The Struggling Blogger

Since the announcement that Malacañang received an invitation from the White House, many congressmen have been jostling to be included in the entourage of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on her July 30 meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington.

Reports said that no less 100 congressmen, or nearly 40 percent of the total membership of the House of Representatives, have sent requests. Some of them have earlier signed up for Arroyo’s Egypt trip but cancelled their bookings later, in the hope that they would be included in the White House trip.
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Within a few hours, America will decide. They will choose who will be the next most powerful man in this planet, as the rest of the world waits. What is really in store for us Filipinos with this development? Does it really matter to us who will win the U.S. presidential election?

Personally, I really don’t think it does. No matter who’ll lead the most powerful country in this world, our country will still remain where it is – that of relying on the benefits it will get from America, and oftentimes regardless of the cost.When I was still a kid and Marcos was still the president, he was tagged as ‘tuta ng Kano’ (American puppy), when he was changed by Tita Cory she was also called the same. Even Erap Estrada who was a noted anti-U.S. base was called a ‘puppet’ during his term. FVR and Gloria Macapagal are no different story.
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Some authorities are abused, and some are abused. What rights has President Arroyo to pardon a criminal when she was not the one who was wronged? This executive clemency thing is really a ridicule to our already inutile justice system.

Color me unforgiving, but the 21 years spent by Claudio Teehankee Jr. inside jail isn’t enough to pay for his killing of the late Maureen Hultman. Sure, release all the criminals out in the street, why don’t you. And just leave those poor innocent people inside because they do not know any high profile government official.

I’d like to write to some more, but I fear that if I continue I may curse and write unprintables here. I’m sure, this isn’t the lone blog that will talk about this. Right now, this much I can say… “nothing beats being friend to the president”