I’m not supposed to get bothered about this but I think I am unless I won’t watch TV or read local news at all…

I don’t expect a president to be highly academic. Rather, I expect him to be competent, honest, hardworking, compassionate, assertive, optimistic, and goal-driven. I want someone who can lead by example and not just some indolent hopeless sleepyhead.

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If only they who were deceived and believed in him had opened their eyes wide enough to understand the obvious truth….

teodoroyo… villarroyo…

—– Forwarded Message —-
From: dumagat bulacan
To: indira dosa gaces
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:37:33
Subject: si gibo, si pangulong ARROYO at si MANNY VILLARROYO

Kawawang Gibo, harapang pinapakitaan ng senyales ng kanyang among si PGMA na si Manny Villarroyo ang minamanok nito para sa pampanguluhang halalan.

Pagmasdan kung kahawig ni PGMA ang litratong nasa ibaba. Dito masusubukan ang linaw ng inyong mga mata para mabatid kung kailangan na ninyong magsuot ng salamin sa darating na botohan

Mikey Arroyo eyeing party-list seat

By RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News | 02/18/2010 2:15 PM

Next Congress may have 5 Arroyos

MANILA, Philippines – The President’s eldest son Pampanga 2nd district Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Macapagal-Arroyo confirmed on Thursday a possible run for Congress in the May 2010 elections, as a party-list representative.

Interviewed on the sidelines of his House energy committee hearing on the energy crisis, Mr. Arroyo confirmed that “many party-list groups are asking me” to run.

This after he was asked what his political plans are now that his mother, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, is seeking the congressional seat he now holds.

The younger Arroyo is just on his 2nd term and is entitled to one more run.

Earlier in the day though, Arroyo jokingly told his colleagues, “I’m not running. I was eased out!!!”

This was during the committee meeting when his colleagues asked him if he was running for Congress against Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Chair Zenaida Ducut, a former representative of the younger Arroyo’s district, in the 2010 elections.

Ducut answered in the negative, stressing she has a fixed term till 2015.

Speaker GMA up to new Congress

Meantime, the younger Arroyo laughed off talk that the President will be elected speaker in the next Congress.

He stressed that it’s hard to talk about the Speakership but conceded that it will be a matter left to those who will win in the congressional races.

The President’s allies in the Lakas-Kampi-CMD previously said that since many of them are likely to win their congressional districts in May, they will become the power base of the president to propel her to the speakership. (Read: Allies say Arroyo can easily get House Speakership)

Figures from the Lakas-Kampi-CMD secretariat show at least 170 congressional district candidates belong to the ruling party. The list excludes the possible party-list allies of Lakas-Kampi-CMD from which the younger Arroyo’s party-list group may most likely come from.

The younger Arroyo said he will announce if he has accepted the invitation to run for a party-list seat and identify his party-list group before the deadline for the party-list group submission of nominees lapses in March.

However, if all the Arroyos running in the may 2010 elections win, there will be 5 members of the President’s family in Congress. They include the President, (2nd district, Pampanga), Rep. Mikey Arroyo, (still to be announced party-list group), Rep Diosdado “Dato” Arroyo, (2nd district, Camarines Sur), Rep Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo, (5th district, Negros Occidental), and Rep. Maria Lourdes “Marilou” Tuason Arroyo-Lesaca (Kasangga).

This would leave only the President’s daughter Evangelina Lourdes “Luli” Arroyo-Bernas and First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo outside of formal political life.

as of 02/18/2010 5:19 PM

Bolante’s partymates support Villar-Legarda tandem

by AMITA O. LEGASPI, GMANews.TV
02/17/2010 | 11:09 PM

BALETE, Aklan—A local party pushing for the gubernatorial candidacy of former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn ‘Jocjoc’ Bolante on Wednesday expressed support for the presidential and vice-presidential bids of Senators Manuel Villar Jr. and Loren Legarda, respectively.

Capiz mayors who are members of Ugyon Kita Capiz (Unite Capiz) also support the entire ticket of the Nacionalista Party (NP), Capiz councilor Monchit Acuna Alvar said during a press conference held at the house of Aklan Vice Governor Gabrielle Calizo-Quimpo in this town.

Bolante, who was implicated in the fertilizer fund scam that the Senate began to investigate in 2006, will be running for Capiz governor under the Ugyon banner against incumbent reelectionist Governor Victor Tanco Sr., who is running under the LP banner.

Alvar, althought a third cousin of Liberal Party (LP) vice-presidential bet Manuel Roxas II, explained why the Ugyon party aligned itself with the NP slate.

“We believe in the ideals of Senator Villar and Senator Loren, that is why we are here supporting the Villar-Legarda tandem,” Alvar said.

