Tuesday, April 26, 2016

DUTERTE "CAPTAIN BARBEL"

IT IS NOT IN THE NATURE OF THE FILIPINOS TO SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE - THE REASON WHY THEY ARE A HAPPY PEOPLE. THEY ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT LITTLE THINGS THEY HAVE. THEY HAVE NO TIME TO WORRY IF THE SKY IS FALLING.


ROXAS –the low rating phenomenon

When P-Noy crossed swords with the country’s TOP POLITICAL DYNASTIES with immense political base - GMA, Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, Bong Revilla, the Binays and the Marcoses, ROXAS lost a bulk of the people’s support.

In the BIR’s eagerness to raise money – it started to tax OFW’s balikbayan boxes and charged terminal fees to departing OFWs which had been free in the last 19 years; Roxas again took a beating for the popular vote. P-Noy should have let go of the BIR chief.

…and then came the traffic and MRT’s daily break downs, the “tanim/laglag bala” at the airport not to mention “Yolanda” and the “El Nino.”

P-Noy focused on bigger things like infrastructures and the economy but pay little attention so it seems to the smaller things that matters most to people. Not even superman can solve this country’s problems but Filipinos love their superhero and they see it in the person of DUTERTE – CAPTAIN BARBEL of our time.

Like Duterte; P-Noy was a populist president but somewhere along the line – he seemed to have lost his ‘connect’ with the people. He projected himself as more of a doer than a talker but in politics – talkers get more votes than doers. You cannot talk about GDP and the STOCK MARKET as a measure of your presidency when 99% of the people do not understand what you are talking about. They could better understand “P_tang’_na” and “Papatayin ko sila.”

In the eagerness of P-Noy to do the right and bigger things; ROXAS became his single and biggest casualty. Roxas by all measure is the most qualified among the candidates but in a country where 90% of the people have to live in crime infested terrain, do not know how to wear neckties and do not drive around in fancy cars; they would rather go for Dolphy’s version of Captain Barbel just for the laugh and Du30 it is. Can Captain Barbel delivers on his promises…? The answer is a big no. In Davao; he was above the law so he killed with impunity. In Malacanang – he is not above the law. He made so many powerful enemies that a small mistake and he will be impeached. In Davao where he is the king; there is no congress and there is no supreme court to clip his wings. If he is a man of his word; he could leave office earlier than expected. Better be a king of Davao than an emperor of 7,100 Island archipelagos.



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