A despicable scene
It is really very difficult to choose the presidential candidate when, unfortunately, there is no one in the present field of five who seems to be outstanding. None of those who have launched their candidacy for the May 2016 presidential derby appears to possess the intellect and the heart of say, a Jovito R. Salonga, of the past. Comparably speaking, the breed of current aspirants suffers immensely to their counterpart in past times.
While our constitution simply says that the executive power shall be vested in the president of the Philippines, whoever gets elected to that position is actually the CEO of all CEOs who is supposed to be visionary enough to formulate a comprehensive program more for the future of the 100 million Filipinos than increasing his own personal wealth. We need to have the best to lead our country and because the crop is not that good, let me approach the selection process by peeling the chaff from what might hopefully be the grain.
On television few days ago, I saw this presidential candidate from a Mindanao City down south. He was campaigning deep in the north. His mystique must have lured some lovely women to his podium. Perhaps, the damsels were there to wish him the best of campaign luck and to show support to his macho cause. Then, the unthinkable thing happened.
Did I see the presidential candidate force to kiss some unsuspecting ladies on the lips? It was so despicable a scene for me and my grandchildren to see a man, who is yet pretending to become the number one citizen of this country, use his muscle to embrace the women who happened to get near him and kiss their lips. It was blatant display of abusive mentality. If what the candidate did shocked me and I am no saint, the more honorable ones amongst us must have been frightened out of their wits. Sadly for him, there could be no umbra of justification that can erase the stigma of his bestiality.
There were, of course, subdued reactions of the adverse kind from the people attending the campaign. Some of them actually pretended to gloss over the incident. They insisted that it was the comic in the man who wanted to take out the seriousness of a sortie with a warm person-to-person approach. They probably mistook immorality as a pardonable joke. Others simply turned their heads to more acceptable scenes if only to ignore the brazenness of their bet.
What shocked me even more was the statement of this presidential candidate after the fact. When asked for his comment to the negative buzz, he dismissed the incident rather nonchalantly. In fact, his body language projected the idea that he enjoyed the immoral act that he just did. His words got blurred but I could seem to gather that the women, according to him, got what they came near him for! That he could not even apologize for doing a reprehensible act gave us an indication of his unworthy person.
Let us remember that he is still wooing our votes for him to become a president. This early, I have seen his gross disrespect for women. It seems that when he is attracted to a woman, he has no qualm in forcing his way on her. Ask the women who were there on the stage where this candidate attempted to kiss their lips and you would puke at the dastardly experience they suffered. In that public scene, the presence of thousands of other people did not even bother him.
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