2016 Presidential Election

[niky]

^ oo nga eh. i guess roxas has got to come up w/ a lot of funny memorable zingers in order to make a note worthy dent in the polls

He's got no personality besides "pikon".

If he had the oratorical fire of a Duterte, better.

Even just having the schoolteacher-like calm of Grace would be better.

I listened exactly to what they said, and he always had the upper hand. If the debate was aired as nothing but text on screen, panalo talaga.

But when you actually watch and listen to the candidates, palaging pikon. Blustering. Argumentative. Defensive. Duterte was more confident in his delivery. So much so that when he made a mistake and apologized, surprising (at least he's apologizing for mistakes now). Poe was very even-handed. Kahit talo siya, she never raised her voice.

I think she missed a beat by not throwing the "China" question back at Duterte. He keeps huffing up claiming neither she nor Roxas could handle that emergency... the question is: what would he do? Tell them: "Get out or get dead?"

[CVT]

Shame that Mar seemingly had the upper hand over the course of the debate, out-doing both Poe and Duterte handily... but still lost in the end because Digong made more meme-worthy quips.

Not saying anything about the candidates, but what does it say about an election where the results of a debate (in the eyes of the public) are decided by one-line insults from one candidate to another?

I can agree with you on that bro..

However, let's bear in mind that Poe, Binay and Roxas are national officials and so has the first-hand information or has the reach for these information to give us statements or directions that impresses us. Well, indeed I was.

This goes without saying that I don't care if a candidate decides later to copy the air-level-lip-platforms of the other candidates for as long as the policies are implemented to the best interest of our nation. I guess what I am looking for is the sincerity of the candidate to lead us to the next level/phase of development, whether or not the direction is consistent with what we are doing now. And this exercise is not for us,- but for our kids and our posterity. It's a hard knock for the rest of the country to know who is who and I hope that we will make the best decision in the next couple of months.


"The measure of a man is what he does with power" LJIOHF!

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[kimbon]

Your absolutely correct chief, Du30 will send Binay family to jail otherwise he looses his credibility. He keep saying, he will fight corruption and this family here is the number corrupt in the country today as in Corrupt Dynasty.

DU30 has already lost credibility when he said on several occasions he's not running for president. you are correct DSU30 will fight corruption, go after all gov't officials who's corrupt and then put them behind bars "unless" convicted by the court . what if during Binay's trial may nilulutong macao na and eventually the he's not guilty?

[Walter]

That's the thing with a one term presidency, whoever is elected won't care much about credibility or delivering on promises. Like what they say, a fixed 6-year term is too long for a bad president and too short for a short one.

[NightRock]

Hindi Ma kukulong ang mga Binay.. Naka ready na daw ang private plane after election result sibat na sila papuntang Africa

[stickers07]

What scares me right now is the VP race. Even if either GP, Du30 or even Binay wins and the VP turns out to be BBM... Its bad enough that millenials don't read history, but its even worse that GenXers have forgotten what its like under his father.

This is the problem with our voters, laging surname ang number one category sa pagpili ng kandidato. Why not look at the accomplishments and what he can offer not on what his parents did. Even if BBM wins VP kaya nya bang ibalik ang Martial law na congress ang magdedeclare?

[Flipo]

De Lima tells Duterte: Present plans instead of peddling lies | Inquirer News
De Lima tells Duterte: Present plans instead of peddling lies

By: Yuji Vincent Gonzales
INQUIRER.net 02:50 PM March 23rd, 2016

Former Department of Justice secretary and senatorial candidate Leila de Lima on Wednesday scored presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for saying that the administration failed to curb the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa City.

Reacting to Duterte’s statement during the second presidential debate in Cebu last Sunday, De Lima, who is running under a Liberal Party-led coalition, trumpeted the supposed institutional reforms in the state penitentiary that she initiated when she was DOJ chief.

“Rather than peddling lies and hurling baseless attacks, Mayor Duterte will be better appreciated if he can present a better proposal for improving our correctional system and sustaining the reforms,” De Lima said in a statement.

