Why Bayani Fernando don't deserve to be president

One of Manila Bulletin staffers wrote about the disgusting "Likuan U" sign along EDSA-Ayala, which I also recently discovered came out to be a veiled campaign by one of the politicians who planned to run for president this coming 2010 presidential elections. I just abhor and cringe upon learning that this was intentionally made by the office of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to promote their "great leader", Bayani Fernando(x).

According to the article, Mr. Fernando likens himself to the great Singaporean leader, Lee Kuan Yew for his political will. Now, what I do not like about this is that:

1) The sign is a danger - It is not official, it's not helpful, it doesn't add any value to the motorist, and it can potentially cause harm because you add more things for the driver to read that makes no sense.

2) It's your tax money - So many people can use the money for food, shelter, and even improve infrastructure. This signboard says, "selfish, self-serving, and insulting."

3) It's cheating - A lot of politicians are doing veiled campaigning now by using business contacts to produce billboards for them and pose as "models" for their products or services. This one is no exception. Subliminaly, Mr. Fernando is making us look at these signboards and promote his campaign.

LTO calls it sick humor. Me? I call it greed.

I called the office of the MMDA today at around 11 am to know what they're doing about this. A certain Rey Lunas (Planning) and Ly (Operations) answered my querries to explain this signboard. Mr. Lunas said that their department is not in charge of this and that the operations are the ones who I should bring this matter up with. Operations, on the other hand, does not know a thing about it. She asked my name and said they'll just bring it up to her boss. I said, you better do something about this because we're gonna look stupid.

Boy, was I wrong.

Now, do we really want these people in office? These types of actions are red flags already and we should think twice before voting for these individuals. If they can blatantly use our money for this kind of purpose then what more should they do once they're in office?

You may say I'm over-reacting but am I really? I'm exercising discretion and so far people like this don't deserve my vote. Character is chief before I will consider electing somebody. At this point, he lost his integrity. Will I vote for Bayani Fernando now that he has shown this kind of character? I don't think so.

Footnote:
(x) - Manila Bulletin article about this "Likuan U" signboard