Compare (see photo) and decide who would you rather elect as your 2010 president.
 
By the way, Villar claims his brother died because they were too poor to care for him. They were nine children in the family, could afford to eat canned corned beef and were enrolled in private schools. Can you believe that they could not afford health care? — Billy Esposo

VILLAR SAID: “Naranasan mo na bang mamatayan ng kapatid dahil wala kang parang pampagamot?”
TRANSLATION: “Have you experienced your brother died because he didn’t have medicine?”
NOYNOY SAID: “Naranasan mo na bang …

Source: PhilippineCommentary.blogspot.com
http://philippinecommentary.blogspot.com/2006/01/when-last-military-withdrew-support.html
“Gentlemen, I’m sure you know that we’ve just committed mutiny.”
Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Angelo T. Reyes uttered those words to the Service Commanders of the Philippine Army, Navy and Air Force on the morning of Friday, 19 January 2001 in reference to their decision to WITHDRAW SUPPORT for the Commander-in-Chief, President Joseph Estrada and to join then Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the EDSA Shrine demonstration demanding the immediate resignation of the President. GMA would be sworn in as president the very next day and Reyes …

This is an interesting observation by Mr. Bondoc.  If Gloria appoints Corona as the next Chief Justice, the Supreme Court could be called the “Coronarroyo Court.” — Perry Diaz
GOTCHA
by Jarius Bondoc
from The Philippine Star
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=553909&publicationSubCategoryId=64
Renato Corona is almost sure to be the next Chief Justice. People are reviewing his record, especially in relation to the most hated President. An Oct. 2008 Newsbreak tally of Supreme Court rulings showed Corona to be the most pro-Gloria Arroyo justice. Appointed in Apr. 2002, he had voted in Malacañang’s favor in 15 of 18 controversial …

by Justice Carolina C. Grino-Aquino (ret.)
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
 
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/letterstotheeditor/view/20100228-255955/Arroyo-cant-pick-forbidden-fruit

I do not think President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may appoint the successor of Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno after he retires on May 17, 2010. Although Article VIII, Sec. 4 (1) of the Constitution provides that “Any vacancy (in the Supreme Court) shall be filled within 90 days from the occurrence thereof,” the President’s appointing power is circumscribed by Article VII, Sec. 15 which provides that “two months immediately before the next presidential election and up to the end of his term, a President or …

NOYNOY AQUINO’S “PEOPLE POWER” CELEBRATION AT THE ARANETA COLISEUM
 
MANNY VILLAR’S CAMPAIGN SWING FEATURING THE VILLARROYO GO-GO GIRLS

by Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)
Akbayan party-list launches campaign to deny the premier political family power in the 2010 elections
“Blood is thicker than water.” This is the statement issued today by Akbayan party-list during the launch of the “Deny the Five Campaign, a drive to stop five members of the Arroyo family including Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) from winning legislative seats in the May 2010 elections.
Blood Politics
In a press conference in Quezon City, Akbayan said the campaign aims to repel Mrs. Arroyo and her family’s intent of securing their …

by Edu Punay
from The Philippine Star
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=553327&publicationSubCategoryId=63
MANILA, Philippines – The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has opted to await the Supreme Court (SC)’s ruling on petitions on a proposal to allow President Arroyo to appoint the replacement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno before deciding when to submit the shortlist of nominees to the Palace.
The JBC said it would push through with the ongoing selection process pending resolution by the court of the consolidated petitions of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa) and lawyers Jaime Soriano, Arturo de Castro and Estelito Mendoza that …

by Artemio A. Dumlao
Fort Del Pilar, Baguio City (February 20, 2010) — Admit it…. no politics at the Philippine Military Academy alumni homecoming looked awry and dry.
Saturday’s homecoming of 1,764 Cavaliers (PMA graduates) at the premier military officers training institution in the country was freed of politics.
“(Perhaps) we were victorious in the campaign against politics at the PMA,” PMA spokesman Captain Agnes Lynnette Flores quipped as the Academy urged Cavaliers and their adopted members before today’s alumni homecoming ‘to shun away from politics for the meantime’.
Although PMA class 76 adopted …

God must really be with Noynoy Aquino! This was released right after that “Villar MOST TRUSTED” Pulse Asia poll.
This Reader’s Digest TRUST poll is definitely more believable than the January 22 – 26 Pulse Asia poll. - Billy Esposo

Reader’s Digest Mag poll: Noynoy among most trusted

by Aurea Calica
from The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III ranked in the top five of the most trusted Filipinos in an independent survey done by international magazine Reader’s Digest.
In the magazine’s Asian Reader’s Digest Trust Poll published in its …

The accusation against Justice Antonio Carpio sounds like another “demolition job” by Malacanang to discredit him.  How can they accused Carpio of “electioneering” when he and his firm’s lawyers that  he paid for their hotel accomodations were not voting delegates at the IBP convention?  — Perry Diaz

Chief justice bet admits paying staff’s hotel stay 
by Tetch Torres
from INQUIRER.net 
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100225-255280/Chief-justice-bet-admits-paying-staffs-hotel-stay
MANILA, Philippines – One of the candidates for Chief Justice admitted paying for hotel accommodations of his staff in a 1989 convention of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) but denied allegations that he was …