Manny Villar is the target of concerted attack from all quarters

Manny Villar is the target of concerted attack and propaganda from all quarters because he has a good chance of becoming our next President.

Why? He attracts support from the middle class and the lower classes, especially the poor. The rich and upper classes prefer their old friends and allies in the trational elite.

Manny Villar has the capacity, in the longrun, to upset the status quo of mass poverty, injustice, perennial conflict, including violent conflict, high population growth. He has also the capacity to unite our fractious society and politics, and bring about effective and accountable leadership, governance, and the reform of our political institutions.

The latest survey done by non-politicians

Last Feb. 20 we came up with the first survey done by the Campaigns & Images Group (Philippines) that was commissioned by United Kingdom and US-based companies doing business in the Philippines, because they want to know the real score as to who is really leading in this political race. Indeed, there are just too many self-serving surveys around, even Reader’s Digest came up with their own on who can be most trusted, a survey that seems to surface just in time for election season.

The latest survey done by non-politicians!

It’s election season and there is no doubt that every Tom, Dick and Harry would go out of their way to present their own surveys for their selfish or political ends. My, even Reader’s Digest came up with their own “Most Trusted” persons survey, which puts Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, III as number five on that list, while Rosa Rosal topped this survey. Even funnier is the name of Hayden Kho Jr. as number 80th. Is Reader’s Digest telling us that women can trust Hayden Kho that if they go to bed with him, their love tryst won’t end up being sold in the DvD black market stores?

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?

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.

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.”

‘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.

Win or Lose, Villar is Prepared

Sen. Manuel B. Villar Jr. is perceived and is regarded as the most prepared, logistics and otherwise, compared to his rivals in the coming May 10 presidential elections. But is that his fault?

As early as two years ago, Villar declared his intentions to aspire for the highest office of the land as president of his own Nacionalista Party (NP). And for doing so, Villar was subsequently, unceremoniously ousted as Senate president. Stripped of official duties as Senate presiding chief, Villar, thus, got all the opportunities and time to start early his preparations for the presidential elections from that time on.

Noon at Bukas Liberals

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1. Corazon Juliano “Dinky” Soliman (Department of Social Welfare and Development)
- Appointed: 2001-July 8, 2005
- Annual Budget:
** 2003/2004 = Php 1,807,641,000 (Php 1,763,166,000 – Office of the Secretary)
** 2005 = Php 2,285,681,000 (Php 2,227,335,000 – Office of the Secretary)

2. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II (Department of Trade and Industry)
- Appointed: 2001-2003
- Annual Budget: approximately Php 1,500,000,000 (2003)

3. Florencio “Butch” Abad (Department of Education)
- Term of Office: 2004- July 8, 2005
- Annual Budget:
** 2004 = Php 95,447,461,000 (Php 95,419,273,000 – Office of the Secretary)
** 2005 = Php 102,629,586,000 (Php 102,583,978,000 – Office of the Secretary)