LMAO Ok i guess the OP made it clear that speaking english is the perfect way to show how smart a person is. Let's see. Pac speaks tagalog and a bunch of other dialects in the philippines. The philippines has so many dialects. Pac speaks english but not perfect. As I posted earlier, it's harder for the brain to process and learn a new dialect as a person gets older. I therefore conclude that the OP is not a hater but a real ******* because he just made it perfectly clear that Pac is a ****ing Genius.
His political statements are simplistic and ordinary because those are the actual aspirations of his constituents - simple and ordinary things like three square meals a day, clean and potable water, medical care, being able to send their kids to school, and a piece of land or a boat of their own to give them livelihood. It would be dumb of him to spout off lofty political concepts that have no relevance to the daily life of his constituent.
There's a simple explanation for why Pac speaks English slowly. His normal thought processes are in Visayan, so every time he has to answer a question in English, he would have to first translate the question to Tagalog and then to Visayan, then he has to formulate the response in Visayan and translate it to Tagalog before speaking it in English. No joke.
Many well-educated Filipinos were against the idea of Pac running for any office other than town mayor because of his lack of education, which is highlighted by his use of broken English. But in his first year of Congress alone, he has achieved more than any other congressman in their first term of office. This article by the Las Vegas Review-Journal discusses just some of his legislative accomplishments: http://www.lvrj.com/sports/pacquiao...oxing-political-arenas-121047808.html?ref=808 To think that he also had to train for two major fights since he assumed office last June 2010.
That makes his intellect much more revealing IMO. Its not easy to be able to bridge the gap from his native dialect to another dialect to another language. I speak Cantonese and I barely get by in Mandarin, so its quite interesting to see that gap in Filipino dialects as well.
Like what I posted earlier, it's really hard to learn new dialects in the later stage of a person's life. The brain gets older too. How the brain process new learned information is much different when a person is younger. Pac may have learned to speak different languages when he was younger but to speak a new language at a later stage of his life is somewhat amazing also considering that Pac never went to school. Think about that.
That's the thing. Pac is able to achieve things even though chaos surrounds him. His adaptation skills is unbelievable.
I really hope he can keep his boxing career going until 2013. So many more opponents I'd like to see him fight.
Now that would be dumb. He doesn't need the Tagalog interpretation in between. Just go directly from English to Visayan and vice versa.