Alright, the president has just finished The State of The Nation Address SONA 2008. What are your thoughts? This is an open forum, no holds-barred, analysis appreciated, reactions accepted too.
She talked about family planning, graft and corruption, educational reforms, poverty, and peace. She mentioned Mindanao, which we all thought would happen. She also mentioned a very very slightly cut down version of infrastructure projects, as compared to her 2007 SONA. She mentioned as well, agrarian reform.
She mentions Typhoon Frank and “P1 Billion” for the victims. And yes, VAT.
And here’s a gem, she wants officials to be more accountable. And she will “let no one’s political plans, threaten the nation’s” future…
So, what are your thoughts on the overall theme or non theme of her speech? Was it substantial? Was it truthful? Was it relevant? And how did you like her pink dress?
Popularity: 70% [?]
I’ll be first.. There was a whole lot to comment on with regards to this lackluster speech. Here’s one that may not get some commentary later on, so I thought I would address it, the part of her speech where she highlighted her success with respect to the problem of garbage and waste.. Garbage Olympics! As I said in a previous comment, what kind of waste and garbage solution is this? To have something to talk about and add on to as an accomplishment, her advisers and PR people must have told her to add this on. This doesn’t address our waste problem at all.
Her solution to garbage is full of garbage.
Lackluster is one way to describe it.
I wrote an editorial-length piece on my blog. It was supposed to be an offhand comment then I got in the zone. When I was done, I wished I wrote it here instead.
I observed that she was very tired. I posited that she is a spent force. She is none too different from the Chinese emperors of old who got caught flatfooted in the flooding of the Huang He. This crisis is her Huang He. You can read more at my blog.
@Martin, I read you piece, and I agree in many instances.. Specifically, I like the following from your article,
The problem is that she is not a reliable source of inspiration or trust. Two things we need from a president.
On PGMA being tired:
Well, she had her share of schemes and lapses of judgment.
But who would not be tired running a country like the Philippines, with all the insurmountable problems, heavy debt, disasters, overpopulation, Philippine catholic church getting in the way, etc. etc. Ever wonder why people still want to be president of the Philippines?.
Tiring too was the applause by the gallery who clapped after every sentence. What suckups!
@Philman, I hear you. I think the applause numbered over a hundred times.. In any case, it’s even more tiring when such a president has so many things to hide. Skirting the issues is always tiring too, especially when you have to make up stuff in order that a huge void be filled for a State of The Nation Address..
Oh well.
Even if PGMA was very honest (I’m not saying she is — I do not think so), nobody would’ve liked any part of it unless it ends with the sentence “I am tendering my resignation as President of the Philippines”.
In fact, leftists will never applaud any SONA unless it ends on that note. They love it that way.
My thoughts on content would probably be articulated better by other bloggers, that’s why I chose to focus on FORM in my blog. But here’s the essence of what I wrote:
With the English-based language choice, who is GMA’s target audience anyway?
I find it so weird that our president chooses to address her constituents in a foreign tongue over any native language.
no sooner than the president finished her speech than abs-cbn marshalled “panels of experts” composed of the usual suspects consisting mostly of u.p. know-it-alls, including randy david, and some professors whose names escape me at the moment. of course they don’t have anything good to say about it, even grudgingly. but what strikes me is the somber tone of the criticisms, a “trying-hard” quality about them that does not elevate those put-downs beyond the usual vacuous generalities.
i think the first thing a sona critic should have before making negative comment is a clear understanding of what a sona is all about. a sona is a report of what the president has achieved from the last sona, where the country is now as she beholds it, what her vision is for the future, and what needs to be done to accomplish that vision.
as to what have been accomplished, the president backed them up with verifiable facts and figures for everyone to examine. the president is in a most unique position to know, not some critic who always looks at the glass being half-empty rather than half-full. one can express a feeling that more has to be done but certainly not dismiss the veracity of the president’s report. as to her vision and goals for the future, who can seriously quarrel with that? we can all disagree without being boorish, critical without being counter-productive.
we are one country, one people, under one government. the president is not the entire government but we only have one president at a time. her success is our success, her failure is our failure. we sink or swim with her as a nation.
