So You Get Elected…?
Soon the euphoria of victory is finally in its death throes. The surge of supporters claiming paternity to the poll success is now trickling in and may soon dry up. The hangover has taken over, and the adrenaline is no longer there. It is now getting down to serious business. Mayors and Governors are local...
The World According to Victor Wood
What purports to be the crème de la crème of Philippine media was there ready to clinically dissect the Senate pretenders. It was the much ballyhooed ISANG TANONG, a brainchild of GMA 7, one of the two highly successful private TV behemoths, the other being ABS-CBN. While it looks like a painful social corporate project...
No Finale From The Fat Lady
It has been 180 days ago since the road show began. And now after the day of vote casting, we begin the painful stage of counting. The wooing as journey was an event in itself, surpassing the destination of choosing. But in the counting we have the freebie of some catharsis. We root for some...
TO CHEAT IS PATRIOTIC
In all his auto bios, Diosdado Macapagal was portrayed as a statesman. No problem with that except that when he ran as president of the 1971 Constitutional Convention, he sought the push of the sitting President, Ferdinand Marcos. It was a fight between him and his 1961 routed political rival, Carlos P. Garcia. But Garcia...