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Sen. Chiz infuriates Marcos family

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By Raïssa Robles

USE THIS - 2016 Elections UPDATES June 8-15Only a block of cheese, er, Chiz stands between Sen. Bongbong Marcos Jr. and the vice-presidency.

Which is why, one political analyst told me, the Marcos family is infuriated at Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero.

Who is he anyway? Just the son of Salvador “Sonny” Escudero, a former alalay of their late patriarch, President Ferdinand Marcos.

And what’s the hurry? Sen. Chiz is only 46 years old, plus his term ends yet in 2019. While Sen. Bongbong is 58 and is “graduating” next year. Meaning, if he loses next year he will have to sit out at least three years to get back into another elective post.

The least that Sen. Chiz could do – to show some gratitude to the Marcos family – is to give way to Sen. Bongbong, and perhaps even endorse him. That way, Sen. Bongbong will have an easy shot at the vice-presidency. That’s what the Marcoses are trying to tell Sen. Chiz right now.

But Sen. Chiz is stubborn, at least for now. He is not dropping out. He has been topping all poll surveys for the vice-presidential race, with Sen. Bongbong now running a far second. In the 2010 presidential race, Sen. Chiz backed out at the last minute, joined the Aquino campaign. Yun pala, DPA for Mayor Jejomar Binay. LOL. Despite this, the LP still fielded Chiz as “guest candidate” for senator in 2013, along with Grace Poe.

You could say the LP created its own problems for 2016.

What’s the voter appeal of Sen. Chiz and Sen. Grace Poe? If you look at the video clips of their rally in Tawi-Tawi, they both look like kids waving to the crowd. And the voter profile is getting younger and younger.

How about Rep. Leni Robredo? How is she doing?

The analyst told me it may be “too late” for her to spurt to the head of the pack.

From what I have seen in previous elections, nothing is “too late” unless you think it.

My favorite analyst conceded so many unexpected things could still happen. “Mahabang sitcom ito.” he said.

Bring out the popcorn?

Comments

    • That is a good read.

      I recommend to CPM readers to click the link. Call it an introduction to politiks!

      IBRS,

      You are now improving on how to collect and present your thoughts for easier but enrichful read!

        • Digest: finally people will vote for the candidate who is at the stage they are themselves. Stage 7 is much better. It is logical and organized. I have seen it work over here. But of course it only works if the people implementing it have internalized Stages 6 and 7. Daang Matuwid had its difficulties in forcing Stage 6, sometimes using people who still were partly in Stage 5 or even below.

          Stage 1: bands, Stage 2: villages, Stage 3: warlords, Stage 4: God-Kings, Stage 5: rebels/prophets, Stage 6: moral lawmakers, Stage 7: secular lawmakers and organizers.

    • ireneo, darl, also beware of women with basin haircut like angela merkel. de lima nearly has the same basin haircut as angela.

    • good guy only, not best guy? weak naman, hindi superlative si bong. good guy. well, apo bangkay also used the world ‘good’ to describe bong marcos, may good muscle coordination daw. palanging good, never better is bong. and never will be best is bong.

    • Bongbong is a good guy to Duterte because Duterte was never tortured or killed during Martial Law. Neither did any KIN of Duterte.

      That’s WHY Bongbong is a good guy. Ask then Duterte if the Papa of Bongbong – Pres. Ferdinand M. Marcos was a good guy. If Duterte answers ‘He was also a GOOD GUY’. . . do not ask anymore Duterte.

      Step Away. Leave. You are talking to Dark Vader. . . deatherte!

      ha ha ha

  3. I just saw the surveys. I’ve said this before, Mar as a candidate needs a lot of convincing. My sister said that he lacks the appeal and that he just fades out in the scene. My family likes Pnoy but in this election, they are more on Grace Poe or Duterte. The two looks more decisive and strong compare to Mar Roxas. For them Mar is weak.

    If Pnoy will join Mar in the campaign maybe his name will go up again in the surveys. Maybe Leni Robredo will be known to the much wider public. It would be an added bonus if Kris joins the campaign. The way I see it in order for him to win, It’s either Mar makes himself more interesting or depend on the popularity of the Aquino family. Or maybe a miracle will happen.

    • Kung kulang sa dating si Mar. Hindi lang dapat si Mar ang ibenta sa mga botante. Ang ibenta ay ang pagpapatuloy ng mga reporma sa pamahalaan. Pagpapatuloy ng mga nasimulan na. Ang yugto ni Aquino ay pagkontrol sa korapsyon, ang yugto naman ni Mar ay ang pagsasaayos ng serbisyo publiko o pagsugpo ng kriminalidad. Ibenta si Mar at si Leni, katulong si Noynoy sa pagpatuloy ng mabuting pamamalakad para sa mas maunlad, mas maayos, at mas maginhawang Pilipinas.

      • It’s not too late yet for PNoy to boost the fading popularity of his anointed one – together with Mar, they can launch a serious & determined campaign to eradicate the menace of illegal drugs – the root cause of many evils that destroy mostly the future of young generation & family harmony.

        Abolish first the useless PDEA and create a fearsome Vice Squad composed of selected NBI agents & PNP Special Action Forces whose primordial aim is to catch, imprison and destroy the drug lords & their sophisticated drug laboratories scattered nationwide.

        Time is of the essence and immediate continuing action, with good results, will surely convince the public that Daang Matuwid is the better choice.

      • Si Mar Roxas ‘kulang sa dating’ pag ka politiko. Kasi hindi kawatan si Mar katulad ng mga karamihan na politiko.

        Si Mar Roxas hindi mahilig ngo-miti (smile) kasi wala siyang balak mag NAKAW katulad ng maraming politiko.

