OPINION: WHY NOYNOY WILL WIN IN THE END
PLANET INTERNET, JULY 5, 2011 - (2RIVERS BLOG) BY HUGGYBEAR JONATHAN AQUINO - I was watching President Noynoy Aquino's address to the nation last Thursday. The President summarized the gains made by his administration in its first year, and that alone is the sign of transparency and accountability we have all been asking for in vain from the previous regime. Personally, I can't even begin to fathom the demands of being the country's chief executive in a time when global oil prices keeps fluctuating in the aftermath of the global recession, with our the economy being battered by the flashfloods in the south and the fishkill in the north. Can you imagine the pressures of being the Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces while tension is brewing in the high seas as China aggressively tries to claim the Spratleys, even our legal properties Kalayaan and Recto reefs?
Deeply Ingrained
What I found most challenging is being the leader of a people with deeply ingrained apathy, in a culture where complaining about everything and blaming everything else is the norm. Taking personal responsibility seems alien to the national character. A lot of people do not work because they are too lazy to find one, and they blame the government for their lot.
What is really galling is that those who can't even take care of their own lives, or even keep their affairs in order, are the loudest in denouncing a decent and good man who is doing his best in carrying out is duly sworn but extremely overwhelming task – which he did not even ask for in the first place.
Incontestible Victor
President Aquino has the mandate of the people, the incontestable victor in a rare honest election, and no one can take that away. His critics may be having a field day, but I'm confident that the majority of the people are willing to give our President the chance and the benefit of the doubt.
Crab-Minded Lives
Those critics, in contrast, do not know a good man when they see one, and they will complain even if Aquino is the perfect savior superhero they demand him to be. Chronic complainers, those who choose to focus on and only on the negative, do not and cannot assume responsibility for their own lives. All they can do, and what they will spend the rest of their crab-minded lives doing, is to criticize everybody else to make themselves feel good because they are, deep inside, empty.
Greatest Challenge
President Aquino is building an honest government in the aftermath of a corrupt one. That alone is Herculean, but his greatest challenge is the people's deep seated apathy – the fundamental reason why our country remains, and will continue to remain, poor. I believe in the President, on his all the way, even if its public knowledge that I campaigned for Richard Gordon who, come to think of it, should be on the Cabinet. President Aquino will overcome all the obstacles because, after all is said and done, no one can put a good man down.
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