Online feedback

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Franklin triumphs - vanquished Vaz vows to be a team player'.

Vaz misread popularity

Vaz continues to misread the extent of his popularity inside and outside of the party. In the face of a devastating defeat, he continues to display the same level of arrogance that was found to be offensive.

"I still enjoy national popularity," he is reported to have said. Seems that he needs to change his pollster. If memory does not fail,Toots had a song called Monkey Man. Maybe someone needs to take a listen.

- Ja Cynic

Democracy: alive and well

When all is said and done, Jamaica is one animated island. Where else in the world you can have the very popular whatever dethroned, and the unpopular, rise to the apex?

The election of Aundré Franklin to the general secretary position of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) shows that democracy is alive and well in jamaica; but not only that, it also indicates that it is only through the ballot that our political leaders will be selected, and not by those who have a political agenda in one form or another, and who operate through the media.

- Caribbean Design

Sickening partisans

It is sickening to see how political we can get, and how we can over-analyse results. The election was about Daryl Vaz and Aundré Franklin.

Bruce had already declared his preference for a non-MP for the position, yet I am reading comments about this being a defeat for Bruce. All of a sudden, this is about a Bruce Golding defeat.

Are we for real?

- R McNamee