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PGMA can also feel pain just like all of us-Nograles

By all standards, the State of the Nation Address (SONA) before the joint session of Congress last Monday
was a huge success but as expected, anti-Arroyo forces particularly those who felt being alluded to by the
President when she spoke about her frustration on those who continue to malign her administration “have
twisted the meaning of her pronouncements.”

This was the assessment by Speaker Prospero C. Nograles, a day after the President sent her clear
message to the people about her resolve to extricate the country from the ill effects of the lingering global
economic doldrums.

“The President is just like all of us. She also feels the pain and the frustration with the relentless effort to
malign her and belittle the hard work that she had done for our nation. But there is no denying that she is a
leader with a purpose and one who is prepared to defend to the hilt what is right to promote public welfare,”
Nograles reiterated.

All the negative reactions of her critics, Nograles said, were expected under our vibrant democratic system.
“Anyway, sinister designs are not meant to triumph. But most of the attacks on the presidency are not doing
good for the country.”

“Our democracy is truly alive. The President has been consistent in her determination to lead the country to
where it should go, unperturbed by the selfish intimidations by critics who hide beneath their empty rhetorics
in pursuit of their personal and hazy agenda,” he noted.

What the leadership is concerned about, Nograles stressed, is the welfare of the majority in the rural areas
who toil the fields and break their backs to feed the millions of Filipinos, including those who continuously
land in the front pages of newspapers and prime time broadcast programs hiding behind the cloak of
righteousness and patriotism.

“Let us all dig into the deepest recesses of our conscience and we would surely discover the need to unite as
a people and raise the level of our political plain where ideas and reason dictate public choices,” Nograles
said.