Duterte Campaign Receives Further Boost

[Arthur Little]

Already streaks ahead of his rivals ... the Davao City Mayor's campaign has been given a further boost. And it comes from the "pen" of prominent, "no nonsense " Filipino columnist, Carmen Navarro Pedrosa - a firm believer in "telling it as it is"
- who writes:

"Duterte is serious about the need for constitutional change that will transform the Philippines [Administration] to a parliamentary system with a federal structure."

http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2016...-crowd-duterte

Clearly, his policies have struck a chord with the masses - based on his track record within the city he has served for so many years - along with his ability to readily identify with the people he represents; it is *these qualities as a leader, she adds, that combine to form his party's 'protective shield' against cheating.

But, she cautions, ... "Evil CANNOT simply be banished overnight, ... it's an ongoing task, that'll take time to achieve. And here - ALL things considered - is the man whom I believe to be the person BEST~equipped to initiate the process."

http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2016...-not-disappear

[fred]

Duterte,RoXas,Binay and Poe are wonderful human beings and all would make wonderful presidents.
Good luck to all of them in fair measure!!

[SimonH]

Duterte,RoXas,Binay and Poe are wonderful human beings and all would make wonderful presidents.
Good luck to all of them in fair measure!!

For a minute I was going to ask you to check your for splinters as I thought you were well and truly sat on the fence.
Then I realised

[Tawi2]

Carmen pedrosa "says it as it is" Given that the philippines is in the top 5 most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist i think she "says it as she is told"

[fred]

For a minute I was going to ask you to check your for splinters as I thought you were well and truly sat on the fence.
Then I realised

[Arthur Little]

For a minute I was going to ask you to check your for splinters as I thought you were well and truly sat on the fence.
Then I realised

... what did you realise, Simon?

[SimonH]

... what did you realise, Simon?

Sometimes what's not written is just as important as what is written Arthur

[Tawi2]

Sometimes what's not written is just as important as what is written Arthur

And thats the implicite truth.

[tiger31]

there is a photochop video going round with him in bed with a 17 year old i guess his opponents are getting worried how far out in front he is at the polls

[grahamw48]

I think the bloke may be a bit crackers... but that never stopped anyone becoming a President .

[Amaw2008]

I have to admit that Rodrigo Duterte's rise is pretty impressive. My mahal has been watching dozens of clips of him on her phone and says that he is exactly what the Philippines needs. When I refer to him with a laugh as "Mr two-thirty" she puts on her serious face and repeats that he's the man for the job. It's interesting to me why he has become so popular. The Philippines has always had a law and order problem, but in the last two years many Filipinos have told me that there has been a particularly worrying rise in drug abuse and kidnapping. Not having been over since 2011 I can't really comment, but it seems to be a widely held view. What are your thoughts guys and girls, is this the truthor wild exagerration?

[Tawi2]

Duterte is the best of a bad bunch,my son is kinblood with a well known family in davao,he has a cousin and an uncle who work for duterte,davao still has its crime,murders,shabu labs,gang rapes etc,its not the shangri la of the PI by a long shot,but it feels comfortable to some of us.

[Arthur Little]

... "Duterte vote is the voice of angry Filipinos" - Francisco Sonil Jose, Philiippines National Artist for Literature.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/...ational-artist

's it in a nutshell ... ... says it ALL, really!

[London_Manila]

I think the bloke may be a bit crackers... but that never stopped anyone becoming a President .

Agreed he is as daft as a brush

He says he is going to eradicate all Crime and drugs in the Philippines but he cant even do that in Davao City
For me he comes across as a typical barangy bully boy captain who opens his mouth without engaging his brain
I would rather any of the other candidates winning the election than this guy

He owns many properties and lots across the Philippines mostly in other family members names
He threatened to reveal all his bank accounts but his campaign team don't seem very keen on that one

I would not put it past him to try and start a war with China

Just being linked to any death squads should make him unelectable but sadly in the Philippines it does not

A tough talker who shoots from the hip yes but as a president on the world stage he would be totally out of his depth

[Michael Parnham]

Agreed he is as daft as a brush

He says he is going to eradicate all Crime and drugs in the Philippines but he cant even do that in Davao City
For me he comes across as a typical barangy bully boy captain who opens his mouth without engaging his brain
I would rather any of the other candidates winning the election than this guy

He owns many properties and lots across the Philippines mostly in other family members names
He threatened to reveal all his bank accounts but his campaign team don't seem very keen on that one

I would not put it past him to try and start a war with China

Just being linked to any death squads should make him unelectable but sadly in the Philippines it does not

A tough talker who shoots from the hip yes but as a president on the world stage he would be totally out of his depth

Seems to be the same as Trump

[grahamw48]

They may both come across as slightly barmy, but Mr Trump is several leagues above Duterte in the 'credibility stakes', I'd have thought... and certainly in the US, one man cannot rule the country, as has been well demonstrated in the case of Obama and his (IMO) somewhat ineffectual terms of office.

