Part 1 by Raïssa Robles
President Corazon Aquino was an “ordinary housewife” who was constantly attacked – literally – by military rebels. She stood up to them and saw them off.
Would her critics have been as tough?
What would the country be like if President Cory had given up because of any of the coups that took place from 1986 to 1989?
To begin with there’s a strong likelihood Juan Ponce Enrile would have replaced her as leader of a military-civilian junta. The country would have hurtled toward a dark, uncertain future of intermittent coups and counter-coups.
Enrile himself indicated as much in the memoirs he published in 2012. But more on that later.
For now, let me answer the question – So what did President Cory – derided by her critics as “walang alam” or clueless actually accomplish?
Simple. She stood fast and allowed the Republic to take root and survive. If, like any of the trapos around her, she had given up, we would have been ruled by one or several juntas by now.
I must confess that for a long time, I was mad at President Cory.
Furious even, because she had THE POWER to reform the country, and yet she failed to do so. She could have been a benevolent dictator – the kind Filipinos had long dreamt about – and yet she never wielded the vast revolutionary powers that she had under the Freedom Constitution.
Once she stepped down from the presidency the scent of failure followed her into early political retirement. She was saintly, yes. She kept her integrity intact while occupying the highest office. But there were two perceptions of her that persisted – she was “walang alam at walang nagawa.”
After all, there was little to expect from a housewife whose main political duty was once to serve coffee to the politicians who would visit her senator-husband.
After she died in 2009, I asked Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr., who served as her controversial Interior and Local Governments Minister why she did not use the awesome powers of her office.
Pimentel told me, “Because she wanted to be the opposite of Marcos.”
I have thought about what Pimentel said since.
Now looking back through the prism of historical events, I realize that the only way President Cory could have succeeded was to be the exact opposite of Marcos. Because if she had started acting like Marcos, she would have lost the support of the masses who had put her in office. Without popular support for President Cory, the RAM boys led by Lt. Col. Gregorio Honasan would have been able to dislodge her from the presidency.
My dog-eared copy of The Final Report
As the 1990 Final Report of the Fact-Finding Commission on the coups chaired by Hilario Davide concluded [my emphases added]:
“The gravest threat to the survival of the Aquino government has been the coup attempts. Almost from the start, the repeated attempts by military groups to wrest power from the Aquino government have diverted its attention, time, energy, and resources and sidelined efforts at a systematic resolution of the myriad problems of the nation.”
“All the coups failed because, among other reasons, they were lacking in political strategy and support. The plotters apparently expected a spontaneous display of ‘People Power’ against the Aquino government which never materialized.”
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“What could have emboldened this miscalculated adventurism are two beliefs shared by some segments in the Armed Forces, namely: that the Aquino administration is too soft on the communist insurgency, and that the military handed power to the Aquino administration in February 1986.”
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“The people did not lend support to the second belief, as they applauded the dismissal of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile in the wake of the ‘God Save the Queen’ coup attempt, who had been demanding a power-sharing arrangement on the basis of that belief.”
The Fact-Finding Commission was chaired by Davide and had four members: Ricardo Romulo, University of the Philippines political science professor Dr. Carolina Hernandez, Delfin Lazaro (later an energy secretary) and Christian Monsod (a framer of the 1987 Constitution who became Commission on Elections chairman). The Fact-Finding Commission was formed after the bloody 1989 coup. It interviewed 332 witnesses over 145 session days and its findings ran up to 509 pages.
The five-member Fact-Finding Commission narrated the events that led up to the ‘God Save the Queen’ plot in late 1986, which was an attempt to stop President Cory from cementing the legitimacy of her presidency through the ratification of a new Constitution in February 1987. The Commission said a Commanding General of a major service, whom the Commission referred to as “CG-witness”, revealed the following in an executive session:
“Around the middle of October 1986, Enrile, who had arrived from Cebu, told CG-witness that he wanted to see him. A week later, (Philippine Air Force Lt. Col. Oscar) Legaspi (Philippine Military Academy Class 1971) was sent to fetch CG-witness to bring him to the MND-reception hall (Ministry of National Defense), where he and Enrile met for around ten minutes. Enrile supposedly told CG-witness that his (Enrile’s) position was becoming more untenable in government. Enrile allegedly said that the government was in bad shape and ‘it’s about time that we take back the authority we gave them.’ CG-witness claims he informed (Constabulary and Police) Gen. (Fidel) Ramos about the visit on the following day, although he was sure Ramos had received intelligence reports about the coup by then.”
The coup was timed with President Cory’s visit to Japan. She refused to scuttle her trip even after learning of the plot. Ramos, accompanied by Deputy Defense Minister Rafael Ileto went to see Enrile, who refused to budge. Ileto even appealed to Enrile’s chief aide, Lt. Col. Gregorio Honasan because “Honasan’s father and Ileto were classmates, and their families have always been close,” the Commission revealed.
Finally, the Commission said that based on the separate testimony of Major General Rodolfo Canieso:
“As a last resort, Ramos and the four service commanders went to see Enrile at 4:30 pm and reviewed the situation with him. Enrile was supposed to have asked what he should do, and as everyone was silent, Ramos allegedly signaled Canieso, being the most senior of the CGs, to give the collective opinion. Canieso supposedly told Enrile that whatever happened, the whole AFP would take measures in favor of the government as this was their duty. After a brief silence, Enrile reportedly excused himself and went into the other room. Shortly after, he returned and allegedly capitulated, saying nothing will happen. The five generals then left and returned to the JOC (Joint Operation Command). They were said to have reviewed their plans and then went back to their respective headquarters.”
Contrast this to the way Enrile described the same events in his memoirs published in 2012 [again, my emphases added]:
“In November 1986, the newspapers began to mention about a so-called ‘God Save the Queen’ plot. This was supposed to neutralize President Cory Aquino and allow the military to rule in her place.
President Cory Aquino went on a visit to Japan. During her absence, Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo went to my office and asked me about the coup rumor. I told him that there was no truth to it. After the return of President Cory Aquino from Japan, Ed Angara who had become close to Cory, arranged a meeting at his house in Dasmarinas Village between Cory and me. I told President Cory Aquino that I knew nothing about a ‘God Save the Queen Plot.’ I told her that I had nothing to do with it if, indeed, there was such a plot.
Finally, sometime in November 1986, I was asked to see President Cory Aquino at her office at the Premier Guest House in Malacanang. Ballsy, her oldest daughter and private secretary, was with her in the room. Cory said she was reorganizing her cabinet and she wanted my resignation. I told her she would have my resignation. Under the circumstances at that time, I was already prepared to leave President Cory Aquino’s cabinet. I felt it was time for me to go. It was clear to me that President Cory did not trust me at all.
However, I told her what I felt. I said to her,’I am not your problem, Ma’am. Your real problem,’ I said calmly, ‘are the young military officers. You better deal with them rightly.’
She said nothing. She was civil when I left her room. She replaced me with Rafael Ileto, a retired general whom Marcos had earlier made ambassador to Thailand. Ileto was a good choice. He was part of the five-member Revolutionary Council that RAM planned to install in place of Marcos before the plan was discarded after the 1986 Edsa Revolution. The other proposed members were Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Rafael Salas and I as designated chairman.”
Enrile made no mention at all of any meeting with the CG-witness, nor of his meeting with Ramos, Ileto, Canieso and the three other senior generals.
Enrile did not explain in his memoirs why he was designated the chairman of the Revolutionary Council and what he thought about it.
In the assessment of the Fact-Finding Commission, the ‘God Save the Queen’ plot was the most serious since it could have succeeded if the generals had turned, along with Ramos.
The Fact-Finding Commission counted eight failed, increasingly murderous coup attempts. The bloodiest was the 1989 coup which began on November 30 and lasted for 10 days until December 9.
The rebels timed their troop movements with an ongoing Balikatan exercises with US forces.
The Commission said that during the 1989 coup, Enrile and Vice-President Salvador Laurel took turns blaming the government for the coup attempt. While the coup was underway, Laurel was in Hong Kong.
My hubby Alan, who was working for The Manila Chronicle then, vaguely recalls that reporters covering Laurel in Hong Kong saw a sign taped on his hotel room door. It said something about a “provisional government” of the Philippine Republic.
The Commission made no mention of this sign. But it obtained the tape of a phone interview Vice President Laurel gave while in HK on December 3, 1989 with John Eidinow of the BBC. When Eidinow told Laurel about the coup in Manila and asked him “for his attitude to the attempted coup and to the rebels,”
Laurel replied:
“It’s something that should not have happened. It’s very painful to see the Filipinos fighting and killing brother Filiponos. And I think the situation was exacerbated by the intervention of the United States in this affair.”
“But I don’t hear you condemning the rebels,” Eidinow told Laurel.
And Laurel replied:
“Well I don’t want to pre-judge them. I condemn the method. But I cannot condemn the cause because they have been quoted as fighting for good government. How can you be against good government? But I do not believe in the use of force and violence. I believe in constitutional and democratic processes.”
Eidinow pressed on:
“So although you condemn the course taken by the rebels, you still think that Mrs Aquino should have negotiated with them, but negotiate about what?
