Polibiz
Never to Cory again
I admit I used to idolize her. She was an epitome of a lady deserving to be beheld on a pedestal. She looks to me like a saint rather than a plain housewife as observed sarcastically by her critics.
People blindly believed her on whatever she says before. She was a Pied Piper in her time. She led her flock on the way to freedom and democracy as her most precious legacy to the nation. If only for that, she deserves an accolade of praises. A phenomenon if you want to call it. Wearing a mystic smile all the time, Cory, unlike Mona Lisa's, looks creepy and treacherous.
I could still describe her with so many superlatives, but I'm afraid I might be construed a cult. On the outset I don't want to commit blasphemy.
I am talking of former Pres. Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, an accidental president courtesy of the first EDSA uprising. I don't know why some people kept calling it EDSA revolution. Why? Where is the revolution? Absurd I must say.
Upon her assumption I thought we would be delivered from the bondage of evil of the past regime, on the contrary her leadership had sent us to a deeper portion of hell.
She built her own empire. Surrounded by favored men mostly genetically related to her, together they spread their wings as wide as they could and bled the nation once more.
She had all the opportunities to become the greatest among the greats of this republic, and what had she done? She thrown it away, all in the gutter instead, simply because of her stupidity. Really, just a plain housewife indeed, she was. Well, what else can we expect?
Honestly, I have no love lost to the Marcoses, but in fairness, a lot of socially related programs were already intact before, during and after the late dictator, his family and cohorts had fled and gone to exile.
Cory in haste called for a Constitutional Convention, drafted a new one, had it passed in 1987, concentrating more on exorcising anything that has to do with the Marcoses.
It was a constitution made out of paranoia and vindictiveness.
The way I look at it, the present constitution has brought us curse instead of abundant blessings. It leads us to nowhere. Could this be the reason, perhaps, why natural calamities and man-made ones never cease in besetting this nation for generations?
I say, this is Cory curse! A punishment we all Filipinos deserve because of our own making.
Cory, from the start after, all was nothing but a myth.
Honestly, I could not speak the same for Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Gloria, I think is a woman of her own. Brave, decisive, witty and intelligent.
Her decision to put the nation under the "state of national emergency" amidst the recent chaos in imperial Manila was a genius stroke of fate. I could not think of other alternative to stop evil motives of those who had been obsessed to grab power from the present administration.
I wish for Cory and her hordes of conspirators get arrested and thrown in a calaboose. But, wait--no, it might make a hero out of her and save her a lot from spending for a much needed precious worldwide publicity for free. Let her suffer her own agony anyway.
Her attempt at the height of an aborted Coup plot on Friday, February 24, to join the disgruntled elite Marine soldiers in guise of praying with them is an ultimate act of Cory's brand of religious hypocrisy.
Had she wanted to, she could have done it in the privacy of her own room sans the glare of the klieg lights from television networks covering the event. I thought she strongly believes God is everywhere. So, why picked Fort Bonifacio as her area to render "worship" at the most unholy hour?
Is Cory not aware that her presence could further agitate the current destabilization attempts by some sectors who have been desperately seeking for Gloria's ouster, herself particularly included?
As in my previous columns I once again reiterate my full support to the present administration under the strong leadership of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
But, never to Cory again!
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