President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has finally decided to run for Congress representing the second district of Pampanga in the elections of 2010.
After months of speculation about her future political plans, she succumbed, so to say, to the clamor of the Capangpangans to continue serving them.
“As you know, the people of my home district in Pampanga want me to remain in public life,” she said.
Seeing President Arroyo smiling and remaining coy when her supporters were chanting her name and urging her to make her decision to run for congresswoman on next year’s poll inside the Malacañang grounds a few days ago, was distressing enough, to say the least.
Why distressing? Because this nation has had enough of her and the citizens are simply fed- up with her, that’s why! Yet the orchestrated affair still seemed to have titillated her.
But her coyness coupled with that big smile on her face said it all. Then and there the speculation ended. The die was cast.
What a regrettable decision and what disservice to the nation!
It is not a question of whether she is still young or old, but rather a question of whether or not majority of Filipinos still loves her and wants her to be their leader.
To be a cabalen is one thing. To be a Filipino, is another.
Her cabalens want her to continue serving.
Most Filipinos want her to fade away and write finish to her selfish ambitions.
If President Arroyo still has what it takes to provide public service to her Capangpangan constituents, as her election lawyer, Atty. Romulo Macalintal claims, then by all means let her participate in Pampanga’s local elections.
But for her to run for national office and become a member of Philippine Congress after her Presidency smacks of arrogance, deception, and greed. It is an attempt to hoodwink the populace about her ultimate ambition.
President Arroyo can fool some people sometimes, but she can’t fool all the people all the time.
Thanks God, we know better! Congress is the last place most people want her to be in– again.
After all these years in power, how narcissistic President Arroyo has become!
Is she trying to redeem herself for her failed administration or is she just simply and undeniably arrogating herself into power knowing that those beholden in Congress has yet to pay their debts?
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo does not even come close to the attributes of her father, the late President Diosdado Macapagal. Being the first poor man to become president, the latter was aptly tagged as the ‘Man of the Masses’ and the ‘Incorruptible’ for his unquestionable integrity.
With the appalling unpopularity of Gloria, exacerbated by her devious political plans, the late president must be turning in his grave for what has become of her daughter.