And Laurel rattled off a laundry list that the Aquino government had failed to do in its nine months in office:
“Well, what are the gripes, what are the issues, what are the grievances that should be addressed. I see four immediate and major failures on the part of the Aquino government. The first is the failure to unite the nation, failure to adopt a policy of national reconciliation. Second is failure to enforce them. The President is the one principally tasked with the responsibility of enforcing and executing the laws, the laws primarily on graft and corruption have not been enforced. Third is the failure to deliver basic services to the people. And this is a big disappointment especially because of the promises that have been made and not fulfilled. Finally, the fourth and the last, is the failure to provide direction and leadership. I think there should be a reasonable dialogue before we resort to the last recourse.”
Eidinow then said: “And given the answers of the dialogue, do you think Mrs Aquino now should consider stepping down?
Laurel replied:
“Well if that is the only way to avert a bloodshed or to avert a civil war. I think she should consider that as a cheap price to pay. I would be willing to step down with her if that is the only way we can avert bloodshed and civil war.”
Eidinow then pointed out: But I mentioned you would also be willing to put yourself forward if called to take her place?
Laurel replied:
“Well, that is the constitutional requirement. As Vice-President I am required under the Constitution to succeed in specific instances.”
The Fact-Finding Commission was able to obtain a videotape of a press conference jointly conducted by Enrile and Blas Ople in Manila while the coup was going on. The Commission concluded, after watching the videotape:
“Insofar as the portions of the videotape with the Commission shows, not only did Enrile blame the government for the coup attempt, but like Laurel, he failed to condemn the coup participants or call upon them to lay down their arms.”
“Laurel and Ople even suggested that President Aquino consider stepping down. Rather than close ranks to defend the Constitution and the duly constituted authority, as required of public officers, both Laurel and Enrile took turns heckling the beleaguered govenrment and thus contributed to the instability of the situation. They sounded as if President Aquino, and not the rebels, was the lawbreaker.”
Laurel was a very familiar figure to me and my hubby Alan. We had interviewed him extensively in separate occasions for different newspapers. I recently dug up a photo of Alan interviewing Laurel:
Philippine vice-President Salvador Laurel being interviewed by Alan Robles of The Manila Chronicle
The Fact-Finding Commission totaled the damage brought about by the 1989 coup:
Killed: 50 civilians, 31 government forces, 17 rebels forces or a total of 99
Wounded: 239 civilians, 252 govenrment forces, 79 rebel forces or a total of 570
Most of the fatalities (21) and the wounded (126) came from the army
General Renato de Villa told the Commission that the Armed Forces sustained total damage of P469 million.
Besides the human toll, the 1989 coup knocked down the economy. Global Source analysts Romeo L. Bernardo and Marie Christine Tang noted in a historical study of the GDP from 1981 to 2009 that the Philippines recorded its highest ever GDP of 12.4% in the 4th quarter of 1988 – a year before the December 1989 coup.
The 1990 Fact-Finding Commission detailed how the 1989 scared off foreign investors and traders:
Philippine Airlines reported a net revenue loss of P112 million, plus P9 million due to the rebel takeover of Mactan. PAL vice-president Levy Rabanal said that based on a projected growth rate of 10% to 12%, their potential revenue loss was P226 million.
Tourism Secretary Peter Garrucho said hotel occupancy in Metro Manila plunged to 40%.
Volume in the stock exchange dropped from 3.9 billion shares in November 29, 1989, the day before the coup, to 2.6 billion shares after the coup.
Initial paid-up capital, which amounted to P297.8 million from November 7 to December 1, 1989 declined by 83.7% to P48.4 million after December 1. For the month of December, these dropped by a third to P343.86 million, compared to the P963.77 million recorded for November.
What the Commission did not report but the newspapers did was that the rebel soldiers, who occupied several office buildings and hotels in Makati, looted the premises of valuables and Christmas giveaways. In some, the rebels left their excrement in the strangest of places, like they were marking out their territory.
The Fact-Finding Commission estimated that “combined financial losses due to the December 1989 failed coup attempt based on the figures above, would be in the order of P800 million to P1 billion.”
The economy never recovered during the rest of Pres. Cory’s term, as a portion of the graph provided by Dr. Jose Ramon Albert shows. Albert is the former secretary general of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).
And all these for what?
Among the reasons the rebel soldiers cited, besides their accusation that the Cory government was soft on communists and she had several in her cabinet, was that the soldiers made to fight the rebels weren’t being supported enough by the government and the government was corrupt.
Enrile, by then the Senate Minority Floor Leader, devoted four pages of his memoir to this coup which led to his arrest and detention for seven days.
Enrile said:
“I was marked as the nemesis of the Cory regime. Because I was the lone oppositionist (in the Senate) and the burden of fiscalizing the administration’s polices and actions bore heavily on my shoulders, I was unfailingly accused of plotting coups and implicated in every attempt, real or imagined, to overthrow the government.”
He said no less than “my wedding godson” the Secretary of Justice Franklin Drilon (now Senate President) ordered his arrest for “rebellion complexed with murder and other serious offenses” – a non-existent crime. The charges were later dropped.
The Fact-Finding Commission saw the coup differently. The Commission said, quoting military scholar Samuel Huntington that:
“…the most important causes of military intervention in politics are not military, but political and reflect not the social and organizational characteristics of the military establishment but the political and institutional structure of society. When political institutions are weak and fragmented that no group or political faction exercises clear control and leadership, the military usually intervenes. The military mind abhors a vacuum of leadership and feels impelled to fill it. where such a vacuum exists and there are no ‘legitimate and authoritative methods for reconciling conflicts, a praetorian society emerges. In such a polity, the coercive power of the military enables it to come out on top. Quoting Thomas Hobbes, one author points out that ‘when nothing else is turned up, clubs are trumps.”
The problem that the rightist rebels encountered was that they did not know how to figure out President Cory. As my hubby Alan pointed out, she just wouldn’t give up. She was too stubborn to admit defeat, which was what a trapo like Laurel might have done. Ironically, her stubbornness let her see off and defeat a roomful of over-macho grunting coup plotters and leaders who dismissed her as a faint-hearted housewife – their biggest mistake. She stubbornly held on because she believed she had a God-given mission to restore democracy. And when democracy had established a tenuous foothold and a Constitution had been ratified, she stepped down after her self-imposed term of six years. It’s hard to imagine someone like Enrile and other politicians doing the same.
I think that what she lacked in firepower then, she made up for with prayers that steeled her entire being to simply hold on the way some survivors clung to trees during Typhoon Haiyan.
And for that I am very thankful. I’m very thankful now that we have this democracy that we can shape together to remake a country. A democracy that allows the fiercest, most mentally unbalanced Cory haters to attack her without fear of being salvaged.
But I haven’t told you yet about the revolutionary side of Pres. Cory. I will tell you about that in my next piece :)
baycas says
Does the math add up here?
http://propinoy.net/2014/08/09/mar-roxas-et-al-can-learn-jojo-binay/
baycas says
They can follow this advice too…
Parekoy says
Teehankee has presented a well balanced article!
drill down says
those measures have the highest probability of bringing genuine long-term improvement to the lives of the people.
dap looks just like a strategy to get people hooked or dependent on the ruling party.
Cha says
I read this piece the other day and I saw red. No, I mean orange… And black! Ito yung klase ng pag-iisip na nagdadala sa atin sa kadiliman. Why would anyone hold up the Binays as a sort of a model to emulate on how to run a government unit and cement one’s popular appeal at the same time?
So pwede na yung mamorsiyento sa mga proyektong pinapagawa ng lungsod, pwede na yung mag-overpricing at kung anu-ano pang pandaraya at pangungupit sa salapi ng bayan basta ba meron naman libreng paaralan, pa-ospital sa maysakit, cake para sa may birthday etc. para palagi kang sikat at iboto ng taong bayan?
Bakit kokopyahin yung style na pwede na o good enough daw sa ingles eh kung pwede naman maging mahusay? Bakit makukuntento sa mahusay lang lang owede namang maging mahusay at matino? Bakit si Binay ang kokopyahin mo kung pwede naman si Robredo?
Rene-Ipil says
Ang maliwanag para sa akin ay ganito ang nais ng mga PNoy bashers. PNoy OUT, Marcos IN.
The main and single most important issue on Marcos march toward the presidency is encapsulated with this question:
“Do the sons bear the sins of the father?
One of us in CPM tried to “enlighten” the readers by posting Christian doctrines which answered NO on legal aspects and YES on spiritual matters. Meaning that it is perfectly legal for Marcos to claim the presidency.
I say that it may be legal, but it s totally immoral, unethical and despicable considering that the Marcoses continue to espouse, embrace and justify the deeds of Marcos the father.
drill down says
it’s a democratic system, anyone qualified under the law can run and win. to compound this problem, it’s not even possible to predict if a seemingly honest official will continue being clean and honest after being elected president. and this is just about honesty, also have to worry if they are smart enough, etc.
it’s so urgent to pass both the anti-political dynasty and foi acts now to cut down drastically the opportunities for corruption.
baycas says
It’s crunch time. PNoy et al must work double time if the ‘good enough’ governance is winning the battle. That’s how i look at it.
baycas says
‘Ika nga ni Mang Bernie…
Si Manung Jusip
Ay sumandaling nag-isip…
Sa huli’y kaniyang bukambibig…
Parekoy says
Doy Santos seems to mask his approval of Binay as heir apparent to PNoy by comparing nipple to navel rather than nipple to nipple.
As two examples:
1. Binay has full control of Makati since 1986 whereas Good Governance of PNoy was an impossible dream that has just netted Enrile, Jinggoy, and Bong, courtesy of accidental revelation publicly of Napoles NGO money printing machine revealed by Luy and only started recently.
