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The Opposition appears egregiously divided among the ideological purists and the political pragmatists. Amang Rodriguez said politics is addition. How can the opposition win if they do not know how to add? John Nery’s column today, “Warning: Lacson”, comes on the heels of the latest public relations fiasco of Vice-President Leni Robredo which she herself…
The true state of the Opposition is laid out today by former Ambassador Bobi Tiglao in his Manila Times piece “Philippine democracy is in trouble”. Tiglao writes about how today’s Opposition is “the most feeble, most stupid opposition ever in our history”. Among other aspects of the problem with the “opposition”, his indictment of the…
I fail to see what PhilSTAR columnist Boo Chanco is talking about referring to widespread poverty and hunger as claimed in the surveys in his piece “COVID as 2022 kingmaker?”. The number of the homeless living on the streets isn’t out of the ordinary. They may be homeless but they don’t look like they’re on…
To first give a bit of credit, blogger Katrina Stuart Santiago wields a pretty good portfolio of blog posts that lay out an intelligent critique of the state of the Philippine Opposition these days. In her particularly-cluey piece posted in March this year, she admits that, in this Game of Thrones that is Philippine politics,…
The public intellectuals who form part of the Opposition’s think-tank groups are so out of touch with reality. Even they aren’t aware of such a reality as evidenced by Inquirer columnist John Nery’s piece today “Warning: Trillanes”. Nery laments the “hysterical activism” of former Senator Antonio Trillanes that, he writes, is “undermining” both the leadership…
Would it serve the interest of the Opposition if there are candidates other than the tandem of Senators Ping Lacson and Tito Sotto running for President and Vice-President respectively? In my opinion, the windows of opportunity for Manila Mayor Isko Moreno and Senator Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao have been shut. This is per the latest Pahayag…
Mang Ding still has his political crystal ball from his days at the Daily Express. In his PhilSTAR piece today “Marcos-Duterte duo looms large in 2022”, veteran journalist Federico Pascual writes of his profound fear that “a strategic link-up of the Marcos and the Duterte dynasties would be so overwhelming that only divine intervention could…
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Early this year, I was one of the first to float the idea of a Duterte-Duterte tandem in the 2022 elections, with Davao City Mayor Sara “Inday Sara” Duterte-Carpio as candidate for president and her father, incumbent President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte, as candidate for vice president. My reason for doing so is for continuity in…