GMA Over Acting

Please...ambivalent is how I will describe what I feel about her. 

I was not that interested with the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo drama. Though the news was filled with updates, I was really just a passive listener to what’s going on in the country’s colorful political arena. But what is happening to GMA is an irresistible topic of conversation and it matters not whether you're interested or not because everyone has a say about it.

Anyway, as we were having our grade six teachers meeting, the discussion drifted into the GMA incarceration. Most of the teachers (others were silent) expressed disgust at how Gloria Macapagal Arroyo played into the people’s emotion. The former president and her spokespersons made the common Filipinos believe that she was suffering from a life threatening illnesses what with all that special effects like neck brace and wheel chair.

GMA’s lawyer, a man called Lambino, defined life threatening as dying of old age and if I follow his logic, all of us have life threatening illnesses. Well, that’s what you get when lawyers speak about medical condition: lawyers playing doctors and doctors playing lawyers. Only in the Philippines!

What is sad, and not unexpected if I may say, about Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is that she is not getting any sympathies from the common Filipino with the exception of paid sycophants, drivers, maids and others who directly benefited from her. Senator Ping Lacson said it very well, “nakakaawa si GMA kasi walang naawa sa kanya.”

 In contrast to what happened to Estrada, when the news that the presidency was taken from him by GMA, the masses showed their support to him to the point of threatening a revolution.

Karma is what the common Filipino think about what is happening to her.  But, I think, the more appropriate concept is "gaba."