Tag: Liberal Party

Is there really any point in holding a presidential debate in the Philippines?

September 21, 2015January 23, 2022 benign0 23 Comments

First of all, Filipino voters do not appreciate debates. They appreciate dance and singing numbers and seeing politicians mouth off the latest trending catchphrases. But when it comes to things that require thinking, guess what: Nosebleed! Indeed, if there is a national “debate” of consequence, it is happening only within a small clique of “politically…

Development, Politics, Society

So Where Is The ‘Straight Path’ Headed?

September 10, 2015 Grimwald 17 Comments

You can read the Tagalog version of this article here… Ladies and gentlemen, it is 2015. Just a few more months from now before 2016 comes along and we will be given the opportunity to select a new leader that can lead us to progress. The problem is, so far though, where have we gotten…

Crime, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society, The South

Unwinnable Mar Roxas dooms Liberal Party of the Philippines

August 20, 2015 benign0 15 Comments

It’s really pathetic the way presidential candidate Mar Roxas scrounges around for some sucker willing to run as Vice President with him under the Liberal Party (LP) banner. Indeed, it’s the height of pathos that he’d actually issue such a proposal to Senator Grace Poe, who currently tops popularity polls and will likely beat Roxas…

Politics

The winnable members of the Dead Relatives Society of Philippine politics

August 18, 2015 benign0 16 Comments

Today is the anniversary of the death of former Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash in 2012. Because he was seen to be a decent fellow, a lot of politicians and “activists” got on the bandwagon of hero worship, just short of turning him into a…

Culture, Politics, Society

Mar Roxas’ Funny Pre-Campaign Period Image Makeover

August 16, 2015August 29, 2015 FallenAngel 5 Comments

When Mar Roxas was officially endorsed by current Philippine president Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino as the standard bearer of the Liberal Party, no doubt that Mar and his staff recognized that he needed to polish his image if he were to stand a chance of winning the national elections in 2016. A political analyst at…

Government, Media, Politics

Roxas and Binay Offered Grace Poe the Vice Presidency, What They Did Next Will Make You Vomit

August 14, 2015August 14, 2015 P. Farol 37 Comments

If you really want to understand Philippine politics, you have to suck it up a bit and bravely see how things really work in this country — ugly and disturbing as most of it may seem. Every single political campaign manager that I have worked with over the years since 1991 has told me that winning…

Culture, Government, Politics

Enlivening democracy: Filipinos should demand public DEBATE from their politicians

August 7, 2015 benign0 19 Comments

As I write this, this campaign season’s second Republican Debate held in Cleveland, Ohio is in full swing in the United States. The Philippines may fancy itself a poster child of American-styled “democracy”. But when it comes to putting their politicians under the right sort of scrutiny, Filipinos are nowhere up to par with their…

Media, Politics

4 reasons why Mar Roxas will not win the 2016 Philippine presidential elections

August 3, 2015August 4, 2015 Ilda 421 Comments

Current Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mar Roxas is the Liberal Party’s official candidate for the 2016 Presidential Elections. That has always been the plan or promise made to Roxas by his party-mates so he would agree to step aside and postpone his own plans to run for the Presidency back in…

Crime, Politics