no amount of words and insults against ranil will make that historical fact disappear.
learn to live with it, buffalo is already doing so by trying to appease the tigers and ditching the five perennial losers, Farmers, Teachers, Physicians, Working class, and the Maha Sanga so soon after the election.

Yes Ranil thanks a lot for been a joker all these times, and we did enjoy your US Presidential style campaigning, even though we felt it was rather funny to see you clapping like a clown to the Parakum song, with those dancing girls strutting their stuff in front of the villagers and it was one heck of a party!…With you promising to give them bracelets,and CD players (You didn’t honour that one Didn’t you?)..By the way what happened to your bus which you used last time? ….Was it ” Kota Uda”?.or perhaps sold by your comrades like they did with the CWE!..Anyway your comrades wanted the farmers to wear denims and Gucci T-Shirts with either Nike or Addidas sneakers, and perhaps Laptops to monitor the world market prices for agricultural produce!

Hey not only that you were pretty good with ideas wherever you happen to be……When you are in area like Agalawatta, you talk of moving mountains upside down and using the earth to create “Pasdun Korales” and We thought you were serious about building the biggest Chaittya in the whole of Asia! Wow , and we were quite impressed by your knowledge and interpretation of the Buddhist texts!….But we had serious doubts after your grand stint at the Batalanda!!

You were a wizard when talking about development and creating jobs by millio9ns!….You were at ease to look around and say I am going to make the tourists stay in Negombo and do their shopping there and they need not come to Colombo or elsewhere!! You were also good at marketing ….isn’t it? We farmers were very impressed about your skills in promoting “ANCHOR and Nestpray”. Even the leaders from African countries were feeling good after you showed the whole world that We Sri Lankans are so poor and dying of starvation! courtesy of your media darlings the Sirasa, Swarnawahini and TNL and the host of FM Chaps , who had no music but your commercials about Milk and Halmasso, and We have to use ear plugs coz it was such a nuisance and comical.

Anyway we watched in silent agony all your feeble attempts to stay afloat (After you were been rejected by us for 13 times
But yet we admire your courage to cling on to a losing battle. Yes We
also made to believe, you were the only man with visions left and right and beyond the Moon……and your plans were the
best for the country! No other person could match your economic wisdom for our country. Yours were right and theirs were wrong as you put it…..after all you were suppose to be a savior of our economy from destruction…….but yet we rejected you! How un grateful of us!………We thought you supported uncle Sam to defeat terrorists in Iraq and when oil prices soared afterwards (with the wrath of hurricane Kartrina lashing at Sam’s territory)….but luckily for you, You were thrown out of power, despite your so called efforts to steady the sinking ship!…So you need not have to face that difficult period of world oil price hikes…..and it gave you some ammunition to criticize others in governance about inflation!

Yes Sir, you wanted to make that chap in Wanni happy and in the process lost our support as well as theirs!!! Ohh no what a double blow indeed!…….Do not accuse us of been un grateful, be courageous to accuse them as well……….Well we know you would not do it after all you never accused them when they killed Honorable Kadiragamar!!…So we know your ways very well…..

We should be failling in our duties if we don’t tell you to the face” We Sri Lankans are intelligent than you to select a leader of our choice, and that chap will have to be strong to stand by our love for this country. We want someone who appreciate our simple way of life and who will uphold our values. We will certainly want development, no doubt about it…but it has to be in line with our aspirations and the majority of Sri Lankans. Yes we cannot be tolerant to your support to a few select croonies, who supported your campaigns!!! We were mindful about the Tax concessions to those select buddies last time around> You got to learn a lot if you are to win us!…..Come down from your air conditioned comforts in Colombo and mingle with us….try to listen to our pulses….after all your type of campaign issues doesn’t appeal to us, and infact it angered us! Don’t resort to the failed tactics of mud slinging to and patriotic true sons of Sri Lanka, just because your hands are tainted! And don’t think we are foolish to take your promises seriously, after all you had been playing the same game plan through out your 13 defeats!!!……You should have saved those billions of black campaign money by practically helping the people. At least to help tsunami victims as you use to always say that they didn’t get anything from the government! But yet they rejected you in total……judging by the voting in the coastal belt!

Anyway its entirely not your fault isn’t it?….After all you need to get a overhaul of your party machinery, and try to get people with realistic visions or folks who feels the pulse of the ordinary Sri Lankans…..You need to do a major change to chase away those corrupt partymen and Royal College advisors, who were responsible for giving you dead ropes or failed strategies!!! Yes your last minute die hard struggle with the National flag of Sri Lanka will not help you. You need to be patriotic by heart and not by mere words or clumsy acts!….We Sri Lankiness are not amused at all!….Yes a long wait awaits you or who ever who gonna rebel against you!……remember your party had the Presidency for 16 yeas or so…not so long ago and what your grandmasters did at that time to ruin the opposition!…..Well , the wheels of fortune infact change and now the people’s government will rule and exceed that 16 year record.

Hey we still wants your humorous and joking styles, so try and stay for your 3rd attempt (provided you manage to cling
on to your leadership )… We certainly gonna miss you and the Madam who likes you, seems to be determined to cling on!!…May be a refreshing holiday and a long break at Uncles Sam’s and Blair’s will help you both, at least you will come up with new visions over and beyond the earth……..Ohh don’t worry about the Wanni chap , he isn’t gonna harm you anyway, coz he lost interest in you since 2003, but what happened to your grand vision?…you didn’t foresee that may we wish you good luck!!!………..Yes the man from the South.with a glowing red shawl and who was the choice of the five forces of Farmers, Teachers, Physicians, Working class, and the Maha Sanga and who ever others whom you prefer to add on to his list has soundly and squarely beaten you.., without any form of black mafia style media support!………….It’s the simple and stark reality.

How much percentage of the Tamils were intimidated into not voting and how many voluntarily abstained from voting is always a matter of dispute. Just the fact that were incidents of intimidation in jaffna doesn’t mean that all the tamils would have voted otherwise…….
There is a possibility that the LTTE asked the people just to boycott the elections and the bombings\incidents of violence were carried out by othere self intersted parties who didn’t want the Tamils to tilt the balance in the elections. No prizes for guessing which southern party had to benefit most….

that is still pathetic

To go and vote you would have to take your life in your hands and walk past armed guards at checkpoints.- not so in government controlled areas like the jaffna town. and it is in government areas that most ppl live.

It was an internal party decision taken that very day. -not so again, it was becoming evident from about 7th and 8th.i myself blogged about it on 8th and 13th, and , so did tamiliana . tna mps tried to change it i think, but failed. one tna mp then predicted 5% turnout in a tv talk show on itn on last sunday, 13th.

ltte do have some control over government controlled areas but only by stealth and yes a climate of terror may have prevailed but ltte is not able to physically prevent ppl from voting in those areas.
in 1988 election in the south there was similar terror climate ( thanks to jvp) but lots of ppl voted and some got killed for not following jvp’s orders.
and in january iraqis voted in sufficient nos inspite of a boycott backed by real threats.

fact is ne tamils acted like cowards and slaves of the ltte. a braver response would have meant a higher percentage voting.
democracy works only when ppl have the courage to vote. imo cowards do not deserve democracy.

mahinda buffalo and herd fails to notice, because to do so would be to admit that he is president courtesy of the ltte.

btw,
‘united sri lanka’(a federal state) was used by unp, ‘unitary sri lanka ‘ was buffalo’s slogan. you are confused? :-)