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3:13 PMWhat a bummer it must have been for the handful dreamers of an “Among Pres” (Father President) in 2010 had they imagined that the ANC Leadership Forum held at Ateneo last week may just be the perfect opportunity to showcase and promote their manok.
Well, ideally, it should, kung may ibubuga ang nasabing manok.
For one, it is a free 2-hour prime time TV exposure with a fairly wide captive audience especially from the upper/middle class professional/intellectual folks here and abroad who are also potential big-time funders, influential opinion shapers, campaigners and volunteers. Added bonus too is that the questions seem to have been given in advance (which explains how the slow-to-discern Panlilio went sleepless over the question of PGMA’s positive contribution to our country) giving the guests the opportunity to deliver their best President-material responses and perhaps minimize the generic motherhood, ill-conceived and even goofy statements.
Having some idea of how grueling any public face-off / battle-of-Presidential-wits under the close scrutiny of intellectuals, experts and professionals can get, the lead dreamer/convener of the Panlilio-for-President Utopian Society could have called for a mock-Question and Answer session with their manok thereby making sure that he will come out of the battle victorious and worthy of the hallowed pedestal that they had him installed. But since they obviously did not, ayan tuloy, nangamote. Kawawa naman.
The commentaries of national columnists and online bloggers after the forum somewhat demonstrates my point. Almost in unison, the general sentiment was: THERE IS NO WAY THAT THIS PRIEST CAN BE THE NEXT PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT.
Clearly unimpressed, the ever-sharp Amado Doronila of PDI concluded that all the aspirants where opportunistic and would grab every chance, even Manny Pacquiao’s fame and fortune, to get their hands on the presidency. Talk about the claims over Panlilio being the ‘real alternative’ presidential candidate!
Also incisive but more direct was the comments of Herman Tiu Laurel of The Daily Tribune. He wrote: “Then, there’s that newcomer whom everybody knows is kicking himself upstairs because he failed to fulfill the expectations of his provincemates who helped secure his fluke of a slim win, who wouldn’t be able to win again given his situation today. This fellow, a priest, is sadly possessed of a hyperbolic perception of his own significance, who clings to an ideology that is too limited to the anti-corruption issue, betraying an ignorance or denial of neo-colonialism, as well as corporatocratic feudalism as the real problems of this country.” OUCH!
Mr. Tony Lopez of the Manila Times wrote his take on Panlilio: “Retired priest, Ed Panlilio, the governor of Pampanga, sounded like he didn’t want (he gave a lot of “ifs”) to join Pacquiao but he didn’t have the mental honesty to say so on prime time TV. Ricky Carangdang asked the right question when he asked Governor Panlilio why so many people in Pampanga hate him. The governor ducked the question by saying many other people also like him. What Carangdang didn’t ask the good padre is why is it the nearly the entire Pampanga officialdom doesn’t like Panlilio, which says a lot about his style of governance. The ANC anchor also didn’t ask Panlilio what gives him the right to run for president when he seems to have made a mess of running the Pampanga provincial government. And why does he give so many conditions before he could be convinced to run. Is he a frontrunner? Surveys don’t even sniff his name among the top-of-the mind choices of voters for president. To me, Father Panlilio is simply on an ego trip. He is not a viable presidential candidate. He has very little chances of winning. Right now, he is not even sure of winning reelection in his native Pampanga.” OUCH! OUCH!
Fernando Gagelonia posted on midfield.blogspot.com, “Panlilio was the least impressive alternately sounding like the man of the cloth that he still is, while grappling with the intricacies of vested-interest local politics in his native Pampanga.”
From Gov. Panlilio’s responses on the 10-minute one-on-one interview with Ricky, it is clear that what’s keeping the suspended priest from finally seeking dispensation from the Vatican or to resign from the priesthood is really no longer about his love for the vocation as he piously and repeatedly declared in the not so distant past.NOW, THE TRUTH IS OUT: IT IS REALLY JUST ABOUT THE MONEY!
Ricky: What are the factors that will make you decide kung tatakbo talaga kayo?Gov. Ed: Wala tayong pera, Ricky eh… Kung tutulungan ako, if this will snowball, then I might go for it.
Hay naku, Among Ed, with the way you treated your campaign donors, fellow Crusaders, supporters, volunteers, staff, friends and relatives after THEY installed you into power, how can you expect a nationwide snowballing of support? With less than a year to prove that you were worth the sacrifice and the votes of the people of Pampanga, what have you got to show for it?
Hay naku, Among Ed, with the way you treated your campaign donors, fellow Crusaders, supporters, volunteers, staff, friends and relatives after THEY installed you into power, how can you expect a nationwide snowballing of support? With less than a year to prove that you were worth the sacrifice and the votes of the people of Pampanga, what have you got to show for it?
We all reap what we sow.You sow disunity among the people, contempt and suspicion of any elected official who refuses to kowtow to you, and you consistently listen only to the voice of – no, not God’s, but his own and that of his goddess. Ganun na ba talaga kayo kagaling ngayon, Gov?
If there is one really good thing the ANC Leadership Forum did for its viewers, it is this: IT HELPED EXPOSE GOVERNOR PANLILIO FOR WHAT HE TRULY IS AND WHAT HE CLEARLY IS NOT.
