Posts Tagged ‘platform’

The Inquirer.net Editor has gone on a defensive strike against "so-called pundits" critical of President Benigno "P.Noy" Aquino III's 26th July State of the Nation Address (SONA). The Op-Ed piece came across to me as no more than a long-winded admonishment of how so much of what was in the SONA that could be "chew on" even by "non-fans" was left unappreciated.... Full story

Boo hoo hoo. The national budget is depleted and the new President Benigno "P.Noy" Aquino III, as it turns out, is no "superman". For the Average Filipino Schmoe who latched on to the promise of the "magic" of an Aragorn-led mighty army of righteousness galloping in to rescue him from his wretchedness, the road ahead leads back to Square One. And the only thing ... Full story

President Noynoy Aquino will be giving his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) soon. If his army of speechwriters will have their way, his speech will be all about giving people "hope". Hopefully, it will not be full of motherhood statements similar to his election platform and inauguration speech. Heaven forbid that Conrado de Quiros have his way in writing it lest ... Full story

Now that President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and his Cabinet have "hit the ground running", it is time to examine the focal point around which spin the complex of platitudes and promises delivered to us over much of Noynoy's presidential campaign -- Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap (translated literally: "If no corruption THEN no poverty"). A few of my colleagues here have already made an ... Full story

The good news about corruption is that it makes for good campaign fodder for politicians who happen to be running at a time of widespread public frustration over its endemic prevalence. The bad news is that come the time for said politician to deliver we find that corruption is not exactly the tangible beast it is made out to be during the campaign.... Full story

Being realistic is a good trait. One of the upsides of being realistic is that you do not get disappointed with the result or at least have a Plan B prepared in case things do not go according to Plan A. You won't get disappointed with the result because you will have predicted the likely consequences of your actions by using your logic, and will ... Full story

More and more people are awakening to the fact that a vote for Nonoy is a wasted vote. Twenty three days till election day, it's not over yet. We need to awaken and enlighten more of our kabayans. AP would like to thank Noemi Dado POC ... Full story

AP would like to thank AP commenter boombox, for mentioning the book "Greed And Betrayal" by Cecilio Arilio. As the election draws closer, we really need to think seriously about allowing the same incompetent people of "Tita Cory" back into the Presidency come 2010. From that starting point, we read Qtbabe's ... Full story

Omigolly, I am having a laughing fit at this battle of portmanteus (a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms - as smog from smoke and fog)  - Villarroyo and ArroQuino, as each camp tries to paint each other camp as the worse evil.  ... Full story

Elections are getting closer every day - 54 days as of this post. Not that it would mean much given the trends being peddled in the mainstream media. A choice between a thieving bozo, a lazy bozo, and an ethically-challenged billionaire turned-legislator. If the election were limited to the three - and one were to say "lesser evil", given Indonesia's growth under an able CEO ... Full story

If you wanna know the facts, forget the mainstream Philippine media, except for a few brave souls, the bulk of the Philippine media are misinformed, misguided, ill-informed, paid hacks who proclaim themselves as "journalists". But then what else is new in this surreal islands where the name of the game of politics is denial, pahid, putik, pera, patayan at puta. Thank goodness for foreign media bringing ... Full story

I've been wanting to compare the substance of the platforms of Aquino, Gordon, Villar, Perlas, and Obama. This enough I can say - Nick Perlas is the gold standard in platforms. Aquino and Villar are fluffy talk without the specifics. Gordon is a slacker when it comes to platforms - good for him he's got Subic but it's no excuse not to have a platform. Aquino, ... Full story

Teleleng land never runs out of mornic stuff. In the latest explosion of moronism, Tornilyo Teleleng emotes and waxes barriotic, idiotic, pathetic, rheumatic, schizoprenic - in a manner that makes a noynoyista proud. Believe you me. your head will hurt after reading this discombobulating piece that will wreck the nerves in an encounter with Balagtas-esquengeze-lish. I've been told many times not to dignify stuff such as ... Full story

Eto ang katotohanan tungkol sa mga survey... Obvious na pinapababa nila sa ratings ang mga competent candidates like Gordon and Gibo para madishearten tayo at mapuersa tayong mag-"Noynoy." Tapos kita niyo rin yung black propaganda nila against Villar. Ipapakita ... Full story

Sans rhetoric and emo the core issue to each candidate is this - What is your value proposition? What do you bring to the table? What's in it for me - the taxpayer? What's in it for my children and community? What's in it for our country? What's in it for our public agents? ... Full story

