How many here have seen the movie, "The Champ."

That's probably what Chavalit would bring himself into very soon.

For those unfaimiliar with this 1979 movie, here is the introduction to it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078950/

Perhaps for Chavalit Yongchaiyuth, the most relevant part to him is how he and the Champ end their respective career and their lives.  For Chavalit, there is one age old Chinese phrase for it, 晚节不保。(Cannot maintain his lifelong good name at his old age).

LIke Samak Sundaravej, who would have simply enjoyed his good reputation as a wise man, a popular politician, and a fearless outspoken representative of the educated Thais, until he took up the premier as a puppet for Thaksin Shinnawatra.

I just wonder what have Thaksin got for these life-long well-respected politicians to simply dump their reputations for Thaksin.  There certainly must be some reasons for it.

In that movie, a former victorious champion of boxing, decided to return to the ring after long retirement in search of glory and money only to end his second boxing career and his life being knocked out and died as a result.

I really cannot understand why people like Samak and Chavalit would choose to discard their life long good name and get involved with such a dubious figure and ruined their own good name in the process.  In comparision, I could see that Niphon Promphant has chose to keep what remain of his life, wealth, reputation and family, rather than to be hooked by the dirty politics.

Of course, allegedly, Chavalit has got a rather dominant wife, just like Thaksin's.  I wouldn't be surprised at all, if all those front shows of these two men were really directed by the wife and the ex-wife behind the scene. 

I can vividly remember Chavalit Yongjaiyuth telling the Chinese officials that his wife's fortune teller told her that he would be Thai prime minister for 5 years.  Maybe, that's the reason for his return.

I have miscounted, how many years has this guy already been Thai prime minister and how many more years he need to be in order for the fortuneteller to get paid for his work.

I hope that the fortuneteller would tell Chavalit also how things would become after all those years as Thai PM, or how has his fortune changed already according to the star.

My computer fortuneteller is telling me that, Chavalit will go down the drain, just like the Champ.