Sen. Noynoy Aquino was twenty minutes late. The Blogwatch livestream interview had been scheduled at 6:00pm last Saturday and there were around 20 bloggers in attendance. I arrived a little after 5 o’clock at the designated venue, earlier if the traffic lights nearby had been working properly. This is democracy in action. Traffic flows bitch on all of us in equal measure.
He didn’t come with a swarm of guards, in he strode in sombre black – bright, naked. His face was clear though, belying the long day of endless talk and consultation. I have met many politicians in the last year and a half. Sins committed in wielding power weather faces quickly. Lying and cheating shadow eyes. Too, I have become quite adept at detecting bullshit. I do not impress easily. I was neither impressed nor lied to.
He sat in comfort in front of us, the bloggers on either side, cameras in corners. It was an intimate tête-à-tête. I was less than 1o feet away. One quivers in the presence of power, invisible strings pull the spine to straight, the feet to point in the correct direction. One is instantly on alert – as when a predator eyes her prey. I felt no such tension in the presence of the son of Ninoy and Cory Aquino. I took pictures freely, tried to key in notes, whispered side comments with other bloggers. I slouched.
Noynoy rambles. He does not answer tout court. One can picture his thought processes – the ideas meander, linger on certain subjects even as they skim with quickly over others. He peppers his sentences with endless statistics. Mid-way I was bored. I blame it on the sound system. The audio inside the big hall was horrible.
I had prepared three questions, one on RH, one on rural development and one on public debt. By the time my turn came to ask, I had gotten so bored with the policy issues I’d changed my question. In the end I addressed my question in Filipino because I remembered he seemed to connect better with his audience speaking in the vernacular. What were you thinking as you were deciding whether to run for office after your mother passed away. Why would you take such a difficult job, cleaning after the Arroyo administration. Hindi ba parang kumuha kayo ng bato na ipupukpok sa ulo? I thought I heard snickers.
He answered, as with his previous answers, in that circuitous manner. The core message is lost in the minor crests and dips. His words traveled from his lips to my ears and my brain discerned that his answer, in brief, was that he could not miss the opportunity to create change. I sat back, unmoved. I did not get the answer I wanted. I was no closer to getting a better sense of his motivations for running as I had before sharing breathing space with the good senator.
But what did I expect? Noynoy does not have the gravitas of men and women who command loyalty by simply being. He has not the charm of his father nor a revolution brewing in his favor as his mother. All he has are his shoulders frail. Here is a man who had indeed chosen to pick up the biggest rock in sight and to willingly strike it on his head. And he does it not for naked quest for power. Megalomania is to Noynoy as sweet is to brick. These properties do not compute.
These days, his noticeably thinner body seems to bow under the weight of his assumed burden, this man who has had no great aspirations to power, this man who has had no messianic pretensions. In running for the highest office in the land at a time of great crisis, perhaps Noynoy only wishes to honor the memory of his mother and father, and in doing so resurrect in all of us what was was great and proud in the Filipino.
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Sparks,
Your descriptions of Noynoy’s personality is quite a stark contrast to what can be perceived of Villar’s character…ambitious, hungry for more money and more power, obssesive, and commanding. I wonder who of the two is the lesser evil.
It’s not his personality. No one is smart enough to see potential greatness in an ordinary person. It’s his loyalties. Family or country?
Good piece, Sparks. However, I find this line “thinner body seems to bow under the weight of his assumed burden…” reading like Bleak House.
Poor Noynoy, his and his family’s affairs would be again put under intense scrutiny, indeed unintended consequences of his decision to seek the presidency.
Who was it that said: a life unexamined is not worth living.
Socrates said that: an unexamined life is not worth living. . .
Fascinating perspective. Thank you very much.
Joe
Wow! Sparks, I can’t describe him any better than the way you just did. Thank you for that perspective.
Norm
good piece sparks. It confirms the popular belief that the man can be trusted.
the audio was not very good. :( i couldnt hear the questions being asked.
Poor audio. Poor over-all. It will serve all better if a transcript becomes available so people can read and re-read both questions and answers. The Session wiith blogwatch-crowd was not impressive.
Noynoy was tolerant of the poor audio (that he himself could not hear the questions asked). He also looked both bored (he looked at his watch like he wants to be elsewhere) and exasperated (at the poor audio quality and at some of the questions he received).
“Bring back the manufacturing base” was one of Noynoy’s main theme.
“Education” was another.
Noynoy does not promise that he has the leadership.
i’m pretty sure a “trapo” would make a big deal out of his visit to a dying man in the hospital. Noynoy did not…
Truly a son of his parents.
Great, well-balanced article.
Very refreshing indeed.
Thank you.
Sparks,
It was 8:23 when I turned on the computer to watch the interview. I missed a good part of the exchange but caught your question and then tried to listen intently to Noynoy’s response (even as the wintry gust outside our house was throwing a fit and competed for attention). I was glad you changed your mind because that was the one question I would have asked Noynoy had I made it, at blogwatch’s invitation, to be physically present at the venue myself.
The recorded video or the transcript would of course be the better evidence and could prove that I was really distracted but what I’ve gathered as the gist of Noynoy’s answer is the following: his decision to aspire for the presidency was quite far being accidental or providential the truth being that he had been gearing up for it and would in fact start “campaigning” in 2013 (for the presidential election after 2010).
Hence, hindi siya dumampot ng bato para ipukpok sa ulo, his explanation went (although my sense is that he’s just been extremely considerate to factor into his political ambition the potential consequences it would bring on the lives of his siblings who, if I were to read even those that weren’t said, might have gone through a lot already because of the life of politics their father Ninoy had chosen from the very get-go and the way their reluctant mother was thrust into it).
So, while Noynoy may not be as quite in a hurry as his father to be a president, he had been contemplating on how to be an agent of change for quite a while and way before his mother’s passing. I thought that too explains the coherence, responsiveness and depth in the way Noynoy has handled off the cuff the various other questions thrown at him
abe, assuming noynoy (why are pinoy aristocrats so fond of funny nicknames?) has been contemplating a run for the presidency long before he decided to do it, why would he need more time to consult with unseen powers – a la joan of arc) before accepting drilon & co.’s offer of the 2010 presidential candidacy?
an indecisive president is not what our country needs, not now, not ever.
a decisive president is what we need, one who can do short cut to progress but not short cut via C-5.
Bencard, how long had it taken your idol to decide leaving Erap’s official family before finally joining the burgeoning EDSA II forces that handed her the presidency? Months?
@abe margallo:
on the contrary, wasn’t it that villar’s break-up with estrada began when he endorsed the latter’s impeachment for trial in the senate? that preceded “edsa II” by a few months, did it not?
Spark,
It was 8:23 when I turned on the computer to watch the interview. I missed a good part of the exchange but caught your question and then tried to listen intently to Noynoy’s response (even as the wintry gust outside our house was throwing a fit and competed for attention). I was glad you changed your mind because that was the one question I would have asked Noynoy had I made it, at blogwatch’s invitation, to be physically present at the venue myself.
The recorded video or the transcript would of course be the better evidence and could prove that I was really distracted but what I’ve gathered as the gist of Noynoy’s answer is the following: his decision to aspire for the presidency was quite far being accidental or providential the truth being that he had been gearing up for it and would in fact start “campaigning” in 2013 (for the presidential election after 2010).
Hence, hindi siya dumampot ng bato para ipukpok sa ulo, his explanation went (although my sense is that he’s just been extremely considerate to factor into his political ambition the potential consequences it would bring on the lives of his siblings who, if I were to read even those that weren’t said, might have gone through a lot already because of the life of politics their father Ninoy had chosen from the very get-go and the way their reluctant mother was thrust into it).
So, while Noynoy may not be as quite in a hurry as his father to be a president, he had been contemplating on how to be an agent of change for quite a while and way before his mother’s passing. I thought that too explains the coherence, responsiveness and depth in the way Noynoy has handled off the cuff the various other questions thrown at him
That’s probably a fair thing to conjecture. That the death of persident cory provided an opportunity-and hNoynoy grabbed it- to do now 2010 the run for Malacanang.
We need an agent of change with substance and track record, and this is not something you can say about Noynoy.
Noynoy is a weakling.
Before, he supported the RH bill and now he’s flip flopped.
Duwag! No wonder his campaign is losing steam.
how did he flipflop?
i think his position on RHbill was incredibly simplified by media, so if u go by headlines, u’ll see a change in position. a headline in september reads:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090928-227338/Aquino-defies-Church-backs-controversial-bill
but look at the body:
““Parents must be reminded they have a responsibility with their children,” Aquino stressed. “I need not go far to see a mother with children having only 10 months gap in between and with the next generation suffering the same poor conditions.”
But even with a law on reproductive health, Aquino said parents should be given independence to decide on how many children they want and whether or not to use natural or artificial methods of contraception.
Aquino said he is not “comfortable” that the government will provide a specific budget in support of artificial family planning. “And it is not right to tell patients that only artificial methods can be used for family planning,” he added.”
the body of the piece tells us about noynoy’s true postion. it hasnt changed. summarizing it:
1) he has no problems with artificial birthcontrol as part of a RH package
2) he believes that the current RHbill has some problems
his position is more nuanced than his critics say, and in politics, nuance is punished rather than rewarded.
It’s a YES or NO Question. And he is leaning towards the government not putting money for the program.
Noynoy has proven he is a PATHETIC WEAKLING.
Cory Aquino had the Kamag-Anak Inc. simply because she could not be forceful enough in saying No.
