hire Singaporeans first instead of oh I’m an equal opportunity employer all nationalities also I accept and hire in Singapore. Especially ceca.
Not really the same. Based on Tiko Lian's logic, sinkie men who married foreign wives are second class citizens. Cannot be right? Besides it is bad taste to comment on someone s wife or family just because of where they are born.
(25-08-2023, 07:54 PM)moonrab Wrote: [ -> ]Speaking to the media before a walkabout at the Geylang Serai Market and Food Centre on Friday morning, Mr Tan Kin Lian said that he wanted to re-introduce his spouse, whom he said also goes by the married name Mrs Tan Kin Lian.
He said that he had done so in order for Singaporeans to have “a choice of the 'first lady'”.
“There are three (potential) first ladies, so you can have a choice. My wife, like me, we are born in Singapore. We are blue-blooded Singaporeans,” said the former chief of NTUC Incom
Very obviously he is deliberately comparing his true blue Singaporean wife with the othe two wife's.
That's your own perception
He did not say or compare anything, he just states his own facts of his and his wife are local born local bred
You can read anything you like, but you can be sued for defamation, understand?
Singapore's first elected President Ong Teng Cheong was married to Ling Siew May, who was born in Shanghai, China.
Singapore's first president Yusof Ishak was born in Malaysia.
Friends how many of your parents and grandparents are not True Blue Singaporean. Accordingly to TKL mentality.
Think carefully. Our Pioneer, Medeka Generation. Don't let political cloud blind your hearts.
(25-08-2023, 07:56 PM)starbugs Wrote: [ -> ]Not really the same. Based on Tiko Lian's logic, sinkie men who married foreign wives are second class citizens. Cannot be right? Besides it is bad taste to comment on someone s wife or family just because of where they are born.
How is it bad taste when speaking the truth?
For all you know, majority of Sinkies may like foreign wives to be their 1st lady..
2nd class is what you say, not implied or inferred from what TKL said
You are been presumptuous and filled with confirmation bias and reading unnecessary nuances into this
Get off your high moral horse, you barking up the wrong tree
(25-08-2023, 07:58 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]That's your own perception
He did not say or compare anything, he just states his own facts of his and his wife are local born local bred
You can read anything you like, but you can be sued for defamation, understand?
“There are three (potential) first ladies, so you can have a choice. My wife, like me, we are born in Singapore. We are blue-blooded Singaporeans,” said the former chief of NTUC Income.
Open you eyes. This statement directly from the horse mouth...
(25-08-2023, 08:00 PM)moonrab Wrote: [ -> ]Singapore's first elected President Ong Teng Cheong was married to Ling Siew May, who was born in Shanghai, China.
Singapore's first president Yusof Ishak was born in Malaysia.
Friends how many of your parents and grandparents are not True Blue Singaporean. Accordingly to TKL mentality.
Think carefully. Our Pioneer, Medeka Generation. Don't let political cloud blind your hearts.
So nothing wrong in what TKL said
He is speaking to those who prefer local born local bred local everything
Anything wrong?
Go so low to sell his wife for election campaign power leh
(25-08-2023, 08:02 PM)moonrab Wrote: [ -> ]“There are three (potential) first ladies, so you can have a choice. My wife, like me, we are born in Singapore. We are blue-blooded Singaporeans,” said the former chief of NTUC Income.
Open you eyes. This statement directly from the horse mouth...
Anything wrong with what he said?
Did he say
you must vote for him because his wife and him are local born local bred local everything?
No right?
We are choosing who is the next president not whose wife is our next mrs president
Why the pec never mentioned who has foreign wife will be disqualified from participating PE?
(25-08-2023, 08:04 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]So nothing wrong in what TKL said
He is speaking to those who prefer local born local bred local everything
Anything wrong?
Insinuating division among Singaporean.
Too me, it's xenophobic.
And not a quality for the highest office.
(25-08-2023, 08:04 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]So nothing wrong in what TKL said
He is speaking to those who prefer local born local bred local everything
Anything wrong?
Actually he is right lah!
