GMA does an Elizabeth

I don't know if any of you caught this on the news, but a press statement from the president said that she will not intervene to clear her husband and that she is married to the republic.

Whew! First, Mike Arroyo was shown in the media suspiciously close to another woman, Victoriah Toh, and then the president disowns him and claims fidelity to the republic. I am sure the other tabloids had a field day . Abante had for its headline: Gloria kay Mike: Bahala ka sa Buhay Mo.

The "married to the republic" part of the statement seems to be off-tangent. The president, the state of her amatory feelings toward her husband notwithstanding, is still very much married to Mike Arroyo. The allusion to Queen Elizabeth I of England is misplaced. Elizabeth I was married to England because she never married anyone and was therefore known as the Virgin Queen. President Arroyo is not only married, she is also having plenty of sex, as she claimed in one press conference when a reporter audaciously inquired about her bedroom activities.

The statement seemed insincere and the effect desired cheap. Instead on invoking the sense of sacrifice, the statement only managed to portray the president as having an illicit bigamous marriage with the republic. Now this is the kind of thought that is daily fare for people like former President Joseph Estrada.

I guess we'll have to wait and see how the President Arroyo will take to wearing lead make-up as was Elizabeth's wont.