Trust
By Conrado de Quiros, Philippine Daily Inquirer
I remember when Noynoy Aquino first got his plus-50 ratings. His supporters were meeting every week, asking themselves how they might consolidate his lead. I said this was all very well, but surely before you asked yourself how to consolidate his lead, you first had to ask how he got it?
That seems obvious. Yet the obvious is often the hardest thing to see, which is why the best place to hide things is in the open. In fact that was the one question the Aquino campaign failed to ask. Either the lead was assumed as given, or it was attributed in some vague way to the “Cory magic.”
Of course, it had to do with the Cory magic. But I don’t know that people really looked a little more closely at what the Cory magic was, or how it worked.
How can anybody possibly assume Noynoy’s lead as given? How can anybody possibly not want to know how he got it at all? It’s the most astonishing thing in the world. It didn’t just defy the odds, it defied reason. If you cannot understand how it happened, how can you hope to consolidate it?
"I am determined to continue the fight started by my father and my mother to see
that democracy takes root and is strengthened in our country. This cannot happen
in a government that serves the interest of the powerful few. We must strengthen
the institutions of government so that they truly serve the interests of our people."
john austria
10 Feb, 2010
Totally agree with Conrado de Quiros. This is a battle for our future. A battle between Noynoy Aquino and the legacy of Ninoy and Cory versus the continuation of graft and corruption of the Arroyo government and obviously, the very corrupted ways of Villar. Hindi ko masikmura ang pagpapanggap ni Villar na siya ay para sa mahirap. Ginagamit niya lang ang masang Pilipino. Talaga pong nakakasuka. Lalo po tayong lulubog pagkat sa pangungurakot po rin niya babawiin ang bilyon-bilyon niyang gagastusin sa eleksyon sa ano mang paraan.