Presidency

Every president need be presidential - free from what is coarse, vulgar, and uncouth. I still believe that the presidency has art. A president puts and holds everything in equipoise. He deals with softness and sentimentality and ruthlessness and viciousness with discernment. He knows how to harmonise a country despite diversity. He conforms to standards of propriety, good taste, and morality. If not, at least he is discreet. He knows how to make a distinction between his presidential self and his ordinary self, which could be heathenish, unsavoury, and irascible and could cry down anyone or anything. He can fascinate, allure, and delight the whole country. He knows how to yield to the desire of the people and knows how to impose order upon them. He is an adroit leader and an authoritative summary of what a Filipino is.

On Karen's Being Harsh to Alma

What kinder? Alma humiliated herself. Not Karen, of course. She answered the interview questions stupidly. The interview has made millions of voters realise who Alma Moreno is and why she doesn't deserve to be voted for by them. Alma Moreno can be a senator only if there is the crunch of Filipinos more exceptional than her. Maybe she wants to follow in the footsteps of Lito Lapid and Bong Revilla. What guts!

On Surveys

Don't believe the media when it comes to who you should vote for in May 2016. Don't believe the survey, either. And never be beguiled by money. Just vote for someone your conscience elicits for you. Let's see who will rise from an obscure and become our new president. Remember every vote you'll cast calls for a serious reflection. We need a leader who is pro-Constitution and pro-people. We need a leader who is highly-esteemed. We need a leader who won't despoil the government. We need a leader who has reference to human rights. We don't need a leader who does a kindness for his friends and has the whole country incur the risk and danger of their incompetence in public service. We don't need a leader whose bosses are not the people but the oligarchs though he says often his bosses are the masses. We don't need a leader whose path he proceeds along is straight but is closed at one end or is leading to a steep rugged cliff.

Climate Change Summit

Imagine PNoy is attending a forum promoting green peace when he himself is guilty of an action of polluting the globe. How come? The coal power plant is one, and he's taken a favourable view of it. In fact, he's assented to it. Isn't it being full of unction? Well, I know his is just a specious argument that really does not stand up under close examination. Purely political. Purely showbizzy. It is just irritating when you've seen the truth.

On Paris terror attack

This is putting on a false appearance of virtue. The president was so mum about the death of SAF 44 and the killing of Lumads. He didn't even share in suffering and grief of the victims of Typhoon Haiyan. He has not even apologised for the shocking scandal of bullet-planting to extort travellers and tourists, or at least brought reassurance to the people. How come the president with a callous indifference to suffering of his people has said it? Not always acting or behaving in the same way because it has become unfair and because it has become hypocritical makes me down in the mouth.

8 November

After two years, millions are still left helpless. Relief goods have been thrown out because they've perished at DSWD's warehouses. While non-victims of Typhoon Haiyan have received financial aid from DSWD, ten of thousands are still living at bunkhouses and in makeshift houses, treated as unworthy of regard and notice. Paano mo hangaring ipagpapatuloy ang daang matuwid? Daang matuwid is full of kapalpakan and inconsistency and paradox. Maraming dehado. Hindi pantay ang laban.

On Bullet-Dropping

The Philippines isn't a safe country: Filipinos and foreigners alike are deceived and taken money from by a scam, so keep yourself from making your way through Ninoy Aquino International Airport. You'll just regret. The airport is run by extortionists whose motto is 'daang matuwid,' which they mock in their mind. The government has no power to get in the way of them. They are exempt from control or sacking. No law can put the president's friends at a serious disadvantage no matter what happens, even if this country lays in ruins and a lot of head-scratching is going on. Someday a person will run for office not for this country but for his fraternity or KKK or his family friends.