        Si Mar Roxas talaga mahirap IBENTA kasi klaseng QUALITY. Pag MURA NA QUALIDAD ang binibili, poor quality,madali KUMAWAT, madali ma KORUPT. When poor quality of politikos, MADALI KUMAWAT yan.

        Kay mag RORO Na! Six Years of NO STEALING.

        clap clap clap

    • If Mar lacks charisma, where in hell he can get it? If charisma is needed to win an election, then Mar is a goner.

      Unless we believe in the opposite. That charisma can be implanted and charisma is not the sole direction for election victory.

      • As of now, Mar has never advanced to his previous rankings at # 4, but always ahead of Mirriam.

        • when voting, I’ll follow my conscience, not surveys. I shall be an individual not beholden or slave to surveys, not swayed by what surveys say too.

          if all others vote for those that topped surveys, I’ll still follow my conscience and vote the candidates who I think best suited to govern the country. it’s mar and leni for me. and I’ll vote for risa honteviros too.

      • ‘Charisma’ MISLEAD voters. Many politikos have charisma but KAWATAN naman.

        When politicians ALWAYS smiles at you and everybody, WATCH YOUR SIX! He/She will be ready to STEAL you and your MONEY.

        Compare Mar Roxas to Duterte. The latter ALWAYS smiles. He talks touching his chin. Then hurls invectives words. He promises to kill (kuno) the criminals. He curses the KORUPTS. But Duterte will not do such things when he is President.

        Mar Roxas has nothing of that like Duterte. Because Mar is really the GOOD GUY. Duterte is the BAD one.

        Mar Roxas will not be a goner. If he does not win he is still Mar Roxas. Duterte is not be the good Duterte. He will be the dutirty for us to curse the dirty.

        Put Duterte like ‘he is one of the Cardinals.’ And elect Duterte to become the Pope. What do you think will happen at the VATICAN State? It will become BATUKAN State. The Cardinals will POISON him to deatherte.

        he!

    • Claire,

      Mar is not weak! He appears weak to a segment of a population especially the Masa, but he is actually the strongest candidate! We have a saying that,

      ‘Mas matakot ka sa taong walang imik kaysa sa taong maingay at mayabang!’

      If I am one of the Presidential Candidates, I will fear Roxas the most. He is the type that does not show his cards and keeps you guessing. But you know that you feel his power by feeling some anxiety that this guy is constricting you.

      Binay was the leading candidate before but where is he now? What happened to his JunJun? What happened to his popularity?

      Erap is feeling the heat too. Where is Jinggoy? What was the reply when Erap hinted that he is going to run for President if Poe s disqualified? When Poe was disqualified by the COMELEC, what happened to JV? JV was indicted!

      Poe was dancing with glee and we could always see her tonsils for she was not able to hide her excitement that she is the most popular among the candidates and thought that Escudero and her powerful allies could protect her from being disqualified through her two issues NBFC and Tend-Year Residency? Look how fast the mood of TEam Poe changed dramatically from jubiliation, confidence, and assuredness to disarray and panic when the verdict of her disqualification was handed by COMELEC!

      Duterte was so cocksure of himself! He was drunk by the outpour of support for his authoritarian proposition and selling himself that he is the toughest guy around and never backs down to anybody. After his meltdown and letting the public and his rabi supporters who he really is, a thug a killer, a manyakis, a warlord who only prey on petty criminals and the innocents, a fool who will blame the Pope for the traffic mess he was and as a cocksucker with the attitude of an uneducated drunk whose wealth is a bottomless pit of expletives, what is he now? Santo Rodrigo? He backs down and appears meek! The cocksucker who is so sure of himself backs down and apologizes with insincere apology and can’t help himself to declare that he does not want to be President anyway once he experienced the different hellfire he was in for the Presidential Contest is so different in his authoritarian grip of Davao City. Duterte is a bully and a thugh who could only put fear on the powerless, but in the national arena where the other candidates are more powerful than him he found out that he is not in their league, thus he is already announcing his way out by saying ‘I don’t want the presidency anyway!’. That is sourgraping and a sign of surrender for he felt the first blows and he is not used to be at the receiving end. He is no fool either in judging his enemies like the powerful drug lords and warlords he knew he can’t kill in Davao City so he compromised with them for peaceful existence! Duterte knows that the first salvo was the least painful blow what more in the coming days? Duterte’s balls just shrunk and if one his concubines tries to feel them, good luck if she finds them down there. I have a hint though, try looking inside his throat for his balls are now choking him for his fear of what is coming next for him!

      Now you tell me who should I fear if I am one of the presidential candidates?

      Parekoy
      12-09-2015

      • Mar is STRONG and not weak. Tama Parekoy.

        The strength of Mar is not like the false STRONG politicians. Many ‘strong politicians’ are actually WEAK. Not Mar Roxas.

        The weak politicians are STRONG to STEAL. Not Mar Roxas. He is ‘weak’ there to steal.

        Be very careful about strong and weak. Many speak false. Watch Your Six. Baka TERRORIST sa STEALING.

        he!

    • Mr Lima is showing us only the “List 2” results of the survey. How many lists are there? Where are the results of the other lists? If there were 10 lists (I only know for sure there is more than one), is List 2 the most favorable result for Duterte?

      http://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2016/115421-duterte-magic-vanishing-survey-tables

      Don’t believe the surveys that’s commissioned by parties affiliated with candidates. Read on if you must.

      Parekoy is correct, ‘Mas matakot ka sa taong walang imik kaysa sa taong maingay at mayabang!’

