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Monday, July 11, 2005
Seares: Glo’s smile
By Cheking Seares
News(boy) Sense
THE buzzword these days is respect—for Constitution and constitutional process. Clergy, ex-presidents, educators, business and civil society leaders reject people power, coup, or any other extra-legal force to unseat the President.
Even the opposition and the communists publicly favor respect for the Constitution.
But listen to these advocates.
Respect the Constitution, some of them say, but if President Arroyo and Vice President de Castro wouldn’t leave, they would incite the people and the military to rise. (The united opposition later revised requirement of respect by enlarging demand: “all” administration leaders must go.)
Others want respect for Constitution but if President Glo were expelled, they would form a separate republic for her, presumably with its own Palace and defense force.
What kind of respect for Constitution is that?
Annoying smile.
Critics find terribly annoying the public smile on President Glo’s face these days.
“How can she be smiling with all the mess in her government?” one bitchy academician said in a talk show.
How else would she want President Glo to look? Distraught and edgy, with black dress, long face, untended hair, and a dash of nail-biting?
If she did that, she would fit right into the mold of her critics’ claim, that she is no longer fit to govern.
At least, she cannot be coaxed anymore into singing “If We Hold on Together.”
(July 11, 2005 issue)
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