Waters under the bridge
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Governance, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
As early as June 26th, helicopters from the USS Ronald Reagan began delivering relief supplies to Iloilo and other areas hardest hit by Typhoon Frank . . . even before the aircraft carrier reached Philippine waters.
Bad idea, according to Sen. Pong Biazon who pointed out that a U.S. warship was not the proper response to […]
The road from Unity
Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Headliners | Leave a Comment
By most accounts, the first public appearance of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton together on the same stage after the bruising Democratic primaries was a day of unity, albeit heavily scripted, including the choice of the venue . . . a small town in New Hampshire called Unity. And everything unfolded in a way that […]
Read More..>>Barack makes history but Hillary resists being one
Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
Barack Obama has effectively become the first-ever African-American to be his party’s presidential standard bearer but what’s Hillary Rodham Clinton now up to?
Her odd metric . . . pointing out that she has garnered more popular votes than Obama . . . can’t possibly set aside the reality that Barack has gone over the […]
Great Scott! McClellan is no longer Pinocchio
Posted on May 30, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Governance | Leave a Comment
White House press secretaries can only be as candid as their prime sources of information that go into their regular press briefings. Unfortunately for Scott McClellan, George W. Bush and the US president’s senior advisers expected him take on the added burden of being the chief propagandist of a sub-surface agenda pertaining to the Middle […]
Read More..>>Jail time for Nani? Perez the thought.
Posted on May 24, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Governance | Leave a Comment
The alleged crime was committed just two days after Gloria M. Arroyo became president in the wake of Joseph Estrada’s ouster. However, for a special reason that has become an open secret, it has taken the Ombudsman all these years to charge Hernando ‘Nani’ Perez . . . Pres. Arroyos’s very first Justice secretary . […]
Read More..>>Watch this guy Rolex
Posted on May 18, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Governance | Leave a Comment
In the ZTE-NBN telenovela that’s poised to be launched its third season pretty soon, not too many may recall that it was Rolex Suplico . . . a former three-term congressman and currently the vice-gov of Iloilo . . . who went a step further than either Joey de Venecia or Jun Lozada: He took […]
Read More..>>Worst kiss scenario
Posted on March 24, 2008 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
Political strategist James Carville . . . along with George Stephanopoulos . . . are credited with the brilliant strategizing of Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign. But the outspoken Carville, who’s sometimes referred to as ‘The Crazy Cajun’, clearly miscalculated when he
Read More..>>What do you call female attack dogs?
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Governance | Leave a Comment
ABS-CBN News reports that a women’s group has filed charges of illegal procurement and nepotism against Senate star witness and former PhilForest boss Rodolfo Lozada Jr.
Babae Para sa Kaunlaran (BABAE KA) has accused Lozada of entering into several irregular transactions including
History repeats herself
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
Geraldine Ferraro could not have done worse damage to Hillary Clinton’s campaign when she declared on March 7th:
“I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,” she said. “For one […]