Please prove your critics wrong

If President Noy doesn’t mend his ways, he will soon find himself with a low popularity rating.

He may be enjoying a  high rating in the surveys now, but people are beginning to get disenchanted with him.

In fact, the youth, the sector that admired him the most in the early days of his administration, is making fun of him now.

At the University of the Philippines  campus in Quezon City, students have aptly described P-Noy’s do-nothing ways: Lying on the ground, looking utterly bored, with one hand covering a yawn.

The students  have a name  for it—“Noynoying.”

The stronger term for it is laziness.

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Why is the President bored with his job of running the affairs of 90 million Filipinos?

The answer is simple: We voted into office a spoiled child who, like his mother, Corazon C. Aquino, three administrations before him, didn’t seek out the presidency.

It was the office—rather, the voters—who sought him out and forced him to run.

So let’s not blame P-Noy for the country’s direction-less, “Noynoying” plod toward progress.  Let’s blame ourselves.

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The President apparently spends much of his time watching the impeachment trial of his arch-enemy, Chief Justice Renato Corona.

P-Noy may be justified in wanting Corona out, given the latter’s allegedly corrupt and abusive ways.

But he cannot  use that as an excuse for not attending to other much more important matters of  the state.

If he remains so focused in ousting the Chief Justice to the exclusion of other matters, the President may be accused—

wrongly, of course—of being autistic.

They say one of the signs of autism is a preoccupation with a single television program, toy or game.

Please, Mr. President, prove your enemies wrong.

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Palawan Gov. Abraham Mitra supports his predecessor, Joel T. Reyes.

The former governor  is the alleged mastermind in the murder last year of environmentalist and broadcaster Gerry Ortega.

The Department of Justice has recommended the filing of a murder charge against Reyes.

Standing by a friend in a crisis is a truly admirable.

But what if, in your heart of hearts, you know your friend  has been linked to a  murder case  and the victim happened to be a man who was doing his job as a journalist  by exposing your friend’s alleged wrongdoing?

Tolerating a crime just because it was your friend who had been accused of being involved in the case, is a  crime in itself.