2. Makati has the highest per capita income due to geographical luck of the draw having big business located in Makati. P11+ billion in 2013 tax revenue! So pwede talagang magbalato at magmaintain ng mga bobotantes to gain control of Makati. Binay and Family is the capi di tuti in Mafiosi Makati whereas PNoy has to battle and to ally with competing Mafiosi Families with inhereted Gloria’s plundered economy and almost a failed state with limited treasury!
How can Doy compare Good Governance(GG) providing results like having freebies to every Filipino if the main problem is the likes of corrupt politicians like Binay and ally plunderers in UNA?
Doy has good credentials but in this case his article is just like giving credence to why Binay should be the heir apparent to PNoy. This is a well crafted concealed endorsement of Binay by putting the burden to Mar, LP, and PNoy and demanding something impossible campaign finance reform from Daang Matuwid, which if Doy is intelligent enough he should know how heavily burdened PNoy is by formidable corrupt/plunderer opponents who wanted to maintain the status quo of franchise of kleptocracy and will fight PNoy “to thy kingdom coup!” And also please not forget having Bwitches of sisters destabilizing his gains of Daang Matuwid.
Beware of Doy’s article it can fool even the not so gullible…
Rene-Ipil says
Doy Santos termed Binay as a “stationary bandit” which is exactly what Marcos was. On that score, at least, Doy Santos is correct. The Filipinos have to choose now between a Marcos imitation or a true blooded Marcos.
http://web.stanford.edu/group/sjeaa/journal3/geasia2.pdf
Filipinos, WAKE UP!!
Rene-Ipil says
It seems that Doy Santos and his ilk idolize “stationary bandits” personified by Marcos before in a national scale and Binay recently in a local milieu. The honorable bandits. Only in the Philippines.
Marcus Olson wrote on the concept of stationary and roving bandits.
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABX209.pdf
Parekoy says
@Rene
I read this before.
Thank you for bringing this up! It is so timely and I highly recommend this to all interested CPM.
This is a great read and a great fix to our political junky minds!
Thank you!
vander anievas says
hi guys,
are we doomed to be ruled by a robin hoodlum?
seems the evil and the least evil are our only option.
if i will listen to doy d’saint, seems he got the sensible argument. hehehe.
his conditions for lp and mar and pnoy and allies to be at par with benigh is next to impossible.
cpmers will be beaten badly by his reasoning…
por doy tayo jan..LOL
leona says
[email protected], after reading this link ‘does the math’ etc., is any poll survey where Binay is leading credible? Honest? Or questionable that that the VP still is leading in the survey? Doesn’t jibe at all.
So, the math can’t be added maybe?
leona says
I think my blog is lost on ‘does the math add up here?”
Anyway, whether VP is leading, it is just ‘leading’ on poll surveys but I’m sure rightly or wrongly, the VP can’t solve so many problems unsolved by PNoy & co.
He won’t be any better or could even be the worst. My opn rightly or wrongly. Why? Because ‘the facts’ are not jibing at all for that scenario favorable for the VP to be able to do a lot just because he leads the survey…a big thing contrary to the unfavorables on him.
leona says
Neal H. Cruz, Phil. Daily Inquirer says –
“I have no objection, personally, to giving President Aquino another term—if only to prevent Vice President Jejomar Binay from being elected president.” I disagree on this.
But I agree to Mr. Neal’s saying –
“The Binay at present is not the same poor human rights lawyer who supported their mother. He is very rich now, as shown by his statement of assets, Liabilities and net worth. Binay’s income comes only from his salaries as a public official. He has no business where he could have gotten his riches. So where did he got those riches? Binay has not bothered to even try to explain them. That’s the man who wants to be the next president?”
Further, I agree Mr. Neal’s saying –
“On the other hand, P-Noy is the first good president we have had in decades. His fight against corruption is bringing fruit, and the chances of him being succeeded by somebody who is free from charges of corruption and will continue the reforms that he has started is very dim in Binay.”
This last saying I agree also –
“If he, Binay, “is really leading the surveys, then why is he desperately trying to get the support of the Liberal Party?” Erice asked. “Why is he desperately trying to get Mar Roxas into the picture. Why is he desperately trying to get the President’s anointment?”
leona says
link http://opinion.inquirer.net/77371/why-aquino-should-be-allowed-a-2nd-term
btw…Mr. Cruz’ blogger says he is a copyer…daw.
Am I just agreeing what you CPMers or I stated here? hehehe
Anyway, at least na iLABAS rin! Tink yu!
baycas says
@Kalahari,
Q: Who is Jonnalyn Navarrosa? (Comment No. 73.1)
A: Jonnalyn Navarrosa is one of the gifted individuals who benefited from a scholarship grant in the “Isuzu-funded, TESDA-run Auto Mechanic Training Center* in Tacloban, Leyte” (Philstar).
She was the class president in the first batch of scholars comprising 30 “young men and women from the three Samar provinces, Southern Leyte and Masbate.” She finished phase one of the two-year education and training (National Certification 1 or NC1) third in class as reported by the Philippine Information Agency or PIA on September 17, 2009.
Jonnalyn completed her schooling and, along with her 24 batchmates, “were conferred industry-recognized auto-technician certification” or the National Certification Level IV (NC4) on November 4, 2010. NC4 is “the highest level of qualification in the automotive sector in the country.” (PIA)
Jonnalyn finished first in her class. (Philstar, PDI)
She was quoted in a PDI article, “I promised myself two years ago that I will change my luck that I will do everything to help my family. This graduation means a lot as I am a few steps away from fulfilling my promise.”
In one of the 5th PNoy’s SONA testimonials she was a delight to watch…
http://youtu.be/nDwL_2egBu0
It’s just sad that part of the credit (the financial aspect and technical support) didn’t go to where it was due.
baycas says
*Footnote:
In the publication of the inauguration of the training center on November 13, 2008, the PIA reminded readers that “the dream of having a modern training center will not become a reality without the technical and financial support provided by ISUZU Motors Ltd.”
The PIA further reported that the state-of-the-art school is “supported by ISUZU Motors Ltd. Japan through the Heart and Smile Project, and Plan Japan and Plan Philippines from the preliminary stage of the project, both financially and technically.”
(Plan Philippines is an NGO.)
baycas says
Links to follow…
raissa says
Actually, Jonnalyn graduated in late 2010 at the top of her class, Baycas.
Look some more.
baycas says
I wrote:
baycas says
Read some more please…
http://raissarobles.com/2014/08/03/what-did-president-cory-actually-accomplish/comment-page-2/#comment-150124
baycas says
@Kalahari,
One can easily google the quoted phrases/sentences strewn above. But, as promised, here are the web links in the comments #74, #74.1, and #74.2:
http://www.philstar.com/education-and-home/634993/isuzu-tesda-training-centers-1st-batch-scholars-graduates
http://archives.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p081113.htm&no=24
http://archives.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=reader&fi=p090917.htm&no=08
http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20101109-302345/Fulfilling-a-personal-promise (with a gallery of pictures)
http://www.taclobanhotels.com/OCT–k1-19_30-k2–2008-TACLOBAN-NEWS.htm (for the Leyte Samar Daily Express article written by Sarwel Q. Meniano)
More links here as googled:
https://www.google.com.ph/?gws_rd=ssl#filter=0&q=%22were+conferred+industry-recognized+auto-technician+certification”
I like the graduation picture here:
http://www.autoindustriya.com/auto-industry-news/isuzu-rolls-out-its-first-batch-of-auto-mechanics.html
baycas says
MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE
This is where a Malaya Business Insight article was re-publshed:
http://www.taclobanhotels.com/JUNE–k1-01_30-k2–2010-TACLOBAN-NEWS.htm
♩ ♬ What’s DAP got to do…got to do with it? ♪ ♫
Well, judging from the date…N.O.N.E.
drill down says
maybe this is how some funds can get opportunities to get “lost”.
baycas says
As re-published here:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/leyte-southernleyte/conversations/messages/9030
In fairness to her, Jonnalyn Navarrosa thanked Isuzu in November 2010:
Cha says
“It’s just sad that part of the credit (the financial aspect and technical support) didn’t go to where it was due.”
Exactly. That’s all there is to it, at most. So why are we still talking about this? :)
baycas says
You probably have ‘the last word’ on this…
LOL!
But it’s @Kalahari that I am speaking with…
baycas says
No time to check…but…
Were there savings in the DAP-funded realignments (augmentations)?
May this be an example?
http://www.rappler.com/nation/special-coverage/sona/2014/65667-sona-fact-check-coa-tesda-dap
baycas says
Snoops, hear ye…hear ye…
Who is Jonnalyn Navarrosa?
(Sorry, off we go to a vacation. Read y’all when able…)
Kalahari says
Jonnalyn could be hiding on her own free will, or under duress. She was featured on PNoy’s 5th SONA as a DAP scholar from TESDA program but – lo and behold – records show she graduated from TESDA in 2009 under gma’s reign.
The speech writer or whoever whispered to PNoy’s ears that Jonnalyn benefited from his DAP projects has done him a great disservice worthy of public flaggings from the surging ISIS.
What’s happening to PNoy’s Public Information and Communication Services?
Rejtatel says
@kalahari not quite.
Per Sec. Joel Villanueva @secjoelv jonnalyn graduated in Nov 4 2010 at TESDA Tacloban.
