Malacanang Palace: Why not just live in the palace?

United States
June 14, 2010 11:21am CST
The Aquinos make things too complicated and polarizing. Keep it simple, stop playing the humble card. Respect the traditions of all presidents in the world, live in the house that taxpayers pay for. For example: White House (USA), La Casa de Narina (Bogota, Colombia), and Malacanang Palace (Philippines). This guy, man. "I'd rather swear infront of a baranggay captain than the Supreme Court" "I'd rather live in my house than Malacanang because I don't want power to get into my head the way Marcos and Arroyo did" Give me a break, you drama king. Stop the polarization. Bury the Marcos kids' dad, live in the palace, and show the Filipinos it's time to heal and respect traditions of our beloved country. I am tired of this drama that this family brings to the country. Geez.
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• Philippines
14 Jun 10
Hello archie, I couldn't agree with you more, and i thought i was the only one thinking of this nonsense. of course, the guy's chinese and he believed in this fengshui like his mom, but is it really worth the purchase of another govt. office when there is Malacanang already. it's not the atmosphere of power, but it's the WILL of the person that wields changed, and noynoy simply lost to that reasoning. I don't think he knows what his doing, haven't you heard, his choosing celebrities for government cabinet positions
• United States
14 Jun 10
I looked at the list of credentials I dug up about what he's done (www.scribd.com/doc/20458070/Sen-Noynoy-Aquino-Accomplishments) and to tell you the truth, it's a summary of his opinions. The Senate Bills are just either investigations, allegations, debates, ideas-in-theory, I mean, unenforceable "thoughts", you know? The accomplishments I am looking for are tangible ones. For example, if Bongbong Marcos ran for President, he can itemize actual tangible changes and improvements he's help materialize in Ilocos. Noynoy is a vocal oppositionist like his late father. But that's it. He just opposes. But he did not have ideas. He investigates but really it did not yield anything. For a president, that's quite a short list of accomplishments that bore no impact on lives. At this point I sincerely believe the guy was voted into office because of his parents, that is it. I completely agree with you that the will of the person is what matters, not the feng shui of the house. I mean, I respect his beliefs...but that's quite dangerous when matters of government interest were decided upon by fengh shui. I wonder if other forms of decision making within the office will be implemented through that. It's no different than George W Bush, for example, making executive decisions based on his fanatic belief of Good versus Evil. I mean, in the end, that mentality got the US in so much debt, economic crisis, unending military deployment, and broken diplomacy. The current President had to sew the pieces together and that's costly for a nation to pay for. Same thing with Noynoy's decision making thus far. It's just risky at best.
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