      • Si Duterte mayabang. Tama siya para sa Davao. Small area kasi. For NATIONAL, si Duterte ay LATA walang laman. Maingay. Kalug na kalug. Be careful with one who is NOISY.

        A cobra makes noise. A Mongoose does not make noise. Mongoose kills cobra.

        Select the MONGOOSE Mar Roxas.

        he!

    • kung mahina si mar, bakit lahat ng upak sa kanya? dapat wala nang bumabanat kay mar kung talagang kamote na siya sa 2016. hindi totoo yang assessment nila. roro pa rin!!

      • true, kung talagang mahina o napakahina si mar ay dapat itsapwera na siya sa surveys nuon pa. dapat palaging zero siya, hanggang sa nalaglag. go, ro-ro, go. keep going .

      • Si Mar Roxas is a ‘Four-wheel Drive 12 wheeler’ candidate. MALAKAS siya.

        Si Duterte is truly a 2-cylinder shaft drive. Good for Davao city lang. Pang KANTO-KANTO biyahe.

        Mar Roxas for LONG DISTANCE RIG siya. From Batanes to Tawi-Tawi. From Samar to Palawan.

        Healthy si Mar Roxas, mentally and physically. Si Duterte? Si Miriam? Si Poe? Si Binay? Itong APAT may mga grabing sakit yun.

        Piliin si Mar Roxas. Piliin si Leni Robredo. Mag RORO tayo. ROW THE BOAT!

        hala!

  4. Cocktails by BigCock tales!

    I made a glass of Martini and I was wondering what kind of Cock would our ‘Presidentiables’ would like to sip?

    Roxas -Sidecar (Fad Jack)

    Sidecar – An unlikely cousin to the Margarita, the Sidecar falls into the same Sour family as the tequila classic. In fact, once you know how to make a Margarita by heart, you pretty much know how to make a Sidecar: they’re basically the same drink. One uses tequila and lime, whereas the other calls for cognac and lemon, but the template is spirit, orange liqueur, and citrus.

    Binay – Negroni (Gihapon)

    Negroni – I don’t think I understand people who don’t love Negronis. The blend of bitter and sweet, the herbal complexity, the refreshing pleasure—you gotta be nuts not to like this. Like the Martini, the Negroni is a drink that’s open to tinkering. Start with the classic 1:1:1 ratio and go from there. It’s fun. Try blending vermouths, too. Right now, I like a Negroni that’s 2 parts gin, 1 part Campari, and 1/2 part each of Carpano Antica vermouth and Martini & Rossi.

    Duterte – Bloody Mary (Joseph and Jesus!)

    Bloody Mary – I’m breaking my highball rule here, but that’s okay because I don’t think of the Bloody Mary as a highball. Though nearly every cocktail manual I own lists it as such, I take a different view. A highball just means pouring a shot or so of booze and topping it off with a non-alcoholic mixer, usually from a gun or a bottle. Fine, you can make Bloody Marys that way if you’re lazy and buy a bottled mix. But a good Bloody Mary mix is prepared in-house or at home from high-quality tomato juice and whatever other juices and spices you like. For home drinking, I mix mine à la minute. I juice lemons; I dash in bitters. I go to at least as much work as I do when mixing a cocktail. So screw it, it’s a cocktail, not a highball.

    Santiago -Ramos Gin (Gen.) Fizz

    Ramos Gin Fizz – Break out your blender for this one. The Ramos Gin Fizz is a complex drink, of gin (naturally), lemon and lime juices, simple syrup, orange flower water, cream, an egg white, and (optionally) vanilla extract. Traditionally, it has the hell shaken out of it, first without ice, so that the ingredients emulsify, and then with ice, so it gets extremely cold and frothy.

    Poe – Last Word with a hint of Daiquiri (Day Kiri)

    Last Word – What a story this drink has! If this were a story about a forgotten boxer, rediscovered years later by a fight aficionado, Clint Eastwood would have already directed the film by now. The drink arose in Detroit during Prohibition, but fell into neglect for decades until rediscovered by Murray Stenson in Seattle. The Last Word is a complex, herbaceous drink, and like the French 75, it’s one that I think would make a gin lover out of almost anyone.

    Daiquiri – Here, with the daiquiri, you have what I call a perfect litmus-test cocktail. Whenever I get a new rum, I almost always want to try it two different ways—sipped with a little ice, and mixed into a daiquiri. I find that the lime and sugar in a daiquiri complement the rum and highlight its flavors. I learn more about a rum mixed into a daiquiri than I do by just sipping it on its own. The only exception, I find, are rich, funky rums, such as rums agricole. These tend to overpower the other ingredients.

    Eureka! This combination is such a great Foundling! To find the mystery of where this bold combination came from, one must nibble a piece of Chiz in every sip.
    **

    Mabuhay!, Cheers, Proost, Santé, Salute, Kanpai, Yum Seng!

    and don’t forget the Visayans,

    Chairs!,

    Parekoy
    12-09-2015

    Reference:
    25 Cocktails Everyone Should Know
    http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/05/25-essential-cocktails-everyone-should-know-cocktail-101-easy-mixed-drink-recipes-classic-cocktail-guide.html

    • I’ll have a mojito with pnoy, mar and leni any time. rum with sugar, mint leaves, bit of water and lime juice.

      • I dont want a drink with binay, greasy ang kamay nyan, does not wash after boodle feast. honasan’s face is immobile, no amount of alcohol can melt his facade. I think he is already pickled.

        miriam, I think I can outdrink this madrona. easy. and running mate niyang si bong bong, seems to me, he favors warm sake. may hapon connection.

        grace and chiz, no likem drinking with themsie. odd, kasi, they only have eyes for each other, he, he, he.