Rene-Ipil says
Sabi sa SONA:
“‘Di po ba’t may kasabihan tayo: Bigyan mo ng isda ang tao, at mapapakain mo siya ng isang araw. Turuan mo siyang mangisda, at habambuhay niyang mapapakain ang sarili niya. Halimbawa nito ay ang TESDA. Sa Training-for-Work Scholarship Program, nag-ambag ang DAP ng 1.6 billion pesos. Nakapagpatapos po ito ng 223,615 benepisyaryo. 66 percent po nito—o katumbas ng 146,731 graduates—ang nagtatrabaho na ngayon. Iyon naman pong 34 percent na natitira, tinutulungan na rin ng TESDA na makahanap ng trabaho. Tingnan po ninyo: Lahat po ng mga TESDA scholar, nakalista ang pangalan at iba pang datos, na puwede ninyong kumpirmahin. [Palakpakan]
Kung hahatiin natin sa bilang ng graduates ang naipagkaloob na pondo, pumapatak ng 7,155 pesos ang naipuhunan ng pamahalaan para sa training ng bawat scholar. Sa BPO sector, mababa na ang kitang 18,000 piso kada buwan. Kada taon, kikita siya ng 234,000 pesos. Ibigay man ang maximum tax deduction, ang magiging income tax niya kada taon: 7,900 pesos. Ibig-sabihin, ang pinuhunan ng estadong 7,155 pesos, sa unang taon pa lang, nabawi na, may sobra pa. Ito, at ang lahat ng ibubuwis ng ating scholar hanggang magretiro siya, ay magbibigay naman sa kanyang kababayan ng parehong pagkakataon. Ito po ang mabuting pamamahala [Palakpakan]: May tama pong intensyon, pamamaraan, at resulta. Lahat panalo.
“Pakinggan po natin ang kuwento ng dalawang TESDA graduate:
– Marc Joseph Escora, TESDA beneficiary
– Jonnalyn Navarossa, TESDA beneficiary”
I understand that it was a toast for TESDA and DAP was mentioned as contributory to TESDA’s success because DAP contributed 1.6B to TESDA. TESDA – not DAP alone – had graduated 223,615 students. A number of these graduates benefitted from DAP and the rest from GMA era yet. And Jonnalyn is among them graduates. I did not read any particular sentence in the SONA identifying Jonnalyn as DAP scholar. But the fact is that Jonnalyn benefitted from TESDA as TESDA scholar. It seems that words are being put into PNoy’s mouth. That would be very unhygienic.
I stand corrected though.
baycas says
…vacation cut short…huhuhu…
tatay says
I totally disagree why people called her the icon of democracy when in fact it was the people who installed her as President of the Republic. No disrespect but history tells us that Cory was a symbol of the Roman Catholic governance since most of her actions and decisions were influenced by the latter.
raissa says
You are free to disagree, tatay.
Welcome to Cyber Plaza Miranda.
yvonne says
OFF TOPIC
While we are busy discussing about Cory, Pnoy, Binay, Bongbong, and about the DAP & PDAF, the legal manueverings are going on at the plunder trial of the three Senators. Let us be reminded not to get sidetracked with other issues. It is important that we continue to express our strong interest to follow their separate trials at the diffferent divisions of the Sandiganbayan, lest these trials would go the way of the Ampatuans.
Already I’m sensing, at this early stage, that in one of the divisions, a judge is leaning towards an acquital vote. I’m basing my feeling on the judge’s line of questioning which is seen as being favorable to the defense, the judge’s track record in handling previous graft charges against a very prominent politician with surprising outcome, and other reasons I’m not at liberty to disclose at this time.
Let us therefore be ever vigilant in following up the plunder cases against these senators.
Cha says
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baycas says
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baycas says
http://akismet.com
Cha says
Binay and the Aquino sisters
“Kayo ang haharap sa sangandaan; kayo ang magpapasya kung magtutuloy ang pagbabago. Tandaan lang po natin, ito ang aking ikalimang SONA; isa na lamang ang natitira. Sa 2016, pipili kayo ng bagong pinuno ng ating bayan. Ang sa akin lang po: Para ipagpatuloy at mas mapabilis pa ang pagbabagong tinatamasa na ng ating lipunan, iisa lang ang batayan sa pagpili ng papalit sa akin: Sino ang wala ni katiting na dudang magpapatuloy sa transpormasyong ating isinakatuparan?”
These are the President’s words from his last SONA. Does anyone actually think he could have been referring to Binay here as the person who would, without any doubt, continue the reforms in government that he has started?
Binay, of the UNA triumvirate one of which is now in detention and other, the father of another one of the accused in scamming the Filipino people of billions of pesos of their hard earned money they paid in taxes?
Binay, whose wife is still facing graft charges with the Sandiganbayan and who along with his son is currently facing allegations of plunder in the construction of a billion peso parking building in Makati?
Binay, who along with his fellow kings of UNA, Enrile and Estrada, stood by then Cebu Gov Garcia, as she defied her suspension for grave abuse of authority? Binay, who undermined the government’s efforts to quell the siege in Zamboanga?
We could go on and on and still end up with the same conclusion, which even Binay himself would have drawn from the President’s statement, that the VP is far from the person the President would have had in mind to continue on with his administration’s good government initiatives.
I think Binay is trying to break away from his UNA connections knowing how this can hurt him in the lead up to the 2016 elections. He knows his good showing in the polls is no guarantee of a win. (Perhaps because he knows the answer to the question, who really paid for those polls?). Thus the attempt to sneak a ride in a more attractive vehicle. The LP guest candidate theory is probably just a prelude to his going it alone, of “consciously uncoupling” (as Gwyneth Paltrow might put it) from UNA to clean up his image. And who better to help him sanitise the Binay brand but the Aquino sisters themselves. The clueless Aquino sisters have just allowed themselves to be used as political pawns by the ambitious black king who now wants to play white.
Binay and the Aquino sisters, however, ought to realize that black and white together at best can only result to grey. A little better perhaps for the black Binay but quite unfortunate for the once lily white Aquinos.
Rene-Ipil says
I would welcome to see and hear Binay perform his “Swan song” engendered by a warrant of arrest for plunder and his incarceration in PNP detention center. If Binay insists maybe he can launch his presidential bid in jail, and let’s see if the Filipinos are really worth fighting for.
moonie says
last presidential election in 2010, kris aquino’s son, bimby, when asked who he thought would make good president, I think, bimby readily said, manny villar. and now his mother and aunt are giving support to binay.
if detained, I wonder what kind of sickness binay will come up with. not high blood pressure again! and maybe, he will bring his own baon, isdang paksiw na naman at spam.
Cha says
Some people have been saying that he has lupus.
kawawangbayanko says
@Rene-ipil
The problem with the arrest is his modus operandi: He will barricade himself in his coconut palace, and milk it for propaganda to the last drop.
More seriously, it probably won’t hold because he isn’t in Luy’s files. Abigail posting bail is the better scenario, but I don’t think that will happen before (or after) 2016.
Rene-Ipil says
Please consider the Makati Parking Building which was overpriced by more than 700M. Also the second hand Suzuki multicabs which were bought by Binay from a Cebu distributor for 230k when it could be purchased for less than 100k. When Binay is indicted for these felonies, he would campaign while in jail ala Trillanes although for different causes – plunder vs. rebellion.
pelang says
well, it shows just how vain Kris is. She loathes Mar’s Korina who happens to be in the televisio media who if Mar becomes the President, the media would focus on her being the first lady, and off Kris. takot na masapawan. Dahil lang do’n, she will throw support on Binay. Well, Kris. this would be your toughest battle yet, dahil ang kalaban mo ang bayan.
kawawangbayanko says
@pelang:
I don’t think it’s Kris’ vanity. Ballsy being the other proponent, signals something more serious:
that the family concedes that Binay is the likely President in 2016, and the fear that Pnoy might be charged by the next administration for DAP.
pelang says
@kawawangbayanko. why then did the sisters campaign (not openly, though) for Noy-Bi in the last election and not threw their support to Mar, the reason why Mars lost to Binay? wala pa namang DAP noon.
Cha says
Update:
In the Inquirer today, “Binay open to Roxas tie-up”.
While at Philstar , it’s “Binay is UNA’s bet in 2016 – Erap.”
It looks like a tug-of-war is being played out in media. Between a traitor and a desperado.
If this were a divorce proceeding, an amicable settlement may not be on the horizon. Yung isa kasi player, yung isa naman clinger.
Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.
Rene-Ipil says
Palagay ko ay bistado na si Binay. This is confirmed by PNoy’s acknowledgement of Binay’s role during the 1989 coup. In effect PNoy said “I thank you for helping my mother and me and I cherish that but …” That’s a “kiss of death.” Binay and UNA are now desperate to recover the graces of PNoy. Binay knows now what is in store for him. It is jail or something else.
I am reminded of a scene in “Godfather” where Michael Corleone kissed his brother Alfredo before the latter was blown into smithereens for his complicity in the attempt to annihilate Michael’s family. Maybe I am reading too much crime stories and watching much of “Criminal Minds.”
Cha says
Kaya nga nagkakandarapa lalo na maging presidente. Noynoy may have treated him with kid gloves because of their family ties, but can you just imagine what will happen to the Binays when either Roxas or Cayetano become President? Goodbye kid gloves, hello plunder charges et.al.
His only other hope is a Grace Poe presidency that might treat him more kindly. O di kaya si Chiz.
And btw, I love both the Godfather and Criminal Minds. Come to think of it, both can actually remind one of the Binays. Hehehe.
