Playing with Fire
Duterte: hope for the future
By Gonzalo Duque
NAKAKASUKA ang bunganga ng Trillanes na Yan!
The May 9 election is just around the corner, and here now come Senator Antonio Trillanes acting like a blood-thirsty berdugo peeling off and sucking every vital of well-loved Mayor Digong Duterte, the winningest candidate for president.
Sorry, this pre-election column won’t fall into the kind of rhetoric being rammed down on us by Trillanes. If you ask us, yan ang gutter, not Duterte’s controversial wallops.
As we brace up to go to our precincts to write the names of our choices of leaders who we want to entrust our governmental affairs, we should do some deep reflection.
Who is the man we should vote, who is he with the will, the preparation and the courage to lead in the transformation of our society?
Will it be P-noy’s apologist, Mar Roxas? The corrupt VP Jojo Binay? The inexperienced Grace Poe? The sickly Miriam Santiago?
You, dear readers, who is it we should entrust the fate, the security and the future of our children, have the answer.
Why do we say you know it already?
Our public rallies, our media, our surveys, our marketplace rhetoric, lahat, di ba, Rody Duterte ang sinasabi?
We told you this last year pa, yes, on Day 1, hindi tayo kumalas diyan… because we know that the man who will lead the country to our hope in the future has arrived.
Ok? Now, we can sit by the sunset and tell ourselves, thank God, we have a Duterte!
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At the homestretch, we heard unopposed Mayor Belen Fernandez and re-electionist Councilor Jigs Seen are peeved at us for the removal of their tarpaulins in front of our house in Barangay Tapuac, Dagupan.
For sure, it wasn’t this columnist who did the act.
But if Jigs may please consider our plea for him not to place the tarps with the #13 on it. We are superstitious, you see?
Regarding Mayor Belen, medyo nagiging mahirap nang hagilapin ngayon buhat nang nawalan ng kalaban sa mayoralty.
Hindi tulad noon, kung may problema, lagi tayong kinukunsulta lalo na sa pakikitungo sa mga problematic na councilors.
Ngayon, wala na. Sabi ng isang mutual friend namin, para na kaming “strangers in the night.”
Why? We guess it’s in her passion to make Mar Roxas win in Dagupan. Alam niya kasi that we are not a Duterte for nothing. Joke lang!
Oh, yes, strange bed fellows. We thank Vice Mayor Brian Lim for going all out for Rody Duterte.
Many things really happen in politics, right?
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Is PDI (Philippine Daily Inquirer) our best national daily?
Pardon, but we don’t think so. The way the paper is blackening the image of Rody Duterte makes it no different from the sensationalist tabloid.
On the occasion of Freedom Week, we challenge the Inquirer to act its role. Stick to journalism, factual and bold reportage.
And do our nation proud.
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