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SOUNDING BOARD
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
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I told you so
That was the first thing I said when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced that she will run for President in 2004. Somehow, I did not believe her (see featured posts). And there you go, on Saturday she finally declared she will run in 2004. We all witnessed how she initially invoked divine intervention from the moment she declared in December 2002 that she will not run, and then, invoked the same divine intervention when she was thinking deeply whether she should really run or not. Having been criticized from left to right, she now declared that it was her own decision, now rationalizing her change of mind because of the needs of the country. It was expected, but it was nevertheless a good show of utter lack of 'palabra de honor' (word of honor).
If, somehow, people can convince themselves to vote for a someone who doesn't have a word of honor, then maybe we really get the leaders we deserve. Some regard her as the 'necessary evil' implying that the 'bench is really that shallow'. Granted that the necessary evil argument is valid, however, these people may have never asked themselves why the bench is shallow in the first place. It is shallow because we have voters who merely accept the fact that it is. Period.
posted by Allan at 7:53 AM (GMT+8)
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