Parekoy says
Surveying the Philippine Polling
This is my response to Balikbayan, at #61.1.1
Survey or polling is one of the tools to manipulate the masses. It confirms the biases of the targets; prod the undecided to shift to being decided; and infused doubt to those against the goals of the sponsor of the survey. If Joseph Goebbels were alive today, he will surely use this tool for mind conditioning!
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The problem is Mar doesn’t seem to poll well against Binay.
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It is true that the SWS and Pulse Surveys showed Binay topped the survey and Mar at distant, but we have to take these results with a grain of salt.
It is also fact that surveys in the Philippines are manipulated and biased to the one funding it. It is also a fact that the polling companies concealed who paid for the survey. That is why there is now a pending bill in the House, Bill 3188, “An act mandating full disclosure of funding and financing of surveys.” The politicians and their operators know the game played in the Philippines. We have the best manipulators, propagandists, and cheaters in the world! So we need to dig deeper about the political polling.
There are three aspects of polling:
1. Collection of data
2. Analysis of data
3. Interpretation of data
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We need to ask the following:
1. What is the survey/polling about?
2. Who funded the survey/polling?
3. What are the goals of the survey/polling?
4. What is the type of survey question? Is it open-ended, ordered scales, or discrete (yes/no)?
5. Are the questions framed in an unbiased way? Are the questions leading? There are questions that are framed to manipulate a response to fit the sponsor’s sinister goal of the survey.
6. How did the poller assign the numbers to the data? This can be manipulated too.
7. Who were asked? What is the demographic of the polled responders?
a. Say you want to bias the result towards Binay, the poller can ask more responders from the class D and E.
8. Where are the locations of these responders?
a. Geographically, the poller can also target the bailiwick of the Binays in Makati
9. Is the sampling a representation of the population?
10. When did they perform the survey? This can be timed to events that will benefit the sponsor of the survey.
11. How did the survey/polling company interpret the data?
a. Even with unbiased collection of data, the analysis and interpretation part is subjective and can be manipulated by the survey/polling companies.
12. What is the reputation of the survey/company? History wise, were what is their batting average? What is the structure of ownership of this survey company? Is there any conflict of interest?
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Since Philippine political survey/polling companies have the reputation of manipulating their surveys and not professional enough to disclose the sponsor who commissioned the survey/polling, then we need to be vigilant and always be in the lookout if we are being manipulated.
I am not saying that Mar should be number on top or others on top of Binay, what I am asserting is that Philippine Polling is still as suspect of bias so the numbers can be exaggerated to whomever pays for it.
We have to ask this question, how come Binay was on top of the survey? Majority of the people perceived him to be corrupt and wanted to overturn every gain of PNoy’s Daang Matuwid and also defended profusely Corona and the plunderers Enrile, Jinggoy, and Bong?
The math does not add up, so somebody in the survey company was cooking the results!
Parekoy
07/08/2014
Posting after reviewing Drake Equation on the probabiltiy of intelligent life in the universe
N=R*fp*ne*fl*fi*fc*L
yvonne says
As I mentioned in an earlier post in response to @baycas, surveys or polls are meaningless unless they are qualified with their % margins of error.
Results with no discernible % margins of error are, at best, only guesswork – they are unscientific and should not to be given any credibility.
Parekoy says
@yvonne,
Good observation of the deliberate absence of the % margin of error in the survey results!
Even if the survey companies included that margin of error, it is still doubtful considering their history of bias towards the sponsors.
If we analyze the result of 2010 election on the Vice President post (grabbed from @baycas):
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Binay 14.6M votes (42%)
Roxas 13.9M votes (40%)
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That was a toss-up and a close result! Statistically it is a draw with a margin of +/-2%.
Mar has a legitimate case for filing a recount, which is what he did in 2010. He suspects he was the victim of poll fraud of the PCOS FOCUS infamy! Binay beat Roxas by 727,084 votes with more than 3,000,000 null votes and especially in his bailiwick of the Visayas.
The dilemma of Mar’s protest is that it will affect Pnoy’s administration senatorial winners. If they open the PCOS results and dig deeper, the cheating might be exposed base on the statistical improbability of a consistent 60-30-10 percent vote for the administration!
There might be a compromise. If PNoy anoints Mar, even with the Bwitches* Aquino Sisters support for Binay, the Comelec will make sure that this time the PCOS FOCUS will be programmed for Mar’s assured computer elected Presidency! Thus a nightmare for Binay and UNA because the PCOS FOCUS is out of reach of the Aquino Bwitches!
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*Bwitches– Binay’s Bitches and Witches
yvonne says
Equally important to the questions of are financing and who are conducting the surveys, is the question of who among the media personalities are giving prominent and consistent media coverage and promotion to those surveys.
The answers to these questions will fit the pieces together to solve the puzzle.
Rene-Ipil says
Did I hear somebody said:
“Binay may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB.”
In 1939 FDR did say it on Somoza, Sr. of Nicaragua. In 1986 CIA Director William Casey told it to President Reagan before Marcos fled.
Parekoy says
Add to that:
Suharto, Nguyen, Park Chung Hee, Batista, Noriega, Mobuto, Mubarak, Reza Pahlavi, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden to name a few!
Rene-Ipil says
Social research or survey is a good economic and political tools in decision making. Demographic conditions and people’s attitudes are determined in systematic or scientific manner usually through face to face interviews of a survey population or universe randomly selected. Results and methodologies are normally published online or in newspapers.
I believe on the integrity and accuracy of SWS and Pulse Asia surveys. Questions are carefully structured to avoid charges of bias or slant. In fact SWS and PA pollsters appear in TV to defend their works upon questioning by knowleagiable panelists. Any bias or slant could easily be exposed. There are graduate schools that deal extensively on social research which covers academic (statistics, methodologies, etc.) and practical exercises (thesis and dissertations). I can cite UP on my personal knowledge.
To the uninitiated, social research seems esoteric. But to a well honed student and practitioner the job appears not so daunting. And the least we can do as social research consumers would be to discern which research outfit is professional and reputable.
Rene-Ipil says
BTW I think that biases and slants are done mostly by paid media personalities.
Parekoy says
Political survey is a different animal. We can’t compare it nipple to nipple against the economic survey.
Political surveys are always unreliable and suspect in the Philippines!
Why is it that on political polling, they are not disclosing their client?
In the US it is standard to assure the public infornation on who did commision the survey. They still make slants but at least the Americans know if the polling is funded by the Republicans, the Democrats, and their affiliations or by a neutral entity. Knowing the sponsor is one critical factor in their decision making.
In the Philippines, it is a common knowledge among Politicians and operators the high cost of these surveys to condition the mind of the public. But it is just part of doing political business. look at it this way, If I am the client why would I release a polling detrimental to my interest?
Why the secrecy here?
Rene-Ipil says
Be that as it may, such “secrecy” does not diminish the accuracy of the survey by a reputable firm. In a commissioned survey – political or not – the client reserves the right of disclosure. But ours is a free country where people have equal opportunity to such information. If an interested party doubts the survey results, it can commission the same survey outfit to its heart content. In other words there must not be duplicity or intent to deceive in the process. And many political surveys are non-commissioned, and done and disclosed on a regular basis.
Indeed, ABS-CBN or GMA Networks would immediately disclose the survey results if favorable but but would withhold same if otherwise. Political and economic surveys are the same animal of different breed.
Parekoy says
Even economic and educatioal surveys should be free of political control, which is self explanatory.
Therefore political surveys released to the public shall also disclose the sponsors to fully inform the public of the political intent. If the organization or firm wanted to be reputable, why not be honest and disclose the sponsor(s). That is the wisdom in the US where the people value the quality and veracity of the survey being fed to the public. The public has the right to know. Secrecy invites doubt especially if the stake is the future of the country!
We have to admit that our electoral process and governance are not favorable for us. Our election is like choosing who will administer the franchise of kleptocracy every six years. Sad but we have a disfunctional system where every branch of the government is mired with corruption and inefficiency and we have private businesses whose main goal is to extract maximum profit without regard to ethics, environment, and social justice.
I think we need to agree to disagree on political surveys as doubtful and slanted towards the sponsor. My message to everbody is to take them with a grain of salt; think if the results tally with your perception; accumulated information; and don’t swallow it with hook, line and sinker so less harm is done!
Be a wiser voter!
raissa says
I agree, Parekoy.
Sponsors should be disclosed.
Rene-Ipil says
I am talking about non-disclosure of survey results. But I also agree that whenever survey results are disclosed, the corresponding sponsors must also be disclosed as required by COMELEC Resolution No. 9615.
leona says
Excuse me, I am not of any help here but I just want to say:
To disclose the sponsor(s) on poll surveys on political/politicians, it becomes suspect when favorable to some who the sponsors are liking. When unfavorable, public may never see the survey.
If there are ‘secrets’ behind poll surveys, who really believes the survey? The bobotantes? The naives and fickle minded? The biased? Unbiased?
Or poll surveys are just to make money? Who care Believe It or Not.
kawawangbayanko says
Mahar has more integrity than the run-of-the-mill pollers.
