AND THE TITLE of this column probably pissed off all those so-called disente people, social climbers and trendy millennials (or just plain trendy idiots) while the column will make all those wannabe presidents squirm in their Marks and Spencer drawers or knickers as the case maybe.
Meanwhile the natives, the hoi polloi, the great unwashed and your common average Pinoy or everyman will most probably be happy that their idol will be the next President of the Philippines.
This, of course, will depend if Sara Duterte does not run and supports a Manny Pacquiao run for the presidency.
Of course, all those mentioned above, you know, the usual suspects – i.e. the disente, social climbers, etc. – will vehemently disagree saying the usual nonsense “Manny Pacquiao is not qualified or he is not presidentiable.”
But really, who among the current crop of recycled opposition or members of that “erectile dysfunction” sounding group Tindig Pilipinas can even come close to the popularity, trust and acceptance of current President Rodrigo Duterte?
Only Sara Duterte and Manny Pacquiao come close and have the very strong potential to even match it or more.
Let’s face it, the natives are up fed up with these disente hypocrites who are not only incompetents but corrupt as well, and this argument was proven with Rodrigo Duterte who is the anti-thesis of everything they represent.
The only way people like Bambam Aquino, Leni Robredo or “Pilo” Hilbay will win is if Andy Bautista (or someone like him) is still the head of the Commission on Elections or Comelec.
We will talk about a Sara Duterte run for the presidency in another column; meantime let’s do a Manny Pacquiao.
The president we had before Rodrigo Duterte was a nincompoop. Noynoy Aquino became president of the Philippines not because he was qualified (whatever that means) or presidentiable; he only became president because his mother, former President Cory Aquino, died and a lot of idiots have this mistaken notion that voting for him and saying condolence are one and the same.
The more discerning natives are saying, however, that he became president because of the manipulation of the results from the Precinct Count Optical Scanner or PCOS machines and that former President Erap Estrada who came in second was the true winner. But of course, that is another story.
So what did the “fruit of the loins” of Ninoy a.k.a. Marcial Bonifacio and Cory Aquino give or did for this country during his presidency?
Let’s name a few:
To start with, a P1-billion penalty for cancelling a Belgian firm’s P18-billion flood control project; 800 thousand school children sentenced to “death by Dengvaxia”; billions of pesos siphoned through the illegal Disbursement Acceleration Program and Priority Development Assistance Fund; sending 44 troopers of the Philippine National Police’s Special Action Force to be massacred by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
And you’re still wondering why Rodrigo Duterte won as president and not Noynoy’s anointed Mar “Daang Matuwid” Roxas?
The natives are up to their necks with hypocrites like them, which brings us to Manny Pacquiao and why he can be the next president of these islands.
For starters, like Duterte he is the exact opposite of all those wannabe wearing yellow drawers or knickers. He is everyman and speaks their language and feels their sentiments.
People would rather have an uneducated president who has not stolen nor needs to steal anything from the government than someone who claims he is an MBA graduate of Wharton (clearly he’s not) and pretends to be some kind of idiot driving a pedicab, carrying a sack of onions and directing traffic on Commonwealth Avenue.
Neither would the natives want a president or current vice president a.k.a. Leni Robredo who is clueless with the law when she is supposedly a lawyer (how she became one is still one of life’s mysteries) and walks around rice paddies barefoot.
So how does the world look at Manny Pacquiao besides being one of the greatest professional boxer, perhaps second only to Mohammad Ali?
Excerpts from the Nov. 7 issue of The Philippine Star:
Manny Pacquiao scores a knockout at Oxford
WBA welterweight champion Sen. Manny Pacquiao delivered an inspiring speech before the Oxford Union, the university’s prestigious debating society, then spoke from the heart in a one-on-one interview on stage at a packed auditorium on the school campus late Monday afternoon.
Pacquiao was invited to join the ranks of several distinguished speakers in the past by Oxford Union president Stephen Horvath and society secretary Tom Brown. The Union was established in 1823 and has welcomed a wide range of guest speakers including Sir Winston Churchill, Robert Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa, Benazir Bhutto, Albert Einstein, and Margaret Thatcher. From the sporting world, among the past visitors were George Foreman, David Haye, Vitali Klitschko, Chris Eubank, Boris Becker, Diego Maradona, and Roger Bannister.
It appeared that Pacquiao scored a knockout in his visit to the English university, coming across as a sincere and humble person with no pretences and a genuine desire to uplift humanity.
The “high school graduate” Manny Pacquiao is the only Filipino invited to speak in Oxford University’s prestigious debating society and joins the ranks of equally if not more than prestigious list of distinguished speakers that any of the disente people would not even be worthy to stand in their footsteps.
So why not Manny Pacquiao as the next president? Indeed, why not! (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