@Bencard, so I take it, you liked the SONA? Did you agree or like the whole speech? Which parts did you think was right on target?
I think the following is quite telling of the irony in many parts of her speech,
I wonder if NERI was responsive? Has she been made accountable for HELLO GARCI, FERTILIZER FUND SCAM, NORTHRAIL, NBN… come on, really? did she really make this statement?
nick, it goes without saying that every government official can only do, or not do something, in accordance with law. according to the the sc, neri is not at liberty to violate confidentialities covered by executive privilege. in the cases of so-called hello garci, fertilizer accusation, northrail & nbn alleged scandals, nothing has reached beyond the accusatory stage, ergo, a simple denial is sufficient as a response.
I find it ironic that after so much talk about the lack of credibility of the President and how we all SO MUCH would like her to resign, that we now divert so much attention towards this SONA speech (Bandila even devoted almost an entire edition to analysing it).
Kung baga, on one hand we say walang kwentang Presidente and on another we sit on our asses closely scrutinising what she has to say.
Kung walang kwenta talaga, why do we care about what she has to say?
Kung wala namang silbe, why do we continue hounding her for “action”?
Pinoy nga naman talaga. Its hard to please people who are imprisoned by that debilitating old dukha mentality.
That Mrs. Arroyo is a hardworking president, there is no doubt nor debate.
Her eye bags were all too evident, along with the ‘confession’ of presidential management staff chief Cerge Remonde that the chief executive had spent the previous 4 weeks “rehearsing” her speech.
Still, she tried hard to speak from the heart, I’d like to think and those who took a share of the limelight to boycott the SONA insult only themselves.
But I am concerned that the government of the day now uses the VAT on oil as a use-for-everything contingency fund and that there is now a plan to amend the SSS charter to have the Romulo Neri-headed institution give out housing loans beyond the 10-percent legal limit.
Can somebody explain this please assuage my consern?
A typo there, patawad po. :)
Bencard, even Marcos till the day he croaked, never admitted he did anything wrong.
By the way, even as I admire Mrs. Arroyo, she also has her legion of apologists.
The rest, I’ll leave to history. Am also waiting for Patricio Mangubat’s take.
nowadays, critics are everywhere!
yet, this earth is the largest room for improvement, they say!…surprisingly, statistically speaking, PGMA mentioned only about 10% (aprrox.) among the 88.7M Filipinos whom she helped, how about the remaining percent of the entire pop.thus, it’s a blasphemous statement to say that this county is in a progressive state. In fact, PGMA is trying to correct all anomalies behind her nevertheless, that’s the real image of politics. I am here not not condemn anyone yet we must start changing the Philippines within ourselves first…:-)
I wonder why her SONA deserves an applause…
Well, she got accomplishment too (roro, clark-subic expressway) though its minuscule compared to her major mal-accomplishments (to name a few like corruption, dishonesty, falsehoods,disasters, appointing trapos, incompetents, rabid loyalists).
From her first SONA in 2001 up to yesterday, she still projected herself as the super-economist and leader this country ever have and she can solve all the country’s problems. Sad to say, she’s the worst economist of this country inspite of her masteral and doctorate degree. Her solutions to all the problems are all of her own making/omissions due to lack of foresight and “sobrang bilib sa sarili”. Not a single instance that she meet with and asked the business, civil society and other groups on the country’s problems and how to lick them. All she consult are her political leaders and loyalists which are somehow moro-moro or for a show.
She should rather address her call to be “more responsive and accountable to the people” to herself.
~hey fellowmen..
~ponder on these;” our society reflects the family..moreover,
family is composed of us..individuals..thus,what we
see in our society speaks what kind of individuals we are…..”