        • uhm, duterte could do with screwdriver, not because he has few screws loose in his head, but it’s healthier choice of drink, kung talagang may throat cancer siya. orange juice with vodka, that should ease him chewing. he seems to be always chewing these days, chewing like a randy goat.

      • @BFD, This development spells a lot of trouble for both Duterte and Poe. If the report is true, Poe now has 5 SC justices that would vote against her in her qualification cases both in SET and Comelec. Most likely, when the case against Duterte reaches the SC, there will be pressure to the 2 SC judges to inhibit. That’s 2 less votes in favor of him. The real battleground would be the SC. PNoy has an ace up his sleeve. He will choose the next SC Justice who will replace Justice Villarama. He must make sure that the next SC Justice he will choose will be against Duterte and Poe, and that he would be qualified to vote on the cases against Poe and Duterte. Fearless conclusions, 1) Poe is a goner 2) Duterte will run out of money in his cussing cookie jar. Puro mura aabutin ng SCsa kanya.

    • Nakakalungkot kung sakaling totoo ang balitang ito! Dalawang Hustisyang nabuwang sa may sintomas ng mababang moral at walang hustisya may pagka kriminal?

      • Mukha kasing being frat brothers is more important to them than being discreet about it.

        Pero ibig sabihin nito me tulog is Duterte na maDQ kasi nga pagkamayor ng Pasay yung sinabi ng Dino….

        Kaya siguro sinubukan ng mga ka-brod ni Duterte na suyuin si Seneres na magwithdraw para si Duterte ang pumalit….

        • I once bought a scalped ticket in the internet for a much higher price, the ticket being much sought after, and one of the few still remaining. roy seneres can do the same: sell his coc to duterte for a hefty price of 5million. dont just give it, sell it. for sure cash loaded drug lords would pay and buy the spot for duterte. if duterte wins the presidency, they’ll have the run of the country, money well spent.

        • I think 5million is good price. imagine being in the seat of power for 6yrs, the perks and benefits of the job is to die for, the influences is 2nd to none, and being authority and having final say of almost everything is rib ticking better than cult programming. sell it for 5million, roy seneres, thank you is not good enough. go for the money, signed and sealed with handshake, he, he, he.

  6. My personal theory of the evolution of human order from savagery…

    Stage 1) Warlords: Nebuchadnezar, Ampatuan

    Stage 2) God-Kings: Pharaoh, Duterte

    Stage 3) Prophets: Moses, Dagohoy

    Stage 4) Morals: Bible, Mabini

    Stage 5) Laws: Justinian, Quezon

    When the Spanish discovered the Philippines, it was mainly at Stage 1). They imposed Stage 4) via Catholicism, but the roots were not deep. When the Americans took over, they imposed Stage 5) with democracy. The roots were not deep either – in practice it remained at Stage 1) with warlord politicians.

    Among some Germans too the roots of Jewish-Christian morals and Roman laws were not deep. Adolf Hitler became a God-King to many when the crisis washed away the thin legal/moral topsoil.

  7. Hit Jobs!?

    What is a hit job? In mob parlance it means you are going to swim with the fishes. In the Philippine setting it is scaled down to economics of hiring a cheaper Riding-in-Tandem to do the job you can’t do personally.

    What about hit jobs of political kind?

    Oh there are plenty and it is sophisticated and ultra-expensive than the hit jobs fulfilled by the new industry of Riding-in-Tandem.
    It is best to show the actual examples:
    1. Hit job on Roxas – It was quite obvious that Roxas will be the anointed of Aquino in 2016 eventhough he was robbed by his Vice Presidency through betrayal by Chiz and Aquino’s Sisters and Clan through the covert Noy-Bi plot. So Binay is wary because it is harder to fool twice somebody like Roxas. Biny is no fool and did not survive this long if he can’t foresee the great possibility of their rematch in 2016. So a hit job on Roxas shall be done. This is sophisticated in the sense that it started the first day Binay sat in his VP office in 2010. Binay funded the smear and the sustained tactics of exploiting every gaffe that Roxas makes and a deliberate reduction of Roxas achievements. Binay also uses his undercover agents and collaborators in LP, through the Samar Faction of Ochoa, Belmonte and Coloma. Then the saying that the Enemy of my friend is my friend rings so true in Philippine politics. Yolanda tragedy struck. The Romualdezes are the true culprit in why there was massive casualties in Bacolod because of their plain stupidity not to evacuate their constituents and even held fort in their beach house which resulted in their near death experience! But having the blood of the Romualdezes and the experience of the Marcoses in the art of denial and blaming others for the tragedy except themselves, the ire was successfully transferred to Roxas and Aquino who were trying their best to do the herculean job to rescue and clean-up the mess worse than the American Katrina! Then when was obvious that Binay is not going to get anointed by Aquino, the demolition on Roxas became more intense, though well veiled from the public. Roxas is harder to pin down on corruption so his opponents exploited his Achilles heel: Korina! The demonization of Korina was intense and the gaffes of Korina during her unpleasant exchange with CNN’s Anderson Cooper just help the hit job did some nasty blows! Then there was, is , and will be manufactured surveys that supports the narrative that Roxas is Kulelat and push down his numbers to unbelievable lows as if Roxas is the most corrupt among the wannabes! The commissioned manufactured political surveys sustained the hit job on Roxas and boy they are effective! Roxas does not help himself either by being compose for visual inactivity is misjudged by the masa of being weak, though those in the know are aware that this tactic is equally effective for Roxas keeps his opponents guessing while Roxas camp is also retaliating with different kind of hit jobs, the lethal kind: the legal kind!