Noynoy Aquino LOOKS LIKE A WIMP. “Nuanced” is just another euphemism for hedging your bets.
Were his campaign competent enough, he would not have needed to acquiese to the Church ‘lobby’. But there you go, his campaign is sinking and now he has to pander to everyone.
What a waste. He must have gotten recessive genes from his father.
had he flipfloped, i would wholeheartedly agree that he was a wimp. its hard to defend flipfloppery(?). alas, he didnt. neither is nuance vacilation. i’d argue that nuance is the insistence that a categorical stand isnt being faithful to one’s opinion.
on the other hand, legislatively, i do agree with you. either u vote for the bill, or you don’t. i havent seen him asked a direct question of whether he would vote for the existing bill, or not.
hell, i dont even know if the question is pertinent because i dont know what the status of the bill is in congress. if its early stages, then the question is nonsensical (i.e. cant vote for something if you cant vote for it).
now u or anyone can say that his consistent position on reproductive health is him kowtowing 2 the church. at the same time, his supporters can say that noynoy was courageous in his position supporting artificial family planning as a component of RH, despite the church’s opposition to it.
to me, this kind of discussion is un-interesting. it only shows one’s opinion about noynoy as a candidate/person generally, not one’s opinion on the sensibility of his position.
on the otherhand, if we criticize him re the sensibility of his postion, that makes alot of sense. specifically — is an RH program without a focus solely on artificial methods practical/workable?
this is a great question. i have some ideas about what the answer might be.
Question to ask candidate — if elected, what programs will your administration undertake with to address the problem of unplanned pregnancies.
Listen for the C-word — condom. United Nations Millenium Development goal instead of “condom” is a reasonable response.
“Pinas Department of Health providing choices to parents who want only three children or who want more months between children” is a good response.
“Will not support abortion” without saying “government programs to reduce unplanned pregnancies” is the CBCP line. “Responsible parenthood” is the CBCP line.
Jeez, talk about bile and vitriol, Nash. I can see you’re disappointed (and perhaps even slightly embittered), and I can understand. I was somewhat dismayed myself at his softer stance on the RH bill and can see how/why Nick would conclude that all the candidates have all but abandonned such an important bill. But the fact of the matter is that the other major candidates r dead-set against the bill themselves. So, while not quite as radical as I might have liked, it is still the most progressive stance among them.
What is the reality for politicians in our country who r not thieves? Well, since they’re not about to buy votes, they have to negotiate, form coalitions and/or make difficult compromises. We r after all a fairly patriarchal (read: sexist) and deeply religious country. Did u know that, until as late as 1997, rape in the Philippines was a crime against chastity (meaning women who had not been virgins prior to the alleged rape had no protection under the law)? When my Mom first introduced it in the Senate, she encountered nothing but resistance from even her most “progressive” contemporaries. It took years of pushing before rape was finally reclassified as a crime against persons. It was almost impossible to get a decent discussion going on family planning back then. I suspect little has changed since. Regrettably, this reflects the cultural and religious mores not only in the Senate but in the country as a whole. If a candidate hopes to win, s/he has to take all these different constituencies into account. Otherwise, s/he could simply lose.
As for the campaign being incompetent, I agree that it could be tighter. But it should also be noted that, as far as Noynoy has always been concerned, the campaign just kicked off yesterday, which is when it was officially supposed to begin. Candidates like Villar have chosen to ignore this fact, but I happen to respect people who follow rules and believe in the rule of law.
@lila shahani:
and what has noynoy been doing all these time prior to official campaign period? extol the “virtues” of his dead parents or promote the show-biz career of her sister kris? c’mon. following the rules and rule of law, my foot! if you are too sure about villar having violated the election law, why don’t you lodge a complaint at the comelec?
btw, on your “politicians in our country who r not thieves”, there’s only one among the “presidentiables” who is a PROVEN thief – erap estrada, fyi.
@Bencard, so why was your candidate so reluctant to face the music in the Senate? Why not defend himself like a respectable lawmaker and a man with, er…, gumption? Why go to the press instead? Come ON. U mean to tell me a senator does not respect or uphold the conditions placed upon him by other senators and the Senate itself — on the grounds that the C5 issue was trumped-up and “political”? Please: spare me. Everything is political — that doesn’t mean u throw out the institution u claim to uphold, does it? If he doesn’t believe in it, why not just leave altogether? Why remain a senator — for the machinery and the perks? If his conscience were clear, he would have just gone ahead and defended himself, period.
Satur said he was “takot” that his peers would make fun of him (???) — why would I want a candidate who fears his own peers, Bencard? In fact, Satur himself said he should defend himself before the Senate and be done with it altogether.
Don’t worry: we’re already looking into the anomalies and plan to address them at the appropriate time.
FYI, I support Noynoy not because of who his parents are, which is non-sequitur, at least for me. As I’ve said elsewhere, I know for a fact that Noynoy didn’t take kickbacks in the Senate and in his career in general, and I happen to respect that. Tragically, such people r so few and far between in our blessed country that one tends to deeply appreciate them. I regret to say that I have no such regard for your candidate, but u r of course free to vote as u see fit.
c’mon. we can spin it any way one wants. a long winded and evasive answer is what he gave. and he CLEARLY said
““Tama po na bigyan natin ng pagkakataon na malagay sa kanilang konsensya ang gumamit ng artificial means pero at the same time may horror story po na baka pilitin, lokohin, i-mislead sa paggamit nito,” he added.”
that wretched RH bill has been there for 2 years. he put his name on it. now he’s talking about ‘consultations’ etc… wtf. has he not read the bill he put his signature to? ‘pilitin’, ‘lokohin’….utang nga kabobohan, ba’t niya nilagay signature niya noon kung may alinlangan siya.
of course this is about HIS PERSON. what use is a weakling as president? you can have noble this, noble that, but the wolves will rip him apart.
thank god for these debates. now we have to choose between a pushover and a crook or choose an unwinnable candidate.
from the very beginning, he has always had reservations on the budget – so no flip-flopping.
sex ed sa school lang sya nash. walang govt spending sa FP commodities and RH services.
he didn’t actually sign the senate committee report, and he wasn’t a co-author of the senate version, no.
thenashman,
Are you one of the Big Bad Wolf, that whimper and whine, or just like to wolf down on every opportunity…!
no. i’m trying to make a choice (my 1 vote) along the way.
and canis lupus don’t whine, they actually use that as a means of communication. also canis lupus only wolf down to eat when they are hungry (a full stomach makes them lethargic)
yes, so I guess I’m a tiny wolf (with 1 vote) digesting as I go along.
these debates are great because we get to know candidates better and I’m not liking noynoy.
and to go to first principles, a bigger population will need a bigger budget, so spending on RH services is a longer term solution. thank you for enlightening me that he was a wuss at the very beginning pala.
thenashman,
goodluck on your campaign support and, be carefull of the blood sucking ticks. you don’t want those thing jumping on you.
did not know you’re a campaigner here on FV. yes, this is the start of the Primary debates.
Give it time, you may change your mind.
oh yeah! did not make such remark..
no wimpy here though. but, “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”
Yeah, I agree, thenashman. Noynoy is Mr. Flip flop.
http : // girleavesdropper . wordpress . com / 2010 / 02 / 02 / mr-flipflop/
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A direct and concise answer to a direct question. Means the Presidential
Candidate knows what he is talking about. A President must think on his
feet. Not let others do the thinking like Erap Estrada who is a Blockhead. We dont want a DUMMY to become our President.
Marcos, bartopnotcher, Ramos a westpoint honor cadet, Diosdado Macapagal, a bartopnotcher and a cum laude, GMA a cum laude and a great economist… They all have the economy on a tailspin…
Erap is a impostor. He turned Malacanang into a casino and made money from jueting.
We do not need the most brilliant and an imposter president. We need an unassuming and unpretentious President for a change.
This I agree with.
We already had one before – Cory. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite go well.
But Noynoy is not a political virgin. Hope that makes a difference.
It’s roughly 70-30 in the actual statistics…in favor of Noynoy…
oh wow, great piece sparks. It’s non partisan. you are way too smart to vote for noynoy. so are you for GIBO like me? ( wink)
Hi fellow Gibonian, I wonder if there is something concrete that we can do to promote Gibo’s candidacy. I will be home in March and although this is a vacation, I want to be able to contribute to Gibo’s campaign. Gibo was in Davao today meeting with an influential religious leader, I am hoping he will be able to get his support along with the INC’s.
just to say that i was inspired by your write-up about Gibo. Thanks for supporting Gibo and May God Bless You.
miriam,
sorry to reply you late. browsing FV is getting difficult. i cannot disclose the plan here. you have email? two close friends are teachers at ateneo de davao, both are for GIBO too. they have started their own campaign and gaining a lot of support. me, i am helping friends in cebu, bohol, cagayan and leyte on their independent grassroots campaign.
Thanks fo the snapshot, Sparky :)
It will be another historical mistake if Noynoy gets to be voted as president.
In the words of Dean Nemenzo of UP, even Cory blew EDSA 1 off, meaning that, she wasted one historic moment in our democratic life.
Thus by what span of imagination can a Noynoy replicate a leadership characterized by excellence, competence, and merit? Neither a technocrat nor a plutocrat, I am not sure what Noynoy has to offer in governance.
Please tell us.
it was the adventurous military lost command of Marcos and the civilian political power dealers, Enrile et al, that torpedoed Cory’s government.
but this is water under the bridge now… let us vote for noynoy and hope for the best. we have seen the worst character or his closest rival, let us sober up and give the message that enough is enough.
