"Annoy on P-Noy"

June 30, 2010, it was a historic day for every Filipino; this is the day where the 15th president of the Republic of the Philippines was inaugurated right in the very eyes of millions of Filipino. I am not a fan of his Excellency president Noynoy Aquino, but I witnessed this historic moment, because I’m a Filipino, and I believe that it’s my obligation to watch this event.

I am not after the celebration, I was just anticipating the speech that he will give after he takes his oath to office, and I highlighted some points in the speech, and still, full of promises, just what traditional politicians do before they start their work, and he give his speech in tagalog, it had shown his love for our national language, but how would the foreign dignitaries and visitors understand his piece if he didn’t use our international language. At the start of his speech, he mentioned that he didn’t expect and even in his wild dreams, to lead a nation, and with this statement, I just recalled in my mind the reaction that I had upon learning that he will run, not because he really wants to, but because many people wants him to, and that alone showed that being a president is far from his political agenda and for me, it means that there is no willingness on his part to be a leader of this country.

Another statement that really caught my attention is when he mentioned that he knows what is like to have nothing but his life, meaning to be less fortunate, and I strongly disagree with that, because many people know where he came from and the social class that his mother belongs to. It pisses me when he always mentioned his parents, we all know how great his father and mother was, Ninoy his father, which I really admire the most, is a martyr, no doubt about it, and his mother former president Cory, the fearless woman who brought democracy back to our nation, why it pissed me? Because it somehow convinced me that he is really using his parents name to cover up his ignorance when it comes to being president, his parents are really great, but it doesn’t mean that you carried that trait. There are a lot of promises mentioned in the speech, even his anger on the past administration was strongly pointed out, and I could see his passion in seeking for justice against the former president, and for me, he shouldn’t have to mention that issue on his speech.

In conclusion, I am not sure if he could really lead our country, I’m criticizing him not because I’m not in favor of his administration and didn’t vote him, but I criticize him because I could see that he is not ready for the task. To end this, I bid good luck to my fellow countrymen, we now have a leader who ran and elected to the post, because of the sympathy of the people.