    2. Hit job on Binay – being upfront and not being coy on his intentions to be the next president of our republic, Binay invited challengers, and in the Philippines there are dime in a dozen! Cayetano and Trillanes fired the first salvos and after the falling out between Pimentel and Binay, the attack on Binay was more intense. This is valid hit job and the evidence overwhelming that it is harder to extricate from. Early on I already hinted that Binay will be done for his case is a textbook case of ill-gotten wealth and without any businesses or other source of income he could show to support his accumulated wealth then it is just a matter of time that the skeletons would be dug out! So Binay with his lead in conscripting supports through his Sister City scheme and because of overconfidence and underestimating his opponents, Binay did not see it coming. He peaked too early and the NP, NPC, PDP, and LP formed an alliance to topple the bastard! The Senate investigations zeroing on Binay and with AMLC evidence sealed the fate of Binay and the legal weapon will make sure that he would be disqualified or at the very least could not govern!

    3. Hit job on Poe – It is no doubt that if the elections are held today, Poe will be the runaway winner! Poe was wooed by LP as well as every major political party to join them. In Lp she will have a better chance of winning the VP and hurdle her NBFC and residency issues. But she did not read her bible and the obvious dangling of the forbidden fruit was dangled by the snake Escudero. The temptation was so strong and she was salivating tasting the fruit that promises enormous power which any mortal is powerless to decline! She ate the fruit, but there is a twist, Escudero poisoned it and only Escudero has the antidote for he has his own evil schemes…Naturally, Poe unwittingly entering the snakepit did not anticipate the many fangs waiting to take a bite at her. There is even a python named Mar who does not show any fangs but just waiting to gobble the snakes for his meals! The hit job on Poe is legal. It is sophisticated for it involves a lot of parties including the participation of Escudero in the betrayal. Who do you think is the perfect traitor? If you say Chiz then I will take a phot of you for you have the perfect smile eventhough a front tooth is missing! SET giveth while the COMELEC taketh! SC will legally nailed the coffin of Poe’s ambition!

    4. Hit job on Duterte – this is one of the two easiest hit jobs ever to be executed on a political opponent in the history of Philippine politics. Duterte is literally shooting his own foot with his cocksucker mouth! Doing a hit job on Duterte is ironically sweet for giving somebody his own medicine oops his own poison is a justified killing!

    5. Hit job on Santiago – The easiest so far. Just give her a rope or a knife and she will do the job herself. But in the spirit of Christmas it is best to give her a Nut Cracker as a present and let herself indulge in finding ways to do the Nut Job!

    Parekoy
    12-08-2015

    • Politics is something that happens everywhere… but I hope some do think of the country ALSO.

      Seems the problem of many Filipino groups is “KAMI” thinking. Some in the Liberal Party are about “basta kami manalo”, even if I think the majority is not, most Binay supporters are about “basta kami busog”, many Duterte supporters are about “Basta kami buhay kriminal patay”, the others I don’t really know. But how many are really thinking of “TAYO” meaning the Philippines and all Filipinos? Maybe more than some years ago, but are they going to be enough to make a better country? What do you think?

      • I would say that LP’s way of doing a hit job elevates our politics a notch higher. Legal hit job is the mark that our politics is trying to mature similar to the First World Nations.

        Of course there will be smear similar to Super PAC funded hit jobs, but legal ones are the trademark of the civilized world, and case in point is the Bush vs Gore that US Supreme Court resolved the dispute surrounding the presidential election of 2000.

        Legal hit job is not based on emotions and if there is a probable cause then it is just fair and square to resolve the issue and let the electorate be aware of the legal issues confronting the wannabe public servants!

        Smear and propaganda is a kind of hit job that is not resolved for the intent is not to resolve any issues but to inject doubt on the minds of electorate. One hit job though that is equally effective over the legal ones but restrain our maturity in dealing with elections and governance is the Hate Job!

    • Finally, we ain’t nothing but mammals… Neolithic biology with some civilized programming.

      So if Mar Roxas goes by the laws, fine… because the hit job Angela Merkel executed on her own President Christian Wulff was legal also… his departure ceremony disturbed by vuvuzelas hehe…

      Merkel has eliminated all men who were in her way or were part of the Andes pact allegedly formed to prevent her from coming into power… she rules the country alone, but she does it well mostly. Probably because like you said once patriotism is something very ingrained over here… unlike in the Philippines.

  8. Dachau was originally opened for criminals and misfits in the early 1930s. Most neighbors complained about the stench, and stopped complaining when it was dealt with… For decades women went to Munich to give birth.. for the child not to have Dachau as birthplace.

    I live in Munich and made this poem just a short while ago:

    Shall I dare to open my mouth,
    To speak of cities in the South?
    For I have never been to Dachau,
    nor have I ever went to Davao

    Dachau for me is very near,
    yet still it holds for me great fear,
    to board the S2 suburban train,
    so will it be Davao in the rain?

    Shall I go face the DDS
    Who remind me of the SS
    Now that my name is openly known
    and I may reap what I have sown?

    • Christmas is near… and I remember a Christmas song… and how some of us Martial Law kids made it into a macabre rendering… maybe our way of dealing with what we did not know back then,… but felt somehow because the smell of fear was always there:

      Original:
      Tayo na giliw magsalo na tayo
      meron na tayong tinapay at keso
      Di ba Noche Buena sa gabing ito
      at bukas ay araw ng Pasko…

      Rendering:
      Tayo na giliw magpatayan tayo
      meron na tayong kutsilyo at bolo
      Di ba katayan na sa gabing ito
      at bukas ay araw ng Patay!

        • Hunger Games is enough for me… last episode was partly filmed in East Berlin.