We should not point to people that were the causes of Cory
Aquino’s term failures. Mrs. Aquino had all the power of the Presidency to make a difference. The EDSA revolution was a “Stolen Dream” for us Filipinos. We dont play the BLAME GAME. To cover somebody’s ass. Sorry, I disagree.
Is Dodong for Erap too, just like Zeus Salazar and Prospero Covar? An unusually poor choice for such solid scholars.
I made a post earlier but it was deleted. I don’t know why it was deleted.
I am reposting it:
Marcos was a brilliant lawyer and a bartopnother, Fidel Ramos was a Wespoint Cadet Honor Graduate; Diosdado Macapagal a cum laude and a bartopnother, GMA, an economist and an honor student. Erap was a college dropout but he converted Malacanang into a casino and was booted out from office for jueting scandal. Cory was a plain housewife.
But it was during the time of those brilliant leaders which brought the country into economic tailspin and too much corruption. In Cory’s time, the economic downturn was precipitated by a series of coup de’ tat, but relatively speaking, it was during her term where corruption did not make so much headway unlike the timer of Marcos, Ramos and GMA.
Maybe the country needs only an unpretentious and unassuming president to get us out of the rut we are in.
Agree again.
Really Bert you agree, we need an “unpretentious and unassuming president” to get us out of the rut we are in, the trouble is this “unpretentious and unassuming president” really has nothing to offer to us, how can we get out of the rut, you know to get out of a rut, is to have determination and energy, a Noynoy will get us out of a rut without leadership skills, and you agree, wow, this is something. . .
Heheh, Mirriam, you’re right, of course. But consider the other alternatives. As we all know, a vote for your manok Gibo is a waste of your precious vote since he’ll be one of the sure losers so your vote, your bet, lose as well, therefore Gibo can’t possibly get us out of this rut. Now, one who might have a chance of winning the election is Villar, though last time I heard he’s never ahead of Noynoy yet in the surveys, and Villar, as you might have surmised already, might will be a ‘pretentious and assuming president’ as opposed to Noynoy, good traits by your standard I might supposed, whom you presumed might get us out of this rut we’re in. Right? Mirriam, please consider this: It may be true that Villar is a ‘pretentious and assuming president’ if he wins, but it’s true also that he’s vey good at enriching himself, isn’t that right? Do you still remember the C-5 senate investigation where he refused to defend himself of the accusations?
Here’s a question you might want to bother answering:
Do you think a ‘pretentious and assuming president’ like Villar who has a potential of beating Bill Gates if he become president will get us out of this rut we’re in?
Amen to that!
I can’t believe naglipana pa pala ang mga Giba supporters. Thank god they are only 5%.
Putting that GMA asslicker for president is the worst thing that can happen.
“Do you think a ‘pretentious and assuming president’ like Villar …if he become president will get us out of this rut we’re in?
Ano ka ba, Bert?
Nag-pangako na sa inyo ang mga politiko, gusto niyo pang tuparin nila? Ano kayo sinu-suwerte?
You know Bert, the game is still on and trends could still change, I really believe, Teodoro has a good chance of winning in May, and we will see later on, but for us Gibo supporters, we still have a lot of work to do before May.
“You know Bert, the game is still on and trends could still change, I really believe, Teodoro has a good chance of winning in May,…”
Attagirl, Mirriam, that’s the spirit! If compassion can move mountain I think I’ll be voting for Gibo too because of your tenacity. But, but….he’s, he’s GMA’s …..
come on now Bert, don’t be condescending, you are saying that you pity me for my tenacity, this is a useless sentiment, I am a realist and one who does not go for something just because it is popular. gibo still has a chance of winning and this is a conviction shared with even astute analysts and the sponsors of those surveys themselves.
its all clown show
people power – clown show
erap trial – clown show
gloria -clown show
jun losada clown show
but you get to enjoy them.
Hmmm, Noynoy might feel that the burden as too heavy for his frail shoulders. But for the Pinoy D-E classes, their Great Expectation it seems is not the least evil. The best value proposition for them:
ISANG TANONG, ISANG SAGOT: SINO BA SA INYO ANG NAKARAMDAM NG GUTOM KATULAD NAMIN???
There you go…. Villar, Up. Noynoy, Down
Haluan mo pa ng Satur Ocampo at Liza Masa ang Villar formula. Priceless.
Apparently nakakakain ng corned beef sina Vllar nung bata pa. So questionable kung talagang ‘poor’ sila.
Hmmm, para bang si Madame Jumpy Madrigal? Clueless sa presyo ng galunggong at maalat na itlog dahil vegetarian daw siya. LOL.
bakit, sa panahon ba ni villar, ang tondo ay squatter’s area na rin? ang bahay na gawa ng kahoy ay para lamang ba sa mahirap? di ba, dalawang palapag ang bahay nila sa tondo–mahirap na yon, sa panahon niya? lahat ba ng mga tondo mahihirap?
paano ba ang maligo sa dagat ng basura? bago pwede tayo mag guiness world record dyan.
Ako po ay nakaramdam ng pagkagutom at kasalukuyan pa ring nagugutom.
Kaya malabo hong iboto ko ang taong NAGNAKAW NA AT MAGNANAKAW PA sa mga nagugutom. Manatili na akong mahirap, wag lang akong pagnanakawan ng kokonti kong nai-aambag sa pamahalaan.
Yung perang ninanakaw ng mga corrupt, dapat ay nagtutungo sa mga projects na makakatulong sa mga naghihirap.
DON’T SPEAK FOR US, or at least for me. Corruption will never, EVER, help uplift the lives of the poor.
“DON’T SPEAK FOR US.” – Pam
Ano daw? I was just echoing the analyses of Manila Standard and ABS-CBN based on the latest Pulse Asia survey.
“In the new survey, Aquino took his biggest hits from the so-called D and E economic classes, the poorest of the poor, falling from 60 percent in October to 47 percent last month and from 66 percent to 50 percent for the same period, respectively.
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideOpinion.htm?f=2010/february/9/jojorobles.isx&d=2010/february/9
Pam, sino ba ang tumatako na kandidato, ang nagnakaw na at sa tingin mo magnanakaw pa. Totoo, corruption ay napakalaking problema ng bayan, at noon pa iyan, meron bang kandidato ang may klarong solusyon dito, madali naman sabihing, hindi ako magnanakaw, pero papaano mo ipatutupad sa polisiya mo ang walang pagnanakaw na pamahalaan, iyan ang dapat mong susihin. Sa tingin, ko ang mga DE classes ay nakakasimpatiya kay Villar kasi lahat ng mga naging presidente, ay galing talaga sa pamilya na hindi mahirap, besides Magsaysay, ang mga sinasabi nila, na bakit daw hindi i-elect ang taong galing sa mahirap para naman may pagmalasakit sa mahirap, ito ay conventional thinking ng mga maraming analysts, pero si Villar, ay kahit naging mahirap, walang pagmamalasakit sa mahirap kasi walang batas na ginawa para matulongan ang mahihirrap at wala ring klarong plataporma pa masugpo ang corruption, siya mismo corrupt. Pero si Noynoy, corrupt because of his class and incompetent to boot, so between Villar and Noynoy, ang mga botante, na nagdedemonized kay Gibo dahil sa endorsement ni Arroyo, doon na kay Villar, pero sa totoo lang, si Gibo ang pinaka qualified sa kanila, kasi klaro ang vision niya of governance and may track record as a public servant with integrity. Ano ba naman ang solusyon ni Aquino sa corruption, iopen ang mga bank accounts nila, dios ko, si Marcos, ang daming dummy bank accounts. . .
Pilipinas presidents’ solution to corruption is to put people they trust — their cronies and kamag-anaks — in positions of power.
Pinoys-in-Pinas solution to corruption is to live and let live — weather-weather lang, besides, ang liit ng suweldo — as long as moderated ang greed. The CBCP has an additional step — rosaryo.
Does Noynoy have a different plan? does Villar? Jamby? Gordon?
“ISANG TANONG, ISANG SAGOT: SINO BA SA INYO ANG NAKARAMDAM NG GUTOM KATULAD NAMIN???”-Phil
Phil,
Is it Villar? Kaya pala ganun siya kaduhapang sa pagpapayaman, pati C-5 pinatulan :D.
Galing siya sa hirap, papano yumaman ng ganun si villar? sipag at tyaga lang ba yun? kung wala siyang atraso tngkol sa C-5 atbp, bakit di siya makaharap sa senado? bakit wala silang ma-ilabas na ibedensiya patunay na wala siyang mali ns ginawa?
Bert: “pati C-5 pinatulan”
Hmmm, malapit sa puso niya ang mga kalye…Para hindi na naman mainis si Ms. Pam, I would re-state:
Yes or No, sino sa inyo ang ‘nag-Pasko na sa kalsada?”
There you go…
RAVi, naniniwala ako sa sipag at tyaga. Kaya angat si Villar sa ibang magnanakaw, dahil sinamahan nya ng sipag at tyaga ang pagnanakaw. At wag kang maniwalang nanggaling sa hirap si Villar.
@Phil:
You might be echoing their analyses, but not when you IMPLIED what is the best value proposition for us. It isn’t, at the very least not for me. Something to consider: last song syndrome? advertising “payola effect”?. Nevertheless, with the campaign period and level playing field, we’ll see how it will go.
