ARE WRONG
MANILA, MARCH 19, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Ramon Tulfo - If President Noy
doesn't mend his ways, he will soon find himself with a low popularity rating.
He may be enjoying a high rating in the surveys now, but people are beginning
to get disenchanted with him.
In fact, the youth, the sector that admired him the most in the early days of
his administration, is making fun of him now.
At the University of the Philippines campus in Quezon City, students have
aptly described P-Noy's do-nothing ways: Lying on the ground, looking utterly
bored, with one hand covering a yawn.
The students have a name for it—"Noynoying."
The stronger term for it is laziness.
* * *
Why is the President bored with his job of running the affairs of 90 million
Filipinos?
The answer is simple: We voted into office a spoiled child who, like his
mother, Corazon C. Aquino, three administrations before him, didn't seek out the
presidency.
It was the office—rather, the voters—who sought him out and forced him to
run.
So let's not blame P-Noy for the country's direction-less, "Noynoying" plod
toward progress. Let's blame ourselves.
* * *
The President apparently spends much of his time watching the impeachment
trial of his arch-enemy, Chief Justice Renato Corona.
P-Noy may be justified in wanting Corona out, given the latter's allegedly
corrupt and abusive ways.
But he cannot use that as an excuse for not attending to other much more
important matters of the state.
If he remains so focused in ousting the Chief Justice to the exclusion of
other matters, the President may be accused—
wrongly, of course—of being autistic.
They say one of the signs of autism is a preoccupation with a single
television program, toy or game.
Please, Mr. President, prove your enemies wrong.
* * *
Palawan Gov. Abraham Mitra supports his predecessor, Joel T. Reyes.
The former governor is the alleged mastermind in the murder last year of
environmentalist and broadcaster Gerry Ortega.
The Department of Justice has recommended the filing of a murder charge
against Reyes.
Standing by a friend in a crisis is a truly admirable.
But what if, in your heart of hearts, you know your friend has been linked to
a murder case and the victim happened to be a man who was doing his job as a
journalist by exposing your friend's alleged wrongdoing?
Tolerating a crime just because it was your friend who had been accused of
being involved in the case, is a crime in itself.
Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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