Paalam Cory

Its sad to hear that the former president Cory Aquino has has passed away. She was 76. Considered as an icon of democracy in this country for toppling Marcos' 20 year dictatorship, she would be long be missed for her courage to fight corruption in the country today. Who would lead the fight now? We would lead the fight.

Its hard to imagine that after 23 years from Edsa, progress has never set forth as it should have been. Its not Cory fault. She did what she was supposed to do. Besieged with so many attempts by military takeovers from people really screwed up there and now seating among the happy flock of the corrupt, their voices unheard of again like their lips has been sealed forever, it harder to imagine progress at that time. They screwed it, one politician after another.

Its regrettable to see such arrogant display of power, lies and high level corruption that has beset just anybody else in the government today. I once had high hopes with the Arroyos just years ago but that has spiraled down to more than a grain in the sand ready to be swept away in any moment's deluge. Her last state of the nation address was no more than a self glorifying act, devoid of meaning, lost in translation to millions of Filipinos.

I cannot more than agree to Randy David's comment and his quest to run against the Arroyos in their bailiwick that they are pushing their luck too much. Could we have another Cory, a Ninoy perhaps in the near future? I'm not betting on it. But change would come and I look forward to that day again when just months from graduating from elementary studies, we went to the street amidst the throngs of the many and the sounds of car horns to celebrate democracy. This time a celebration from the corrupt, and the beginning to a new progress.

Paalam Cory. I salute you.:)