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Not a lost cause

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There are no lost causes in this year’s election campaign season.

This is certainly not the case of Vice President Jejomar Binay. His is a campaign that was fought long before he rose as the second most powerful government official of the land.

Fighting poverty is never a lost cause. Binay’s rallying cry against poverty still echoes six years after his monumental win for the vice presidency, exactly because there is still much to be done. And it has been an ongoing and hard-fought war: Among all the presidential candidates, he is the only one with remarkable performance especially as regards national government agencies he has handled.

His successes in Makati, as Metro Manila Development Authority chair, the head of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, and more recently as the country’s housing czar at the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council have been victories under his belt, and would be mere skirmishes as they would pale in comparison in what he can do once he wins the presidency.

And what better way to continue the fight than to send a grizzled veteran into the battlefield, which is what the country needs right now. We have seen enough of amateurs on our country’s political stage for the past six years—an administration run like a second-rate frat house; and politicians riding on their predecessors’ hard work, much worse if they bank on who their parents are rather than who they claim to be.

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How can one claim to have a heart for the presidency if that heart has been known to waver? How can one claim to have a heart for the people if one has not been through trials and tribulations for it to be strong enough to bear the weight of a nation? This country needs a president whose heart is kind for the poor, but strengthened with wisdom rather than cold methods of self-proclaimed justice.

There are no lost causes when you fight for an ideal, more so if that ideal serves your countrymen. What sets Binay apart from the others is his clear vision of what the Philippines should be come 2022. His platforms are the most comprehensive, compared to the others that are lazily rehashed and hardly mastered (just like what you can expect from amateurs). His visions fulfilled in Makati and in everywhere else he leads are what won him the people’s trust in 2010 and won him the vice presidency. It is this lingering trust that cultivates loyalty, and this makes it all worth fighting for.

Binay’s campaign is not a lost cause—it is just an uphill battle. And the thing about uphill battles is that they always trudge upward. His is not a bandwagon that loses steam because people are bailing out, or because it has lost its direction. Nobody said that clinching the presidency would be easy; the path to it meanders along survey results, inconsistent and misleading.

Binay is a survivor. This is something that has been clear after he faced enemies from different fronts all at the same time. Ultimately, this is what endears him to the electorate that are themselves survivors of everyday Filipino realities of joblessness, hunger, and overall powerlessness over each of their own futures. Binay weathered the onslaught of unfavorable survey results for most of his 2010 vice presidential campaign, and we know how the results turned out in the end.

Binay is not a lost cause. In fact, he’s the best chance we have to have lead the country’s charge towards prosperity and peace. His is a good fight, as the Filipino is worth fighting for.

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