@Miriam:
“Pero si Noynoy, corrupt because of his class…”
Palagay ko, character is not defined by one’s class. I am not sure which class Villar wants to be identified with, pero regardless, he is CORRUPT in my humble evaluation. Marunong naman akong umintindi, pero bakit di maipaliwanag mabuti yung C5 at Daang Hari? Less one corrupt in the government is a step in the right direction.
You can be, if you have a chance to correct a corrupt system due to your position and you refuse because you are weighed down by the shackles of your class in promoting progressive legislation. I heard Noynoy voted against the extension of CARP and has not done anything concrete to improve the situation of the real owners of Hacienda Luisita- the farmers!
@Miriam:
“if you have a chance to correct a corrupt system due to your position and you refuse because you are weighed down by the shackles of your class in promoting progressive legislation”
Lahat sila GUILTY sa sinasabi mo. Did anyone of them promoted the progressive legislation you’re referring to, that has resulted to something? WALA. NADA. Therefore, corrupt sila lahat? However, some are more corrupt than the others. Guilty na nga sa non-promotion of progressive legislation, meron pang C5 at Daang Hari na pagnanakaw.
Just a quick point.
FVR is no honor graduate of US Military Academy. As a cadet, he placed far away from the top unlike most Filipinos sent to these foreign military academies.
primer,
here is a wikipedia entry:
Ramos has received several military awards including the Philippine Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Conduct Star, Philippine Military Merit Medal, the United States Legion of Merit, the French Legion of Honor and the U.S. Military Academy Distinguished Graduate Award.
He might not be an honor graduate from Westpoint but the bravery and brilliance of FVR, are exemplary enough unless he penned these entries himself.
FVR was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society at West Point.
this is a little off topic, but i think still relevant.
sana may magsulat tungkol kay gibo ulit. para mapagusapan.
people say when they see gibo answer, they are impressed, and the same is not true for noynoy.
i dont get that. i’m listening to gibo answer questions on the blogwatch podcast. i can see that his diction is better than noynoy’s. but i was shocked at his answers.
i paraphrase: “If its not within my competencies, i cannot answer”. this is his response to a question about a contract give to some private firm (he has a cousin there) re Presidential Aircraft Wing. he shut down the question coz the aircraft arent under the DnD.
i’m shocked. he cant discuss govt contract policy in general? sa DnD lang? i thought he wanted to be president, not the president of national defense!? weird!
his RH position is also strange. he is quoted as saying (i paraphrase): its wrong to keep focusing on the bill when the problem is overpopulation. of course they are focusing on the bill! laws are part of govt policy. he further says, the moral guardians (which he doesnt really define, he hints the church, but possible includes other groups) are responsible. but if they are NOT, then govt should intervene.
they doesnt make sense. why not intervene now? what is the magical number (which statistic?!) that will signal its too much? further it doesnt make sense logically to say these 2 things at the same time (which he does):
a) moral guardians shape ought to solely shape personal decisons re reproduction — govt has no role here.
b) moral guardians should be responsible , and its govt should hold these moral guardians responsible.
huh? either govt has a role, or it doesnt.
gotta admit– he’s an expert on DnD. his ideas on climate change (RP should be disaster mitigation’d focused), peace and order, tourism. he says sensible things here. he’s obviously a sensible guy on these topics. but i’m not clear why the substance of what he’s saying is any different from anyone else.
example: tourism — the problem is no one knows about our destinations, and we dont know how to house them. well put! he described it succinctly. but why is this different from what villar, noynoy, etc would say?
if anything, it seems from the podcast his priority is defense (its %GDP is too small daw). in the same breath, he says there are huge deficits. it appears his solution is borrowing (the bond float was well recieved daw). But borrowing cannot raise the permanent share of spending, coz u cant borrow forever.
in other words, nalalabuan ako. not yet done with the podcasts, still at part 1. i’ll finish it… i dont know what his budget priorities are. (noynoy’s budget priorities is clear — educ)
next is villar on my podcast rotation…
Gibo’s stance on RH bill has changed because this is a very contentious issue and challenging the influential catholic church has not yielded any tangible results in reducing population. We need to to be consensual in coming up with solution to overpopulation, the RH bill has been through 7 congresses, since 1987 and meanwhile, the population is increasing, now you understand why Gibo wants to explore other solutions to reduce population, rather than push for a very divisive issue, he is a pragmatist and wants to explore other solutions to the over-explosive population issue. I find the comments here about Noynoy very mind-boggling, people are defeatist and are saying, since other presidents have disappointed us, let us settle for a do-nothing senator and a non-performing congressman with issues on his family estates unresolved, and have least expectations from a president. This is what I call politics of desperation, I’m sorry, but we are not in desperate times, this is not a Marcos dictatorship we are fighting, this is an administration saddled with corruption issues because it has been in power for a long time and yet, this is not a dictatorship which brought about economic ruin to the country. We were number 2 in Asia during the first half of Marcos’ regime, it was martial law and crony capitalism that brought us down. Despite what any of you say, the current administration has brought some good to the land, it is not as blighted as the Marcos’regime. There is no point in being desperate and lowering the bar of what we consider a good president. Noynoy simply has no energy for a focused leadership, he showed this in the senate and in congress. And what are you saying that he does not want power, he ran for two national posts for heaven sake, and he won because of name recognition. Noynoy got it all easy, he doesn’t have to strive for anything, everything, including his quest for political posts has been handed to him in a silver platter and you say this is the leader the nation needs now, and you call yourselves thinking voters, what a disappointing lot you are, truly.
“challenging the influential catholic church has not yielded any tangible results in reducing population”
Rubbish logic.
It’s not about challenging the catholic church.
And what do you mean ‘influential’, the scientific surveys says majority of the population support an RH bill. Is there a recent study that says otherwise?
The church only deludes itself that it is ‘influential’. Otherwise, how do you explain that the much praised ‘only catholic country’ in Asia is also the most corrupt?
Influential my pwet.
@miriam
here i think u make an excellent point.
” I’m sorry, but we are not in desperate times, this is not a Marcos dictatorship we are fighting, this is an administration saddled with corruption issues because it has been in power for a long time and yet, this is not a dictatorship which brought about economic ruin to the country”
if this is what u think about GMA, then yes, you should be open to vote for gibo.
but somepeople think the next president should provide closure on our GMA years. they think GMA years were “desperate times”.
it really depends on what u think of GMA and her term.
celdran asked in the podcast whether or not he would stop gma’s opponents from suing her.
he said no.
of course he can’t! that isnt the point. the point, as MB has explained 2 me, is that the president has powers of suasion that extend beyond his official capacity. “soft power” in a sense. you cant NOT (double negative) exercise softpower.
FYI, we ARE in desperate times. Maybe not in the enclaved villages some of us live in, but everywhere else u might happen to look.
Btw, as a thinking voter/writer yourself, could u kindly consider using paragraphs once in a while? Thanks.
Lila, if this is your idea of desperate times, then, we have always been in desperate times, and have our responses to pressing problems ever worked to get us out of desperate times? We need to start being rational and look at hard core policies in problems of governance or we will always be in desperate times. GMA while corrupt, is the only Philippine president who has given us sustained economic growth, sure, inequalities still exist, but we have all the fundamentals now in, going for policies to redistribute wealth, ask those living in enclave villages if they are willing to pay higher taxes to pay for policies to redistribute wealth, and I am sure, they will say, noooooo, isn’t this what Noynoy is already promising to his choir, no new taxes, I say, bulllshiitttt. . .
You know Thenashman, speaking of softpower, and using it in the prosecution of a corrupt ex-president may not be appropriate in this sense for Gibo. It is obviously inappropriate for him to meddle in anyway, to say that he will be adamant in prosecuting GMA will surely appear hollow and an accommodation of those who are clamoring for her head, and does not make sense. He is a principled man and knows that there are more pressing problems of governance to devote the presidency to, than just making GMA accountable for the imagined crimes (allegations until proven guilty, we want the rule of law, right?). Why hasn’t Obama made George Bush accountable for his crimes? And I am sure that if anyone decides to sue Bush, Obama will not interfere in any way. Why squander your power even the softer aspects on something that is clearly not in your jurisdiction of governance. Obama even stopped the opening of CIA files for reasons of national security that could point guilt to Bush’s and Cheney’s abuse of power. This was also because the government will be endlessly involved in a litigation that has nothing to do with the agenda of reform of the administration. Government resources are scarce, you have to prioritize and focus on the more urgent problems and I say vindictiveness should not be part of the next president’s agenda.
As congressman, he made two high-profile decisions that left a sour taste: he supported then Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.’s impeachment in 2003 on charges of corruption for misusing the multi-million peso Judicial Development Fund and the last-ditch efforts of Speaker Jose de Venecia and his allies at the House to amend the 1987 Constitution a few months into the 2007 mid-term elections.
In between these two major and public decisions, he was a relatively quiet congressman, not actively participating in House deliberations. During his three terms spanning nine years at the House, Teodoro was rarely seen standing in plenary to debate, deliver a speech or question proceedings. He rather enjoyed cajoling his partymates in the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) during heated floor debates.
http://www.newsbreak.com
Isa lang ang masasabi ko kay Gibo-magaling mambola. Andyan nga ang talino. Asan ang galing?
You know this issue of impeaching Davide, he took leadership of this move on solid evidence, Chiz was interviewed about it in one article and he too went along with this move. Gibo is a quiet worker and has a consensual approach to getting things done, but nonetheless effective, I say he doesn’t grandstand but stay focused on the task at hand. How do you account for the fact that 9 of his many bills were passed into law? Noynoy was in congress for the same length of time, and none of the bills he co-authored with others got passed in the legislative process. Who between the two is more effective and has shown leadership?
