ON MONDAY, we’re going to vote again and exercise our sacred right to vote. Hoping our chosen candidates are the right ones and hoping that other voters would choose the right candidates for the coveted positions.
The lesson we’ve learned from the past elections should never be forgotten. Some had violence, widespread fraud and vote buying.
But despite these, Juan de la Cruz is still standing and smiling, holding a lighted candle symbolizing hope and changes for the good. As a citizen of this country, my vote is my hope. Please respect my vote.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:56 am
I only wish… it will be peaceful… with all these hassles and bussy streets. This election fever will finally end.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:39 am
i, too, hope against hope that we, the Filipino people, will come out victorious after this election. but i fear when candidates spend millions of pesos to win a P35,000 per month job to serve his constituents! i fear when candidates kill each other to serve the masses… i fear when cheaters, like Garci, will run and i doubly fear that the likes of him may win this election… i fear when the opposition says that the peace-keepers like the PNP, army campaigns for candidates… i fear when candidates who are obviously snakes, liars, known drug lords and jueteng lords spend millions to win.. i fear when losers in this election will again take the streets professing they have been cheated…
is there really hope?
May 10th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I urge people not to vote out of anger. Let’s vote with sobriety and good sense. Let’s vote for people with substance, people who do their job out of the media eye but are working nevertheless. People like Angara deserve another seat in the Senate if only for his record in lawmaking. My god, let’s not forget that Senators are lawmakers first and foremost, and that their primary duty is to make laws.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Again and again, this is our one shot chance to correct the decades-and-generations-old mistakes we and our elders have inflicted on our nation. Sadly in this democtratic setup, we only get to choose from old, tired faces whose hypocritical smiles are lining our poster-infested alleys and streets. But the again, there is hope. Hope in that we may be electing the lesser evil, that this time around, they and we, too, will learn so much from our collective electoral experiences. That they make use of their victory as a contract to us, Filipinos, to uplift our countrymen from ignorance and despair, from the bondage of poverty and slavery, from the clutches of false promises and passe ideology. So help us God.