Congressional candidate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has started a psywar push against her detractors more than a full month ahead of the 90-day campaign period for the May 10 elections.
Mrs. Arroyo’s term as President runs out at noon of June 30, but thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling incumbent officials seeking elective office are now allowed to campaign without resigning
It is patently immoral, but now that it’s legal no one cares!!!
Talk about having a level playing field in the polls.
So now we have the so-called presidential spokesman on economic affairs talking like GMA’s campaign manager and using the old tack of giving his boss a political Teflon coating:
Gary Olivar :
From the evidence, [her critics are] trying to cultivate bashing as a cottage industry and their principal source of livelihood.
The President has never been distracted. She’s single-minded in her job. She wasn’t distracted in the last nine years; she won’t be distracted in her last six months.
In her remaining months, the President hopes to complete infrastructure projects, monitor electronic voting in the May elections, properly calibrate stimulus spending vis-à-vis the global economic recovery, and ensure the signing of a peace agreement with the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
She would love a peace agreement signed in Mindanao before she steps down. The quicker we can achieve lasting peace, the fewer incidents [like the Nov. 23 massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao] we should see in the future.
It’s not hard to see how Mr. Olivar, who likes to be called ‘Prof’, as my sources tell me, lapdoggishly regurgitates Mrs. Arroyo’s vaunted work ethic while previewing the issues his candidate will stump on in the second district of Pampanga.
One issue stands out of course: the intent to “complete infrastructure projects.”
No wonder there was a report several days back about how the DPWH budget for 2010 was padded by some PhP 30-B.
The administration’s favored contractors are already tallying up thei gazllions in unmoderated kickbacks!!!
BTW, my Palace ears are talking in loud whispers about Malacanang functionary who drives around in a private sedan with the sign “Priority Government Project. DO NOT DELAY”.
This influence peddling stunt must surely be more effective than those security plates that government executives use.
Only in the Philippines!!!
Popularity: 1% [?]
nods. the real danger is still gloria arroyo.
You gotta be one… big knucklehead. If, you think she’s gonna do wondrous for the Second District.
The solution is straightforward.Majority rules! Who cares if the voters of Pampanga elect GMA as conngressman. Majority rules — GMA should not be a congressman, period.
Everyone knows that this is how it is supposed to be and the writers of 1987 Constitution really intended that a former president can not run for another public office.GMA can not run. Also Erap. Erap can not run.That is the Constitution,or at least, that is what the Constitution was meant to be.
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“During the House deliberations on Mrs. Arroyo’s budget proposal, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. said the President reduced the amount of money she proposed for DPWH for next year, compared to this year’s level, because the department still had tens of billions in backlog spending.
“There’s no use giving them additional money because they cannot spend it anyway,” he said.
He said unlike other appropriations, infrastructure funds are good for two years.’
Do you believe a President who did nothing for the last nine years
of her term. Will accomplish a lot in the next six months? The Professor
Olivar is a Magician. Living in a Dreamworld of Delusion…Gloria Arroyo
has a lot of controversy and issues already. She deals with them by
ignoring them. Not facing them. Ever heard of an OSTRICH who put his
head inside a hole in the ground. To escape REALITY.
Hard to believe that Gary Olivar was once a UP firebrand, especially before and after the declaration of martial law. How he reconciles this tectonic shift to himself I have no idea. Apparently anything is possible for a fee.
The Genius and the Moron can be susceptible to corruption.
Gary Olivar must have said that from the level of the subconscious.
Problem is, when people say those words, they most likely refer to themselves.
In short, he is the basher and it is his own source of livelihood to be in this cottage industry.
Shame on the man.
Are Pampanguenos so naive that they will elect GMA as representative?
They are not, right? GMA has absolutely no credibility and no following left anywhere, correct?
What’s the name of GMA’s opponent?
UP n grad,
“Are Pampanguenos so naive…”
I truly don’t believe that Pampanguenos are naive. My mother is one of them, and she doesn’t think highly of GMA.
Yes, they’re so naive, very, very naive. Nobody dares to run against her because almost every Kapampangan, or not Kapampangan, thinks they’re so naive it’s going to be an exercise in futility running against her. I say ‘almost’ because in every rule there’s an exception. Mario’s mother is one of the few exceptions.
Geezzz Bert, ikaw talaga. Almost had my blood boiling there for a moment. Hehehehe, Salamat po!