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...Filipinos have a schizophrenic view of their political leaders, from town mayors to provincial governors to Presidents. They must be generous patrons, doling out to people in need?as if they were benevolent Sultans with bottomless purses. But they must not be corrupt. In our personality-driven culture, clans and ritual bonds are important; ideologies and government programs are not. When things go right, it's because leaders are heroes of epic proportion. When things go wrong, we replace personalities rather than reinforce institutions and processes...
...snap election in 1986 that was widely suspected to be fraudulent, Sin took to the airwaves, rallying the country of devout Catholics to join a military faction that had mutinied against Marcos. After a three-day standoff, Marcos fled. Sin stepped in again to help oust the corrupt Estrada in 2001. Famous for his humor--"Welcome to the House of Sin" was his greeting to houseguests--he responded to criticisms of his secular activism by saying the church "cannot proclaim eternal salvation ... when we are blind to the physical realities which deny [people] that very salvation here on earth...
Unusual among antislavery orators in the 1850s, Lincoln sought to comprehend the Southerners' position through empathy rather than castigate slave owners as corrupt and un-Christian men. He argued, "They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up." It was useless, he explained in another address, to employ "thundering tones of anathema and denunciation," for denunciation would be met by denunciation, "anathema with anathema...
...PROBLEM IS CORRUPTION? It's the No. 1 issue, and we're not proud of our record. I'm very strict when it comes to corruption. I want all parties involved in the reconstruction to agree that we will not continue the corrupt practices of the past...
...much talk of revolution and a new political structure for the Philippines: a national governing council, a civilian junta, or a strongman general and a politician ruling in tandem. When Arroyo goes, her enemies say, the country has to be "cleansed" and everything else must go too: corrupt officials and generals, the constitution, elections (for a while), and democratic freedoms such as an unrestricted press and the right to assemble in the streets. "It's the worst possible situation for a country to be in," says Francisco Tatad, a former minister and Senator who leads a civic group called Citizens...