Chicago vets her awardees well before she gives its most prestigious alumnus award.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/6063/a-university-of-chicago-award
Her reputation as a top university is impeccable.
https://www.google.com/search?q=images+chicago+nobelists&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rgnlU-iJL9eAygSa7YDwBw&ved=0CCYQ7Ak&biw=1239&bih=706
If he or Pepe did the polling personally, I am willing to accept it as unbiased.
baycas says
An example of analyzing and interpreting surveys:
http://raissarobles.com/2013/05/08/senator-loren-legarda-rents-out-her-new-york-condo-for-us3095-a-month/comment-page-1/#comment-105547
baycas says
An example of how campaign strategies are adjusted with surveys serving as aids in planning and execution…
raissarobles.com/2013/05/19/did-the-comelec-just-go-rogue/comment-page-1/#comment-106202
baycas says
Here’s the link:
http://raissarobles.com/2013/05/19/did-the-comelec-just-go-rogue/comment-page-1/#comment-106202
yvonne says
Paid political operative activates Oplan Dagdag-Bawas.
Operative bankrolls fake surveys to duplicate desired election results.
Dagdag-bawas in full swing.
Election returns match results of fake surveys.
The gullible accept the election results without question because it was validated by fake surveys.
One politician can no longer bear the dagdag-bawas cheating in his conscience; decides to do the right thing by resigning his post.
Parekoy says
That is the standard blueprint of rigging the elections!
Usually the opposing parties knew what was going on, but they have to play the dirty game.
And Erap summed it up acting as a meteorologist:
Weder weder lang yan!
Which is very fitting because almost all of the Presidents wreaked havoc like a supertyphoon!
baycas says
If the 2013 result is a gauge…
Poe’s unexpected number-1 win was due to a campaign ranging from ‘trapoism’ to idealism while Binay’s expected win may only be due to a ‘trapoism’ campaign.
http://raissarobles.com/2013/05/19/did-the-comelec-just-go-rogue/comment-page-1/#comment-106202
If the math in the recent surveys doesn’t add up…
Sisihin marahil ang ‘korean’ na mga na-sample na botante sa survey. Baka tinanong nila ang kani-kanilang sarili nang…
Rene-Ipil says
I will say it again. With PNoy out of the political equation on or before the 2016 elections, Marcos will outclass Binay. Marcos again. I would not want that. Most CPMers would not want that, although one or more CPMers might want that. But surely Ballsy, Pinky, Viel and Kris abhor Marcos again.
How could a Marcos again be avoided? Binay or Roxas must win. Definitely, Roxas could not win if PNoy is out, and maybe so even with PNoy’s anointment. So Roxas now bats for a PNoy second term instead of a Binay victory. If PNoy is out of the equation, there would of course be no second term for him. And Marcos outclasses Binay easily. So the solution to the Marcos again problem is for PNoy to stay in the political arena. And have PNoy, Roxas or Binay as president in 2016. But I believe PNoy does not want a second term.
In my theory Roxas could not surely win – remote indeed – even with PNoy’s endorsement. But with PNoy’s blessing Binay surely wins. And Marcos, never again.
This brings me to Ballsy and Kris whose only wish for Pnoy is to STAY ALIVE upon hearing PNoy’s “Swan song” during the SONA. By now I am sure operators are busy scheming to eliminate PNoy politically or literally. Enrile, Estrada, Revilla, Napoles (Jenny and Jimmy) for sure want PNoy out. With PNoy out, Roxas would surely follow. Enrile and company could now hitch their destiny with Binay or Marcos. And I believe they would choose Binay.
So, Kris and Ballsy endorsed Binay this early to disarm Enrile and company and to preempt any attempt on the life of PNoy. With PNoy alive, Kris and sisters are happy. With PNoy alive , Marcos is out of the presidency. Those are the primary objectives. Binay as president is only secondary.
It is up to the Filipino people to choose. Binay or Marcos. I pray there is other clear option.
kawawangbayanko says
China and the U.S. seem to think Binay will be the next President.
There was no play in the media: China invited him for private talks about 3 months ago, then the U.S. soon after, where he discussed policy with Dept of Defense guys.
Pnoy and Poe have inter-generational ties with Binay: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jejomar_Binay)
Graft Charge
In October 2006, the Department of the Interior and Local Government issued a suspension order against Binay, Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado, and all members of the City Council following an accusation of ‘ghost employees’ on the city payroll by former Vice Mayor Roberto Brillante, a political rival.[5] Refusing to cooperate with the suspension order, he barricaded himself inside the Makati City Hall. Among those who expressed support were former President Corazon Aquino, actress Susan Roces – the widow of the late movie star and 2004 opposition presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. – and several Catholic bishops.[6][7] After a three-day stand-off, the Court of Appeals issued a temporary restraining order. Before it lapsed, the court issued an injunction order, thereby preventing the Office of the President from enforcing its suspension order until the case was resolved.[8]
If no decision is reached on the 3 plundering Senators by early next year, politicians will start bailing out to Binay. Kawawang bayan ko!
Targrod says
Erap recently announced that he’s running again (joskolord). I remember back in 2010 when “nobody” even thought of him and had the feel that he can’t even place in the top three. Lo and behold, he had a strong 9.5 million votes to back him up. (maybe due to my circles encouraging Gordon and Teodoro votes.
No to Binay and Erap. Especially to Bongbong or even the other Bong. Or else, mag-iikutan na naman tayo ng tumbong.
2016 is getting scarier by the day.
yvonne says
@Targrod
I think Erap is suffering from delusion or early-stage alzheimer. How else would you characterize someone who would don a camouflage fatigue uniform (with everyone else is in their street clothes, including Isko Moreno) while implementing the truck ban at the QC Mabuhay Rotonda?
He must be imagining those cargo trucks as para-military armored vehicles or tanks, and that he was about to do a Rambo. He spent too much time shooting “Asyong Salonga-type” movies that he is now unable to separate the real from the reel.
yvonne says
@Rene-Ipil,
Your assessment is credible although I should say that I can imagine some variants to your scenarios. As I mentioned in my previous posts, there has been a persistent, systematic, and organized, if not quiet, movement, to prep Bongbong Marcos for the presidential election in 2016. And this has been going on in the last year, or two.
With Marcos’ enormous wealth, well-oiled political machinery, intellectual preparation, strong name recognition, the services of the best political consultants/operators money can buy, and the potential support of other political powerhouse with interest to protect or ax to grind, Bongbong is a very formidable presidential candidate. In fact, I believe that the 2016 presidential election is going to be a 2-way fight between Binay and Marcos, with the other candidates serving only as spoilers.
Rolly says
Early 2015, sabi ni Marcos Jr. ke Binay:
Here is P1B pocket money for you to keep, another billion on the way for your campaign fund. You have the Solid North, and Leyte too. It’s my turn come 2022.
vander anievas says
@rene-ipil,
omg!
i never thought of that.
i find it really sensible.
“I pray there is other clear option.”
i’m hoping and i’m praying there is…
Rene-Ipil says
I think the other and ONLY option would be to put Binay in jail for plunder together with Enrile, et. al. PNoy could “stay alive” and anoint Roxas or someone else against Marcos and/or Erap. By then, Binay would surely be a spent force.
baycas says
Kids in our neighborhood are sad…no joy…
leona says
PNoy for another 6 years? Personally I do not want it.
Silent:
“Belmonte, principal author of a Charter change bill, said he wanted the House to focus only on amending the economic restrictions in the Constitution and vowed not to lift term limits.”
Speaker does not say he is not in favor neither does he say he is in favor.
“House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II said Interior and Local Governments Secretary Manuel Roxas II’s announcement that he wanted Aquino to get six more years had an adverse impact on Charter change efforts because this would cast doubts on their motives.”
HML Gonzales is also silent except ‘adverse impact’ effect.
Palace thru Sec. Coloma is likewise silent and just says –
““The President has been very clear in his declaration that he is now counting the months and days before he ends his term and not even once did it cross his mind to aspire or ask for a term extension because the Constitution is very clear about that (one-term limit),” said Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma.
But Coloma said the administration will not lift a finger to stop the online campaign calling for another term for the President.
“We have to recognize that these people are free to express their sentiments. The government is not involved in any way. That is part of our democratic space–free expression in a free society,” he said. ” ”
The Secretary says PNoy has been counting the months. But PNoy can stop counting, isn’t it? And ‘people are free to express their sentiments’ . . . So, leave it to the people what their sentiments want, isn’t it?
Critics/or Against:
“But critics described the calls for a second term “delusional and desperate.” What delusional? Explain. What desperate? Explain.
When PNoy was elected by about more than 15 million votes, were the people delusional? Were the people desperate? They were just eager or loved to elect him. Nothing desperate on that.
Renato Reyes of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan says ““It is bereft of any legal basis.” What is the illegality on that? PNoy will not be ‘running’ for any re-election. He will just have ‘an extended presidency’ by the people if and/or when the people do approve it.
Rep. Martin Romualdez says – ““The proposal is self-serving and the people will vehemently oppose such a move. Should the President support call for his second term, it means he disregarded his own principle because of the desire to stay in power,” said the bloc’s leader, Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.”
PNoy is not asking for it. So, it is not self-serving. If the people wants it, then people will not oppose it. PNoy is not asking for it, so how can PNoy disregard his own ‘principle?’ PNoy says “Kayo Ang Mga Boss Ko!” The people can disregard whatever principle. In politics, whatever takes place made by the people, it is the principle.
Rep. Jonathan de la Cruz says – “Abakada party-list Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz said Erice’s proposal would test President Aquino’s “hunger for power” even as he said that those pushing for a term extension for the President are on dangerous ground.”
It’s the people if and/or when they approved it. PNoy cannot be accused being ‘hungry for power.” People are the Boss. Let them eat and be not hungry. What is a ‘dangerous ground’ here? What is dangerous is when people are hungry and cannot eat.