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;it all starts from within ourselves..so,before we critic others fault..
let’s try to evaluate first ourselves…
well, florence, *i* am not a law breaker.
i suppose that’s enough standing for me to criticize your president’s faults.
at least meron parin palang nangyayaring maganda sa Pinas, unlike what you always read in the newspaper na puro negative ang laman at nakasentro lang sa Manila.
Did you ask yourself kung anong magandang nagawa mo sa bayan other than complaining?
I was amused and at the same time frightened, when she included the 50-cent text messaging fee in her speech. Does lowering the cost of text messages really help the country???
If at all, the ones who will benefit would be the text spammers and scammers. They can now double their output and hopefully, fool more people.
Personally, I would like texting fees to be doubled. This would prevent us from spending too much time gossiping and forwarding non-sense messages. It would probably increase employee productivity too, given that we would save our loads for really important matters.
But what really bugs me is how the networks latched onto this part of the speech! They even had charts and graphs showing the fall of texting fees in relation to the last couple of months (as if it was so hard to imagine 1 peso going down to 50 cents). My God! They’re talking about text messaging for as if it was a matter of national security!
yep.
i follow the law… hell, i am mindful of regulations. i even queue like a civilized individual instead of cutting in front of other people, in places where queueing would be appropriate.
i pay taxes. i do not cheat on my tax returns.
i give an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.
i do not lie under oath or in other situations where integrity is of paramount importance, whether spoken or on a document.
i vote my conscience. i have never sold my vote.
i have never offered a bribe. i refuse to use fixers in government offices. heck, i have waited for the cops to attempt to fabricate a traffic violation on me (none of which have stood — patigasan na lang kami, kahit dalawang oras kami nakatabi sa ilalim ng araw) instead of offering them snack money.
if these are not enough as a citizen, then i don’t know what is.
jester, i believe you’re just an infinitisimal dot on a big circle. now if you can help convince as many other dots as you can to emulate you, then maybe there’s hope for all of us yet. one dot at a time, that’s all it takes.
btw, there are other things you must do, like not voting for a candidate just because he hates “gloria” (without regard to his competence, integrity and credibility (or lack of them); or refusing to be taken by other’s calumny and scandal-mongering without credible proof. also, don’t look the other way when you see petty corruption. assert, assert, assert!
that 12 little things book (i still haven’t gotten my own copy yet) is one heck of an inspiration, bencard.
Unfortunately for the Philippines, “little things” simply don’t cut it any more.
What is required is a massive paradigm shift and huge leaps in development for our backward society to even just catch up (much less compete) with the rest of the pack.
benigno, perhaps you can only do that under a totalitarian rule by a cold-blooded tyrant who will not hesitate snuffing out the life of anyone not participating in that “massive paradigm shift”. think how that can drastically reduce our population.
The president explained all the economic stability and economic crisis. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has the lowest popularity ratings as of 2008. She also stated her responsibility to the people and nation. There are improvements on our country but still there is also mis-improvement. As based on her report, the Philippine is on global crisis and she can’t solve it alone and on short period of time. The only good thing I heard on her report was the 50¢ text fee, but after hearing the telecoms company, it is said that it is only effective for 3 months, so it is not for good… How can we attract foreign investors? What about the consumer bill of rights, preventing graft and corruption. It is quite unrealistic right. Some congressman, senator said, it’s impossible, unrealistic and full of dramas and lies.
And the poor people?
They will buy a sack of rice for 1,800 pesos which by the way is riddled with stones and glass from the drying of the rice on the roads.
The more wealthier will pay 2,000 plus for their rice but get “less stones and glass” but they still get them. And we are supposed to eat this s…!
Just like the SONA, we are supposed to eat that too.
