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WHY should you let the candidates do all the talking?
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May 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
TO KAICEE
You are indeed an intellectual voter and I wish other Filipino voters would be just like you. Fact of the matter is most Filipino voters are poor who think with their hearts and not with their minds.
If you’re suggesting the President should step down then all politicians should step down (except a few good men of course) because they all lied/cheated the country in one way or another with their empty promises.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Honestly,I am a little bit pissed off for the fuse made by alan cayetano about his name.Forgive me for the word but he is like a “bakla” making noise.
For Chiz, he did not make any real change in the goverment,just making noise about impeachment thing.
The likes of them make noise without actions to their protests. They just protest and protest but doing nothing.
Hope they will prove their worth in the senate.
I was still in my primary schooling when the ouster of MARCOS happened. Our classes stopped and just listened over the radio of what was happening in the country at that time.Young as I am,I was aware of what was happening and the changes that happened after.
We are still learning and changing.Our political system is not different from other countries,only the people governing our country. The military is abusing their powers like the old days but of course prompted by their chief.The people see no reason to trust the leader when he himself is betraying the people and the country by cheating,corrupting and abusing his powers.
The trend now is political dynasty, from the grandpa to the grandchildren.
I hope a law will soon be passed prohibiting a family to govern a place.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:43 pm
i would like to congratulate the filipino people, specially the youth who voted wisely in this last election, truly the real voice of the people has been heard that no matter how popular and moneyed you are you cannot guaranteed that you will win.to the trapos and artista stop mockering our people because the youth vote will surely put an end on your evil ways.congratulations to the youth, im one of the ofw working here in abu dhabi and im proud of what happen to those trapo and artista that did not win.to the candidates who won do not dissapoint us because surely in the next election you will be answerable to us.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:29 am
what the hell happenned to pasig…. from the father…to his wife…back to the father… then to his son….
no wonder if within the next few years i will see the grandson running for the same slot…
May 20th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
If candidate Alan Cayetano is in such a maelstrom, he certainly made it by himself. He was so naive his colleagues in the opposition during the impeachment hearings saw to it that he swallowed hook-line-sinker on the issue that First Gentleman (FG) was such a crook. And Alan ever an ambitious young man took up the cudgels to bulldoze the FG. Now that Alan could not substantiate his charge about the German bank deposit, what did he do vis-a-vis his opposition friends that feed him rotten data? Come on Alan we voters cannot just sit back and believe your claims and then gift you with a Senate seat. We are not voters born yesterday.