Ahh, the Statute of Liberty, truly a sight to behold.
I am back from my sabbatical energized and raring to meet head on the challenges of a life of a lobbyist and political consultant. I was in California, Las Vegas, New york, Washington, DC in my month leave from work. Spending Christmas in California and New Year in the Big Apple.
In between the reunions and the family get-together was a chance to take a peek at the primaries. Its amazing how the primaries are able to separate the serious and the floating candidates for the presidency. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have several names in the list and look at them today, we have Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats and John McCain and Mitt Romney for the Republicans. We should probably study, consider and modify a similar arrangement here where the almost 10 "presidentiables" can be subjected to such grueling debates.
As of today there are 10 names already being tossed around. Some are certain, others are being floated for what I call the PVS formula - that's the President or Vice-President or Senate formula. The names being mentioned are: VP Noli de Castro, Senate President Manny Villar, 2004 Senate No.1 Mar Roxas, 2007 Senate No. 1 Loren Legarda, Sen. Richard Gordon, Sen. Chiz Escudero (but technically he is not yet 55 years old), MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando, DOE Secretary Angie Reyes, Makati Mayor and UNO President Jojo Binay and DND Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.
Will discuss the names later as well as the battle royale of families (Arroyo vs. De Venecia) and the movements happening leading to 2010.
Cheers!
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