On Target
Give Janina San Miguel a break!
By Ramon Tulfo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:43:00 03/15/2008
Filed Under: Local authorities
The presidential election is still two years down the road and yet big posters of Bayani Fernando, chair of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA), are all over Edsa.
Fernando, or BF to his friends and admirers, is eyeing the presidency, but his name doesn’t appear in the surveys.
That’s probably the reason he has put up big posters urging people to have “kaayusan” (order) in the streets.
What Fernando is doing is scandalous because he’s advertising himself too early for the 2010 elections using people’s money.
He should have his posters removed as these are eyesores on Edsa.
Buti ba naman kung guapo siya.
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Binibining Pilipinas World Janina San Miguel is being laughed at for her poor English.
Give the young girl a break!
If she speaks ungrammatical English, blame it on the country’s educational system.
Have you heard some lawyers, supposedly the most highly-educated of all professional people, speak?
They speak like Janina.
If you don’t believe me, listen to some of the lawyers of presidential spouse Mike Arroyo plead his case in court or defend him in the court of public opinion.
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You expect students to speak fluent English when their teachers can’t speak straight English?
You expect Janina to speak English fluently when her teachers are most probably just as inarticulate?
You expect Janina to speak fluent English when our former president, Joseph “Erap” Estrada, speaks carabao English?
C’mon, guys, you expect too much from a 17-year-old girl!
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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned after he was linked to a sex scandal.
Here at home, President Gloria has been linked to all kinds of scandal, yet she clings on to power like a barnacle to a ship.
When American leaders get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, so to speak – like President Nixon and lately Governor Spitzer – they resign to save their office from further shame.
Apparently, GMA’s US education (she studied for two years at Georgetown University) has not rubbed off on her.
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Remember Second Lt. Rolly Joaquin, valedictorian of the Philippine Military Academy Class 2004, who was kicked out of the US Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, four years ago after he was caught shoplifting in an Army commissary?
Joaquin has stayed on in the service despite his shameful deed.
Twenty years from now, Joaquin will become a general and a model soldier.
A model for staying in the service despite strong pressures for him to resign.
Just like somebody we all know.
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Poor Gov. Joel Reyes of Palawan!
He doesn’t know what hit him. He’s being attacked in the media on the controversial mining issue in the province.
Reyes is being criticized for allegedly taking sides in a fight between two mining companies in the province.
Nothing is further from the truth. Reyes has stayed neutral all along.
But one of the parties in the “mining war” has sought the help of some national officials and the media to destroy the governor’s reputation.
I think I know who could be behind the attack on Reyes.
He’s the husband of a woman rumored to have had romantic links with the handsome governor.
But the rumors are just not true as Reyes will swear to high heavens.
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