SONA = “Same Old Nonsense Again”
c’mon guys clear your eyes and see the truth !
oi cno k ba julie suntukan n lng tayo
cno b yang nick. NICK BADING…hehehe:p
KATRINA CELINE C. NANO
@Katrina, and the commentator above, please refrain from comments that do not add on to the discussion or that do not bring any analysis into the conversation. We can disagree, but we should be respectful or at least have a worthy comment. Comments that are personal and without merit or that are not remotely close to the discussion will be deleted. i hate to do this, but it stifles the flow of the discussion and gears it towards kindergarten style conversations.
ooops sorry
Here’s part of an article that I have yet to publish..
well…
lets all leave to her…hay.. anyway.. she’s still my last resort!!!
thanx po sa mga comment nio…
mas naintindihan ko po ung SONA..
thank you po ulit…
God Bless!!
Critique on PGMA’s 2008 Sona
The acknowledgment given by no less than the President of the Republic of the Philippines to at least a dozen ordinary Filipinos on the occasion of her State of the Nation Address did justice to the newly-refurbished Congress by the new Speaker courtesy of taxpayers’ money. The one-day affair costs a P100 million after many years of neglect of a historical edifice that ought to be preserved and maintained.
On the viewing screen, at least, it serves as therapy that we don’t have to see a clapping Speaker as much as an equally patronizing Senate President. Fact is, Villar practically did not have to clap his hands that must have made it inhibitive for Nograles to have to overdo any indicative patronage act. Coming as 8th in a row of Sonas, this is probably the lousiest sona ever delivered lacking as it does in its climactic effect.
As reported, the sona has gone through 20 drafts to have been finalized on the wee hours of the morning. Paradoxically, right after the speech, headlines say that there was actually nothing in a P50 cents reduction in text messages. This has given PGMA away or whoever wrote that sona? Where it reads, the piece must have been written by a not-too-above-average person of influence. Fact is, it was almost unpresidential.
What has a sona got to do with the personal circumstances of the likes of Federico Alvarez – a jeepney driver; Rodney Berdin – 13 year-old boy; Edwin Bandila – a rice farmer; Rosario Camma – chieftain and mayor (in tribal attire); Jessica Barlomento, Shenve Catana, Mary Grace Comendador, Marlyn Tusi – all welders of Hanjin (a private firm); Victoria Mindoro – a farmer and factory worker; Pedro and Concordia Faviolas – rubber farmers; Justice Vitug and Francis Lim – of Texas Instruments and Philippine Stock Exchange, respectively; Allan Amanse – a fisherman turned whaleshark watching officer; and Joey Concepcion – a partner entrepreneur?
The story line seems to generalize from very individual instances of deceptive successes by particular individuals and necessarily, it is grossly violative of logic as we normally understand. We simply cannot generalize from limited particulars – in this case, singular instances or specimens. Its residual media value is of course of some help perhaps to launch that self-confessed admission of PGMA to spend her time daily with the underprivileged. But this piece of PR utterly lacks that modicum of honesty that makes advertising a good one.
There isn’t really much of a corpus of data that will make it hard for the average layman to understand from PGMA’s speech. There is no linguistic barrier as would otherwise make it difficult for readers to get the gist of what the PGMA has to say she has accomplished and will continue to accomplish. In other words, the sona is couched in near layman terms.
PGMA turned the oil price issue as a convenient scapegoat for the shortcomings of government in fiscal matters and braggingly enough, claims the government has all the money to cushion off the impact of oil price spikes.
Cunningly, PGMA defended her VAT policy dismissing as she did that opinion polls made her look unpopular. In her exhaustive enumeration of the amounts of money taken from VAT for various programs of government, it becomes crystal clear that without VAT, her administration has long succumbed to death. It further became clear that Malacanang always allocates from P.5 billion to P4 billion for every program it envisions to undertake. For instance, PGMA allocated P3 billion for anti-graft fund, can you believe it?
