‘The wife of a prominent senator has been an exceptional fixture on Facebook and YouTube with her imported and branded wardrobe, jewelry and bags.’
OATH-TAKING on the Bible is a solemn gesture, symbolizing a sacred commitment to follow laws and statutes in the discharge of public office.
Faithfulness to the Holy Book’s guidance in the country’s governance must have stopped with former President Diosdado Macapagal, whose tenure was followed by Ferdinand Marcos, who would swear by the Bible twice and then conduct a dreaded and most hated military regime.
To Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Bible also seemed negligible. Their administrations failed to follow any moral and spiritual compass.
Since then, I would cringe at the sight of a President and Vice President putting their hands on the Bible as the entire nation watched in anticipation of imagined “glad tidings.”
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It would be embarrassing to the public, distressed and heavily-burdened by the nation’s economic and financial ordeals, for lady legislators to flaunt their glittering and expensive attire at the opening of the next Congress.
There is nothing uncivil if they emulate Angela Merkel, the former Prime Minister of Germany. When asked why she does not wear new clothes in her office, she remarked, “I am a government worker, not a model.” Her remarkably simple lifestyle includes buying groceries with her husband and lining up at the counters like any ordinary citizen.
The wife of a prominent senator has been an exceptional fixture on Facebook and YouTube with her imported and branded wardrobe, jewelry and bags. The celebrity-wife does not care that her husband, an outstanding legislator, continues to exercise a modest lifestyle.
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Did Vice President-elect Sarah Duterte-Carpio do right when she took her oath despite the fact that Vice President Leni Robredo will still hold office until noon of June 30?
Robredo could not help but try to embrace the spiritual aspect of her huge loss to Bongbong Marcos, especially because no one in government cared to deal with answers to the unexplained questions on vote transmission and large vote margins that mysteriously characterized the overwhelming victory of Marcos.
From the current Vice President: “Ako kasi naniniwala na ‘yung lahat ng nangyari ay may dahilan. So ako, nu’ng hindi ako nanalo, marami akong sinasabi sa sarili ko pero one of the things I kept telling myself was talagang mahal ako ng Diyos na siguro iniwas ako sa mas malaking problema.”
