Sheer denial

The bottom line of President Arroyo’s speech:

- If you’re not with her, then you’re against her – from her childhood concept of good guys versus bad guys- She did a huge favor to the Filipino people when she issued her apology 10 days ago; but naively did not realize that “shameless people” will use it against her- Everyone (i.e. the system and the people in it) are to blame except HER- She was supposed to bare her solutions to the country’s woes in her State of the Nation Address but because she is being pestered by the people now, she’s doing everybody a service by giving this statement- She will not resign but her CABINET will so that reforms and compensate for her insincerity and intellectual dishonesty that shows through?

Nowhere does PGMA exhibit sheer denial than in the paragraph where she blames the system for everything that is wrong in the country today.

She conveniently forgets that it is exactly leaders like her that sink the country deeper into the quagmire of disgrace and dishonor who forget to take accountability for their actions and words and instead blames everyone except themselves.

And because she has already lost the moral high ground to impose her will on the people and the nation, she shamelessly blackmails us with the Christian tenet of “he who has no sin cast the first stone”… As if to dare that whatever she has done is just as worse as what anybody did. How in denial can you get than that?

At any rate, one wonders why she came out with the statement at the eve of the CBCP's pronouncement on the country's political situation today. If one will gauge Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales' statement two days ago, the CBCP will likely call for her resignation too. Did you wonder too why she gave her statement over the radio and not in TV? Is it maybe because the viewers know that no amount of positive imagery that PGMA projects will