Saling Pusa Award The Saling Pusa Award goes to Nick Perlas. His platform addresses the low hanging fruit. There is so much to correct or needs fixing at this point. In case you are wondering what low hanging fruit is, We have Mother Nature to thank for the expression low hanging fruit . A fruit-bearing tree often ... Full story

Regular commentator on AntiPinoy.com and FilipinoVoices.com, Mr Joe America, makes a very astute observation that I am sure echoes the sentiments of many who frown upon the flack being lobbed at the kilig-ng-Starbucks Masa candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III: I sense some good minds here at AP are doing the old waffle-about soft-shoe, choosing not to choose a preferred candidate. It’s the old ... Full story

"Presidential" candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III yesterday (21st of January 2010) gave a speech before the esteemed captains of Philippine industry who interbreed and whack golf balls with one another when they are not schmoozing over cocktails at Makati Business Club, Management Association of the Philippines, and Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines meetings. The content ... Full story

The Noted One made the following remark in a comment in his article The platform problem apparently in response to understandably adamant challenges to politicians to shut up and cough up a proper platform that is actually useful for the purposes of real debate: it would be interesting to see platforms in other asian countries or in other countries. a fairer comparison is between ... Full story

The recent article Excellence of Execution by Marck Rimorin on his Marocharim.com provides very good insight into some very flawed notions in the way we regard the electorate's role in a democracy and what is expected of our politicians. I've for some time studied the counter-positions to our Platform, plez™ drive taken by many ... Full story

Presented here, unedited and in its entirety, is the Economic Program portion of the platform published by the Liberal Party. It is one of three parts of their platform, which bears the general title “Policies for the New Century”; the others are the “Political Program” and the “Social Program”. The platform includes ... Full story

our political practice is more oriented towards coalitions; and the coalitions, too, require time to hammer out a common platform as the basis of uniting to support specific candidates. The broader the coalition, the longer and more complicated the consensus process required to arrive at a platform becomes. In making the above assertion, the Noted Blogger, Mr. Manuel L. Quezon III, attempts to ... Full story

Over at Barrio Siete, a commentor issued a challenge to another commentor that illustrates an aspect of the Philippine National "Debate" that is a Filipino favourite and a cherished tradition of our "democracy" -- gossipping about who thy neighbour planeth to vote for. but then again, what are those people who claim to be intelligent, what are they doing? how bout you guys, i ... Full story

No matter your occupation, status, position, from street hawker to jeepney driver, to street sweeper, to student, to traffic cop, to teacher, to lawyer, to physician, to department head, to councilor, to mayor, to governor, to congressman, to senator,  to president, to fortune 500 CEO, you churn out decisions every day. And the end ... Full story

I found out recently that public flavour-of-the-month presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino Jr had upgraded his website. The new website is far glossier than the original one that I trawled for information and cited as reference back in the 30th of August. The URL I used for reference for the rather sparse summary of Aquino's platform I made back then pointed to what ... Full story

The population has been conditioned to depend on government for everything, including jobs. Commentor "Uncle Pinoy" made that remark commenting on a proposal to reduce the size of Government to help improve the country's fiscal position. He may as well have been commenting on the general attitude Filipinos take with regard to their future prosperity. This is an especially important cultural issue considering that we are ... Full story

While the process for developing a platform is relatively easy, it does require several careful steps. Recently, in response to several challenges to provide an example of a proper platform and in the hope of providing some issues for public discussion, I applied ... Full story

Are we a people fixated on the past (retrospective) or focused on the future (prospective)? The way that we as a people seem inclined to regard the coming 2010 presidential election provides some insight into how we might answer that question. We seem to be generally retrospective in the way we evaluate our candidates. The thing with being retrospective in our evaluation is that it ... Full story

Benigno S. “Noynoy” Aquino III is running for President. The current news stream of his “weighing the decision” and “seeking the support of the people” should not fool anyone, nor should the “discussions” within the Liberal Party about his candidacy. Those of us who are experienced in marketing can recognise “buzz generation” when we see ... Full story

Since his reaction to the embarrassingly-low NAT scores was the catalyst for Part One of this discussion, Senator and presidential aspirant Mar Roxas has the perhaps dubious distinction to be the first candidate who will have part of his platform put under the microscope.  In the interest of clarity and fairness, a few conditions ... Full story

What does the Philippine "Opposition" offer us other than a position that involves merely replacing the incumbent? Is replacing the incumbent an end in itslf? Or is mapping out WHAT HAPPENS NEXT the whole point of an "opposition"? Until we as a people become a bit more serious about seeing some evidence of a bit of thinking in our politicians, all we will be getting ... Full story