Elections 2004

Fine. GMA's going to win the presidential elections. I honestly don't want her to be our next president. For one thing, we've already known what's she's like being the national leader. For another, she's no good. Maybe I'm being biased. Maybe not. I didn't get to vote this year because I left for Dubai in April and came back only on the 30th of May, when the elections were way over. That's one excuse for not voting. Even if I was here during the elections, though, I wouldn't vote either. Yeah, I know, I'm wasting one very important privilege given every Filipino citizen. But if enjoying such an important citizen privilege means voting for someone who's been known to be The King of Philippine Cinema, a "corrupt" Department of Education secretary, a sometimes-I-make-sense-most-of-the-time-I-don't political-religious leader, a former president married to someone being accused of corruption of sorts, I'd rather waste it. I'm saved the long lines, the fatal heat of the sun, and the dirty ink-covered thumb.

A lot of people from the university want Roco to take the post, which, maybe quite a pretty good choice. There are quite a handful too, who are voting for Gil. Some are for GMA. I've never heard of anyone from UP who's pro-FPJ, though. And that always makes me wonder why. Why not go in league with FPJ? We all know he never went to college, was a high school dropout, and is very much like his compadre, Estrada. But is education the primary basis of actually winning the post to lead our country? I don't think so. Filing presidential candidacy only requires a fifty-something age. I was chatting on #up Undernet one time and they were having, again, this debate about who's deserving of being our president and who's not. One pointed out that the best candidate is the most intelligent. One argued that good governance is never a matter of who's brainy. One said the candidate has to have a good heart to be a good president, for without a good heart, a big brain is useless. One argued, "what happens to us if there's all heart and no brains at all?" Very good point. Here's my take on it. A big heart and a big brain equal a good president, good governance, and a progressive country in all aspects.

It's never easy to find my best bet, but I will stand by it nevertheless. I will never do what most people who claim they're intellectuals do, the pick-the-candidate-of-the-lesser-evil thing. What's the point of that, anyway? Picking someone, even if he is of the least evil, is never the best thing to do. We are not limited to only choosing who to elect as president. We, also, are given the choice to deny. That may be what I think is the best action. I'll just have to wait for my ideal president to come. Until then, there's always the choice of denial for me.

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