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Relaxed and comfortable, Manny Villar wearing a simple orange polo shirt and jeans sat with Team BlogWatch.ph in cozy Bo’s Café at Bonifacio High Street. It went well with what the conservative Villar was projecting that he is a benevolent, experienced, older politician, and that “he is ready to lead.” And yes, that was a jab at survey leader Senator Noynoy Aquino’s campaign.
If I had to distill the Aquino and Roxas Platform and their social contract with the Filipino people into a short mantra then it would be this: authentic values, honest governance.
Guess what folks! Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr does have a platform! And it looks like this: Considering that Noynoy’s website had recently been glossed-up, I suppose it is quite safe to assume that the above also represents an “improvement” over what Ben Kritz described as a “non-platform” back in late August of this year. Not [...]
By all intents and purposes, people’s choice presidential candidate of the moment Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr has kicked off his campaign to get his bum on that coveted seat in Malacanang in 2010. And he is backed by the most illustrious relics of the 1986 “revolution” upon which his popular appeal is built. Indeed, Aquino’s [...]
The child in us [Filipinos] lives in a mythic, magical world where we expect a handsome prince to save us at the last minute, or that things will get better with the wave of a magic wand, without any need for us to change. These are words Jim Paredes wrote in his 2007 blog What [...]
First Noynoy Aquino drafts the memory of his parents’ “heroism” into the service of his budding presidential aspirations (as if being an offspring of a hero necessarily makes you one as well — but then Filipino voters tend to eat up horseshit like that). Now he outdoes even that by going further to hijack a [...]
And I thought it was bad enough that the Philippines already is a mediocracy. BongV’s recent article highlights the inescapable reality of the Philippines’ descent into an idiocracy. “Idiocracy” is a term used as a title in the 2006 movie by Mike Judge where (quoting from a movie review by Mike Adams) the world seen [...]
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This morning I posted a comment on Reyna Elena‘s rapidly up-and-coming collective blog Barrio Siete (BS), and it went like this: Again, the question arises everytime some bozo-poltician comes up and announces their “candidacy” for this or that office (Whatever that may be): Platform, plez™. If they cannot produce then they merely aim to insult [...]
It’s quite ironic that following Filipinos’ renewed admiration of the virtues of simplicity embodied in the late former president Corazon Aquino, the issue of the moment raging across the Philippine Media landscape is President Gloria Arroyo and company’s $20,000 dinner in New York City following her one-hour meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. But where [...]
It seems Noynoy Aquino is the latest “winnable” presidential candidate to come out of the woodwork. That is if we are to subscribe to the easy “logic” of the Inquirer.net… If elections were held today, who can beat him? With the Cory magic materializing with the alacrity of a genie summoned, the presidency is the [...]
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