It ought to challenge reflection the uncharacteristic pride PGMA exhibits in her mention that Land Bank has quadrupled loans for farmers and fisherfolks; that Pag-Ibig loans have increased from P3.8 billion to P22.6 billion; that SSS as it is with GSIS has increased salary loans benefits to employees since 2001; or that PhilHealth has paid P100 billion for hospitalization (fact or fiction?).
In the end, there is nothing to be thankful of about programs being implemented by this government. Managing corporate RP has become a profitable business in governance that even government banks have become loan sharks to – fool the people, buy the people, off the people. See you in the 9th.
PRIMER C. PAGUNURAN
Bencard,
ABSCBN’s reaction panel included both pro and anti Arroyo guests, and each had some pertinence to the speech. Jess Dureza was on, as well as Serge Luis Ortiz to defend the President. But UP Prof Ernie Pernia was a good antidote to her voodoo statistics claiming that natural family planning reduced the population growth rate by a full percent during her term. Fact is, overall fertility rates have been dropping for four decades, but we still have the highest growth rates in Asia, next only to Timor and Brunei (which are tiny to begin with). Funny how the stone-goddess-worshipping infantilists at the CBCP didn’t like her take on NFP either, correcting her for portraying it as contraception, thus exposing the central fallacy in Humanae Vitae: the false distinction between what is “natural” and “artificial” contraception. There really is no difference because the intention to prevent conception is the same, and certain modes of NFP are even more technological and artificial than a piece of latex, like the measurement of the woman’s basal body temperature; the careful calendaring of her period; the measurement of the viscosity of her vaginal mucus in units of poise; and of course the precise chronometry and muscular self-control involved in coitus interruptus. NFP is like doing a moon shot, wouldn’t you know?
Manolo Quezon was on to question Jess Dureza’s sellout to the MILF. The postponement of the ARMM elections is pure dhimmitude intended most illegimately to give the MILF a clear shot at establishing Bangsamorostan and deliver the Moro people back to the sultans and datus that used to enslave them because they claim direct descent from Prophet Muhammad. The issue of ancestral domain is the key issue in Mindanao and it is important for people to understand why the Moro people are better off under democracy, and what an abomination the current doctrine is. Do people even realize that under the ancestral domain idea, no Christianized ethnic group is even considered to be an indigenous people, and that this is the basis for all that foolish nonsense of a Moro homeland? By golly, how many plebiscites does it take to prove that not event the Bangsamoro want to become alipins and ulipons of that bunch of beheaders and ambushmen in the MILF?
Peter Wallace of the EIU was a worthy presence. He was there to stand up for capitalism, supply and demand, and the workings of a free market
against the socialist idiocies of Mr. Ortiz who claimed the duty of government is to control prices, like of text. Wallace pointed out that even at one peso per text, we are getting quite a bargain, given that it hasn’t changed in a decade, despite inflation. BTW, I think the texting issue is very important, because though it is used for entertainment by the masses, it is also a key communication facility that helps not only individuals, but small and large business transactions alike. They also debated VAT, the most regressive form of indirect taxation ever invented, the shabu of the Big Govt addicts, and the most insidious weapon of class warfare, that many people have not yet quite seen through.
All of these are vast and substantive issues that are best illuminated in the heat of battle between contending schools of thought.
The President was right to focus on the global crisis, but just as she cannot take too much credit for the work of the global Pinoys buoying the economy, she cannot hide her lack of leadership and transparency behind the workings of the global markets.
