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Saturday, February 25, 2006
"There are so much things to do....i'm so sleepy!
There are so much to be confused about...i don't know what to do!
There are so much to ponder about... i cannot choose!"
Wow! Grabe! ANG LALIM! :D Ano naman ang problema mo, ha? :P
Nabibiwisit ako. May atenista kasi na nagpost ng opinyon niya tungkol sa mga nangyayari sa yahoogroups ng org ko at ang SARAP niyang sakalin! Grrrrr! Magrereply nga ako sa kanya (pero joke lang, hindi ko to ipopost sa yahoogroups, ayoko magsimula ng away at di ko naman siya kilala personally)! Wag niyo na lang itong pansinin ok!
Mr. *********,
We both agree that the recent coup attempt is indeed a threat to our democracy and should be condemned. However, I must disagree with a few of the opinions that you have posted. You seem to confuse the recent coup attempts with the rallies that have been going on, you seem to say that they implicitly support each other and have the same people behind them. Well, I must say that you are wrong in that account. Besides, coups may be a foul way to change the government, but I cannot see how rallying is.
Your argument is seriously undermined by labelling all opposition congressmen as oligarchs belonging to political dynasties and 'has-beens', as well as labelling the 'Hyatt 10' as 'hypocrites that no one will listen to'. When they made the decision to resign from their respective posts last year, many people certainly listened to them, deemed their opinions important and worth listening to. And why do you say they are hypocrites? Is it because they resigned from the administration that they were supposed to support? I must inform you (insider scoop) that they truly and honestly thought that the administration was going nowhere. GMA would not listen to them, she wouldn't follow through on her promises. She even blamed some of them when her approval ratings dropped. Do you blame them? Do you think they should have grinned and bore it?
I also take to task your calling Corazon Aquino a president whose legitimacy has not been proved. The final 1986 elections counts are split, with the official parliamentary one hailing Marcos the winner and the NAMFREL one Aquino. But it is to be remembered that Marcos himself fled Malacanang right after his oath taking, made plans to leave even before that. He fled his office because he knew that he had lost the support of the people, the military, and that there was no way that they would accept him as new president. The people had had ENOUGH. Besides, if you use that same criteria, then GMA's presidency would be illegtimate also, even excluding the cheating allegations she received. (Pot shot: at least Cory didn't cheat and use her power and influence to change vote sheets and place her opponents votes at zero.)
It is true that GMA was constitutionally next from Erap. But what was the spark, who pushed her there? It was no one but the people. If there was no Edsa II, she would not have been president and our history would have been changed. Also, personally, I cannot call someone who changed the voting sheets, gave her biggest opponent FPJ a big fat egg in some localities (which is technically impossible), and refused to speak when accused of cheating (she should have at least refuted it immediately or given a statement) a legitimate president. At least no one thought Erap cheated, everyone knew he had enough support for his landslide win. But GMA? Bah. The wiretapping may be illegal (this has not been even determined yet), but the point is that you should not be phoning election commissioners to see if your lead is secure and asking him to 'take care' of things in the middle of counting returns.
The existing government is the only thing we can count on? Bah again. The form of government maybe, yes. Democracy is important. But GMA being someone we can count on? Perish the thought! Anyone as insenstive as her, who insists that our falling short of our projected budget deficit by 2M is good news (my dear, it's STILL a deficit) as well as using the difference to buy noodles for the poor, so she can look good, instead of creating jobs which would solve the problem and for goodness sakes, CHEATS on the number of jobs created by including the number of new OFW jobs-which is simply ridiculous- cannot be counted on in any way. She may be smart, may be strong, but she is simply too power hungry to suit my tastes. Imagine pushing for cha-cha (the Congress will rule us? God FORBID)and parliament and endless politicizing when there are more important issues for her to deal with, as well as keeping the military and the police happy with their big fat budgets while cutting from health and education, as well as putting her former loyal generals in key political positions. It is simply absurd. GMA being the only thing we can count on? Please. I know you have your opinion and I respect it. But I don't believe our country is that devoid of talent, sincerity, and integrity. I don't believe we are that hopeless.
