by Maria Bratikova
You may cast a long shadow, a medium-sized one, a short one, an almost-not-there one. But it’ll be there. It all depends on the angle of the source of light with reference to your position.
Let‘s take the sun and you as constants.Time is an illusion. Your shadow is not. On a sunny day, whatever angular form you get in your relationship with the sun as the earth moves stays with you. You cannot separate from it, you cannot outrun it. Your shadow sticks to you and vice versa. And that fact is a constant whatever you are doing, thinking, planning at any given angle. You cannot trick it, for as long as there is light there‘s your shadow.
So now we have a former President who cast a shadow that makes him stressing over a possible arrest. Why is that?
If one has nothing to worry about one’s own actions, statements, movements – there’d be no reason to disengage from that shadow. In fact, you‘d have to worry if your shadow does not show when light conquers the dark.
Tomorrow, the earth will take a new turn and reveal the sun early on. The game will continue. . .
Oh God.
George Burns sighed to himself. “What mistake did I make on earth?”
In the grand spectacle of political dodgeball, Martin Andanar’s response to Katrina Ponce Enrile’s allegations resembles a comedic stumble rather than a graceful dodge.
While dismissing the accusations as “fake news” might initially seem a strategic move, veering into a tangent about corned beef, specifically the Enriles’ Delimondo brand, is a perplexing choice that only adds flavor to the absurdity.
In a world where serious allegations demand concrete evidence, Andanar’s pivot to canned meat as a rebuttal falls flat. It’s akin to bringing a spoon to a sword fight. By shifting the focus away from the crux of the matter—his alleged ties to Beijing and funding of Filipino vloggers with Chinese money—Andanar inadvertently amplifies the skepticism surrounding his response.
In the theater of public opinion, credibility is currency, and Andanar’s gambit seems to have squandered it rather than bolstered it.
If this were a court of law, the burden of proof rests on the accuser, but in the court of public perception, Andanar’s antics leave him looking more like a clown than a statesman.
Let’s hope the next act brings more substance and less canned responses.
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