True blue born in Singapore better lah!
starbugs Wrote:Not really the same. Based on Tiko Lian's logic, sinkie men who married foreign wives are second class citizens. Cannot be right? Besides it is bad taste to comment on someone s wife or family just because of where they are born.
He did not say that they are second class citizens.
He also did not comment anything bad about being born overseas.
He just said Singaporeans prefer locally born citizens.
What is wrong with that comment?
In Singapore job postings portals, the recruiting companies have to advertise and choose a Singapore citizen job seeker before opening up to other foreign nationalities. I don’t see any hoo har there.
So as to support the estab’s choice of the EP, the MSM go overboard and distort TKL’s comment till kingdom come.
I luv PAP! *Fawn* *Fawn* *Simper* *Simper*
(25-08-2023, 08:06 PM)Lukongsimi Wrote: [ -> ]We are choosing who is the next president not whose wife is our next mrs president
Why the pec never mentioned who has foreign wife will be disqualified from participating PE?
But their foreign wives will affect them lah!
No vote from this talk rubbish nonsense dude !!!!
Only NKS looks the only safe one.
(25-08-2023, 08:05 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]Anything wrong with what he said?
Did he say you must vote for him because his wife and him are local born local bred local everything?
No right?
He was comparing the Candidate's wife's as a choice for voters.
No?
What about his "don't meddle with my family" request? Forgotten?
(25-08-2023, 08:09 PM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]But their foreign wives will affect them lah!
Then leave it to fate loh
cheekopekman Wrote:But their foreign wives will affect them lah!
Imagine having to bow in the emperor’s direction every morning!
(25-08-2023, 08:07 PM)moonrab Wrote: [ -> ]Insinuating division among Singaporean.
Too me, it's xenophobic.
And not a quality for the highest office.
You and your exaggerations
LKY had always said and hold to this truth....that divisions are there, it's latent and inborn, that's why there is HDB quota on race
Please come down from cloud nine
TKL will make a GREAT PEOPLE's President
Full Stop
(25-08-2023, 06:46 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]We need to call a spade a spade
I reiterate this again:
Singapore is NOT ready for an Indian President
CECA is the proof
We are also not ready for a Japanese mix First Lady
This echoes the sentiment of many of the eldest who had experienced the atrocities of the Japanese in ww2
Maybe next generation when all of them had died out, then maybe we are ready
But pouring radioactive waters into the SCS is a BIG NO NO
So we are calling a spade a spade
The Japs will never change, we do not like to identify with such low-life
Hello, what do u mean Singapore is not ready for Indian president? We already had 2 Indian presidents. U live in mountain is it?
(25-08-2023, 08:11 PM)moonrab Wrote: [ -> ]He was comparing the Candidate's wife's as a choice for voters.
No?
What about his "don't meddle with my family" request? Forgotten?
He is not comparing
He is speaking to those who prefer local born local bred local everything
No one is meddling, do not put words into his mouth
Plain folks" is a form of propaganda and a logical fallacy. A plain folks argument is one in which the speaker presents themselves as an average Joe — a common person who can understand and empathize with a listener's concerns.
(25-08-2023, 08:08 PM)cheekopekman Wrote: [ -> ]Actually he is right lah! True blue born in Singapore better lah!
All 3 candidates are true blue born in Singapore lah. We are choosing president not president's family.
(25-08-2023, 08:12 PM)Lukongsimi Wrote: [ -> ]Then leave it to fate loh
(25-08-2023, 08:12 PM)p1acebo Wrote: [ -> ]Imagine having to bow in the emperor’s direction every morning!
As long as they are foreigners they will always think of their countries 1st mah!
If war happens they will balek kampong 1st lah!
(25-08-2023, 08:13 PM)winbig Wrote: [ -> ]Hello, what do u mean Singapore is not ready for Indian president? We already had 2 Indian presidents. U live in mountain is it?
You sleeping or what?
Did you vote for them?
I didn't
IAM of the belief that the present sentiments remained the same. We are NOT ready!
CECA is the proof