Rep. Bello says – “1-BAP party-list Rep. Silvestre Bello III, on the other hand, warned the President against heeding calls for a second term.
“It is both legally and politically unwise. For [Aquino] to run again, there has to be Charter change which I doubt will get Congress and people’s support,” Bello said.” ”
Why warn PNoy? He is not asking for it. Only the people can be warned and if they refuse the warning, can anyone blame them? Rep. Bello? Legally unwise? How? Politically unwise? Tell the people that it is.
Rep. Ridon says – “Kabataan party-list Rep. Terry Ridon said the country is heading towards autocratic rule if President Aquino is given another six-year term.
“The Palace should not even be entertaining the thought of extending the President’s term. With the [Disbursement Acceleration Program] fiasco and his treatment of the [Supreme Court], the public would not take lightly another dictatorship,” Ridon said.” ”
Autocratic rule? Where were you during Marcos’ time? The people were there but you where? Dictatorship? Another 6 years extension compared to 20 years of Marcos without mandate of the people, where is dictatorship here?
Rep. Farinas says only – ““I am not in favor of the idea, and I guess neither would the President agree to such. Even the people would not welcome such a move,” Fariñas said.” ”
Not in favor of the idea. It is the people’s idea if it comes to that realization. Many may not favor the idea but it is the people’s majority idea that we await and want to see.
While Sen. Escudero’s statement, gives something “I do not know” … says here: “Senator Francis Escudero, meanwhile, chided presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda for sowing confusion about the President’s stand on a second term.
He said Lacierda should have categorically brushed aside the proposal for Aquino to seek a second term of office.
Escudro described as “unfortunate” Lacierda’s vague statement about the President listening to the voice of the people.
“I can’t understand why the answer of the President’s spokesperson was not clear. But I’m quite certain on the part of the President, it’s farthest from his mind,” he said.” ”
He says ‘It is farthest from PNoy’s mind.’ Yes. I agree. Like when I never thought PNoy would run for president except after the burial of his Mom and Mar Roxas already publicly said ‘He’s running for president.’
Farthest from his mind – how do you know Senator? Can you read PNoy’s mind?
Kayo ang mga Boss ko. Will I shirk from what my Mga Boss ko wants? I programmed Tuwid Na Daan. My Mga Boss Ko says “Ituloy ang Daan.” What’s next?
baycas says
Jail term?
leona says
If there is a crime Against whom?
leona says
link http://manilastandardtoday.com/2014/08/08/solons-eye-term-limits-lifted-too/
Kalahari says
The Makati Business Club and Foreign Investors’ group have expressed apprehension about the successor of PNoy who may not continue his “daang Matuwid” – and for good reason – the leading contender’s integrity as well as the notoriety of his party-mates are giving them business itch.
SO LET’S DANCE CHA-CHA AND SOME BOOGIE-WOOGIE TOO.
drill down says
this is why the rule of law is superior to the rule of men, which unfortunately was the strategy pnoy chose in implementing his daang matuwid. he has now made himself “indispensable”.
drill down says
he could have chosen rule of law and put daang matuwid on autopilot by forcing, using his mandate, congress to pass the anti-political dynasty and foi bills and then tighten the other anti-corruption laws.
drill down says
savings are just too addictive…
Rolly says
Personally, I would like Noynoy to be the President for life. Sadly, his moral soundness will certainly prevail over persuasions or to whatever reasons to continue holding on the presidency.
yvonne says
It just occurred to me that former Congressman Agapito “Butz” A. Aquino was succeeded by Mar-Len Abigail S. Binay as congresswoman of the 2nd District of Makati.
And now we’re seeing this “trial ballon” being floated by the Aquino sisters about the feasibility of VP Jejomar Binay succeeding President Aquino.
Pure coincidence, or are we seeing an emerging pattern here?
raissa says
I should ask ex-Cong. Butz.
baycas says
Baka may huling habilin si Tita Cory sa mga Presidential sisters…
‘Yan ay ayoko na sigurong malaman pa.
kalakala says
kung mayroon mang huling habilin si tita cory, dahil at that time binay is still “virgin” hindi pa corrupted ang buong angkan. ng dahil sa huling habilin, noong unang natikman ang sarap ng corruption ang buong angkan ni binay ay nagiging “pros- – – -te” hindi na macontrol ang sarap ng makati sa Makati(dahil ang tawag sa dating lugar ni binay ay Kuli kuli, luagar ng prostitution during that time) gusto maging buong pilipinas.
baycas says
Maaari, @kulikuli…este, @kalakala…
Nguni’t, datapuwa’t, subali’t…ayoko talagang malaman kung ano’ng huling habilin ni Tita Cory sa mga Aquino sisters…nguni’t, datapuwa’t, subali’t mayroon akong dalawang (2) sapantaha…
Secret ang isa, ang isa naman ay…
letlet says
Knowing how very politically upright Ninoy and Cory were, i think they would be turning in their graves with Ballsy and Kris support to Binay. As a matter of principles, these two sisters are putting their self interest first before the interest of the country and the people.
Ninoy died for our country and the people, these sisters should not desecrate the memory of their dead father by supporting Binay.
Even highly educated and professionals living in Makati are treating Binay with contempt for being scoundrel, coz a Makati resident who came over to UK for a business trip told me so. That’s how they view Binay especially in his vote buying. They are so much aware of what the Binays are doing that leave so much bitter taste in the mouth.
moonie says
sabi ng aquino sisters, kung ipagpatuloy ni binay ang mga mabubuting nagawa ng kuya noy nila, they will support binay as president come 2016. kung ipagpatuloy. that’s the condition. at kung hindi, lagot sila.
I think, ballsy and kris ought to start being nice to korina, just in case.
letlet says
Ballsy and Kris are smart and should know what they are talking and the impact of their actions on certain political personalities and issues. Haven’t they realized how two face Binay is and he is the embodiment of double standard.
Binay’s words are utterly not reliable. Are the two sisters that so gullible to believe Binay’s words that he will continue PNoy’s daang matuwid? With due respect to them, what planet are they in?
clearpasig says
I think its an honest statement from Kris Aquino, that their family will benefit from Binay but guaranteed hardship for the country because of Binays association in politics just simply favored the bad and the corrupt members in our government. This country will stand and move towards growth if we brush-off thieves and incompetent in the house and the senate.
Parekoy says
Crystal clear!
Kalahari says
The benefit from binay is, as I’ve been saying before, no prosecution for PNoy compared to what he did to gma/corona tandem in exchange for PNoy’s support in 2016 election.
But PNoy is not exactly assured of a quiet retirement considering the deep-rooted resentment from the 3 senatongs who were victims of selective justice, in addition to the deadly counterpunch of the arroyos & corona.
When this happens, kris & ballsy should take the blame as it may turn millions of undecided voters away from the billionaire (kuno) binay – and possibly switch to roxas who passionately embrace “daang matuwid”
moonie says
there is really no guarantee that PNoy will not be prosecuted once binay becomes president. binay may decide to punish PNoy for all the embarrassment PNoy has caused binay the 6yrs he has been vice president. starting when PNoy overturned binay’s plea of letting bygones be bygone and let apo bangkay be buried at the libingan ng mga bayani. binay also wanted to insinuate himself at zambo seige but was sent him back to manila.
and I think, considering that his father was once jailbird, PNoy is not afraid of being jailed. he has no wife who will cry for him, no children who will miss him. he only have himself. and he is used to being alone on his own.
his political allies may defend him though, and will fight tooth and nail than see him in jail. baka sila pa ang magbayad ng bail niya.
vander anievas says
nakakabahala ang huling kaganapan.
pag walang mapapatakbong kandidato ang LP sa 2016.
mahirap manghiram mula sa ibang partido.
hindi magandang ideya ang kumuha ng guest candidate.
dumidilim ang pag-asa ng bansa kung hindi maipagpapatuloy ang sinimulan ni Pnoy.
bagama’t si Mar ang nakikita nating magpapatuloy ng Tuwid na Daan ni Pnoy,
mahina ang kanyang rating sa mga surveys.
tingin nyo ba pag nai-anoint ni pnoy si mar, aangat siya sa survey?
baycas says
PAST
Ito ang nagawa ng simpatiya kay Tita Cory at ang napakahalagang pagpaparaya ng dalawang kaalyadong ‘presidentiable’ ni PNoy…
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_general_election,_2010
President-VP 1st Place
Aquino 15.M votes (42%)
Binay 14.6M votes (42%)
President-VP 2nd Place
Estrada 9.5M votes (26%)
Roxas 13.9M votes (40%)
—–
TRIAL BALLOONS
Bayad-utang kay martir na Binay ang pag-eendorso ng mga Presidential sisters. Sasakyan pa rin ni Binay ang nalalabing tiwala kay PNoy sapagka’t nabawasan ang bango ng UNA. Nalalabi dahil naDAPa rin ang presidente.
Nagpalutang tuloy ng balitang si Binay ang magiging LP standard bearer. Ma-divert man lang ang atensiyon sa pagkakaDAPa kahit papaano.
Samantala, tiyak na tatalima (at dapat naman!) si PNoy sa pagpapaunlak noon ni Roxas. Hihirangin niya si Roxas sa takdang panahon bago 2016.
Pero kamakailan, pagbabalatkayo o pakitang-tao ang asta ni Roxas na animo’y nagpaparaya na naman siya sa kakayahan ni PNoy. Ibig daw ni Roxas na ituloy pa ni PNoy ang pagkapresidente.
