Accountability - A Cultural Perspective
At the end of the day, crooks go to jail or at the very least resign from their positions – in Japan and the US. The Philippines is a different story.
Archive for March, 2010
Accountability
Mar 3
Oh, I know nobody can prove anything, and these are just dirty, dirty allegations — but Messrs. Enrile, Gordon, and Estrada are not really three guys one would think of sitting down together and concocting the same fabulous accusation, so you have to wonder.
Money is pretty damned useful, but money can’t buy integrity, a proven track record, or a clear set of ideas and objectives. Vote Gordon in 2010.
Manny, stop advertising and campaigning and trying to win the election so much and stuff! Please?
Mar 2
Over at AntiPinoy, benign0 analyzes a common complaint, exemplified in an article by caffeine sparks in FV, that Senator Villar is somehow being like, totally unfair and all because he’s got this nutty idea that he should utilize all his resources and put maximum effort into his campaign. Now to be fair to Sparky, she really didn’t mark herself out as a Noynoy supporter in her article….But on the other hand, she didn’t mention any other candidates, either. And the last, oh, say couple hundred times or so we’ve heard the complaint, it’s been uttered by a yellow tongue, so…
Granted, we don’t really like Manny either, but it’s pretty easy to see where he’s going with all this, and hard to blame him, the goofy nature of elections (and the electorate) here being what they are. Noy still hasn’t figured out which hand to make his trademark signal to the homies with, so perhaps it’s not really a surprise he hasn’t caught on to concepts like, you know, ambition. Or work.