Once every 5 years or so, I will develop a keen interest in politics, or at least I hope to believe I will do that once every elections. There are many great bloggers who covered the issues for this election adequately and far better than my poor command of English could do. These bloggers opened a new perspective for me compared to the same old point of view of the government given in the news and papers. Though these fresh perspective may not be anymore better or worse than the one by the local media, the reader will have to read both sides of the story and decide for themselves. So here's some points of reflections I have for this Election 2006 and the relevant links to websites.

Manifestoes
I recall that PAP leaders were calling for the opposition's manifestoes before the elections started. Initially, I could only find the Manifesto for PAP and WP on the Channelnewsasia website so I assumed that only these two parties provided them. But Yawning Bread managed to find the manifestoes for all four parties. He even gave his insights after reading all of them.

I personally only read the PAP and WP manifestoes, didn't bothered to follow up SDA and SDP ones because these two parties did not impress me from their campaign broadcast. First, let's look at PAP's manifesto.

Generally, to say that the PAP manifesto is vague will be a gross understatement. The manifesto seems to be targeted at primary school students as it is written in simple sentences such as "Give our young a best start". It seems more like a whole list of birthday wishes. I mean, who don't want to give our young a best start? Duh...

Yawning Bread sums up the PAP manifesto beautifully with this line:

Do I agree wholeheartedly with the PAP manifesto? Yes. Do I agree with motherhood statements? Of course.

To be frank, I thought it all quite insulting to my intelligence.