General Admission
Possessiveness knocks out Pacquiao
By Al S. Mendoza
DID Manny Pacquiao really lose?
I mean, did Darlene Antonino-Custodio knock Pacquiao out in the last elections in South Cotabato?
There are two ways to answer this.
One, Pacquiao lost the votes to Darlene.
Two, the voters won Pacquiao back to their side.
We are a loving race.
We are so fanatically in love sometimes that we mistake true love for selfishness.
Even obsession, if not possessiveness.
Fans did not want to lose Pacquiao to politics that’s why they voted for Darlene.
Not that they liked Darlene to go back to Congress.
They had been wanting to reject Darlene-but not Pacquiao as Darlene’s replacement.
Over their dead bodies.
No, they did it to keep Pacquiao as their sole possession.
We are a jealous lot.
Anybody wanting to dip his fingers on Pacquiao, he’d be instantly destroyed.
To the Pacman fans, politics was a menace, a threat. It would grab Pacquiao out of their side; happiness would be killed.
They want Pacquiao to make them happy. Forever.
Their joyride would abruptly end if he went to Congress.
The only way he could make them happy is through the medium called boxing.
Not politics.
Not an arena called Congress.
To them, the only arena fit for Pacquiao is the roped arena.
He is a tested performer in boxing.
Fans never take chances. Pacquiao isn’t a known politician.
He’d be gobbled up there, a totally strange territory.
He’s so nice a man as a boxer. If he got elected, they believe they’d lose him to the pack of two-legged crocs that roam Congress.
Genuine heroes come once in a blue moon.
Not since Flash Elorde did we really see a certified hero in Pacquiao.
They dread the day when they lose Pacman to the company of coat-and-tie.
To them, Pacquiao is the best, the handsomest when he is wearing only a pair of shorts and a pair of gloves.
It isn’t love anymore.
It is possessiveness.
Who knows, if Pacquiao made it as a congressman, he might have knocked in some sense into the coconuts of some occupants in Congress?
He seemed to mean well: Pledging to build schools and hospitals and helping provide jobs to his constituents if he won.
He doesn’t need to make laws; there are enough laws already and yet, many of them aren’t being enforced.
His actions are more needed than his laws.
But good intentions are not surefire weapons in an election battle.
It matters, too, that Pacquiao had openly campaigned using Ate Glue’s platform.
Everybody knows that Pacquiao lives in a Cotabato district that is fiercely anti-GMA.
Because he personified Ate Glue, Pacquiao became a victim of identity crisis.
It was not totally Pacman that the voters rejected. It was also the Ate Glue in Pacman that the undecided had rejected.
Our voters aren’t ready; they are a selfish lot. They aren’t willing to part with their hero that easily. N’yet.
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