Catanduanes Forum

With the massive graft and corruption in our government and about a third of
our fellow Filipinos languishing in the gutter of poverty, the very first
qualities we must seek for in a presidential candidate are honesty,
transparency, accountability, and moral ascendancy.

For the culture of corruption that is pervasive in the Philippines, we need a candidate who has
never been corrupt, who is openly against corruption, and one who is
incorruptible. Is there anyone among the declared presidential aspirants,
besides Noynoy Aquino who can honestly claim to have those 4 qualities?
As a physician, when confronted with a patient with cancer, I consult a
cancer specialist. Never mind if he does not know much about diabetes or
arthritis, or heart disease, etc. As long as he has the moral fiber,
training, and competence of a cancer specialist, albeit limited in the other
fields of medicine, he is the one most qualified to treat the cancer. He can
always surround himself with specialists in the various subspecialty fields
in medicine to help save the patient.

The same principle applies in choosing the best candidate for president of
the Philippine at this most crucial juncture in our history, since the
nation is plagued by the cancer of corruption, which devastates, not only
our economy and prosperity, but our dignity, social justice, honor, and
pride as a people and as a nation.

We must elect a president who in unquestionably honest, free of any stain of
corruption, one whose morals could never be questioned. When Noynoy Aquino
is elected president, he can select the best and the brightest minds among
the Filipinos for the various branches and areas of government, from his
cabinet, all the way down to the other political appointees, just like what
the "inexperienced" Barack Obama did in the United States.

As a moral leader, Noynoy will inspire all the other elective officials in
all branches of government to be similarly honest and accountable. As a just
and ethical leader, he can, without hypocrisy, demand and exact from
everyone total respect for our laws and harshly deal with any official who
breaches public trust, and show the world that in the Philippines no one is
above the law.

I hasten to state that Noynoy Aquino is the man for this season, the only
leader, at this point and time, who can wake up the sleeping Global Filipino
Giant and truly inspire people power and transform the Philippines into a
nation with integrity, dignity, prosperity, peace, social justice for all,
honor, and pride. He is, after all, genetically endowed with Ninoy and
Cory’s moral ascendancy, besides true love of country and compassion for the
poor. The Aquino legacy will be Noynoy’s guiding light, his parents’ dream
his mandate, and we, the people, his pillars, in achieving the "impossible"
dream of his parents for the Philippines.

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