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Arroyo allies slam critics for demanding medical info

By Michael Lim Ubac, Inquirer

SEND HER FLOWERS, say a prayer.

I would have loved to send her flowers bought from Araneta Avenue.  And my prayer would have been like “God forgive her soul.”

So said Palawan Rep. Antonio Alvarez, a member of the President’s party, after some lawmakers demanded from Malacañang a detailed explanation of the President’s latest trip to the hospital Saturday.

Eleksyon na nga, ano, Congressman?  Himod-pwit ka na e!

Alvarez said critics of the President should have waited for her doctor’s medical bulletin before firing off their demand to divulge her state of health.

Check your Constitution, Your Honor.  It says that a sitting president’s health is part of the state of the nation.  Ibig sabihin nito, the people should be informed and we don’t have to demand it.

"What the opposition should have done is send her flowers, bid her good health, and say a prayer — things that we Filipinos do if we learn somebody we know is in the hospital," said the lawmaker who quickly added: "We don’t ask that person to show us the medical charts."

We Filipinos bid good health to people we care about.  Kinabahan ba ang taumbayan nung naospital yang amo mo?

The lawmaker, a golfing buddy of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, admitted, though, that "the President is sick, and she shares this affliction with the rest of the nation. She and all of us are sick of this endless politicking that even a routine visit to her doctor is being speculated upon."

What we are sick of are the senseless killings perpetrated by a president who’s sick in the mind.  And, of course, of bootlickers like you.

Alvarez said the opposition was "out of line" in asking President Arroyo to divulge her state of health when her doctors had repeatedly assured that her latest check up at St. Luke’s Hospital was part of a "scheduled" comprehensive executive checkup.

You are out of line talking before you’ve had your mind engaged.

Dr. Juliet Gopez-Cervantes, attending physician of Ms Arroyo and the First Gentleman who accompanied her, said the President was not ill, adding that it was just routine checkup that was scheduled months ago, unlike her two previous trips to the hospital in June and July.

Get gma a mind doctor.  That’s who she needs!

"The answers are in the medical bulletin and in the statements made by her physicians, so there is nothing more left to explain. Her physicians are all respected professionals with good reputations established through years of hard work and honesty," said the lawmaker.

Laying it too thick, huh, Mr. Congressman?  Did you and big mike talk about campaign funds from jueteng already?

Alvarez said the President was simply overworked and she did not have a fatty liver, a condition supposedly normally found in overweight people.

Doctor ka rin pala?

"It’s a job-acquired condition. She’s putting in long hours at the office, a trait that can’t be said of many of her critics. It’s also inevitable for any person pushing 60 to find ailments in his or her body," Alvarez said.

Know what?  The people didn’t vote for her to be president.  If she hadn’t cheated she might be in such better health now.

He said many people in their 40s were already taking medication for high blood pressure.

Like I said…

"I bet many of those who don’t like her have been to the hospital more often than she. The only difference is that when she walks in a hospital, it becomes breaking news," he stressed.

Manghuhula ka pa pala!

Palawan Rep. Abraham Kahlil Mitra said the opposition must be anxious to see the President leave office through sickness: "She just dropped by the hospital, so what’s the fuss? People half her age regularly see the doctor. … (T)heir only chance of getting her out of the way is through a virus of bacteria that will make her sick. Sorry for them, the lady is not keeling over, she’s not about to make their day. She’ll outlive the youngest of her opponents."

Baham, when your father was your age he fought a dictatorship.  Ang aga mo namang mag-trapo, p’re.

House Minority Leader Francis Escudero said it was incumbent upon President Arroyo to divulge her medical condition to put a stop to rumors that she had a fatty liver.

There! Let’s listen to a top-notch lawyer.

"The people has the right to know. It’s in the Constitution," said Escudero.

Like I said…