          Hehe balita ko noong pagpunta ko sa Berlin para manood ng Heneral Luna doon, iyong anak ng Ambassador noon – two years ago – gustong mag-extra sa Hunger Games pero nahuli sa pila.

        • if son of ambassador is really interested in being in the movies, get speaking parts and be paid for it, he ought to prepare a resume enumerating his talents such as able to drive a truck, ride a horse, do martial arts, a stint in acting school, etc, and hire himself a talent agent. agents speak to casting mob, put forward their client’s resume and negotiate fair pay. good luck next time.

  10. MAR AT CROSSROADS

    It may be time for Mar to start thinking of a kind of “Exit Strategy” – how to escape the suffocating embrace of his patron PNoy – if he still hopes to have a fighting chance in the 2016 elections.

    Putting it another way, Mar may want to break away or at least keep his distance – and finally be his own man, if he could work himself to doing that.

    The worst fears of Mar and his handlers seem to have been validated by the latest SWS survey indicating that most Filipinos will not vote for a candidate who is merely riding on the endorsement of PNoy.

    Nationwide, the President got a net score of minus-6 percent on the effect of his endorsement. In the NCR, the negative impact of his endorsing Mar was a staggering minus-26 percent. It was minus-10 in the rest of Luzon.

    Daang Matuwid – that tired slogan has started to sound hallow to people in search of deliverance from crime, corruption and poverty.

    Excerpts from http://bit.ly/10e5WLT

      • appears to me there are people trying to draw a wedge between pnoy and mar roxas, wanting to make them go against each other, creating a split. I dont think that will happen. pnoy will always be supportive of mar, and mar will not bite the hand that helped him. and no matter what others say, mar is not ingrate nor is he burner of bridges. together, pnoy and mar makes for a stronger liberal party. together, united, will never be defeated.

        I’m not tired of daang matuwid, we have just started. not there yet, but getting there. mabuhay ang daang matuwid!

        • when mar wins the presidency, he’ll shake hands with pnoy and say, thanks for your help. I’ll take it from now. then, the president will step down. but not before, not when mar needs him the most, not before election day on may 2016. then, after election day at the polling booth, they’ll stand together, pnoy, mar and leni, watching the numbers roll in. mar and leni getting the most votes, pnoy smiling. daang matuwid is safely delivered. and their supporters are happy as do the rest of the people.

    • COPY AND PASTE FROM http://www.tradingeconomics.com/philippines/corruption-index

      Philippines now at highest of 38 points in 2014 from lowest of 23 points in 2003 (Source: Transparency International)

      The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

      That’s going to DAANG MATUWID.

    • Ang pagtalikod sa Daang Matuwid ay pag-amin na mali ang mga ginawa ng Aquino administration sa loob ng halos 6 na taon nitong panunungkulan. Mali nga ba? Kung mali ito, bakit ipinipilit ni Mrs. Grace Llamanzares na Daang Matuwid rin ang gagawin niya? Ito lang yata ang administrasyon na kung kalian naganap ang patuloy na pag-angat ng ekonomiya ng Pilipinas. Ngayon rin lang yata sa kasaysayan na may nakulong na Senador. Hindi lang isa, tatlo pa. Bukod sa isang Chief Justice na napatalsik sa puwesto.

      Masigla ang ekonomiya. Kabi-kabila ang ginagawang mga kalsada. Hindi nga lang talaga kasya dahil sa patuloy na pagbili ng mga bagong sasakyan. Sa kabila ng mga ito, malaking bahagi ng mamamayan ang nagrereklamo sa pamahalaan.

      Ang sabi ng iba, upang manalo sa halalan, kailangan may magandang kuwento. Ang Star Wars ni George Lucas maganda ang kuwento. Nasundan ito ng Empire Strikes Back at Return of the Jedi. Lahat kumita sa takilya pero iisa lang ang kuwento. Ang ibig ko lang sabihin, walang masama sa kuwento ng Daang Matuwid. Ang kailangan lamang ay epektibong paglalahad sa mga botante kung paano maipagpapatuloy ito.

  11. Home Sweet Home

     Roxas – Old Spanish Villa

    Binay – World Class Hacienda

    Santiago – Cuckoo’s Nest

    Poe– American Mac Mansion

    Duterte – Cemetery

    ♫ Alabama ♩♬

    Parekoy
    12-08-2015

    • JoeAm – Log Cabin
      Ancient Mariner – Cave dwelling
      Bong Bong Marcos – Ghost House
      Parekoy – Guess House
      Grace Poe – House of Cards
      Roxas – House of Parliament
      Santiago – Nut House
      Dugong – Guard House
      Binay – Glass House

    • Raissa – White House
      Rene Ipil – Tree House
      Parekoy – Publishing House
      Mar Roxas – House of the Rising Sun
      Victinluz – House Fly

    • Ireneo – School House

      Forgive this nonsense, I am sitting in Starbucks whiling away time waiting and waiting whilst my wife empties the Hypermarket. What else can I do?

  12. THIS SAYS IT ALL.

    The title of a commemorative book by the Inquirer:-

    “The Inquirer Story: Thirty Years of Shaping History”.

  13. I have provided a list of contributors to Bongbong Marcos in response to @sup #45 but it is under moderation.

    I’m also trying to find a common thread between Bong Marcos, Grace Poe Llamanzares, and the Escalers who are very generous political contributors.

      • Thanks @sup.

        We now have a clearer picture of who are buying political access, and who are accepting tainted political contributions.

        Michael De Leon Escaler contributed P10,000,000 to the senate campaign of Grace Poe Llamanzares. What does he expect to get from GPL in return for the P10,000,000?

