Petty and mean By Ronald Roy COMMENT 07/15/2010

Petty and mean

By Ronald Roy COMMENT 07/15/2010 I thank texter 3003 (last 4 digits of sender’s cellphone number) for welcoming me to the ranks of “responsible journalists.” Apparently, 3003 is happy to see me supporting President Benigno Aquino lll (P-Noy) despite some uncomplimentary things I’ve written about his parents. But I beg to clarify a few things here. In the first place, I don’t consider myself a true blue dyed-in-the-wool journalist. I am a lawyer with a business administration degree in economics, and have other things to do by way of creative and recreational hobbies. But at 75, I’ve come to realize being a political critic is my best way of helping save a nation that has gone to the dogs. At my age, I suppose people get to play new roles in the universal scheme of God, planet, country, people and family in that order. I receive no pittance for scribbling my heart out against bad people in government. Doing so would go against my doctor’s advice. But how do I ignore the persistent notion that one’s self-proclaimed love of country is nothing but bombast unless suffered with the burning passion of a Rhett Butler or a Cyrano de Bergerac? I had initially hoped to stand by P-Noy’s side since his success would redound to our benefit. But because passing developments seem foreboding, I may soon be back where 3003 once considered me an irresponsible critic, the certain return of life-shortening conditions notwithstanding. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100715com6.html

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