People ask perfection when there is no such thing in this world. They criticize in hindsight but lack the mental elasticity to put themselves in other people’s shoes. To see or try to feel what they were feeling. Filipinos ask perfection but ask it from them and they squirm. They declare something but fail to think things through. Any evidence against their opinion is not considered. Any unsubstantiated rumor weighs heavier than verified truth. If Binay is elected president or if this call for PNoys resignation gains steam, I am fucking leaving this hell of a country. You people dont fucking know how lucky we are right now with this damn stupid inconsiderate distant insensitive President we have.
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Take these critics for example:
\nOrganizations like Bayan Muna simply do not recognize good deeds unless they smack of 1950\u2019s anti-capitalist rhetoric and total destruction of wealth-building mechanisms. They sharpshoot at every opportunity and they are loud out of proportion to their authority.
\nThe mayor of Tacloban. My son would call him a \u201cWhimpy Doodle\u201d. If you listen to that mayor, he is accountable for exactly nothing that went wrong in his city during and after Typhoon Yolanda.
\nAnd the newspapers, which intoxicate themselves by thinking that shallow sensationalism is a profound finding and any slander is worth printing.
\nAnd the plunderers and crooks who are intent upon making the accuser the guilty party. They are another bunch that knows no accountability. Nor shame.
\nThose critics are worth ignoring.
\nI respect President Aquino because he has stuck to a responsible path for four years. He has been serious and sincere and honest.
\nHe has held to a path of integrity.
\nHe demands a lot of others. I respect him for that. He demands a lot from his cabinet, from his staff, from those who serve the public, and from you and me. And you know what, most of the time:
\nIt is not he who fails us.
\nIt is we who fail him.
\nIs our need for personal justification more important than the Philippines? Have we lost touch with the meaning of sacrifice? I\u2019m not talking about throwing our bodies on a grenade, just allowing others some wiggle room if they take a different decision than we would.
\nIs that so hard?
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