Comments on: Dureza’s Prayer, Enrile’s Agenda

By: Mang Karyo

Mang Karyo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:58:36 +0000

Hey, Political Opportunism is the game played
by Filipino politicians.

Just remember: Tigers will never change their
stripes. Nor Leopards their spots.

By: Ding G. Gagelonia

Ding G. Gagelonia — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:32:01 +0000

LOL :)

By: hector olympus

hector olympus — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:17:21 +0000

dapat may background music:

The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you
While combing my hair, now,
And wondering what dress to wear, now,
I say a little prayer for you…..

Forever, forever, you’ll stay in my heart
and I will love you
Forever, forever we never will part
Oh, how I’ll love you
Together, together, that’s how it must be
To live without you
Would only be heartbreak for me.

(suits well for dureza and his boss)

By: Ding G. Gagelonia

Ding G. Gagelonia — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:59 +0000

“…fortune favoring the bold.”

Spot on, mlq3. But you may want to amend the phrase to say “fortune favoring the bold and covetous of power in the absolute.”

By: mlq3

mlq3 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:22:21 +0000

you should read the account of the days of edsa in “closer than brothers,” al mccoy’s book on the pma. the mixture of ver’s military bungling, marcos’s operating in a medical haze, and fvr’s and enrile’s sheer good luck in many respects really points to fortune favoring the bold.

By: Ding G. Gagelonia

Ding G. Gagelonia — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:04:59 +0000

jcc,

One story from those heady days: Enrile and Honsasan were actually in the camps ahead of Ramos who had dilly-dallied about joining them, deliberating his fate if he turned his back on his counsin. When he finally did leave his home in Alabang, the die was cast.

It was a combination of opportunism and heroism, with the latter path buffeted by the response to Cardinal Sin call for the original massing of People Power.

By: jcc

jcc — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:18:07 +0000

private citizen,

it is your position that Enrile, Honasan and Ramos were at the point in time of EDSA one were heroes and during the martial law period before EDSA one they were villains?

or they are simple opportunists who saw rightly the demise of Marcos era and had abandoned ship and had identified themselves “kunyari” with the interests of the people?

By: as a private citizen

as a private citizen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:38:23 +0000

jcc

in reality, there’s no such thing as a pure villain and a pure hero.. people are a duality of vice and virtue.. neither being good nor evil but capable of being either at some point in time..

our role then is to identify the tendencies of a person and prevent or promote it depending on the necessity..

but there’s always the question of transcendence..

we did not facilitate the return of the Marcoses in power.. rather it was their supporters who allowed them to maintain their clout and gave them the leeway to influence Philippine politics..

even if a lot of people hate the Marcoses, the current state of politics proves that it is not a universally held point-of-view..

In fairness to Sec Dureza’s prayer, the sentence was actually followed by “in her personal and private capacity” and as he said was made in “jest”

but i have no objections either of the comments saying that the statement was made “as a trial balloon”

By: Karl Garcia

Karl Garcia — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:23:18 +0000

I was channel surfing and the first station i dropped by was NBN and Dureza’s press conference.
Q and A na Puro chacha at prayer ang topic.
nagpatawa pa;sinabihan pa ang press corps that maybe next time we should start with a prayer.

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