@miriam
listen to his podcast! he proposes nothing but the status quo. he proposes that :
a) moral guardians shape ought to solely shape personal decisons re reproduction — govt has no role here.
b) moral guardians should be responsible , and its govt should hold these moral guardians responsible.
one cannot believe a) and b) at the same time!
buti sana miriam if he had an actual plan. But from the podcast his plan is — I GIVE UP.
moreover, i find the position that one can give up based on it being divisive alarming.
there are many, MANY divisive things in this world. and the appropriate way to argue our political differences like adults is via the political process. but he completely shut that down! its amazing and shocking if you think about it.
think about what gibo is saying! listen to his words, and some of it will make ur spidersense tingle..
apart from those (few, but important things), gibo and noynoy say the SAME THINGS!
forgot to add: they say the same things, the SAME RIGHT THINGS… things that make sense.
Meron actually siyang actual plan, he wants to professionalize and modernize the armed forces and increase the defense budget to reduce our reliance on the private armies. He wants to focus on education so that our educational system gets overhauled and we become competitive with our neighbors in this globalized age, like introduce computer literacy, foreign languages in early education, one college graduate per family, health clinic in every barangay, it is his institutional reforms that I am very impressed with, since he was able to do this in the DND by cutting corruption in the procurement process, the guy has tested ability in instituting a management system that has proven to reduce corruption, a general was convicted of plunder under his leadership, he also systematized the issuance of weapons in the DND, so Gibo even dares the military to reveal the results of the investigations into illegal sale of weapons, with the systematized issuance of weapons, now, investigators could track down who passed on which weapons to whom., etc., etc., as a congressman, he worked to pass 9 bills, one of which was the conversion of rural roads to national highways, when he was in congress, it was a pressing issue to develop infrastructure in our country to attract more investors, and there is the seamless transportation system that he wants to implement, you know if we know focus our discussion on policies, by asking the candidates the details of how they can implement these policies, then, we can get even clearer answers to our doubts about their vision. But we need to attend to the conflicts in Mindanao now, cause it is this region (the poverty charts have Mindanao at the top) that is keeping us underdeveloped, our defense capabilities have not been adequate to pacify the area and to provide deterrence to crimes, with globalization of terrorist activities, we need to definitely make our defense budget more responsive to this reality, Gibo is right in comparing ours to countries that don’t have our lawlessness problems and yet have tenfold budgets in defense. We need this image of not being a lawless country to develop economically like Thailand, Malaysia, etc., need I say more. . .
Alam mo Gabby D., if we wait to arrive at a consensus to pass an RH bill that has been through 7 congresses since 1987, the population will rise even more. This issue has been killed by the influential Catholic church, right now, poor women can already avail of affordable ligation method if they want to stop reproducing, I know, this is true in Davao, but of course, women have to make this conscious choice, there are various ways of cutting population growth through effective policies that could invite consensus among various sectors, as you can see, the RH bill as it is now is rather divisive, and we cannot afford to spend all government resources to get it passed, we need an alternative policy that could just be as effective. I actually have not studied Teodoro’s policy on this, I have to admit and was rather disappointed when he pulled back from supporting the bill, but now, it dawned on me that this could be a wise decision. . .
miriam,
listen to what he’s saying about solving a thorny problem –
i quit crafting a law to push for a divisive issue. he QUIT… the abandonment of the legislative process itself IS quite alarming. will he do that for ALL divisive issue? will he abandon compromise ALL the time?
now, u might respond: maybe he has another plan, that doesnt include drafting a law.
bad news: he doesnt! his “plan” is that :
a) moral guardians shape ought to solely shape personal decisons re reproduction — govt has no role here.
this is called “status quo” this is whats happening now! but i might actually respect his position, IF this were his position…
alas, its NOT! in addition to (a), he believes:
b) moral guardians should be responsible , and its govt should hold these moral guardians responsible.
he believes a) and b) at the SAME time.
but A and B are the opposite positions! a politician that has 2 different positions at the same time — thats filpfloppery. he wants to appeal to the 2 sides AT THE SAME TIME. at worst, this is PANDERING. at best, he is unaware of what he’s saying. either way, its BAD sign…
i invite u to listen to what he’s saying…
also interesting is his dismisal to talk about some things (like the activities of the president) coz thats not his “competence”..
really? seriously? the guy spent 3 minutes talking about rubber boats and universal health care. and when it comes to procurement, its not his competence?
its OK not to be an expert on everything. but to be selective about answering questions.. i dunno…
@Miriam Quiamco
February 11, 2010 at 8:33 pm
yes, he know the DnD, and he’s got plans.
what i’m saying is this: what he’s saying isnt different from what villar, gordon or noynoy is saying.
but, my problem with gibo was the way he answered some of the questions reveals what kind of a leader he might be. it was alarming.
i dont think noynoy has said anything questionable yet. he has reasonable priorities, and his promise is doable and intellectually consistent. (no new taxes, very doable)
i invite u to mention anything he said which doesnt pass ur “i cant believe he just said that!” test, or “what he/she said is so impractical” test.
Ok gabbyd,
you are now sounding like a woman. too many words.. grrrrrrr
Continuity of common goals is one of the most important presidential challenges on day one. This is our common goal for 2015 – Millennium Development Goals: Philippines
Since many find Noynoy to have the guts “kono” to govern this country then all of you must ask if he is capable of leading. Sparks got bored of him and so do i. I think, he is a lame duck. And since many of you also think Villar, the most corrupt and “always absent” government employee can lead this country, then ask again. Can he lead this country to achieve our common goals.
Regardless of who will sit in office as president, we have to make sure that these goals must be carried on by demanding accountability and good governance to achieve positive and measurable results.
I believe that GIBO has the skills and background. If he doesn’t win, it will not affect me financially or economically because I am not dependent on the president. It’s no longer about me or the people here at FV. You guys are not poor? are you?
The problem with many filipinos, they expect too much- disregarding the fact that the guava fruit is not for you and me but for Mang Juan and Pedro.
I’m afraid I have not found anything intelligent that Noynoy said so far worth responding. On the issue of corruption, open their personal bank accounts, he and Roxas, on the peace and order problem: pursue more peace talks with the rebels, on taxes: even dumber, no new taxes, how can he promise that to any sector with our rising deficits and the need to redistribute wealth, with sustained economic growth, you need to collect higher taxes, tell me a country with a stable middle class and a progressive country with lower taxes, and yet he is promising populist policies, where will he get the money, improve tax collection, wow, easier said than done, Noynoy just doesn’t have brilliant ideas of governance, or ideas at all, he simply repeats the cliches hackneyed and overused by presidential candidates before him. I have not heard him talk about concrete policies on peace and order and how to sustain our economic growth, nil, nothing, nada, plus he doesn’t have the persuasive powers to get anything done, cause he has not proven anything in his 50-year of existence, at least in public life.
How can you keep pushing for a bill that has been through seven congresses and meanwhile, the population has been exploding, how can anyone save god himself ever get this bill passed in our country that resembles more like the middle ages than the 21st century. Sure, popular opinion supports it, and you know what, popular opinion is useless in pushing the members of both legislative bodies to get it passed because these are the elite who are more dogmatic and religious than the masses, now you see why this bill has not been passed through the last two decades? The same members of the legislature have not passed any progressive land reform law, one with teeth to implement meaningful land redistribution to the landless, for the obvious reason that most members are from the oligarchy, now are we going to wait for the passage of this hopeless bill and meanwhile compromise our economic development goals and not look for other alternatives to the RH bill?
Gibo is for the smart Filipinos. Too bad this country has too many members of wowowee. Lol .
yikes!!!!!
Jokingly, who was that who said Gibo, Giba (collapse)?
Two cases in point. Point A: Typhoon Ondoy, include Typhoon Pepeng. Point B: Maguindanao massacre of the Ampatuan, includ the arms cache traced to have come from the Arsenal (DND) with some from Armscorp.
How did Gibo perform by way of score card on either of these recent developments? Ask me.
How did the objective international observers who are experts on countries dealing with natural disasters rate our response, from what I have read, not bad, compared to how the U.S. dealt with Katrina and how other more developed and supposedly efficient countries have dealt with natural disasters. Have they implicated Gibo in the weapons passed on to the Ampatuans used in the massacre or is this issue a verdict of the “complainocracy” that we have.
What is the average score of leaders on dealing with natural calamaties in other countries, name me those leaders, and how has our government performed? What is our government’s score, given the average, is it average, below average or above average, now tell me, you are the one keeping the score card.
sparks,
I am having my cup of coffee, right about now. Brilliant!
Since when a nerdy portrayal of a presidential candidate considered brilliant. In my world, I meet a lot of Noynoy types, and they are Mathematicians, they spend a lot of time alone with their abstract thoughts, very unnerving in their simplicity and innocence, luckily, they are not running for president of a country in need of brilliant ideas of governance. And I am sure, many of them have honorable parents too!!!
So I should trash my mathematics degree because it means my thoughts are abstract, whilst yours are always succinct and pithy? Sparks did not use her write-up to agitate one way or another, and therein lies the brilliance. She let the moment speak for itself, through her thoughtful eyes.
Your comments on the other hand sensitivity, and why do we care who you meet in your little world?
Joe
erratum: lack sensitivity
I type wrong when I type irked
J
Miriam,
Kind of admire your sense of descriptions of who we are, I thank you. Simplicity, that’s who we are, innocence; i have to Err on this one, on my behalf. But, as you’ve said.