    • I am an advocate of disclosing and exposing the political contributors of the Presidential and vP candidates as well as other positions, but zeroing on Poe and Bongbong leaves a bitter aftertaste.

      We should not be viewed as sanctimonious on this issue. Roxas, Binay, Santiago, Duterte, and Poe have big campaign contributors and most of them are expecting in some form or another be compensated in thier ‘investments’.

      Our exposes are hollow if it is done with the intent disparaging other candidates and except your choice!

      • For once I agree with you whole heartedly. Let’s not leave ourselves open to accusations of hypocracy. When I say that I am referring to the future not the now.

        • Having said that I think Poe is fair game. Running as an Independent with no party support she needs to be lily white.

        • @Ancient Mariner

          Exactly the reason why I commented to GPL political contributors. Unlike other aspirants, GPL is packaging herself as an independent candidate but that is clearly a political smoke screen because her campaign has been bankrolled by powerful and influential oligarchs.

          To me it looks even more dangerous because there will be no peer checking to set boundaries on what she may decide to do, or not to do, in terms of political accommodations to her benefactors.

      • Partly agree Parekoy..with that amounts coming from business people you can not call it running independent anymore for sure they want something big back after 2016…..Comelec should make a rule that all Filipino’s can run as long as they have a good plan etc…not only the ones who can generate a lot of money,…You should look closer to France, Germany, Netherlands..no big donations involved so no payback time…less corruption…..

        http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/why-germany-s-politics-are-much-saner-cheaper-and-nicer-than-ours/280081/

        So……………………. 2022 Parekoy for president…

        :-)

  14. Walter Mart said in an article written by Walden Bello:

    “This should be the kind of comments that is worth reading. There is objectivity and wisdom.”

    http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/115188-blindsided-duterte-elections

    In my school days the books and articles written by Walden were worthy references listed in the modules.

    I hope that commenters in CPM and Joeam’s blog could emulate Walden’s objectivity and wisdom in regard to the Duterte phenomenon.

    • If the surveys are manipulative, they deserve to be questioned. Otherwise, I agree with what the Good Leftist (I mean that legitimately; I admire the guy) is saying, and such conversations are ongoing right now, and will be for the better part of this week. But there is also a reality, there are people in the comment threads who are pushing (Duterte) agenda. It cannot be a pure academic discussion if there are game-players there.

      • “If the surveys are manipulative,”

        By all means the “manipulative” surveys must be exposed and condemned. That is if you mean a farce or rigged survey. But if the survey is merely suspected as such, its proponents must be questioned by their peers along with the public.

        To my understanding, in scientific social and political surveys, the variables are really manipulated to achieve the desired results. Meaning that for presidentiables for example the respondents must be guided to select from a list of probable or actual candidates as a variable. Another variable concerns registered voters only as respondents. Nationwide or regional. Certain economic class or all classes. Etc.

        So, you are talking of a farce or rigged survey. And it appears that you have assumed that the subject Duterte survey is “manipulative” or a farce or is rigged. This is before questioning the survey – methodology and reputation of proponents, among other aspects. Meaning that you merely assumed a fact – that the survey is “manipulative” – although the inquiry has not started yet.

        Discussion on the issue is the essence of democracy. But We must shoot the message instead of the messenger.

        • With all due respect to NHerrera and the numbers whiz kids I just cannot get my logical head round the theory that 1,200 randomly selected voters can ever be representative of the hugely diversified population of the Philippines. There is no logic in it at all only weasel words.

        • Ancient Mariner,

          No “due respect” statement is needed to be made. And I am no whiz kid.

          This I can say: if the science of probability and statistical assessment is done properly and proven to be hogwash, it would not have survived. But that is just me — a firm believer in probability and statistical assessment DONE PROPERLY. This is not a defense of SWS and PA. If they Hocus-Pocus, it is not for me to say. And I have no basis for saying that — except that in the last privately commissioned SWS survey, List 1 survey was not allowed to be published by the Davao-businessman who commissioned the survey while the List 2 survey, with Duterte’s name prominently mentioned in the question to the respondents was allowed to be published by SWS.

        • Academic research is striving for knowledge. Corporate or government research (which may include such topics as trust ratings) is striving for information useful for decisions. Privately sponsored research with only partial results released and a clearly biased method of posing the question is manipulative. It is striving to brainwash and trick, not gain knowledge or information. To accept it is negligent. We should shoot the messenger if he is proposing to be our leader.

          Note to AM, it is all statistical. Like the odds that if you have 22 people in a room, it is likely that two people will have the same birthday. It boggles the mind, but it is mathematically correct.

        • Forget statistics unless they are demonstrated in front of your eyes to be correct. Until then let the ludicrousness of the situation guide you.
          With all due respect, for me it is all hogwash and put one finger up the populations nose and pull them in todays chosen direction.
          What does your logic tell you?

        • Christmas Time is Coming Soon!

          by George H. Gallup Jr.
          Chairman, The George H. Gallup International Institute

          ‘Eight in 10 Americans have consistently held the belief that Jesus Christ is God or the Son of God’

          ‘In response to a 1993 survey**, 84% of Americans said they believe Jesus Christ is God or the Son of God, but only 46% of the British did so.

          How about 200 Filipino respondents – “Who do you say that I am?”

          By Viva Voce? – 150 for Jesus. 49 against Jesus.

          And 1 says: ‘P$#^%$ ina mo! Umalis ka na! Limang oras na ako dito sa traffic!’

          just kidding. . .

          Read William S. Esposo As I Wreck This Chair. He says:

          ‘Pulse Asia and the SWS provide us a basis for checking if clean elections had been conducted. The Pulse Asia and SWS surveys may not qualify as evidence to prove election cheating but their track record of accuracy gives us a starting point for questioning the results and conducting an investigation.’

