Yes. I was there at the launching of Coalition For The Deserving in Manila Hotel last February 3,2009. It was a jam-packed event as media and different members of the 4 groups filled up the entire Centennial A hall.
The Coalition is comprised of four political parties (Aksyon Demokratiko, Reporma, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan and Bigkis Pinoy) merging to make a new party called the Coalition For The Deserving with one aligned goal in mind -- To have Deserving leaders that will lead the Philippines in 2010 onwards.
Many questions were brought up like, "Who will fund the Coalition?" and "What if the opponent has more money than the deserving one?" Well, one of them said that they won't run out of funds and they will support their candidate and make sure the candidate wins. That is a tough statement to release.
In my own personal opinion, they mean well and they want change but, at the end of the day, we face the same problems becuase the more influential one, the more famous one, the richer one and the cheater one, would always end up in victory versus the deserving one.
Also, one of the bloggers who attended told me that, "what if this is a part of a bigger plan?" well, it can't be far from what I am also thinking. It is highly possible.
We only need one thing here-- God's guidance to make the coalition do the work that they are supposed to do and not fall into any temptations.
The reason they invited bloggers is that, they realized the power of the internet and they might have read the strategy of current US President Barrack Obama which utlized the internet and took advantage of it to victory. This is a very rich medium to use to reach millions of people across the world and in the whole Philippines with just a click of the button.
I just hope they send the message well using these mediums so that people would know who the deserving political leader is -- and avoid future problems that help sink the Philippines even lower than ever.
I will upload photos soon.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Coalition for the Deserving
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This is a comment I posted on a blog by Chef Tonio
Dear Chef Tonio,
Just dropped by to say that I really care about this topic.
How do we change this country? Who do we vote for? What do we do to make our choice for President, Senator, etcetera win.
Perhaps we should still look at candidates, especially for President, as if they were interviewing for a job opening.
In a job interview, we would normally ask a couple of things like:
What are you qualifications?
If I were to hire you as the President of my country, what would you do? Where would you lead us? How will you solve problems such as poverty, poor education, lack of health care, joblessness, etcetera?
Granted that you are qualified and that you have great ideas about how to solve our countries problems, how can we believe that you will do what you say you will do? Do you have any experience in doing these things? How is your track record for delivering solutions to problems?
These are really simple questions which much be answered.
Paul
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