Can be a wonderful aspect for the Filipino’s. Korek!
Mr. Joe, it is not lacking in sensitivity to speak the truth as it is, I know my style is not literary, but this is how I speak even to my friends, I find this article about Noynoy too romantic and supportive of the popular belief that just because the guy is nerdy, this is honesty in public service. I am sorry to have offended you, but I stand by what I say that being nerdy does not equate to being a good president. Most of my good friends are Mathematicians and I am not disparaging in anyway your expertise, on the other hand, I have enormous respect for Mathematicians for their wide human interest. It is true that their personalities are nerdy and introverted because their work is lonesome, but it doesn’t say much about what they stand for. Sensitivity, hmmm, I have to agree with you on this, and especially this election, I am really very down on how things are going.
Mr. Joe you will be surprised how my world is not so little, we are in internet age after all, and I am truly sorry to have personally offended you. Its true, you shouldn’t care, but I am here just expressing how I feel, perhaps, I am also agitating people a little. . .
There is no point in being desperate and lowering the bar.
Hindi puwedeng puwede na iyan. Huwag naman.
Nice one Joe.
actually, gibo is VERY nerdy!
in his blogwatch podcast, he made 2 “policy wonk” jokes.
1) civil society is sometimes not ‘civil’. he laughed and said sorry, could help but make the pun!
2) at the end of the interview, he said he had to visit one of the hotels’ infrastructure! (he means the restroom)
haha, very funny, very nerdy.
Miriam,
Well, it is not like I disagree with you entirely. Indeed, you hit the nail on the head by suggesting that Noynoy is abstract. It is exactly the character description I have been struggling to find. I would say he is so out of touch with practical things like platforms and commitments and accomplishments that he would be better suited to a priest’s frock than a Palace round table. But I would say, no need to slur good mathematicians, as it is only the theorists who circle in a nebulous ether that the rest of us can’t reach; many math-people are down to earth and apply their skills as highly practical engineers or computer wizards. Some are even athletic stud muffins and corporate execs. And, besides, I rather think you would resent if I offered up the notion that women are best suited for the kitchen or bed, and never the corporate desk. Those sweeping generalities are occasionally useful, but most times wrong.
Haha, I know because I use them all the time . . .
Joe
ohhhh!!!!, you make me feel like a natural woman. lol
joe,
Highly “Brilliant”
That’s one way to hit a “Tangent“
Mario,
If one is to be brilliant, it is best to be “highly brilliant”. hahahaha
As opposed to, perhaps . . .
They call it THE EARTH
Which is a dumb kinda name
But they named it right
‘Cause we behave the same…
We are dumb all over
Dumb all over,
Yes we are
Dumb all over,
Near’n far
Dumb all over…
I saved that beut to file . . .
Joe
May I just point out that “nerdy portrayal” is technically a reference to how the piece was written (in this case, by sparks) and not Noynoy the subject, Miriam? I gather u mean “a portrayal of a nerdy presidential candidate…”
A propos of nerds and non-nerds, does Edu even have a college degree? Or does galing at talino only apply to Gibo? Primer pretty much encapsulates my major misgivings about Gibo. But what if, God forbid, something were to happen to Gibo if and when he becomes president, u mean to tell me u would prefer a barely literate member of the elite (a talk show host? And we’re not talking Winnie Monsod or Cheche Lazaro here either) to run the country in his place? At least Mar knows his stuff and Noynoy has some legislative experience.
Lila,
One man’s nerd is another’s rocket scientist.
I am rather fond of nerds, especially those who wear plastic pen holders in their shirt pocket, so as to quickly flick their bic and put pen to task.
I do find Mr. Aquino abstract and lacking “application”, but not really nerdy. And I found this blog to be wonderfully descriptive, and not at all nerdy or abstract.
Yours for clarity, always . . .
Joe
uy, salamat :)
Yeah, Lila, “a portrayal of a nerdy presidential candidate” was what I wanted to say, the portrayal of the writer of Noynoy is quite poetic, not nerdy. Oh boy, oh boy, as you can see I am a solid Gibo supporter, and do get carried away when I promote his candidacy. I still think he is the best among all those running, he has energy, sound policy vision, integrity in public service and track record in congress and in the executive branch. Frankly, I am not promoting Edu, I don’t feel as confident about him taking over the presidency if the need arises. But, in our country, it doesn’t seem to matter if the president and the vice president don’t come from the same party.
And what track record are we speaking of here?
“We need an agent of change with substance and track record, and this is not something you can say about Noynoy.”
Mirriam, why do I kept on agreeing with you? I hope you can agree with me too just once, if I say that poisonous substance and thorny track records are worse than less substance and less records. No?
Perhaps Miriam can expound on what percentage of job applicants who have experience (track record) but a failed police clearance are favoured over fresh graduates with no track record with with a clean police record.
Thanks Bert, you find yourself agreeing with me, that is good to hear, but frankly, I don’t think you can say this about Noynoy. How would you justify the fact that in his 12 years in the legislature, he was not able to show his leadership in getting a single bill passed into law. What does that tell us about Noynoy’s leadership ability? The picture that springs to mind is a laid back lawmaker who is more comfortable treating the lawmaking chambers like a sort of a gentleman’s club, where you just sit around arguing with friends than an arena where you stamp your ideas in your legislative agenda. Are you saying Gibo has poisonous substance when he is the only candidate that is not resorting to mudslinging and finger-pointing in his campaigns. Everyone who watches Gibo explain his vision of governance is struck by his sincerity and sense of determination to move the country forward, this was certainly my first impression when I watched the presidential debates on the internet. Actually, the tragic part is that since I did not register to vote with the consulate here, I cannot cast my vote for him. I have been an apathetic political observer of political life back home as I am based abroad, so when the deadline for registration was set in September, I simply ignored it. Now, I regret that I did not register, since I watched the presidential debates and researched more about Gibo, my conviction that he is the only one who can give a focused leadership to the country has not wavered. Since then, I have been all over various internet sites promoting him, and thus, I stumbled upon this site. Gibo has not never been implicated in any corruption scandal. . .
Now, now, Mirriam, what can I do but disagree with you this one time. Your Gibo is full of GMA’s ‘poisons’, he has never wash these GMA’s ‘poisons’ off him, he’s embracing those ‘poisons’, he loves those ‘poisons, he’s impressed with them, he vowed to continue with them.
Bert, ah, you are referring to GMA poisons: what are they exactly, is it the poison of having policies that resulted in sustained economic growth, you want Gibo to say, he will not continue them, is it the poison of continuing social programs that have benefited the poor, (DSWD has 70% performance rating), and you want him to say he won’t continue them, or the poison of not making GMA’s prosecution the centerpiece of his administration, you want the presidency to focus on prosecuting GMA, do you think Noynoy will be able to do this? Is this going to be the centerpiece of a Noynoy administration? What happened to the Marcoses when it was even more evident that they embezzled national wealth, our foreign reserves were so down, the peso was almost nothing in the international markets, and now what is our foreign reserve capability, 45 billion dollars, obviously, GMA has not been a bigger thief than Marcos, and Noynoy is sure to be able to prosecute her? What poisons exactly are you talking about, please be very clear on this issue.
Now again, Mirriam, you are selling some mythical products, rotten claims if I may because they’re nonexistent. The Filipino people didn’t buy them, will not buy them. Only a handful avid supporters, like rego and Bencard for example, loved mythical products, I hope you’re not one like them because I’d be disappointed. The Filipino people don’t buy products they cannot see and feel, that’s why they’re pretty consistent on giving the provider of these rotten products (rampant corruption and killings are just some few examples) a negative, repeat NEGATIVE, negative 138% approval and popularity ratings. And because of this, your Gibo is registering a measly 5% in the surveys, and that’s because he has been peddling the same unbelievable claims, and he’s part of a gov’t. already rejected by the people.
Bert, I’m sorry but you are another blind hater, you cannot even talk in concrete and logical terms about this administration without losing it. Okay, so, there is nothing I can say that will let you spell it out logically, cause you are angry and anger has a cathartic effect, only to the afflicted, for after he has expressed it somehow, the afflicted finds peace and repose in letting it all out. But there is no mistaking it as a constructive force in the bigger challenge of reforms.
Gibo is only registering 5% in the rating games because he has not run for any national post before, and he is pretty late in campaigning, Noynoy was chosen as a candidate of the LP right after Cory died and so he has had a head start, should I even mention when Villar started campaigning. And Erap has name recognition, the rest including Gibo started introducing themselves only in earnest in December, so barely two months, as more and more people get to hear Gibo’s platform of government, his ratings will shoot up.
Disagree again, Mirriam. Read again, there is no hate in what I write/wrote, I don’t hate PGMA, or Gibo, where did you get that idea? Just saying the truth as it is/was.
…alam nyo namang lahat na sa pagkahaba-haba, pagkalalim-lalim at pagkagaling-galing ng lahat ng pagsusuri natin dito…katiting lang ang bahagi nito sa kabuuang botohan.
Ang karamihan pa rin ng boboto sa pagdating na eleksyon ay simple lang ang pag-iisip. Iboboto nila kung sino ang kapani-paniwala sa kanila.
… ang kapani-paniwala at sana ay makakatulong.
korek ka diyan, Monsoon!
kasi tayo ditong mga hindi simple ang mga utak ay kung ano-ano pang ka-ek-ekan ang mga sinasabi, ang iboboto lang pala ay iyong mga hindi kapani-paniwala, sinungaling, at mandarambong. haaaay.