There are so much to be confused about...i don't know what to do!
There are so much to ponder about... i cannot choose!"
Wow! Grabe! ANG LALIM! :D Ano naman ang problema mo, ha? :P
Nabibiwisit ako. May atenista kasi na nagpost ng opinyon niya tungkol sa mga nangyayari sa yahoogroups ng org ko at ang SARAP niyang sakalin! Grrrrr! Magrereply nga ako sa kanya (pero joke lang, hindi ko to ipopost sa yahoogroups, ayoko magsimula ng away at di ko naman siya kilala personally)! Wag niyo na lang itong pansinin ok!
Mr. *********,
We both agree that the recent coup attempt is indeed a threat to our democracy and should be condemned. However, I must disagree with a few of the opinions that you have posted. You seem to confuse the recent coup attempts with the rallies that have been going on, you seem to say that they implicitly support each other and have the same people behind them. Well, I must say that you are wrong in that account. Besides, coups may be a foul way to change the government, but I cannot see how rallying is.
Your argument is seriously undermined by labelling all opposition congressmen as oligarchs belonging to political dynasties and 'has-beens', as well as labelling the 'Hyatt 10' as 'hypocrites that no one will listen to'. When they made the decision to resign from their respective posts last year, many people certainly listened to them, deemed their opinions important and worth listening to. And why do you say they are hypocrites? Is it because they resigned from the administration that they were supposed to support? I must inform you (insider scoop) that they truly and honestly thought that the administration was going nowhere. GMA would not listen to them, she wouldn't follow through on her promises. She even blamed some of them when her approval ratings dropped. Do you blame them? Do you think they should have grinned and bore it?
I also take to task your calling Corazon Aquino a president whose legitimacy has not been proved. The final 1986 elections counts are split, with the official parliamentary one hailing Marcos the winner and the NAMFREL one Aquino. But it is to be remembered that Marcos himself fled Malacanang right after his oath taking, made plans to leave even before that. He fled his office because he knew that he had lost the support of the people, the military, and that there was no way that they would accept him as new president. The people had had ENOUGH. Besides, if you use that same criteria, then GMA's presidency would be illegtimate also, even excluding the cheating allegations she received. (Pot shot: at least Cory didn't cheat and use her power and influence to change vote sheets and place her opponents votes at zero.)
It is true that GMA was constitutionally next from Erap. But what was the spark, who pushed her there? It was no one but the people. If there was no Edsa II, she would not have been president and our history would have been changed. Also, personally, I cannot call someone who changed the voting sheets, gave her biggest opponent FPJ a big fat egg in some localities (which is technically impossible), and refused to speak when accused of cheating (she should have at least refuted it immediately or given a statement) a legitimate president. At least no one thought Erap cheated, everyone knew he had enough support for his landslide win. But GMA? Bah. The wiretapping may be illegal (this has not been even determined yet), but the point is that you should not be phoning election commissioners to see if your lead is secure and asking him to 'take care' of things in the middle of counting returns.
The existing government is the only thing we can count on? Bah again. The form of government maybe, yes. Democracy is important. But GMA being someone we can count on? Perish the thought! Anyone as insenstive as her, who insists that our falling short of our projected budget deficit by 2M is good news (my dear, it's STILL a deficit) as well as using the difference to buy noodles for the poor, so she can look good, instead of creating jobs which would solve the problem and for goodness sakes, CHEATS on the number of jobs created by including the number of new OFW jobs-which is simply ridiculous- cannot be counted on in any way. She may be smart, may be strong, but she is simply too power hungry to suit my tastes. Imagine pushing for cha-cha (the Congress will rule us? God FORBID)and parliament and endless politicizing when there are more important issues for her to deal with, as well as keeping the military and the police happy with their big fat budgets while cutting from health and education, as well as putting her former loyal generals in key political positions. It is simply absurd. GMA being the only thing we can count on? Please. I know you have your opinion and I respect it. But I don't believe our country is that devoid of talent, sincerity, and integrity. I don't believe we are that hopeless.
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