What's the problem with teaching children not to be jerks?
I mean, several decades ago, good manners and responsible citizenship were among the highest priorities for students. When did that change? When did people stop thinking that treating other people decently was something important to teach children?
I was watching Pacquiao before he was a superstar. I watched his fights when he was just some punk kid from the sticks whose primary asset was his incredibly quick and lethal hands, and whose only concept of strategy when faced with a stronger opponent was to punch faster.
He is a very generous person... to a fault... the leeches that surround him do so because he gives out money like Elvis gave out Cadillacs. He's donated entire villages to the poor.
But: he's had a problem with gambling and womanizing until recently. And that recently is when he found religion, reformed and became a Born-Again Christian. While doing so, he acquired a fundamentalist bent that made him extremely anti-gay.
Beyond that, his political decisions are suspect. He ran for Congress, won, and spent his entire term training for and performing in professional fights. In his past term, he's only attended four Congressional sessions. It's amazing that there are no rules for automatically kicking out Congressmen for absenteeism, but since we've had one Congressman who ran for office and won from prison... while serving a term for rape, nothing about our government surprises me, anymore.
And his current campaign for the Senate has him on the bill of a person widely acknowledged as one of the most corrupt politicians in the country.
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Pacquiao is/was a great boxer, and supposedly a very nice guy, but a great person to go to for advice on marriage and policy change? No.