Sapul ni Ginoong William Esposo ang kasalukuyang kundisyon ng pangangampanya ng mga kandidato…
“One has to deliver the right message. By right message, we mean saying the right thing to the right target audience.
But this is not to say that what is considered the right message to the right audience is the truth.”
Ang kinabibilangan ng karamihan dito sa atin sa FV ay hindi ang “target audience” ng mga kandidato. Bukod sa mahirap bolahin ay kaunti pa ang bilang. Kaya kung sa palagay mo ay hindi guwapo at kahanga-hanga ang dating ng mga kandidato sa iyo, marahil ito ay dahil hindi ikaw ang “liniligawan” nila.
Isa pang magandang subaybayan ay ang gagawing stratehiya ng mga kampong Gibo, Erap at Gordon ngayong nagba-badya ng gawing pang-dalawahan lang ang karera sa pagitan ni Villar at Noynoy. Ang mga nahuhuli ay hindi na susubukang manguha ng boto sa kapwa nila, ang “target” nila ngayon ay ang dalawang nangunguna. Sino kaya ang magiging mas madaling agawan?
Hindi ka korek diyan, Monsoon!
Hindi mahirap bolahin ang mga taga FV. Madami-dami rin ang nabobola rito ng kandidatong mandarambong.
Contrary to what Miriam is saying, I find Noynoy to be a breath of fresh air with his simplicity and honesty. His platforms are very sound too and his RH stand is laudable. I feel the honesty and sincerity in Noynoy and I find that I feel contempt of Villar with his C5 involvement since it speaks highly of corruption. Villar is a failure in my eyes because of this and I would never understand in a million years why anyone would vote for him given his track record. Are Filipinos really that masochists and wanting more pain? I do not agree that Aquino is lacking in brilliant ideas. I say he is the best candidate since he will uphold higher moral standards than Villar and that he will lead with honesty and that is what is needed for our country that has seen more than our share of corruption and greed. As to the question of failed police clearance, here where I live, you will never get a chance to work in the government if there is a hint of any criminal involvement. I think that should be the standard in Phil. to deter people from criminal activities and to treat take public office with respect.
In the the same vein, I find Gibo a breath of fresh air in his positive campaigning style and issues/solutions-centered way of campaigning. Among all the candidates, he is the only one who is patient enough to explain our problems which everyone agrees to be poor governance and offers concrete ideas on how we can tackle these problems of governance. Iyong iba, puro rhetoric, and mudslinging, puro paporma, kulang sa substance and a coherent vision of reform. Mas I am drawn to “galing and talino” talaga and his style of campaigning, so when I go home in March, I will campaign for him. I teach Japanese Politics and I can see a lot of parallelism in Gibo’s policy proposals with Japan’s success in public policy-making. Okay, I have said enough, and I don’t want to be insulting to anyone who does not agree with me, just sharing with you guys why I think Gibo is the one leader our country has been waiting for, I don’t think there has ever been anyone who as articulated such clear vision of reform to move the country forward among presidential candidates, thus far. Even GMA only offered band-aid solutions to our problems as a nation during her campaign, not that I followed it at all, just from what I read on the internet.. .
We have voted for intelligent officials before and look where we are now. We even import rice now where once we were the leaders in rice production research. My opinion is we need a person of strong moral fiber and character who will not be blinded with greed for wealth and power. As for Gibo, he has garnered only as high as 5% in the polls because of his connection to GMA. Reality says we are down to two candidates as the polls are saying. Either you are you for Aquino or for Villar if you want your vote to count. With Villar’s C5 baggage, Aquino is the one who is left as the viable choice. We drill a lot of wells and we always go for the one that not only has a guarantee of better chance of success but also poses less risks. In Villar, we already have seen his corruptibilty and what he is capable of doing. How much more when he has the key to the riches of the kingdom? Aquino represents morality and I think that is what is needed for the country to rejuvenate and rehabilitate itself and free itself from corruption.
Rosa, I beg to disagree, intelligent observers are saying that Gibo could still be the dark horse and could still overtake the front-runners, the game is not yet well-defined, at this point in time. That is why come March, I and thousands of Gibo supporters will work hard to campaign for him. Campaigning has just begun, with divided opposition, a solid political machinery behind Gibo and solid blocks of votes that he may be able to get from religious leaders, he can still be the winner in the upcoming elections. 5% is not going to stay 5%, and with the administration still commanding 30% support from the populace, it is likely that the momentum could shift to Gibo’s favor. Sure, intelligence is no guarantee for a morally upright leadership as we have seen with Marcos, and you know I am not going to be so certain on this with Gloria, but what about Erap, he is lacking in this department, but he was also corrupt. Cory was supposed to be moral, but given revolutionary powers to effect change, her morality did not shine, she did not use them to correct the social ills in our country and failed to rule in favor of the coconut farmers and even the tenants in her hacienda. Corruption was still part of her government, thus, the many coup attempts against her administration. Gibo is unique in that he is a clear plan of curbing institutional corruption in the country and he does have the track record of fighting corruption, now, that is what I call credibility. Villar is certainly corrupt and Aquino is incompetent and corrupt too because of his failure to promote progressive causes when he was given 12 years in the legislature to do so. He proved to be true to the causes of his class instead.
Speaking of rice shortage, there is a very good scholarly article on the net which traces the historical roots of our rice shortage problem. We have never ever been self-sufficient in rice, well, probably, decades ago when our population was not in tens of millions, Marcos did achieve a few years of rice self-suffiency due to his “masagana 99″ policy, but it did not last long. The reason why we lead in rice production research is because the UN funded rice research program in Asia is in UP Los Banos, and yet, we are still not self-sufficient in rice. That is because thousands and thousands of hectares of our land have been devoted to producing crops on the backs of underpaid hacienda tenants for export to the U.S. market.
It is no wonder then that the Americans did not impose land reform on our country after the war, those Americans represented the interests of the business community in the U.S. If you think further back why the U.S. colonized the Philippines, it was again evident in the promotion of the business interests of their enterprising businessmen. In stark contrast, the Americans imposed land reform on Japan, and this was one factor why Japan is a developed country now. Small landowners could support government policy of rice self-sufficiency, which Japan is, considering only 20% of their land is suitable for human habitation. Landowners who got paid by the government could open up businesses which form part of big business conglomerates and have been responsible in creating a stable middle class.
I’m sorry Rosa, but I do not agree with you that just because “brainy presidents”, some anyway, not Ramos right, and was Cory brainy too, have disappointed us, we should be willing to elect a candidate without ideas of sound governance and the track record to back them up. This is politics of desperation, and I repeat, this is not a Marcos regime we are fighting, we need not resort to politics of desperation.
correction: black horse, not dark horse
Informal survey (about 30% of my high school alums) — go Gibo go!
My opinion is we need a person of strong moral fiber and character who will not be blinded with greed for wealth and power. Gibo is associated with this administration that is characterized by scandal after scandal of corruption. Gibo did not say anything when this was happening so he is guilty by association and his low standing in the polls reflect that. Aquino has never been associated with any corruption scandal Villar is and the senate hearings already gave us a picture, of all his actions. It is not a politics of desperation to vote for someone untainted by corruption. I say yours is because your candidate is part and parcel of this administration and yet you still support him. I would even call your brand of politics characterized by blindness and stupidity. What did they say, you fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me and that is what you are advocating when we vote for Gibo to let ourselves be fooled once more.
If you are voting for Gibo, you cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called ‘intelligent’.
Rosa naman, kailan lang ba nagjoin si Gibo sa pamahalaan, 2007?Bakit si Romulo, na sinusuporta si Noynoy openly, even though he works for the administration kinicriticize ba si Arroyo for all the corruption scandals? Si Arroyo ba ang tumatakbo, so you subscribe to the notion of “guilt by association”, ano namang logic ito, kayo ang hindi ko maintindihan, you are full of blind hatred that you are not able to see the difference between Arroyo and Gibo, day and night ang difference, one is hounded by corruption allegations and the other has no corruption scandal at all, this is what I call blind hatred, and I think I am more intelligent than those who are blinded by hatred cause I see the bigger picture.
And you call a 3 term congressman and 2-year senator, who has not worked to get a single bill passed all these years someone honest and true to his convictions. Not only that he appears to be a slacker as a lawmaker, he is also a stockholder of a very corrupt system in our country, a profiteer of the sweat and blood of the exploited hacienda workers who are the rightful owners of Hacienda Luisita. I find it hard to reconcile the image of a profiteer of this system with the honesty most people associate him with. There are many forms of corruption, and Noynoy has gone for the most convenient and least painful of it all, stay with the status quo and profit from it rather than use the mandate of your office to do something good for the poor, starting with your peasants. Gordon has only come out once denouncing the oligarchy that Noynoy is part of and his ratings plummeted, watch as the campaign progresses and when this becomes a common theme against Noynoy, his image of honesty and incorruptibility is going to be shattered and there is going to be nothing more left about his candidacy to stay intact!
dark horse miriam is the correct idiom. and good luck for your candidate, gibo.. i remain pro-Noynoy.
Actually no Miriam, nobody hates Gibo, In fact if I were voting based on the candidate’s intelligence, I would give that to Perlas before Gibo but right not we are in a quagmire of so much corruption it is sickening and so deep rooted it has become a way of life and the polls are saying it is either Aquino or Villar so I would make my vote useful and pick the one who did not steal. The C5 controversy is a slap to the Filipino people (6 B lost revenue and counting) and how could we even consider Villar as a plausible candidate let alone a frontrunner now? The world is upside down in the Phil.