Pinalutang pa ang kunwaring Binay-Roxas 2016 upang malaman ang pananaw ng bayan at marahil upang gawin uling martir si Roxas. ‘Paawa effect’ ito ni Roxas.
Saan ba galing ang palutang na balita?
Nagmumula lang naman ang mga bali-balitang ito sa isang Balay sa Samar…meaning sa Palasyo lang. Maaalala niyo na minsang nagpapasuot ng yellow ribbon si PNoy matapos ang SC DAP ruling? Naunsyami ito dahil hindi maganda sa panlasa.
Ngayon, kaalinsabay sa kunwaring pagpaparaya part 2 ni Roxas, nagpalutang din ng isa pang termino para kay PNoy…
Tila ang lobo (trial balloon) ay pumutok kaagad bago pa ito pumaimbulog sa kalawakan. Hindii kasi kapanipaniwala. Bagkus, pilit na inililihis sa usaping kuwarta habang pumupulso lang sa damdamin ng mamamayan. Abangan ang resulta ng sayantipiko at may mumunting bias na survey…
Kung ilalabas man ito…
baycas says
Aquino 15.2M votes (42%)
baycas says
Ang nagkakaisang sigaw ni Mang Bernie at Manung Jusip.
baycas says
Ang dagdag pa rito…
Presumption of malversation against the DAP proponents will come after the final SC ruling AND the much awaited accounting/audit of DAP funds—categorizing constitutional DAP against unconstitutional DAP disbursement.
Parekoy says
@baycas,
Sa tingin ko hindi ito operation ng LP kundi ng UNA:
1. After SONA bumalik yung tiwala ng tao kay PNoy after DAP.
2. During SONA, yung plea ni PNoy na continuation ng kanyang Tuwid na Daan ay negative kay Binay.
3. Binay saw the effect at biglang damage control. Puri agad yung pangulo together with Toby Tiangco!
4. After the SONA, napansin mo ba full blast ang PR operation ng UNA? Karamihan ng photos tungk kay PNoy ay pili na kasam lagi si Binay. Conrad de Quiros CDQ is always inserting Binay as alternative at para hindi halata suporta kuno kay Poe! Editorials sa Inquirer ay parang si CDQ ang style of writing at putting down Mar!
5. Kris and Sister’s endorsement of Binay was timely to discredit Mar and propped up Binay na “pwede naman daw ipagpatuloy yung Tuwid na Daan ni PNoy”. Not only the intelligent Filipinos but also the majority of saw that Kis is selling bullshit and justified it in a most bizarre way.
6. Erap kuno is planning to talk to Binay as a ploy that Binay’s adoption of LP has Legs. JV also floated that they are willing to accept the turncoats from LP.
All of these are planned and coached by great highly PR operators. Kung buhay si Dacer, his fingerprints will be all over these kind of stuff. The question is who is hiring the Great Magikero, Ronnie Puno?
The difference in these era is that the netizens have a platform to instantly convey their criticisms and analyses in the newspapers, fb, news netwotks websites, and blogsites similar to our forum. If we tally the comments in all the said websites, the majority of comments are against Binay and UNA. Plenty of commenters who usually disagree with each other find a common ground that indeed a Binay presidency will set us back to stone age! Wow, that was incredible! The feedback of netizens are forcing the PR operators to work doubletime to turn the tide, and that is not an easy task on how to repackage Binay as the rightful successor of PNoy to continue the Tuwid na Daan. The casting of a corrupt official does not fit the role, the PR operators must have something in their sleeve from Alien technology to be able to hypnotized and erased the memory of Taong Bayan of tarnished image in order to sell Binay.
My sources said that Kris and sisters forcing the issue of supporting Binay did in fact disturbing to PNoy. But as I said I have an unreliable sources, so I have to take it with a grain of salt.
But pretty sure, an overwhelming majority of netizens are showing disgust of Kris and sisters favoring Binay for president, and I am one of them!
Rene-Ipil says
Well said, Parekoy. What Kris did is expected of her. But for Balsy, I think it is out of her character. Maybe bunso asked her support and acceded just like Cory then even if Kris was on a rampage.
BTW my wife is now vehemently against Kris and Balsy for endorsing Binay. Before she was merely disappointed on the Aquino sisters for campaigning in favor of Binay. She said it might be because of the Korina factor. Well, women have more of intuitions than men I guess.
Parekoy says
PNoy should look no farther for his destabilizers, he just need to look around the table during family dinners!
Balikbayan says
Ronnie lives in Virginia but is home every few months as Consultant.
Parekoy says
I gather he is there. My cousin works in the defense industry in DC and told me he saw Ronnie in the area.
Parekoy says
My comment got lost?
Parekoy says
Kris timely endorsement of Binay was timely according to unfolding events:
1. Immediately after the SONA, PNoy reclaimed his lost mojo and the believers are back in the fold.
2. Binay, a very astute politician, knew how to turn a negative into an opportunity. He tried to sell himself as a supporter of PNoy sensing the turn of the tide. In cue, Toby Tianco praised PNoy. UNA are so disciplined when it comes to messaging. They know how to soften the blow of PNoy’s plea that the Taong Bayan should elect the candidate who will continue his gains in Daan Matuwid, which telegraphically meant Roxas.
3. The following day the higly paid PR operators of UNA immediately crafted a positive spin on the damaging remarks of PNoy to Binay. Praise PNoy, Binay has the chops as executive and a trusted Rambotito of Aquino Family.
4. The following days we can see that photos on different newspapers are almost statistically improbable that Binay is with the President. It conveys and laid out the trial balloon that Binay supports the President and maybe anointed. PR operators fingerprints are all over. If Dacer is alive, He will be one of the usual suspects.
5. Then came Kris endorsement of Binay. That was a tactical move and it has so many intent:
5.1 sense the feedback of Taong Bayan if amenable.
5.2 Deodorize Binay by halo effect courtesy of anecdotes during Cory’s time. Show the closeness between the Aquinos an Binays with matching “going to church with Abi” story plus Binay’s not utteringba single negative word against Cory.
5.3 Forcing a reaction from PNoy and LP to show their cards now. Anoint Mar now and cut him off from a very poweful and advantageous post as DILG secretary. Stepping down out of delicadeza will put some monkey wrench to Mar’s and LP’s inroads in LGU sector and the power of being seen distributing projects!
5.4 Sow intrigue in LP and put them in the defensive.
If you dona statistical analysis on the Feedback in the comment sections from PDI, Star, FB, TV websites, and blogsites, an overwhelming majority of netizens showed disgust on Kris’ Endorsement of Binay! Taong Bayan is greatly disturb the blatant act of betayal by PNoy’s own sisters in the cause of Daang Matuwid!
The writing on the wall is not good for Binay. He is very hard to sell because he is rotten. How can the PR operators sell him as the successor of PNoy and continue to carry the flame of Daang Matuwid? It defies logic and Filipinos lately become better at that. We know that with Binay’s presidency, Philippines will bebback to stone age!
baycas says
Ang “Balay sa Samar ay nasa iisang Palasyo” lamang.
Aquino sisters forced to good kay Binay. PNoy naman kay Roxas.
baycas says
Magkaiba ng fan base.
42% ni Binay versus 40% ni Roxas noong 2010.
Ngayong 2014…ano’ng sa palagay n’yo, mga mambababasa?
Maghihilahan pa lalo yan sa 2016.
baycas says
Oops…”mambabasa“…
Balikbayan says
Parekoy and CPM:
With the Pnoy sisters floating Binay, it is time to think outside the box.
Cory, Pnoy, … and in the U.S., Elizabeth Warren came out of nowhere to be U.S. Senator and now a possible U.S. Presidential candidate. What about focusing on the three tiger ladies and Congresswoman Lobredo. Do any of them look good if polled one-on-one against Binay?
Parekoy says
Unfortunately Lenny is not yet a presidential material. She is a senatorial timber first.
poe maybe a bit pilit but maybe a sure VP winner.
Currently, Mar is the most formidable candidate to beat Binay. He can’t declare his candidacy yet because if he did, then out of delicadeza he needs to resign as DILG secretary. He is actually consolidating his grassroots supports from LGUs that is why Binay operators are forcing the issue to PNoy to declare his anointed successor. If PNoy already anointed Roxas, Mar us forced to step down from a very tactical post for a presidential aspirant, the DILG, thereby undermining Mars continued stride in the LGU sector, thus favorable to Binay. If by grace of Satan, PNoy endorses Binay, then it is a sure win of Bibay and a sure loss to the Filipino people and future generations. The gambit only favors Binay, so the clever respinse is to ignore it, then plan for other countermoves!
So, for us netizens, we should read beyond what were offered by the established media, they know how to manipulate tpour response. That is their bread and butter, so buyers/readers beware!
I believe that the Filipinos have considerably improved in the gullibility area, so the field now in disinformation is now leveled.
Balikbayan says
Parekoy:
The problem is Mar doesn’t seem to poll well against Binay.
My reading of Mahar and Pepe (UP/Chicago boys) is that they did not found SWS and Pulse Asia solely for money. For the common good, they should do a survey different from, say: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/07/19/1347910/binay-tops-poll-presidential-bets-grace-2nd.
The survey should be one-on-one:
If the choice for President in 2016 is between Binay and Morales (replace with Pulido, Mendoza, Lobredo, or Mar? – I did not include Poe because she seems to be tied to the hip with Erap), who would you vote for?
The poll might yield some surprises.