No birthright
NO HEIRLOOM up for inheritance is the presidency of the republic.
The way the campaign of front-running presidential pretender Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is being run, it looked as though he had a birthright to the presidency.
So he is the son of the martyred Ninoy and the sainted Cory. So what? That would not make him the most ideal nor most capable of the presidentiables.
A matter of record is the fact that family connections are a bane of good governance in the Philippines, or have we forgotten the storied Kamag-anak Inc. at the time of the Cory Aquino presidency?
Truly deserving of the electorate’s rapt attention and reflection are the statements of Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon, standard bearer of the party named Bagumbayan.
At a recent presidential forum, Gordon raised issues on the executive capability of Noynoy, pointing out that he had never held an executive post and it is the top executive post in the land that he is now coveting.
From their public pedestal, Gordon pulled down and demystified the Aquinos claiming that the Aquino family was given opportunities to make the nation great but “regrettably failed to deliver.”
Said Gordon: Noynoy “had in (his) family a president, a vice president, four senators, congressmen, governors—all the posts in Tarlac, but how is Tarlac?”
Asked he: “How many more chances do you want? What is Noynoy Aquino’s ability in local government? He hasn’t been tested even as a barangay captain. Even in legislature, what law did he craft whose benefits are being felt by the people?”
Gordon’s lowdown: “The record of service is important. Can you really do your job? Before you left your province, have you fixed your town?”
On record now, Gordon so fixed Olongapo in the ‘80s that it became the model city in the whole country. It was Gordon too that catalyzed the transformation of Subic from an American basetown to its current status as an engine of national development.
In the same forum, second-running presidential aspirant Senator Manny Villar made an articulation of his own on Noynoy’s perceived Achilles’ heel: “ Meron ka na bang naipakita na may kakayahan kang magbago (Have you shown that you have the ability to effect change)? But you can’t easily change society. All forces will go against you. The question: ‘May nagawa ka na ba (Have you done anything)? Did [you] change something in the past? It is important to establish that when you say that you will change ... you are really capable (of doing it).”
A call for change Villar sounded – change in the way we Filipinos choose those we vote for: “…In the end, it is what you have done and demonstrated in the past that matters. The poor have never seen managerial competence as basis for electing a president…In all these elections, popularity is the sole basis. For decades now, we always use popularity and emotions as basis. It’s about time we used abilities and competence and experience. (Popularity as basis for election) has to stop. Let’s start now!”
Yeah, let’s not vote Kris Aquino president.
The way the campaign of front-running presidential pretender Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is being run, it looked as though he had a birthright to the presidency.
So he is the son of the martyred Ninoy and the sainted Cory. So what? That would not make him the most ideal nor most capable of the presidentiables.
A matter of record is the fact that family connections are a bane of good governance in the Philippines, or have we forgotten the storied Kamag-anak Inc. at the time of the Cory Aquino presidency?
Truly deserving of the electorate’s rapt attention and reflection are the statements of Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon, standard bearer of the party named Bagumbayan.
At a recent presidential forum, Gordon raised issues on the executive capability of Noynoy, pointing out that he had never held an executive post and it is the top executive post in the land that he is now coveting.
From their public pedestal, Gordon pulled down and demystified the Aquinos claiming that the Aquino family was given opportunities to make the nation great but “regrettably failed to deliver.”
Said Gordon: Noynoy “had in (his) family a president, a vice president, four senators, congressmen, governors—all the posts in Tarlac, but how is Tarlac?”
Asked he: “How many more chances do you want? What is Noynoy Aquino’s ability in local government? He hasn’t been tested even as a barangay captain. Even in legislature, what law did he craft whose benefits are being felt by the people?”
Gordon’s lowdown: “The record of service is important. Can you really do your job? Before you left your province, have you fixed your town?”
On record now, Gordon so fixed Olongapo in the ‘80s that it became the model city in the whole country. It was Gordon too that catalyzed the transformation of Subic from an American basetown to its current status as an engine of national development.
In the same forum, second-running presidential aspirant Senator Manny Villar made an articulation of his own on Noynoy’s perceived Achilles’ heel: “ Meron ka na bang naipakita na may kakayahan kang magbago (Have you shown that you have the ability to effect change)? But you can’t easily change society. All forces will go against you. The question: ‘May nagawa ka na ba (Have you done anything)? Did [you] change something in the past? It is important to establish that when you say that you will change ... you are really capable (of doing it).”
A call for change Villar sounded – change in the way we Filipinos choose those we vote for: “…In the end, it is what you have done and demonstrated in the past that matters. The poor have never seen managerial competence as basis for electing a president…In all these elections, popularity is the sole basis. For decades now, we always use popularity and emotions as basis. It’s about time we used abilities and competence and experience. (Popularity as basis for election) has to stop. Let’s start now!”
Yeah, let’s not vote Kris Aquino president.
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