Comments on: “There’s only one thing worse than a poor person pretending to be rich, and that’s a rich person pretending to be poor.”

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:07:00 +0000

@ Samantha – I would vote for Dick Gordon too. He’s got a good track record.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:57:32 +0000

i’m voting for mar but not for noynoy because noy just seems really spineless and incompetent to me. he’s been a legislator for a really long time, and i have never seen him take on any leadership role. and he’s incoherent half the time. if i were his employer i wouldn’t even pick him to head a team. and it’s not like he has helped to quell that impression: his sister has claimed that she supports noynoy financially, including his groceries. are you kidding me?? you want to run a country and you can’t even handle your personal finances? the guy runs to a convent to seek guidance from god on whether he should run or not. no offense to believers, but i find that absolutely ridiculous. we are not in the middle ages anymore. i want my future president to make decisions rationally. i know every candidate has kissed the catholic church’s a* at one point or another, but i think noynoy really believes in its nonsense. am i wrong here? please tell me i’m wrong, because i think this guy might actually win. *shudders*

i’m thinking of voting for dick gordon, so if there’s any criticism about him (apart from his bossiness and ill-temper), i’m really interested in hearing it. is there any question regarding his integrity? because i could easily forgive bossiness from people who could get things done.

By: bmw boy

bmw boy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:05:22 +0000

Does anyone else here receive political propaganda text messages on their cellphone? I keep getting election-related spam messages on my cellphone almost every other day. I don’t know where they got my phone number and the unknown senders are using different phone numbers. I get messages from the Aquino camp, the Villar camp, even from people campaigning for the Makati elections. And I don’t even live in Makati.

I don’t know what technology is involved in sending large volumes of text messages. Are the telecom companies working together with the politicians to send their messages? Isn’t this illegal? Maybe someone can enlighten me? How can I stop receiving spam messages?

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:17:45 +0000

Come election day we will be partying it up in Boracay… for this I would like to dedicate this song (ala Pacman) to all the the politicians pertained in this song by …ASIN… here’s to all y’all….MAGNANAKAW…

By: mojito drinker

mojito drinker — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:39:03 +0000

i stopped listening to the radio the last couple of months mainly bec i couldn’t stand listening to ads that implicitly promised a way out of poverty. thanks for the post mm.

By: chrisb

chrisb — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:08:55 +0000

I don’t think I would want to participate in an election where I had to choose among candidates of varying degrees of evil. I find the idea of choosing the lesser evil so defeatist and cynical. Would I vote for a candidate whom I know can and will cause harm to my country? NEVER.

I am voting for Noy and Mar because they top my list in 3 categories: honesty, capability and winnability.

In any case, the “lesser evil” tag applies only when comparing Villar and Erap. The rest are all reasonably honest and capable, in my opinion.

By: acid

acid — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:48:08 +0000

I also find it ironic that the group that claims to have “GOOD” on their side is the one that is the first to resort to and the most relentless in mudslinging, name calling and personal insults.

Gee, thanks for bringing Philippine politics to another level.

By: mei kwei

mei kwei — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:41:32 +0000

Thanks MM.whilst watching TFC here in the states- i cant help but ponder that perhaps these politicians or their marketing agents think that the masang pinoy is very stupid to believe that he can sell himself coming from a poor family. It just saddens me at times that some of the masa also bite this kind of marketing- is it because of poverty? kawawa naman ang pinoy. Also I cant help it but one of our so called politician friend bought a property here in states for usd 1M.deep in my heart- that money is a big ??? as to where it came from.at times i just wonder how they can get back those millions/ billions of money they used for their campaign. i presume – the madlang people will be the one paying for it, huh.

By: kahlil

kahlil — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:42:28 +0000

Why is ABS-CBN bias to NOYNOY? It is because of their history with lopez-aquino family? Dapat hindi ganyan, kasi ang laki ng influence ng media sa mga masa na nanood at yung media lang ang kanilang source of information about the candidates. Walang hiya talaga tong ABS oh!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:07:57 +0000

Ley, egads, I am ashamed to say I don’t know what happened to that feature. Perhaps just copying the url of the post and pasting it onto your email is the only way I can think of right now…