I'm looking for a leader that are not all blab nor hypcritical, and has the actual ability to make a change. The electorate should be smart enough not to choose a leader based just because he makes a great speech but someone that is strong and able.
So in this case, I'm listing the aspirants that won't expect any vote from me unless they could prove to me and to all Filipinos that they could change the country for the better:
1. Joseph Ejercito Estrada
-I'm sooo not gonna vote for this old goat. He had his chance when he was first elected and he blew it. People should not give him another chance to the top post. Is it that one of the conditions for his pardon is that he won't dare run for the presidency much so that the 1987 Constitution specifically stated that any people elected into the presidency is no longer eligible to run again to the same office, as in EVER!
2. Chiz Escudero
-No wonder he speaks as if he's in a balagtasan. He told Ricky Lo long ago that he got his manner of speaking from watching a lot of old Filipino flicks especially those from Nora Aunor. Chiz is so much a reklamador especially during his tenure in the Lower House. The irony is that the one person he would often focus with his attacks became his ninang/godmother for his wedding: Gloria Arroyo. I rather see Chiz do something of substance in his remaining days in Senate like legislating laws and not place all his attention doing his "Chiz Talk" and blab.
3. Loren Legarda
-Ah...the Butterfly of the Philippine Senate. Always switching sides, always cleaning her hands, and shows how much she is a hypocrite. Ain't she married so why is she known only as "Loren Legarda" instead of "Loren Legarda-Leviste"? Sometime ago, she accused some politicians for premature campaigning via endorsing products in billboards and the like. She was asked on the case of her being in a billboard herself (I believe she was an endorser of pharmaceutical company's line of products, etc) and Loren claims that she didn't use tax money but money from her own eco foundation.
Okay Loren, we believe you....
4.Manny Villar
-Everybody knows how he rose from poverty to become one of the most prominent people in the political scene. Everybody knows that as a child he and his family used to rent in a rusty old apartment that he didn't bother to fix once he had the means to do so as a way of gratitude to his former landlords. Everybody knows how many people he had helped from those who were given house by him to abused overseas Filipino workers who were sent back home safely because of his help. And everybody knows that he has a thing with orange.
5. Manuel "Mar" Roxas II
-He comes from a very prominent clan in Panay. One member of the Roxas clan became the first president of an independent postwar Philippines, Manuel Acuña Roxas, which happens to be his grandfather. At first he seems able given that he's young and seemingly promising. He used to be a DTI secretary so he used his past position in order to endear himself to voters back in 2004 using "Mr. Suave" by Parokya ni Edgar as his campaign jingle. Shirt color of choice? Blue (Coincidence with his grandpa being on the blue 100-peso bill?).
His credentials was placed on the backseat on the same year with news of his romance with ABS-CBN journalist Korina Sanchez. So in a way, this romance benefited him that earned him a senate seat.
Nowadays, I got turned off with his wave of publicity campaigns for early this years with his wacky infomercials and news of his scheduled wedding with Korina Sanchez. The latter I see as a sign of him merely using Korina to boost his chances of winning the top spot. Too bad for him, he had to give way with the Partido Liberal's msot obvious bet for the presidential bid: Noynoy Aquino.
6. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III
-Okay so he's the son of the country's most beloved late president and late senator. So what if he is? That very fact is already an advantage for his campaign as president but may end up disastrously. There are high expectations for Noynoy to employ the same "Cory" magic and "Ninoy" charisma to head 80 million Filipinos but I'm noting letting my hopes up on this guy. What if he proves incapable if ever elected or what if he gets the same reprimand some critics are giving to GMA right now, who is herself a child of a former president?
Face it, he's no Cory. He may wear yellow but he's still no Cory nor Ninoy. Let us see him as Noynoy not the son but Noynoy the 40+ year old single-yet-taken senator eyeing the highest office in the land.
7. Jejomar Binay
-He is completely wrong about Makati. First off, it's not because of him that Makati became such a developed city nor is it because of him that the residents of Makati gets the best of government welfare and services like education, health, etc. It took almost 30 years since the term of the Yabuts for the city to become the country's financial hub that it is. If people want to see the kind of progress happening in Makati to translate into the national level, we have to wait for a long time before the nation becomes mature enough to become progressive.
Remember, to see change is to make change not from others from each and every one of us so I can''t see why people blame GMA for our miseries. Are we that lazy to act upon it ourselves?
Back to the topic of Binay, he won't receive any vote from me not nly because he thnks he takes credit for Makati's development but because he like others in the opposition can't even unite to choose someone of high caliber to stand up against the administration. Sure they [the opposition] hates the GMA admin to death but that hatred does not equate for the camp to become united thus I believe none of these people won't get any votes from me.
It's no question that he is one of Makati's best mayors but that's because he inherited the city that is already reaching the peak of its robust development so everything's all smooth and easy for him.
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