“It is not true that the Aquino administration did not do anything in fixing the correctional system,” she added.

In the second debate sanctioned by the Commission on Elections at the University of the Philippines Cebu, the tough-talking Duterte accused the government of allowing syndicates to manufacture illegal drugs in the Bilibid.

“This administration allowed shabu to be cooked inside a national penitentiary. Is that your performance?” Duterte prodded rival Manuel “Mar” Roxas II.

Trying to prove her point, De Lima cited “Oplan Galugad” which she started as DOJ chief that “set a trend in curbing corruption in the state prisons.”

“Given the number of times Oplan Galugad was conducted, it should be clear to everyone that there is no shabu laboratory at the NBP,” De Lima said. “During my term as DOJ Secretary, we instituted reforms in the correctional system. I personally went to the NBP to crack down on these illegal activities.”

“We also demolished the kubols (private quarters) they set up. We then had a new security facility for these high profile inmates,” she added.

De Lima, who also served as chair of the Commission on Human Rights, admitted that corruption remains to be the culprit behind drug trade and other problems hounding the NBP.

“Other reforms are still on the way and I intend to fill some of these gaps in the legislature,” De Lima said, adding that she also proposed to build a new correctional facility in Nueva Ecija.

De Lima previously said she will fight Duterte’s presidential bid if he continues his iron-fist style of leadership and approach to crime. As head of DOJ, De Lima initiated the investigation on reports about the existence of an alleged Davao Death Squad, to which the local executive has been linked. IDL

[kimbon]

This is the problem with our voters, laging surname ang number one category sa pagpili ng kandidato. Why not look at the accomplishments and what he can offer not on what his parents did. Even if BBM wins VP kaya nya bang ibalik ang Martial law na congress ang magdedeclare?

you can't blame the voters. how many percentage of our population in Class D & E? usually sila yung nabobola ng mga politician specially the Class E.

class D representing the "largest bulk" of voters. judging by the huge % voters, we can say that the “masa” population in our country is Class D. the poorest segment, Class E, also comprises another big chunk voters.

[macsd]

DU30 has already lost credibility when he said on several occasions he's not running for president. you are correct DSU30 will fight corruption, go after all gov't officials who's corrupt and then put them behind bars "unless" convicted by the court . what if during Binay's trial may nilulutong macao na and eventually the he's not guilty?

The assumption is Binay loose since meron na cyang kaso, right. The moment Nigger loose, wala na cyang political power so a few will left to support him, Enrile may be but old already but i don't think Erap will. So what's left for him to do is hire expensive lawyers so he need's to bring out more of his nakaw. A seating president will not do another GMA to Erap deal, they saw what happened. Itong si Negro, ang solid supporters lang nito eh yung mga ilang squatters ng Makati. Outside Makati, sa kangkungan na ito dadamputin.

[macsd]

What scares me right now is the VP race. Even if either GP, Du30 or even Binay wins and the VP turns out to be BBM... Its bad enough that millenials don't read history, but its even worse that GenXers have forgotten what its like under his father.

This happened because our politicians now and before ( the likes of Teofisto Guigona, Rene Sagisag & Nene Pimentel who are barking against BBM) are so busy with their own pockets that when the Marcoses returned, they turn a blind eye on the assumption their good as dead in Philippine Politics. That is the problem with politicians with out forth sight, they growl at the end. When BBM run for senate , it was a trial balloon for the national level but no body from this stupid politicos ever barked. When BBM filed his candidacy for VP, they are all still quiet. They all start to bark when the survey showed BBM is closing in to Chiz, which is already too late. Now he BBM has taken the lead from Chiz on the latest survey. If these stupid politicos kept their mouth into their heads, they should have gotten someone to tell BBM don't run otherwise... then the entire Marcos will just keep themselves into local level.

BBM is being supported by the youth cause they saw no gain in current & previous admins who fought against Marcos. So the youth are experimenting as they've lost faith in the trapos.

I am not afraid of a BBM VP or even presidency as i have fought his father, who's the most brilliant pres this country ever had and his is not even half his dad's brain.