BINAY HAS JUST KISSED MALACANANG GOODBYE!

Vice-President Jejomar Binay has just KISSED HIS PRESIDENTIAL BID GOODBYE.

With his decision to back out from his debate with Sen. Antonio Trillanes, a confrontation  which  HE HIMSELF HAD CALLED  FOR,  Binay has JUST  LOST any and all sense of FIRMNESS IN DECISION-MAKING.

And along with it, SIINCERITY AND CREDIBILITY in his pronouncements.

Two of the MOST IMPORTANT QUALITIES any president must have if he or she is to rule the country.

I am NOT for Trillanes, or for any other possible opponent  of Binay.

But if Binay CAN’T STAND BY HIS WORD, on a simple debate, a challenge he himself had raised, HOW CAN WE EXPECT HIM TO BE FIRM in dealing with more sensitive matters of state like national security and sovereignty?

Or even with situations which will require ENCOMPASSING, TOUGH and LONG-TERM DECISIONS like governance or graft and corruption?

It is true that as a lawyer, he’s more trained and experienced in debates. But for him to use this as the justification in withdrawing from the debate is, to put it mildly, IRRESPONSIBLE.

For the simple reason that Binay knew it all along, and should not have called for the debate in the first place.  

Instead of generating a chivalrous image for him as he’s trying to project, Binay’s reason reflected RECKLESSNESS AND HASTE in the way he thinks, which is a ‘NO-NO’  if  one is to lead a nation.

Not only did Binay dig his own presidential grave, he has just TOTALLY ERODED THE MOST LEGITIMATE CHANCE he could have to prove his accusers of fraud wrong.

While giving his detractors a  mountain of ammunition to PULVERIZE his political ambition to tohe wind.

Mar Roxas must be smiling from ear to ear. 30