The heat is up

If you are the owner of a company and you have some of your men applying for the post of COO, who would you choose if you had the following options?

1. One who has been rumored to be a psychotic, has not done well in his years in the company, and looks like an idiot by the way he stands and walks? or
2. One who has been accused a lot of times of using company funds for his own account, pretends to be poor to be pitied, and uses his mother to save his own ass? or
3. One who just came out from jail?

The top candidates for the presidency don’t seem to be presidential at all? I really don’t get it why Filipinos still eat these guys’ crap. When we offer jobs, even just a janitorial job, we screen the applicants and make sure they at least have some qualifications for the job. And that is just a janitorial position. How come the presidency seems to have lost any semblance of significance that the guys who we put there can just apply without possessing any attribute of being a worthy president?

The problem is not really with the candidates. The problem is the voting public. Sad to admit, but it is not only the candidates who are stupid. The voters are.

Politics amidst the massacre

The Maguindanao massacre has left us all in shock, anger and frustration over the political system in our country. This is an early wake up call for all of us to be more vigilant as the May 2010 elections come near.

The entire nation challenged the presidency to do something about the possible involvement of her biggest ally down South - the Ampatuans. The government was dared to make arrests among the possibly involved members of the clan. There was also the clamor to expel the Ampatuans out of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD, the administration party.

Yesterday, Gibo Teodoro met up with his teammates in Lakas and the party has finally decided to indeed expel the three - Andal Sr., Andal Jr., and Zaldy. To me this is not only an act of personal outrage. It is more of an act of being decisive at the fastest time possible considering the circumstances of the case. Gibo decided that he and his partymates expel the Ampatuans for failure to uphold party principles and objectives. To me this is the wisest thing for him to do. Thumbs up for Mr. Teodoro.

The President vowed to get to the bottom of this incident and to let justice prevail. Politics is only secondary now because the journalists, lawyers, innocent passers-by and relatives deserve to get all the justice in the world. Indeed no stones are to be left unturned. No one is untouchable in the eyes of the law.

The recent news of Andal Jr.'s arrest is another big step. Hopefully in the coming days, all the 100 gunmen be apprehended as well.

Gibo at Edu

Finally, may ka-tandem na si Gibo! Walang iba kundi si Mr. Edu Manzano. Yes, si Edu na host ng Game Ka Na Ba? Si Edu na ex ni Vilma Santos. Si Edu na tatay ni Luis Manzano.

Matapos ang matagal na paghahanap at pamimili sa mga nasa Lakas-Kampi-CMD ay napagdesisyunan ng partido na i-anunsyo na si Edu Manzano nga ang Vice Presidential bet ng administrasyon. Matatandaan na ang unang napili ay si Sec. Ronaldo Puno ng DILG. Subalit kamakailan lang ay inanunsyo rin nito na hindi na niya itutuloy ang pagkandidato.

Si Edu Manzano ay kagalang-galang na personalidad. Naiiba siya sa karamihan ng nasa showbiz industry dahil makikitaan siya ng mahuhusay na kapasidad ng isang public servant. Ito ay isang hindi pangkarinawang katangian sa ating mga artista.

Goodluck na lang sa lahat ng mga tatakbo.

Gibo ratings finally up

In what is likely to be called the biggest development for Gibo since the announcement of his being the administration party's standard bearer, his ratings have improved and his rank significantly went up in the survey results from the Issues and Advocacy Center (The Center), in its last quarterly Pulso ng Bayan survey from Oct. 19 to 26.

Sec. Gilbert Teodoro shifted to Lakas-Kampi-CMD some months ago. That decision caused him to become the party's standard-bearer, setting aside Bayani Fernando. Gibo, a cousin of Noynoy Aquino, has placed 5th in the aforementioned poll recently conducted. That is a significant indicator that people are beginning to notice him, people are looking at a better Cojuangco.

Well, this great achievement should continue until the polls. Kudos!

GIBO for PRESIDENT TAYO!

Whoever said Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro will not make it in the 2010 polls must pray hard that the elections do not favor him.

Just today, I happened to see Smartmatic conducting an educational-demonstration at the Shangrila with KBP members, PPCRV, and Comelec officials as members. Smartmatic informed the participants in the demonstration how the automated system would work in the 2010 polls. Afterwhich, a mock election was conducted to test it.

The boxes containing age demographics was used as reference for Chiz Escudero, Loren Legarda, Noynoy Aquino, Gilberto Teodoro, Manny Villar, and Erap Estrada. After the mock elections the results were revealed by PPCRV Chair Henrietta De Villa as follows, Teodoro got 8, Villar, Erap, Noynoy and Chiz got 3 votes each, and Loren got zero.

What is the implication of this? Although Gibo Teodoro is allied with Gloria, he is not as bad as she is projected in the sense that he is a possible savior of this country. With the KBP members as the mock voters, it means that sensible people will know that Gibo is a good candidate and will possibly deliver once elected as president.

We need change, but we do not need drastic changes which might just imperil our progress. GMA may be unpopular, she may be hated, but she has started out projects to cover every minute aspect of every single problem in this country. From education to agriculture to corruption even to climate change. If we hate Gloria's policies that should not mean we should hate the fact that she is working. Even if we think her policies are ineffective at least she initiated the reforms. All that Gibo has to do is to start moving from that foundation put up by GMA.

Gibo para sa pagbabago tayo!