FORMER president Joseph Estrada has refused to name a candidate for the 2010 presidential elections, but he’s all praises for Senate President Manuel Villar in this video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Veronica Uy.
Pretty ironic if he does end up endorsing Villar, if you remember the dramatic role Villar played in the impeachment of Estrada in the House of Representatives when Villar was the Speaker 
At any rate, Erap is saying that his candidate for 2010 should be “pro-poor” and “anti-corruption,” according to this Breaking News article.
Here’s an excerpt:
Estrada issued the statement in response to reporters’ questions on what his criteria was in choosing the standard bearer of the opposition.
But at the same time, Estrada refused to name his candidate, saying that all presidential aspirants of the opposition would go through a process of selection that would include a series of three surveys to determine winnability.
Earlier in the day in Dinalupihan, Estrada was reported as having hinted that he was going to endorse the candidacy of Senate President Manuel Villar, who was said to be eyeing the presidency.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:14 am
Struggle in Mindanao can go on for generations, MILF says
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This I do believe. But, Not according to Gloria/Esperon.
Gloria Arroyo, Were saying Esperon can solve the problem within 3 months. Ha Ha. Even if they bomb the entire Mindanoa and kill all the muslin people there are other muslin who can continue the fight. This idiot must be really out of their mind. The only reason Gloria Arroyo, Extend his tour of duty because she still looking for the post for him. She just can’t afford to let him go because he is one of the people who she can trust. After all he is one of the people who help install her into her stolen power. Mga kawatan!!!
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 am
“Our reminder to our bishops: The staggering number of Filipinos becoming poorer and hopeless, the unaccounted billions of pesos involved in the multiple corruption scams involving the Arroyos, the death of children due to extreme poverty and hunger, the hundreds of families suffering the cost of extra-judicial killings, forced disappearances and other human rights violations. How can all these be perceived as simply rumors?†he said.
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The reason these priest is saying that because Gloria Arroyo, Has been given them plenty of money for their support to these FAKE PRESIDENT OF CEBU. They too has been bought out. If is not for the money they got from her they’ve singing different tune. Even the priest have their price!
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 am
Next AFP chief must make sure mutineers punished — Palace exec
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If there is rule of law; In the Philippines they should punish Gloria Arroyo/cronies too, They did even worse compare to the Camp Trillanes & Co. They’re the victim of these FAKE PRESIDENT OF CEBU. She should be in jail where she belong for all the crimes she committed to the filipino people. But that well never happen because she control the entire corrupt justice system.
02/03/2008
Malacañang’s top lawyer yesterday said the next chief of the Armed Forces should make sure that the trial of the 28 military officers accused of mounting a coup d’etat would be hastened and concluded before President Arroyo steps down from power in 2010 and see to it that the accused will be meted the apt penalty for their act of mutiny.
“The successor of Chief of Staff (Hermogenes) Esperon (Jr.) should assure this government that the court martial would hasten the trial and bring this accused men to justice. In this manner, it could leave a lesson for future military adventurists that they would be dealt with harshly by our court if they engage in any adventurism,†chief presidential legal counsel Sergio Apostol said.
Apostol added it is not true that the accused military officers were being denied justice.
“The reason they are subjected (sic) in the military court martial and civilian courts means that justice is working. We (in the government) are not denying them due process,†he stressed.
Meanwhile, reformists in the police and military also yesterday accused Mrs. Arroyo of fomenting demoralization among the men in uniform with Malacañang’s apparent stonewalling and pressuring of those who have knowledge in the controversial China’s ZTE-National Broadband Network (NBN) deal not to testify in the Senate probe into the issue.
In a phone interview, Young Enlisted Soldiers Active and Retired Military-Police for Solidarity (YesArms) spokesman, retired Cmdr. Ismael Aparri said while some military officials were being tried by a general court martial on the alleged mutiny they launched against Mrs. Arroyo in February 2006, Mrs. Arroyo refuses to cooperate with the Senate in its probe into the alleged $200-million overpriced NBN deal which has been mothballed by the Chief Executive late last year.
