The true meaning of DPP's 'quality guaranteed'

But the fact of the matter is that during the eight years when the DPP was governing this country, an era that only just ended little over a year ago, top leaders all the way up to the president himself were soliciting bribes and shamelessly pocketing government funds. Even the former interior minister, a former Kaohsiung County commissioner hailing from the legendary Yu clan, Taiwan's most prominent political family, was made to play along so the first family could profit.

While Yu himself did not take any bribes, resulting in his suspended two-year jail sentence from the Taipei court, he was powerless to say “no” when asked to help the first lady help herself to bribes. It is therefore nothing less than ironic that hardly a year after Chen left office, the DPP is running advertisements proclaiming how “clean” it is and hinting that it would somehow clean up Taiwan.

Voters should remember that even after overwhelming evidence was produced of widespread corruption during the DPP governance period, DPP leaders have refused to draw a line between themselves and the corrupt former president.

Indeed, DPP candidates have lined up at the Taipei Detention Center for audiences with the former president seeking his endorsement in the ongoing election campaign.

Since losing power, the DPP has done nothing but whine about how much power it lost to the KMT.

Besides taking part in riots, the only notable action the DPP has undertaken since losing power has been whipping up angry nationalism, fear and paranoia against imports of what it claims is “poisoned” American beef. Besides lacking scientific evidence to back up its sensational claims, many of the DPP's own leaders certainly didn't seem to mind eating the “poison” food when they were living for decades in the United States.

Those same people also didn't object to taking their complaints about the KMT to the U.S. Congress during the authoritarian days when they faced arrest and imprisonment for their political views.

Now that they are free to hold political office in Taiwan, they have thanked their American hosts by rallying angry crowds against “poisonous” American beef and thumbing their noses in front of Uncle Sam. So much for “quality guaranteed.”

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