Among the members of Ugyon are Roxas City Mayor Vicente Bermejo and Sapian Mayor Turic Orozco. They were among the 17 former members of LP who decided to form their own political party.

“We are more convinced that Senator Villar and Senator Loren can lead the country,” Alvar added.

When asked if NP will reciprocate the Ugyon’s support, Villar said the talks are at the level of the mayors only.

“Kami ay nakatanggap ng suporta at tinatanggap namin yan sa mga mayors. Hindi pa kami nagkakausap sa governor o sa congressman (We received support from the mayors and we acknowledge that. We have not talked yet with the governor or congressman),” the NP standard bearer said.

Villar insisted that he has not talked with Bolante, and that he is not even sure the former agriculture official will support him in the May polls.

“Sa ngayon ay masaya kami na meron kaming suporta ng mga mayor. Hindi pa namin alam kung sino-sino ang kumpletong susuporta sa amin (For now, we are glad that we have the mayors’ support. We don’t know yet the complete set of those who will support us),” he said.

“Hindi naman kami sumusuporta pa formally. But nakikita ko na eventually mag-uusap, yun lamang, hanggang dun lang muna tayo at hindi pa kami handang sabihin kung sino ang pinal na magkakasama at hindi din naman nila sinasabi, to be fair with them,” Villar added.

(We’re not yet supporting them formally. But I see that there will be talks eventually, only that we can’t say more than that, and we’re not yet ready to say who will finally be with whom, and they are not revealing this anyway, to be fair with them.)

He also clarified that Bolante is not a member of NP. However, when asked if he welcomes the idea that the mayors supporting him are also supporting Bolante, Villar said: “Desisyon na nila yun as to who they will vote for governor, kung sino ang gusto nila for senators, for president, desisyon nila yun (it’s their decision who they will vote for as governor, who they want for senator, for president, that’s their decision).”

For her part, Legarda asked the public not to link with NP “other candidates na ni anino nila hindi pa namin nakikita (whose very shadows we haven’t even seen).”

Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, one of the critics of Bolante and now NP guest senatorial candidate, said Villar was careful in acknowledging the support of the mayors who are also backing the candidacy of Bolante.

“The new party is essentially a united break-away action from the LP. Logically, it opted to back up the strongest rival of LP—the NP,” Ocampo said.

Bolante was implicated by the Senate in 2006 as deeply involved in the diversion of some P728 million in so-called fertilizer funds that were supposed to benefit poor farmers but went instead to local government officials and from there, many suspect, to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s campaign kitty in the 2004 presidential elections.

The former agriculture official fled to the US to avoid the Senate hearings on the fertilizer fund scam. Failing to get US asylum, however, he was deported back to the Philippines in October 2008 and placed by the Senate under hospital arrest.

He was never formally charged in court, however, and was even able to file his certificate of candidacy for the Capiz gubernatorial race. —JV, GMANews.TV

Nangangamba Ang Simbahang Katoliko Sa Villarroyo Conspiracy

—– Forwarded Message —-
From: dumagat bulacan
To: Bernadette Galamgam
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2010 9:11:21
Subject: NANGANGAMBA ANG SIMBAHANG KATOLIKO SA VILLARROYO CONSPIRACY

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183337/bishops-wary-of-alleged-arroyo-villar-alliance

Bishops wary of alleged Arroyo-Villar alliance

Senior Catholic leaders on Sunday voiced concern over rumors that Nacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel Villar Jr. is President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s secret candidate in the May 10 elections.

“If it were true, it could be a sinister plot to ensure [President Arroyo’s] perpetuity in power. So it is an evil deal,” Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes told Catholic Radio Veritas.

“Maraming mahiwaga sa politics natin (Filipino politics has many mysteries), which shows what kind of officials we have and why we are like this,” added Caloocon Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez.

“As I envisioned a month ago, [Mrs. Arroyo] is scared of lawsuits. She wants to stay in power. Let us pray for her,” said Koronadal City Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez.

Last week, Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno Aquino III alleged that Mrs. Arroyo and Villar — his fiercest rival in the presidential race — had entered into an “unholy alliance” to ensure the latter’s victory in the upcoming polls.

Aquino said the Palace could not restrain itself from thanking Villar for keeping quiet on issues confronting the administration.

Villar has allegedly agreed to help Mrs. Arroyo, who is running for representative in the second district of Pampanga, become House Speaker and protect her from suits once he becomes President.

Villar’s camp has denied Aquino’s accusations. NP spokesman and senatorial bet Gilbert Remulla said an alliance with Mrs. Arroyo would be a “kiss of death.” Malacañang also belittled the allegations

But other Catholic bishops said the public should not be easily deceived by such claims and should try to become educated voters instead.

“Let the people discern and pass judgment,” said Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.

“Know your candidates on three issues — track record, capability to govern and integrity,” Cotabato auxiliary Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo said.