Think about it
Bataoil shows preparedness for a new job
By Jun Velasco
IN a short chat this week, we got a glimpse of Noynoy Aquino’s character.
Honest, clear-eyed, patriotic with a road map of the country’s future, the senator won’t mind diving in the approval ratings if raising it has a pecuniary price.
No doubt, he has his parents’ selfless character, Cory’s truthful nature and Ninoy’s wits.
It’s sad that Noynoy who is still less than 50 is being portrayed otherwise by baseless propaganda. In our standard, he will make a good, nay, great president, if elected.
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Back in Pangasinan, Carlos Bulosan, the rage of Filipino writers in English in the 30’s, was feted in his Binalonan hometown by the townspeople led by famous daughter Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, our embattled president.
His famous book, “America is in the Heart,” was translated in Iloko by vernacular writer Manuel Diaz, whose book launch was timed with the town fiesta.
We missed the event especially listening to the stories about Bulosan who was not only a literary giant but a champion labor leader in the U.S. He died poor, and he died fighting for the rights of poor workers in the US during the depression.
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Although he has never tried any job outside soldiery and police work, General Leopoldo Bataoil is giving the impression he is well prepared for a congressman’s job.
An articulate speaker who can think best on his feet, Pol has political savvy, probably honed by his forays in student leadership in high school and college.
He has 33 years in public service in all parts of the country mostly in strife-torn areas.
Countless challenges to his wits, military warfare experience, skills in the art of negotiation especially with unfriendly or enemy forces make him an ideal legislator.
He is considered “most civilian” among former police officers by the common folk, says a media man who spent a day to cover his campaign impressed by his easy-does-it ways with the hoi poloi, his legendary stamina in holding dialogues with people everyday without let up in the whole length and width of the district.
Apprehensions about military people taking over civilian posts, it seems, do not apply to Bataoil who is warm and friendly.
We received a report that he has literally covered the eight towns in the district more than any of his rivals. A fellow Rotarian, Pol’s text message yesterday, ran, “I have been in places my opponents have not seen before. I feel and see and experience our people’s pulse, and with your continuing prayers, we will make it all the way.” Good luck, Pol.
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