It’s not simply guilt by association, it’s complicity.
Gibo stood by GMA, he left his party to join hers.
Since you live in Japan, you will be well aware that MPs there resign for acts of omissions much lower in gravity than what Gibo has committed.
Thenashman, MPs in Japan resign from acts of omission, okay let’s start to analyze this as it is true I live in Japan and I follow closely Japanese Politics because I teach it at a university here. “Omission” means failure to do something about the situation and thus, out of shame, MP’s resign. This is simply not true, you are probably referring to the dissolution of the Diet (Japanese parliament) when there is a crisis in the government. MP’s are forced to resign because the Prime Minister has the right to dissolve parliament anytime before parliament can submit a motion of non-confidence on the current government, then, a general election is called where the mandate of the government is validated by the voters. And for 35 years, the Japanese people voted the same party into power, despite corruption scandals because the same party has given the country sustained economic growth. There has been continuance of government policies for straight 35 years, public policies that have given Japan its postwar economic prosperity.
Rosa, nakakasuka ba ang corruption, well, talaga, even when I lived there under Cory, nakakasuka, down to the fiscal level, in the local police station, I experienced firsthand the pervasiveness of corruption over there, and this was even during the Cory administration. This is not something new, what is new is that we have a candidate with a clear vision on solving corruption, posing saintly like Noynoy will not eliminate institutional corruption, I’m sorry, this, I say with conviction.
Now, let’s go to acts of complicity, you mean that by serving the public in one of the public institutions of government, Gibo has committed a grave sin of condoning a corrupt administration? Theshman, be careful with your unfair generalizations, for in fact, you are saying that all public servants under this administration are corrupt and are condoning the corruption in government. My sister and brother-in-law are civil servants and I know for a fact that they are not corrupt. Not all public servants are corrupt, Gibo happened to be somebody who has the desire to use his intelligence and talents in promoting the common good by serving in a government agency.
Within the Lakas Kampi-CMD, Gibo has built a support base which is necessary for a presidential candidacy, it makes sense therefore to run under its banner. I do not want to say anything about why he left NPC, I would guess, it was to get away from the manipulative clutches of a corrupt rich uncle, I would too, and yet, Gibo has been very dignified about the whole issue. There is a time to grow up and be your own man and that is a painful process, Gibo had to shake away from that stifling political party, just like Chiz and Loren had left. If you are your own man, you would do as Gibo did. Gibo has accomplished a lot in his two-year stint with the DND, he did his job the best he could without grandstanding and fanfare, and he is obviously not the type to indulge in mudslinging like Noynoy with gusto. Why would he criticize Arroyo for the charges against her, not proven in court, that would be childish of Gibo. He did the country a great service by fighting corruption quietly in his department and landed a general in jail on conviction of plunder, a rather unprecedented occurrence in our country.
MPs in Japan do not resign to take responsibility for anything, the party leader may give up his post and a new leader is chosen to lead the political party to reform, much like what Lakas Kampi-CMD did, there was a change in leadership and now Gibo is the leader, a man of substance and integrity. The LDP is still a powerful political party despite numerous corruption scandals, ay naku, Rosa, dito sa Japan gold bars pa nga ang mga hino horde dito, pero talaga naman dito, may solid proof talaga ang prosecution at niri raid ang mga bahay na suspected of corruption, but the Japanese people understand they need stability in government. I think this is what we need in our country, political stability and economic development, we have to let policies to solve problems like corruption take effect by having a continuity in governance. Gibo is very clear on how to solve institutional corruption, he has concrete ideas on this, let us give him a chance.
Ampatuan case still unresolved while guns and ammunitions are being found in Mindanao and all these happened under Gibo’ watch, not a peep or croak from Gibo about all the cases surrounding GMA to borrow words from other commentators mabaho na siya dahil sa kadidikit kay arroyo, his ineffectual handling of the flood crisis that recently ravaged Manila sticks in my mind, Now I am very impressed with Gibo! NOT. However, I will not waste time anymore about your candidate since really this is a race between Villar and Aquino. While you say you are intelligent, I will say that I usually pick good stocks because I got very good hunches and I go with my gut feel which is telling me to trust Aquino since he has no records of being involved in any scam or corrption deals. Having Mar Roxas as his running mate makes these two very attractive. Villar does not deserve a chance because according to principle and moral standards, he has 1already breached trust of the Filipinos and has been ethical with his C5 controversy. If Ninoy wins, I hope he employs or find good use of Perlas and even Gordon if possible.
Pagkadami daming salita from Giba supporters.
Just as well, when very few people attend his campaign rallies (they had to bus them in you know…and he couldn’t even fill up the Ynares court during his Proclamation!)
So carry on, maybe the long rambling defense of Gibo will miraculously allow him to beat Erap for 3rd place.
As Abe Margallo has quaintly said, if your gut tells you that Perlas is the best candidate to receive your vote, then go with Perlas. Especially by now as more time has passed and people have more “stuff” on the various candidates (like is it “pakikiramay ohly”????).
If your gut says it is Villar, then go Villar.
If your gut says it is Gordon, then go Gordon.
go, Gibo, go!!!
Come on, Miriam. If u r critiquing Noynoy for being a member of the oligarchy, what the hell do u think Gibo is anyway? They’re cousins remember? And Noynoy at least has long placed a distance between himself and Danding. On the other hand, the latest statement by Gretchen Cojuangco about their unhappiness with Gibo is pretty recent, and it’s pretty obvious that Gibo would’ve been happy to continue working with Danding (the way he continues to play ball with GMA) if he had had a choice.
But I see there’s not much point in trying to discuss this with u as u r clearly hell-bent on defending your position. So I will just attach a link to an interesting piece by Cocoy, which had originally been meant as a rebuttal to sparks’ piece, but which applies to u as well. Please note in particular the legislative history:
http://www.thepoc.net/commentaries/4042-why-noynoy-aquino.html
correction, Villar has been unethical with C5
The acute State of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE of Gibo and his supporters are truly beyond cure.
And now slippery slope logic is being used. I have not generalised, you have. The evidence is strong against Gibo and Villar, they are simply too powerful and shameless and so you would not expect raids at there homes and offices. Japan works despite the corruption because once you get caught, you will be punished. In our case, Gibo and Villar have been caught and have not been punished.
Dear Sparks,
Sorry for the belated reply.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I’ve been raving about your post to thelocal media.
By the way… did i say that it was brilliant?
Dean
*blush* Thanks Dean! :)
Noynoy is just a media creation – courtesy of ABiaS-CBN and Conrado de Quiros – so when you get to meet him, you’ll just be disappointed. Take a look at this:
http : // girleavesdropper . wordpress . com /2010 / 02 / 11 / b1ased/
[Edited by Cocoy: as per comment policy, this was edited so that the url won't parse.]
And Villar is his own man, creating his own persona and destiny, I will agree.
HOWEVER, it all flush down the toilet nung mabisto yung pagnanakaw niya sa C5 at Daang Hari.
How do you look at a cellphone snatcher? Or an akyat-bahay gang member?
Do you feel compassion for the owners of Legacy, or Tibayan? Or yung mga tumalikod na pre-need companies?
Are we cutting someone some slack? Lagi na lang ganun. Hayyyzzz.
as if naman merong candidate na hindi media creation.
stop being so naive.
just do everything to make it work! wag niyong daanin sa puro slita daanin niyo sa gawa
sabi ng teacher ko sa st. dominic wag kming mgpasalamat kung tuumulong man kayo sa amin! dahil tungkulin niyo un na tulungan kami !
stoP CORRUPTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MGA SUMSALAMIN SA PAGNANAKAW
MAAWA KAYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SANA MAGAWA NIYO ANG TUNGKULIN NIYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BE “”"” NICE”"”"”
IT’S A FUTILE EXERCISE DEBATING WHO IS GOOD OR BAD SINCE NO ONE COULD CHANGE YOUR MIND WHOM TO VOTE, to each his own choice..remember WHAT NOYNOY CLAIMS,’HE IS THE ONE’ OR REPEATING MARCOS ‘IGINUHIT NG TADHANA’ ..TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 2010..GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES OR JUST CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND WISH FOR THE BEST…basta ako Gibo, Gordon, Villar etc….
I AM WITH YOUR OPINION, KAMBAL TUKO. There’s really no use debating who would be a better president, sana si ganito ang nanalo para…always wishful thinking…I AM FOR GIBO, PERO HINDI AKO MANG-AAWAY O MAKIKIPAG-DEBATE TO PROVE MY CANDIDATE IS BETTER. AKSAYA NG ORAS, AT DAGDAG BAYAD SA INTERNET FEE TO EXTOLL ON SOMEONE’s GOOD POINTS. MY PIECE OF MIND? THIS: NOYNOY MAY HAVE WON, BUT IT IS AN OBVIOUS FACT THAT THE MOST OF THE YOUTH IS NOT FOR HIM. KUNG WALA MAN SIYANG NAGAWA DURING HIS SENATORIAL TERM, NOW IS HIS MOMENT TO PROVE IT THAT HE CAN HELP RESOLVE THE COUNTRY’s PROBLEMS…WALA SANANG BITTER WORDS AT PANINISI SA IBA NA KESYO PROBLEMA ITO NA INIWAN NOON PANG TERMINO NI GANITO, GANIYAN. “DEEDS, NOT WORDS, SHALL PROVE A MAN…” GINUSTO NIYANG TUMAKBO PARA PAGKA-PANGULO NG PILIPINAS, NANALO SIYA, PANINDIGAN NIYA.