Opposition’s Political Campaign thru Ondoy’s Aftermath???

The unprecedented destructions caused by typhoon Ondoy in Metro Manila and its suburban areas have brought about the modern day essence of “Bayanihan” among Filipinos who were the victims and survivors of said calamity.

In the midst of these horrifying and agonizing moments however, political oppositions particularly those identified with the progressive party list representatives still managed to pin-point their finger to put the blame on the government.

It is a fact that we lack the essential equipments for this kind of situation brought by “Mother Nature” but there are still worthy people in the government who had performed more than their sworn duties and had sacrifice their lives for these people who have loose hope of being rescued while on top of their roof houses suffering from colds and hunger and yet their heroism were never valued by these political oppositions particularly those representatives of the progressive party list.

Donations in terms of cash and in-kinds have been pouring in from every individuals and organizations all over the country and abroad to include the United Nations donor countries in responds to the immediate needs of thousands of victims of this disaster however, some of these relief goods have been marked with political advertisement like the Bayanihan ng Masa and Gabriela Women’s Party who have launched relief drive since September 27 together with Makabayan Coalition who had involved the clearing of city streets. Same is true with the presidentiable hopefuls like Senators Aquino and Mar Roxas whose relief goods donations were marked with “Piso-piso para kay Noynoy” while Senator Villar keeps on airing the deployments of his 26 dump trucks to evacuate the flood victims to different evacuation centers and packed meals marked “Tulong mula kay Manny Villar”.

Generosity is one characteristics of Filipinos that one can not be doubted however, a simple thinking Pedro or Juan or Maria could not help asked questions regarding the moves of these politicians, “It is coming from their heart to help their kababayans or it is their manifestation of EARNING the VOTES of these poor flood victims comes 2010 electoral process???