“Justice should be dispensed for everyone alike. This move by Mrs. Arroyo to continuously hide the truth would backfire on her. The bubble may bursts anytime
when it can no longer hold. That’s the grumbling within the military and police because Malacanang holds the key to the truth and yet their actions to hide (former National Economic Development Authority and now Commission on Higher Educations Chairman) Romulo Neri and (Philippine Forest Corp. president and chief executive officer) Rodolfo Lozada is tantamount to silencing justice,†he said.
Aparri said Mrs. Arroyo is employing a double standard of justice in pushing the prosecution of officers Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, Marine Colonels Ariel Querubin and Orlando de Leon and Lt. Col. Nestor Flordeliza, among others while she refuses to face charges of graft and corruption, human rights abuses and electoral fraud committed in the 2004 presidential polls.
Aparri said reformists in the military and the police institutions fully support the Senate n its probe of the NBN issue.
He said demoralization among the men in uniform is high because the mentioned military officers’ human rights were being violated.
“Gen. Miranda, Col. Querubin, de Leon and Flordeliza were sick and yet this military court martial was pressuring them to appear in their trial last Friday. Despite these soldiers’ poor health conditions they were being denied of doctor and medical attention,†Aparri charged.
Sherwin C. Olaes
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 am
JdV’s golf bid likely off; Speakership hold fades
More legislators throw support to Nograles
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Either way if De: Loss the speakership to Nogales, The filipino people the loser. You can be sure that Nogales, Going to toe the line to the FAKE PRESIDENT OF CEBU. You all can kiss 2010. Election goodbye! The reason Gloria Arroyo, Want to get rid of Devencia, Because he knows to much after all they’re partner in crimes.
2008/02/03
The country’s golf game of the year set today where the score card would determine not the skills of the participants but the political future of beleaguered Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. may not push through at all, a reliable source at Malacañang yesterday said.
Malacañang calling off the game may prove fatal to De Venecia who is counting on the supposed backing of President Arroyo to quell a challenge from erstwhile ally Davao City Rep. Prospero Nograles for the top House post.
Nograles earlier had begged off from today’s golf game that would have been played by Nograles, De Venecia and Mrs. Arroyo, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats leaders former President Fidel V. Ramos, Executi.. Full Story
February 1st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ginoong sobra galit kay GMA, eto po ang totoo. !!!!!
Lahat ng naging presidente, iisa likaw bituka, ikanga same bananas over a diferrent balat.Lahat puro pangungurakot ginawa. The only difference among them are yung galing magcoverup at pagkagarapal. Ganun din mga senators & congressmen, lahat yan wala exemption. Majority naman sa governors, mayors and down to the bgy captains ganun din.
There is still hope for us, magkaisa lang po tayo sa isang Bayani sa 2010 at tiyak po magiging gwapo ang Pilipinas. Eto po ang sinasabi kong Bayani at kung iba po ang nasa isip ninyo ay di po siya Bayani !! He he he
Among my favorite quotes of BF was this one on Political Will for Government Officials. It is a known fact that people in government fear pursuing programs that may provoke or offend people for fear of not being voted the next election thereby not resolving the more controversial and important issues of the community and its people.
In Marikina, marikeños have come to realize that the effectiveness of BF’s leadership lie greatly on his ability to push his political will amidst the anger and possibility of not winning his next term. In one of his speeches, he said:
“People tend to look at government as rather weak and ineffective. This is a kind of minset that we have changed in Marikina, but it took us some doing to be able to do so.â€
I was in college when Marikina began its transformation and I still awe today at the wonders this man has created for our town. My classmates then at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) would tease me about living in the “Rape and Massacre Capital of the Philippines†as a result of the media hype on the occurence of rape and massacre incidents in the city.
BF was able to obliterate all these depressing notion about Marikina by establishing first the limits of the freedom and responsibilities to society of every residents. He was firm in his decisions and would not yield to threats and bribery. He was able to instill discipline in the mind of every Marikeños and proved that it was not political suicide to be a working and tough government official. the ultimate proof of this — he still won the next election… and the next… and he was appointed as Chairman of MMDA after his term as our Mayor