I for one appreciated the discussions on ANC. As well as this one. Kudos to you, Nick!
djb, there are always at least two sides to every issue and the more complex it is, the harder it is to judge which is right. my beef with the u.p. panelists is that, with all the supposed eminence attached to their names, they couldn’t seem to go past beyond narrow partisanship – sadly lacking that scholarly objectivity that could make them credible. as i said, i find them focused solely on what is wrong with the president’s performance, vision, policies, and overall plan of governance.
isn’t it true that the rate of population growth dropped during her watch without a legislated birth control? look at how you dismiss it as just part of “overall” drop in fertility rate. are you sad that it was brought about naturally? contrary to your belief, the distinction between natural family planning and artificial pregnancy control is not false. nfp is carried out simply by obeying the rules of nature, conquering men’s (and women’s, of course) bestial instincts in the process. artificial birth control necessitates the employment of man-made devices and/or combinations of birth-preventive substances to frustrate nature. whereas nfp RESPECTS nature, birth control violates it.
the problem in mindanao has been with us uninterruptedly since the spanish colonialism. even the mighty americans have not been able to completely subjugate the “moros”. no president ever had been able to avoid armed conflict and achieve “peace” in mindanao, making it a perennial “land of promise”, no matter how each president tried to achieve a breakthrough. if lasting peace can be obtained without surrender of philippine sovereignty over the proposed “ancestral domain”, why shouldn’t it be given a chance? we have to look at the u.s.’ experience where they had to reserve ancestral domains for the indians not only as a matter of doing what is right but to have a peaceful co-existence.
as to peter wallace, he is businessman whose agenda is profit. i don’t expect him to care much about the government’s effort to lessen the impact of global economic and food crisis on the poor and the weak in our society. of course, there is price to pay (such as the inflationary effect of spending on social programs and “welfare”). but the government cannot stand idly by while the poor is starving. in a perfect world we won’t have this kind of dilemma, nor this debate.
bencard,
As a guest on television there is a phenomenon I call “time acceleration”. Even an hour long show seems to go by in five minutes. Whenever I’m invited to be on The Explainer or Media in Focus, I know there is only time to make exactly one point for every half hour of show time. It’s not like blogging. Bandwidth is huge but there is no luxury for hemming, hawing and long winded discussion. You make your point and its cut to commercial. That is the nature of the beast.
Regarding your points on birth control, I think one cannot dismiss the fact that the steady drop in fertility rates is patently independent of the whether “artificial” birth control methods were in vogue or “natural”–which is the canard the President tried to pass off. The data from the US Census bureau gives a better perspective by showing where we are with respect to other countries.
As to the distinction you make between natural and artificial, you’ve got to ask yourself how “natural” it really is for the Church to recommend the use of viscosity measurements on the vaginal mucus of a woman as a signal for when she is infertile. It’s really high tech!
But I think the key to breaking the logjam is to find a way for the Church to save face on the matter. Take the doctrine on limbo, which is one of the truly wicked teachings to come out of the New Testament, along with the concept of Hell, which really did not exist in the Old Testament. They found a way out by declaring that it was never infallibly thought and so is presently “optional” upon the faithful whether to believe in or not.
Something similar can yet happen to Birth Control because the Pope’s own Papal Commission on birth control voted 9-6 (cardinals and bishops) to ALLOW artificial birth control that did not extend to abortion.
In other words, the teaching on birth control, like that on limbo has not received the stamp of Papal Infallibility as the Primate was disunited with the rest of the episcopacy.
Humanae Vitae in other words, suffers from a most maculate conception and could fall into uhmm, Limbo!
Regarding “ancestral domain” it is simply perverse to hold, as the supreme court does, that Tagalogs, Ilocanos, Pampangos and ALL Visayan ethnic groups are NOT indigenous peoples of the Philippines and have no such ancestral rights as are now vouchsafed to Moro sultanates which were slave raiding societies that had NO concept of land ownership whatsoever, but ran political-economic theocracies based on human trafficking. Why in the world we should revert to such barbarism in the name of spiting colonialism I shall never be reconciled to. The so-called Golden Age of the Bangsamoro was brutal, unequal, nasty age of “sacred inequality” based on the notion that the ruling classes there were descended from Sharif Kabungsuan, who in turn traced his roots all the way back to the Prophet Muhammad.
