A short quote from Barack Obama's January 20 Inaugural Speech:
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
No wonder he wouldn't take her calls then. Does this mean we won't be seeing much pictures of the U.S. 44th President and our country's 14th President together? Well the palace can always use photoshop.
For full text on Obama's Inaugural Address, go to www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.politics/index.html
2 comments:
I'm sure Obama wasn't thinking of GMA when he made that statement. We Filipinos have this propensity for exaggerating our importance to the world. He was probably thinking of despots like Kim Jong-il rather than GMA. Let's get real.
Despotism, tyranny, autocracy come in many forms not just the very obvious self-serving, sadistic penchants in the guise of law and order…even economic reform. You’re probably right. Maybe he had the likes of Pyongyang’s despot in mind when he gave that speech (or maybe just the ones most likely rotting in the netherworld like Robespierre, Stalin, Hitler, etc). But we weren’t really the ones who wrote that speech were we? So we can not really be sure who he was referring to in particular. Or if he was indeed making a direct address when he referred to those power clinging beings. I did not say he was specifically referring to GMA…only GMA. It’s a big world, the Philippines is just a small archipelago in the pacific. I was not trying to exaggerate our importance in the global scene. I am merely voicing out my thoughts as a citizen of the country I am residing in, based on the information available on the internet and national broadsheets, as how I see it would affect my country. Because we do have diplomatic ties with the U.S., and with the former president’s open support to our current administration, one can’t help but wonder how ties with U.S. (under new leadership) will be like.
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