I met Liberal Party presidential nominee Mar Roxas and his wife Korina at the wake of the late PDI columnist Neal Cruz at the Shrine of our Lady at Mount Carmel in Quezon City on Friday evening, and wished him luck on his nomination. Although I am no Roxas fan or supporter, I was pleased to see the ruling party free itself from the clutches of the propaganda fraudsters by declaring Roxas as its candidate despite his reputedly poor “survey” ratings.
It was a relief to see Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares fall off her perch, after contemptuously ignoring the constitutional provision that bars her from daydreaming about the presidency, for not being a natural-born Filipino. I also thought Mar’s anointing would end Malacañang’s relentless bid to force Vice President Jejomar C. Binay out of the race by throwing all sorts of dirt at him, first before the Senate blue ribbon committee, and now before the Ombudsman.
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