All this praise for that golden age is just cutting off our nose to spite our face. Two plebiscites have already rejected the idea of Bangsamorostan for much of Mindanao because they were held at provincial level. Now they want to propose “plebiscites” down to the barangay level in order to pay off the warlord chieftains of the MILF.
Are we beheaded or what?
i think we all said enough.we all favor our own self,our own need,our own cause,our own biases,our own struggles and hardship..we cannot avoid the “paradigm shift”.every nation,every country,every individual, and even our planet earth cannot escape from the sudden turn of events..its up to us to go on with the flow or go against it.the president’s sona is just a presentationof the country’s make up..because we know the real face of philippines..it’s up to us to further add some make-up or clean it with a remover.all people wants change,peace,order,clarity and truth of issues flooding us.out leader tried every best if not perfect solution just to lighten our burden.but again,we are not the only country in the asia that suffer these kind of problems.we all have to start with ourselves.we want change,then dont wait for others to do it for us..start now with yourself.we want truth,then walk the path that christ died for.we want peace,then hold every joy in your heart and share it to someone who needs it.we want wealth,then start to give,even if you need to dwell in nothingness..for it is in nothingness that we gain,that we receive from above..remember there is a time for everything and season under the heaven.
I made a blog entitled: COMMONER’S VIEW ON GMAs SONA.
>>As commoners who could not (and maybe are not willing to) understand all of those lenghty speech given by the President, only those things that easily matter, were the ones given the attention.
However unpopular the VAT issue may be for GMA, it seems that she made a scheming move to be popular to the masses by working out into the lowering of text messages fees from 1php to 0.50php.
Now, this must be a popular move, considering that the Philippines is worldly known as one of the top Texting Nations (we used to be the texting capital).
GMA News, meanwhile, states that, “Domestic mobile phone companies have slashed their texting fees by half to P0.50 from P1 until October. The rate cut takes effect Monday (July 28). It is approved for implementation by the NTC for three months. And it is up to them (Smart, Globe, Sun Cellular) if they will ask for an extension of the promo”.
There, we have to take note of the fact that this is a “Special Promo only” until October.
The move might have given the President a popular gain from the masses, but, there is always the issue of this, being a politically motivated scheme in time for the President’s State of the Nation Address.
i just think she’s really blinded by power…. its not that she’s not working really hard, i really do think she does…. she’s intelligent too, actually all us are…. in fact we a country full of brains.. it’s just that all intelligence we have are used to make more mistakes…. what a waste…..
i think gloria arroyo was blinded by her speech
the speech, particularly on the texting issue is a “sugar-coated” one.
sana man lang sinabing “special promo” lang iyon at hanggang october lang.
hey.. i need some reaction about the SONA of PGMA, but sad to say this bcoz we need to pass our project this day so its not gonna work anymore.. just see to it and feel to check again here in your blog…
thankz and more power!
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hi!!! our teacher ask me to have a reaction paper about the 2008 SONA of PGMA… it’s very difficult for me because i didn’t watch her SONA because we have our class that day… pls help me!!!
Rachelle, you can click on the link on the upper left, the flag that says ‘SONA 2008′. You can read GMA’s speech over there.
djb, you can’t fool mother nature without dire consequences. you can’t fight evil with evil because by doing so, evil triumphs and you become evil yourself. think about that in connection with abortion and birth control, along with other things.
hello sirck nick… can u have a commentary on my yahoo mail
articnight_phantom@yahoo.com
about PGMA’s latest Sona? with regards to economy? in connection with economics. espcially her 8 points of aggenda? il be so thankful if you will respond on this.
Thnks and more power!
(il wait it til sunday nite.)
hello sir nick… can u have a commentary on my yahoo mail
articnight_phantom@yahoo.com
about PGMA’s latest Sona? with regards to economy? in connection with economics. espcially her 8 points of aggenda? il be so thankful if you will respond on this.
Thnks and more power!
(il wait it til sunday nite.)