Lies from Noynoy’s Handlers

According to this email forward, a sumptuous mansion featured in a series of attached photographs belongs to President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. The email claims that while Mugabe lives in such opulent luxury, the ordinary people of Zimbabwe face poverty under his leadership.

However, the mansion depicted in these photographs is not Mugabe’s residence at all. In fact, the very same set of photographs has also circulated in protest messages decrying the opulent lifestyles of other political leaders and celebrities. One version claims that the home belongs to President Pervaiz Musharraf of Pakistan. Another claims that the mansion is the home of former Nigerian ruler Ibrahim Babangida. Yet another version suggests that the photographs show the home of former Secretary of Health Care of Azerbaijan, Russia. And, finally, many references, including a YouTube video, claim that the home belongs to Bollywood superstar, Shahrukh Khan.

Opinion, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Dear Editor:

This is to clarify certain points that a reader, a certain Jocelyn Gonzales, publicly raised about Sen. Manny Villar’s ads (”Money” talks, PDI opinion page, Feb 17, 2010).

1. That “the line between truth and claims gets blurred”, that claims can be turned into truth with Villar’s ads, Goebbels (Nazi propagandist) of Hitler proselytizes so. Unfortunately, even Ms. Gonzales believes in the dictum of repeating a lie to appear true.

Who’s the true leader?

Villar is most trusted bet in May 10 polls — Pulse Asia

Only Senators Manuel Villar Jr. and Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III enjoy majority trust ratings among those seeking to become the country’s next President, with Villar having a slight edge over Aquino in Pulse Asia’s latest survey.

The survey, conducted last January 22 to 26, said 70 percent of the 1,800 respondents had “big trust” in Villar, slightly better than Aquino’s 64 percent.

Pulse Asia earlier released a presidential preference survey conducted during the same period, where Aquino was preferred by 37 percent of voters, and Villar by 35 percent.

A sense of entitlement?

For some, the power motive is so consuming that the usual restraints on behavior posed by norms of morality or prescriptions of religion are readily set aside. For such power-obsessed individuals, even an intensely Catholic education in an elite school offers only permeable boundaries to what is moral or ethical. Actually, for these some, the very “eliteness” of certain educational environments tends only to reinforce the sense of entitlement that characterizes their ambition to acquire political power.

NP Candidates Oath Taking: Escalante, Negros Occidental

Oath taking of the full slate of Escalante, Negros Occidental NP candidates headed by Santiago Barcelona Jr (Mayor) with Cong Biron and Vice Governor Rolex Suplico in Iloilo.

Villar ties with Aquino in yet another survey

NP senatoriables got the top three rankings, ten out of 12 senatorial slots

Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Senator Mannny Villar is tied with Liberal Party (LP) bet Senator Noynoy Aquino in the latest nationwide survey conducted by The Issues and Advocacy Center or The CENTER. Both presidential aspirants got 27 percent in the said survey.

“Ako naman ay natutuwa na sunod-sunod ang mga survey results na nagpapakita na talagang tumataas ang ating rankings. Ito ay nagpapatunay lamang na nagbubunga ang aming pagod sa pagpaparating sa ating mga kababayan ng aming plataporma at ito ay kanilang nagugustuhan naman,” said Villar.

And the Black Propaganda Backfires………..Palpak to the Max!!!

Someone or a group of rabid supporters of one Presidentiable got very very busy. Emails circulated all around, in and outside the Philippines, about a mansion somewhere in Texas owned by Manny Villar. Dripping in extravagance, a set of photos of the mansion with the gaudy interior decor even had this introduction:

” Imagine who would have such taste and live in such opulence. An American billionaire? A Saudi Prince? Louis XIV of France? Savour the pictures, then scroll to the bottom of the page to see who owns this work of art.”

Proud Vote 2010

‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy… they first make mad’

That statement — attributed to Euripides (c. 480 BC) in reference to those who had become crazed by power — suspiciously applies to the present-day handlers of the presidential bid of Noynoy Aquino.
The handlers have acted arrogantly with the thought that the presidency is theirs for the taking. They had better perish that thought by now.

In the afterglow of the death of Cory Aquino last year, all too suddenly Noynoy was thrust into the limelight, and the Liberal Party (LP) grabbed him as its standard bearer, over the well-prepared and definitely more qualified Mar Roxas. That was a decision made in a fit of madness.