By the way, is schmoozing with street protestors part of that job description that defines your claim to your salary as senator of our fair land?
“We are one with the rallying-man-on-the-street”.

Do you remember when a sitting President of the Republic was schmoozing with street demonstrators? Before the Senate voted to reject the extension of the American bases treaty; then incumbent President Cory Aquino personally led a (ultimately futile) street demonstration in front of the Senate building (now Philippine Museum) to convince the Senate that a majority of the Filipinos wanted the American bases to stay.

I’m not that big a fan of Roxas but by itself, schmoozing with street protestors doesn’t appear bad. Legislators are supposed to know the concerns of their people. Congressman Charles Rangel may or may not have problems of his own but his constituents don’t seem to mind his schmoozing with street protestors.

Adults on the other hand, take a pre-meditated and conscious path towards achieving their objectives and acquiring what they aspire for. Not surprisingly, those who don’t, are usually prime candidates for ending up grasping society’s short end of the stick.
So in that noble undertaking of becoming a leader in a society that desperately needs to change in order to prosper, what separates the men from the boys is the ability to come up with a coherent blueprint or architecture for doing so, underpinned by an internally-consistent framework of thinking.

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Jose Rizal
Mational Hero

Disagree.

If that’s true, they wouldn’t have voted a swaggering drunkard to office, become banned from Hong Kong shops that they regularly shoplift from, or steal from U.S. banks by escaping back home to avoid paying back their loans. Well, the two last items are things I hear on the streets, but the first item is undeniable.

I said somewhere else that the Philippines is beautiful… it’s just the people that aren’t.

Everything else you said, agree.

they don’t want to behave like human beings who take responsibility and accountability – so treat them like dogs, show em a bone, have em roll over, give em a pat in the back, and if they go unruly, whip em.

homeland pinoys will do just that – all you need to be their president is to know how to treat dogs well. become president and change the anthem to “who let the dogs out” arf arf arf

Dictators or would be Dictators electrified the public with their
speeches. Any Demagogue can do that. My dog can also electrify the
crowd by its barks and dancings.

You can see in old videos the struting confidence of the Dictator Mussolini of Italy. The pistol firing on the air of the late Dictator Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The tantalizing gaze and speeches of the Dictator Hitler of Germany. The charming of the crowd of the late Evita Peron of Argentina. Evita Peron goes to the balcony of her Pink Palace. Shout to the crowd:”we salute you, decamisados”, Or ” we salute you, shirtless ones”. While her arms were laden with gold bracelets and diamonds. Too much hypocrisy on tremendous scale already. We just want the real thing…

and one.. can write about
.. the forest.

And that, my dear Dr Phil, is what you’re all about.