'If you are a tainted leader then forever you are tainted. In the case of Isa Samad, he was convicted as a person who used money to win his party elections. Mr PM, don't try to fool the rakyat with your illogical remarks.'

PM: Isa's offence a technical matter

Mohd Imraz Muhammed Ikhbal: This is what happens when a corrupted leader who is morally bankrupt deliberates. He becomes so self-absorbed that he is oblivious to the glaring contradictions of his own words.

<br> In one breath he says, ‘In our system, even a criminal gets a second chance and can contest the post after serving his or her punishment'.

In the next breath he justifies and says, ‘Isa was only contesting a state assembly seat and not a minister or menteri besar's seat.'

So what is our ‘1Malaysia' PM saying exactly? That Isa is a way bit too corrupted to be an MB but clean enough to be a state assemblyperson?

Wow! Now does that not speak volumes for the integrity of Umno's and BN's state assemblypersons as perceived by our very own PM?

Nedunchelian Vengu: If you are a tainted leader then forever you are tainted. In the case of Mohd Isa, he was convicted as a person who used money to win his party elections.

His party is a member of BN. So BN is involved. Choosing a tainted leader is equivalent to selecting a criminal to run the country. Whether you are running for state seat or any other post is immaterial.

If you are dirty, then you are dirty. No two ways about it. So, Mr PM, don't try to fool the rakyat with all your illogical remarks.

Tey Khang Fai: An offence is an offence, regardless technical or not. So if our PM admitted it was an offence, why no criminal charges against Isa?

The PM should be a witness at the trial as he had full knowledge of an offence being committed.

SameSame: BN is really testing the rakyat's patience. A second chance is for people who really are remorseful for what they did. However, Isa is arrogant and still feels money politics is okay. by the Umno's standards.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad started all this but will he give Isa a second chance?

Victor Johan: ‘...Furthermore, he (Najib Abdul Razak) added that Isa was only contesting a state assembly seat and not a minister or menteri besar's seat...'

So this means that corrupted Umno leaders who have already paid his dues can also be elected to contest for 'lesser important' seats/positions of state assembly.

I am getting sick with this sort of nonsense, again coming from the PM of the country. I sincerely hope some of the French journalists pose to him some questions and seek revelations.

Wira: Dear PM, are you kidding us that Umno would suspend a vice-president over a technicality? Is money politics still being viewed so trivially in Umno?

Why should the rakyat trust their country to a proven crook whose earlier punishment was a dismissal from duty and not time spent behind bars?

Man, coming from a PM, this is so sickening.

What A Shame: Corruption is a 'technical' matter! Come, come. You can do better than that, PM.

Our country and people have changed for good since March 2008. Only that you can't see the writing on the wall.

You will go down in history as the PM who lost 52 years of BN rule in Malaysia - just like the LDP in Japan. That's the way to go!

Rick: Najib has given the phrase ‘technical' an all new meaning, Just like the ‘Correct, correct, correct' guy walking around freely because he was ‘technically correct'.

Najib is so intent on overcoming BN's by-elections losing streak, that he is now saying ‘If everything else fails, let's lower our standard on picking the next candidate and win this one'.

I hope the famously ‘super bumi Isa' wins this round and ruin BN's chances for the bigger one.

Ngawangjimpa: Sorry Najib, we can't accept your flimsy justification of Mohd Isa.

It's an insult to the people's intelligence and that's the worse you can do to the public because their interpretation of anything illogical can translate into voting against the government.

Kgen: Mohd Isa's money politics offence is a ‘technical matter'? Where do you think the money used to buy votes come from?

What do you think a person who has invested money to buy a position of power will do once he gets the position? The public ultimately foots the bill to buy votes.