Meet the two faces of politics: Miriam Santiago and Jun Lozada

I had admired Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago (an Ilonggo by heart and intonation hehe) for such a strong-willed person and politician - not to mention her “English grandiosity.” My parents campaigned and voted for her during the 1992 Presidential Election. Unfortunately, she lost against Fidel V. Ramos. From the time on I watch Santiago in her TV interviews. I had great respect for her until she started telling lies like jumping over a helicopter without a parachute, acting as if a political butterfly through her deliberate changes in political parties from the Opposition to Administration, making remarks that are uncalled for and irresponsible among many things. And hey, until now, she’s turning into an old irritating politician. Just look at what she has done in the senate.

Let me just note of what Jun Lozada has said:

"Madam Senator, I would admit to that.... I would admit, I guess in public, to the nation, that there are certain things I did in my life that I guess upon reflection I would lose some respect to myself. But all the remaining respect I have in myself I don’t want to lose pa. I’d like whatever respect I have in myself to keep it pa. If I will go along with this NBN, I guess I’m going to lose it all. I’m afraid I’m going lose my soul. So, yes, I admit to that. Mea culpa."

That was an honest statement, indeed. We need people like Lozada, a reluctant and flawed hero (nonetheless a hero), to run the government to make this nation great again.