I write this blog about Mr Ma not because I like him or want to challenge his presidency. It's because the dramatic attitude change of my closest Chinese friend after Mr Ma became the Taiwanese president.  He and I grew together from junior high to college and we met again in the bayarea SF in US since 1983.  His parents both are in middle class not ruling class and from China.

My political view of Taiwan is pro DPP due to the bad experience in there.  But I am not a DPP member and not for Taiwan Independence.  And I would never support Ah Bein after his second term.  When Ah Bein was in power,  My friend always talked to me like I was a DPP member (close to his enemy).  For our friendship  I never tried to rebut him when he sometimes said something suprised me.  So he despised president Lee and Chen, and glorified Mao.  He said Mao was genius at the military strategy and everything. Chiang was just a warlord.  He somehow has different take about the Korean war, so he said China will attack Taiwan and accompany with North Korea to attack South Korean and US if Taiwan wants to be independent from China. 

After Mr Ma became Taiwanese president, he suddenly changed his opinion about Mao and said Mao just learned the military strategy from Zhu De and was not a genius anymore. His hero changed from Mao to Chiang, and his tune changed back to an old Chiang's follower.   He said I should not criticize old Chiang and deserved the humiliation in Taiwan.  And how good the Chiangs were and I should owe gratitude to them. 

So he wished China would teach Ah Bein a lession if he dared to become independence. Now Ma is in power, his mother land changed back to Taiwan ROC, the land he wished China would attack when Ah Bein was in power.  I started to wonder if he was the same person I knew before Ma's becoming president.

PS: According to this article http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2010/new/nov/16/today-p8.htm, 馬英九 is not qualified for his current position. Because he helped Chiang's regime to execute white terror policy during 1945 to 1987.