The very talented PCOO Under Secretary for New Media Spokesperson Lorraine Badoy once again dedicates a beautiful thought about President Rodrigo Duterte.
From her online journal, she described the president very
well, being passionate in everything he does for the love of his country.
Dr. Badoy, who is a former DSWD Assistant Secretary is a
well-known supporter of the president.
Check out her journal post below;
Whenever I watch the President speak, a thought loops in my
mind:
He talks about our problems: the drug menace, our economy,
the West Philippine Sea problem, our OFWs, foreign interference over matters
that are of no concern to theirs, the pang aasar of this small group of
kagwangs dedicated to bringing him down, the one question on my mind is:
WHY in heck would anyone want to be President?
Why oh why?
Alternating with “People kill for this? Seriously??”
Because all I am is a public official on the lower levels of
the executive totem pole and yet I have had this need to manage my stress in
ways I’ve never had to all my life. I cannot even begin to imagine what his
life is like.
With simpletons like Noynoy Aquino, that question is easy as
hell to answer: it’s the oligarch thing to do. Grasp power in both your greedy
hands and never give a single thought to making millions of lives better.
Who cares if they die by the thousands like they did in
Yolanda or if they walk into their deaths like sheep led to slaughter the way
SAF44 did while this obscene idiot of a president slept (or so he claims.)
Ganyan ang oligarkyo: sila lang ang may karapatan mamuhay ng komportable. Tayo
na ma-deds, whodafak cares.
No, that’s not what I am talking about.
What I am talking about is the Rodrigo Duterte brand of
leadership.
The one with HEART and SOUL.
The one where he puts every goddamn thing on the line for
us. The one where he sticks his neck out and not give a damn what it will cost
him. The one where he says he wouldn’t mind going to hell so Filipinos can have
a taste of heaven on earth. And you look at him when he says that and you see
that he truly means it. It just takes my breath away really.
Oh this man.
He is OURS AND OURS alone. A most faithful and passionate
lover.
His every waking hour is spent thinking of us. How to take
us out of the horrific grip of the drug scourge that has destroyed our most
precious resource: our children.
How he’s been so pained by the abuse of the Filipino people
and would like for it to stop now– the oppression of those who’ve had us in
their death grip for all time: the oligarchs, the Catholic hierarchy (my dears,
I can think of fewer oppressions than IGNORANCE and the FEAR of hellfire and
brimstone if you don’t do as the clergy tell you), drug lords, corrupt
government workers.
This man.
Last night, I watched him speak before a room full of media
people and I felt his weariness. And it wasn’t physical fatigue –although there
is that too for all that sleep deprivation from the punishing ASEAN schedule.
But an even deeper kind of weariness on the soul level.
The weariness of someone on whom millions depend on. The
weariness of a leader who looks at how the world’s powerful are pushing
humanity closer and closer to the brink of extinction with senseless wars and
endless posturing.
The weariness of someone who has seen the abuse wrought on
the Filipino people by the soulless elites, wants it to stop NOW yet knows it
will take more time and begs for us to be patient. But oh how he just wants to
smash their faces in.
Because HE. WANTS. THE. ABUSE. TO. STOP. NOW.
But knowing that so much of all that will depend on how well
he plays his cards, this man holds his cards close to his chest. And plays them
exceedingly well. The stakes are too high and he will not be careless.
Back to my question: why did this man, Rodrigo Duterte, want
to be president?
When he can very well live a life of ease and comfort, put
his feet up as he watches his apos play about, eat durian and read and nap any
old time he wants to and yet chooses to be the receptacle of hope for millions
of Filipinos, to carry their burdens for them, to take endless blows for them,
to be wounded many times over for them, I can only think of one word for that.
LOVE.
Nothing more, nothing less.
It’s no wonder he is, arguably, the most beloved Philippine
president. No president before him has loved the Filipino people the way he
does.
Truly, profoundly, deeply.
So I got an answer to my question.
And it left me breathless at the magnitude and force of our
President’s love for us.
(originally published in newstwerk.com)
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