          Mr. Esposo ‘wrecks’ it like this:

          ‘If Judea Governor Pontius Pilate had conducted a scientific survey like those done by Pulse Asia (and SWS), then the New Testament might have been written differently. The viva voce type of selection that Pilate conducted, when the crowd was made to choose between Christ and the criminal Barabbas, wasn’t based on a truly representative sample that reflected the cross section of Jerusalem folks. The Pharisees, Christ’s biggest enemies, fielded a “hakot” (planted partisans) crowd that was complemented by the followers of Barabbas.’

          He continues to ‘wreck’ it –

          ‘The Jerusalem mob was like a sample of 80 percent communists and 20 percent pro-democracy Filipinos. Given a choice between communism and democracy, the communists would naturally drown out the pro-democracy folks. However, as we know from experience, we Filipinos aren’t disposed to accepting communism. Our disdain for communism was so intense that Dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos thought he could win in the February 1986 Snap Presidential Election by tagging Cory Aquino a communist. Few ever believed Marcos that Cory was a communist.’

          And he wrecks it finally – ‘The crucifixion was an all-Pharisees show.’

          See William’s Link below

        • “We should shoot the messenger if he is proposing to be our leader.”

          I was referring to us – commenters – as messenger and discussant. I think the candidates as messenger are fair game.

          I also think that two surveys were conducted by SWS at the same period. That the first survey was not released is the prerogative of the paying sponsor. So the issue must concern whether the second survey was rigged or not.

          I believe that all cards were laid on the table as far as the second survey is concerned. The question is not biased as you suggested. The respondents were properly informed that Duterte was merely a substitute candidate. That he is now included in the list as such. Needless to say the said list includes all the candidates from which list the respondents could choose one.

          Did the warning or instruction beforehand to the respondent give undue advantage to Duterte? To me it was even disadvantageous to Duterte because it implies that he is not a serious candidate – an “urong-sulong” contender.

          Indeed, 62% of the most literate and sophisticated among the respondents – the ABC class – chose Duterte resoundingly. And you imply that the ABC class was hoodwinked by the survey. Not by any stretch of imagination.

          The respondents were asked:

          “Ibang listahan naman po ang gamitin natin. Kasama dito si Rodrigo Duterte bilang isang substitute candidate sa Presidente. Sa mga sumusunod na pangalan sa listahang ito, sino po ang malamang ninyong iboboto bilang PRESIDENTE NG PILIPINAS, kung ang eleksyon ay gaganapin ngayon?”

    • @Rene Ipil,

      I agree with Walden on his observations of Duterte’s popularity is borne out of desperation and mistrust among the failures of our past presidents!

      For them, it seems that all avenues had been exhausted and the allure of Digong’s authoritarianism is so irresistable.

      Unfortunately most of Duterte’s supporters lack the mental and social temper that are strongly required to reach into the best thought out solution for our sick nation; their emotional temper trumps those two traits.  Duterte’s supporters don’t realized that they are siding against their very interests they wanted to protect and bettered. Unfortunately, their emotions cloud their judgment.

      Though it is noble in the part of Bello to convince us that discussion in a respectable manner and argue with them through reason are the best ways to turn them from their unfortunate ignorance by wrongfully entrusting their faith and our fate as a nation, I violently disagree with his prescribed approach!

       Majority of Duterte’s supporters don’t understand finesse nor civilized exchange of ideas. They have almost made up their mind and no niceties will ever save them from their false belief with cult like passion, that Duterte is the messiah! I strongly advocate shock therapy, if you want want to get their attention and have an iota of chance that they listen to you and knock them out of their trance and hypnotic state.  More precisely a shock therapy through language they are quite atuned to: Expletives and invectives, insult and outright condemnation,  obluquy and vituperation, and add some flavor to your language by lacing it with an unwanted gift of expectorating personal liquid vile and phlegm!

      Given my reputation here in CPM of using language of colour, I hope that you heed my prescription.

      Thus when dealing with Duterte’s rabid supporters, I strongly suggest if you want them to understand you,  speak their language! Give them their deserved courtesy by following an old saying, When in Rome, do as the Romans do!

      Parekoy
      12-08-2015

      PS

      @Rene Ipil,

      I am unsure if you are one of those Duterte Groupies that are not beyond salvation, that is why I engage you in a language you prefer with  my veiled insult under the shroud of smug politeness…

    • LOL! CPM have better and more reliable sources than the traditional mass media.

      OK, here are the biggest monetary contributors to Bongbong Marcos. I’m only showing those who contributed one million pesos, or more:

      Ernest L. Escaler, P20,000,000
      Jose C. Singson, Jr., P20,000,000
      Eduardo L. Alino, P10,000,000
      Susana Fong, P10,000,000
      Ernesto Villacencio, P4,500,000
      Jorge Manuel B. Yulo, P3,000,000
      Jude Cimafranca, P3,000,000
      David Brian Lu, P2,5000,000
      Ericson Sy Uy, P2,500,000
      Alan Noval, P2,000,000
      Eligio T. Sy, P2,000,000
      Joseph C. Tan, P2,000,000
      Manuel M. Lazaro, P2,000,000
      Stanley Sy Chona, P1,500,000
      Edward S. Serapio, P1,000,000
      Mercedes P. Quezon, P1,000,000

      Incidentally, a Micheal Escaler is a P10,000,000 contributor to Grace Poe Llamanzares. I’m trying to find out if there is a common thread between the Escalers and Bongbong Marcos & Grace Poe Llamanzares.