On the "political crisis"

A word from good friends and people who I think has very deep insights when it comes to the political scenario of our country. Here's a transcript of email messages. Start from the bottom.

jed wrote:
I agree magaling si GMA for consulting magaling political advisers andmagicians.
She is still the President exercising all its power without anylimitations watsoever. This irritates the opposition because theywant her to feel helpless and isolated.

Guilty or not? She is doing something good right now for the nationand we are helping her keep her promise by accusing her of jueteng andelection fraud. She's actually doing something good for this countrynow.

The next allegations against the President would maybe wake her toimplement yet more radical reforms and good changes for our country.

Keep up the governance thing GMA and also keep up the noise OPPOSITION.Panalo ang bayan sa nangyayari ngayon... OPPOSITION wants GMA out sothey accuse and accuse and GMA wants to stay so she does many goodthings. In turn OPPO gets irritated and intensifies anti-govt campaignso GMA gets more focus on doing more good things. People feels theinitial heat but eventually they see that SUSAN et al are just noisethat wants power for themselves.

Hey, even if i voted GMA in the last election, I do agree that whatshe did talking to comelec official is something unethical. If she didcheated, by how much then? If she did not actually had the votes, thenconscience will kill her. Baka nahihiya siya na ang lamang niyaagainst FPJ is small (assuming she actually did have the most numberof votes) But looking at the bigger picture, this country needsstability not political change.

mike wrote:
true though na we are running out of better people to run our government. during elections, we end up choosing someone who is the lesser evil. lesser but evil still. pero in all fairness, gma does know how to make friends at sobrang powerful pa ng friends nya. i have no problem with how she runs the country. in fact it was doing a better bit by bit until this issue came...

another thing i really find amusing is how people immediately assume that gma admitted to cheating during the elections when she only admitted to her being on the wiretapped conversations. we are not even sure if the person she was talking to was a comelec official or if it were so, it does not prove that there was vote manipulation. although, we have to admit, it was unethical to talk to a comelec official during the counting of ballots... we don't do that during esc and usc elections dba... its your party who should be your mouth and eyes...

one thing that will make gma happy though is that she and mike arroyo will no longer be living in the same roof. though still rumors, their marriage is said to be just for show. well, at least they found a way to stay apart with valid and noble reasons..

the situation ngayon is very fun to watch. paminsan may mga protest rallies dito sa tapat ng building namin at nakakatuwa kasi the people want gma to resign for reasons we have no idea where they got. to think they were doing it in the center of makati business district, who would listen to them... did kasi naman, Dagdag Sahod!!! daw... hehehehe.... anyway, i just keep on wondering what the tibaks of UP have to say about the issue... who do they think should replace the president? any news??

sarap naman ng mga ganitong discussions.... na mimiss ko na... hehehe..

joan wrote:
exactly. walang papalit na matino kay gma. have you guys seen noli anywhere? nagtatago nga ata yun because he's scared of becoming president. even the media doesn't accord him much respect. after ng speech ni gma sino yung ininterview nila? si drilon, not noli. tawa nga ako ng tawa eh. iniisip ko nga that time they should not have bypassed noli, kawawa naman yung tao. hehehe.

as for gma's credentials, i don't entirely agree with what brillantes (yung sinasabi ni mike) said, that gma can't run this country. on the contrary, i find that she seems to be doing a perfectly good job of having the country's forces at her disposal. kasi kung titingnan natin, a change of presidency will only happen if you don't have any sectors behind you. just look at what happened to erap and marcos. pero si gma? shet, ang galing nya magbalasa ng cards nya. she has the business sector and the military supporting her. magaling talaga sya. saludo ako sa spin doctors nya and sa kanya mismo. yung speech nya last week? grabe, tawa ako ng tawa nun. pero alam ko that it would be something the masses would appreciate. pang-telenovela effect. astig talaga. pero hindi talaga bagay kay gma yung paawa effect look. nagmumukha syang ewan.
just as nagmukhang ewan si susan roces dun sa speech nya. susan roces is trying to do a cory aquino. or at least she tried to. ginamit pa nya yung apo nya. that was pathetic. pero it couldn't have hurt. if you've ever seen clips from dati, ganyan din kasi ginawa ni cory, si kris nga lang ginamit nya. although to accord respect to the yello lady, i don't think she meant to really use kris. ewan. i wasn't there. i just read stuff.

i am not for gma. although i tend to be pragmatic at times, i am still idealistic mostly and i would never have voted for gma. i just think though na sobrang galing ng ginawa nyang pag-shuffle ng lahat ng pawns nya. astig talaga. she was in the wrong (she may not have admitted it but cmon, we're not naive naman di ba? and my orgmate was presidential staff at that time kaya alam nyand may daya nga na nangyari) but look where she is now? still president. i have to hand it her.

yung talagang kinaiinisan ko sa lahat ng to, si mikey arroyo. what is it with him? magresign na lang sya no if he really wants to act. nakakairita siya.
and you guys may not agree with me on this (i'm not asking you to) pero ok sa akin yung vat. i do not want to compare us with other countries pero sa tingin ko kasi, it's one of the ways para umunlad naman bansa natin. i'm only worried about its implementation. sana naman bumaba na ang corruption rate in the government and in the military.

jed wrote:
Alou, i agree with your Dad!!!

alou wrote:
hehe. may point naman e. alala ko tuloy dad ko. 2 weeks ago, nung umuwi ako ng baguio, nag-uusap kami about issues regarding the president hanggang sa nasabi ko na, "paano kung may move na ma-oust siya?" sabi niya, "wala namang papalit na matino e." hehehe. wala lang.

mike wrote:
jone, nids and exte pips,
kahit may pagka-apathetic yung tone ng sumagot. his got a point rin noh... saya dahil nag-iisip rin...

someone else wrote...

Grabe naman yang multiple choice na yan!?! Ba't parang walang tamang answer?!? Trick question yata ito!

Si GMA may PhD, kaso nandaya. Si Susan Poe 'di nga nandaya, kaso movie star naman. Yung may PhD, hindi matakbo ng maayos yung bansa. Nakakatakot din naman ibigay sa isang movie star kasi kahit anong drama niya, hindi niya maiintindihan ang intricacies ng Philippine Government. Yung may PhD nga nagfail, yung movie star and housewife pa kaya?

Wala na ba talagang maganda-gandang choice? Basta, wala dyan ang answer. Bonus question dapat ito, dahil mali ang mga choices! Ubos na ba talaga ang matinong mamumuno na mananalo sa eleksyon sa dakilang bansa natin?

Yun lang.