08-18-2010, 09:00 AM
Talk about letting personal issues cloud your judgment/ cutting off your nose to spite your face, etc.
We had a similar case here in the Philippines... after Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos were booted out of the country at the end of martial law, the widow Cory Aquino was put into power. Now, she was a simple, devout woman woman in many respects, but she had strong feelings against the Marcoses (enemy of her dead husband, probably got him killed) and it's obvious that Imelda rubbed her the wrong way for personal reasons (queenlike ostentatious woman versus a prim housewife). So during her term she sets about destroying /shutting down/withdrawing support from Marcos "vanity projects"... including programs, schools and centers for culture and the arts. All because she hated the Marcoses and couldn't stand being so "ostentatious" and "frivolous"... if she put even a bit of her feelings aside in that one aspect, she would've realized she was destroying things that benefited the people greatly.
We had a similar case here in the Philippines... after Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos were booted out of the country at the end of martial law, the widow Cory Aquino was put into power. Now, she was a simple, devout woman woman in many respects, but she had strong feelings against the Marcoses (enemy of her dead husband, probably got him killed) and it's obvious that Imelda rubbed her the wrong way for personal reasons (queenlike ostentatious woman versus a prim housewife). So during her term she sets about destroying /shutting down/withdrawing support from Marcos "vanity projects"... including programs, schools and centers for culture and the arts. All because she hated the Marcoses and couldn't stand being so "ostentatious" and "frivolous"... if she put even a bit of her feelings aside in that one aspect, she would've realized she was destroying things that benefited the people greatly.
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?