[Tawi2]

Yup,his policies as such arent realistic but who else is there,the rest are political dynasty thieves,london_Manila has it right,how can dirtyturte eradicate graft corruption kidnapping and drugs on 7107 islands when he cant do it in one city and heaven forbid his thuggish manly tattoo'd daughter follows him into malacanang

[grahamw48]

Well, as long as the winner is 'foreigner-friendly', not a lot we can do to change anything.

[Arthur Little]

He says he is going to eradicate all Crime and drugs in the Philippines but he cant even do that in Davao City

No? Then how about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiG5...layer_embedded

And that was back in February 2013 ... long before he was coerced into running in the Presidential race.

For me he comes across as a typical barangy bully boy captain ...

You think so? I doubt if many of his Davaonian constituents would agree with you.

... who opens his mouth without engaging his brain

... rather like yourself!

I would rather any of the other candidates winning the election than this guy

Oh really? So I take it you'd prefer corrupt individuals like Roxas ... whose mind seems to've "mysteriously" gone blank when quizzed as to the whereabouts of the Yolanda Typhooon funds ... or Binay, who "fiddled the books" when he was Mayor of Makatti ... or Poe who lied about her citizenship.

[Arthur Little]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiG5...layer_embedded

And that was back in February 2013 ... long before he was coerced into running in the Presidential race.

One in the eye there also ^ ... ... for ALL the other cynics!

[London_Manila]

One in the eye there also ^ ... ... for ALL the other cynics!

The last thing the Philippines needs is this crackpot running the country

He had a go at the Pope and then had to say sorry
His remarks about a rape victim were beyond the pale
Drugs and crime still prevail in Davao = so no change there

Please give me your take on Duterte's 41 properties ?
His 3 bank accounts with accumulated transactions of P2.4 Billion?

Duterte even denied having a BPI account until it was uploaded online and then he stated that it only had a "few thousand pesos" and then he has since changed that to "a little less than P211 million"

Yes he is popular but then Imelda Marcos was and still is = you could not make it up!

Not bad for a guy who tries to pass himself off as being pro poor and a man of the people

At least Poe has some diplomacy skills and a good education background Duterte has neither

[London_Manila]

Well, as long as the winner is 'foreigner-friendly', not a lot we can do to change anything.

Expect the Idi Amin variety of foreigner friendly if the crackpot gets elected

Powder keg countries are great until wrong people get into power

[London_Manila]

Seems to be the same as Trump

Much worse than Trump

The department of justice has just confirmed its investigation into the unexplained killings perpetrated by the Davao death squads and the involvement of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte

[Michael Parnham]

Don't know a lot about Philippine politics but since the days of Marcos (who by the way was controlled by Imelda) it's always seemed to me that the voters seem to want Entertainers or someone of extreme wealth rather than a good stable person with head for real politics and how to run a country, just my thoughts

[Arthur Little]

The last thing the Philippines needs is this crackpot running the country

... WHY a "crackpot"? Because he aims to/dares to "break the mould" perpetrated by the greed of the Cojuangco~Aquino clans (under the guise of "people power") since the Marcos regime was ousted?

He had a go at the Pope and then had to say sorry

Sure ... he did. But ... ... as you've admitted, he'd the grace to aoplogise, for which - in turn - he received a Papal blessing.

His remarks about a rape victim were beyond the pale

See http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....n-the-election ... #6.

Drugs and crime still prevail in Davao = so no change there

Yes, ... as they do in most major cities worldwide. Yet how come Davao was voted as being 'fourth safest city in Asia'?

Please give me your take on Duterte's 41 properties?
His 3 bank accounts with accumulated transactions of P2.4 Billion?

Duterte even denied having a BPI account until it was uploaded online and then he stated that it only had a "few thousand pesos" and then he has since changed that to "a little less than P211 million"

Bank of Philippine Islands may Sue Senator Trillanes over fake claims:

http://okd2.com/bpi-sue-trillanes-de...ness-sabotage/

Yes he is popular but then Imelda Marcos was and still is = you could not make it up!

... perhaps Filipinos finally realise with hindsight that the nation's economy was at its height (ahead of Singapore) during the said Imelda's much~maligned late husband's period of Martial Law ... only to slither rapidly downhill (as I've already indicated in my opening paragrah above) once the greedy, self~serving Aquinos took over the reins.

Not bad for a guy who tries to pass himself off as being pro poor and a man of the people

At least Poe has some diplomacy skills and a good education background Duterte has neither

... rubbish! Duterte is a lawyer - a first-time passer of the Bar Exams. Forbye, a former State Prosecutor ... unlike Poe, who taught in US Nursery Schools despite [apparently] failing their National Teaching Board Exams.

[Tawi2]

2010-2015 Davao had 1000+ murders compared to 800+ for cebu arthur,davao also had the second highest number of rapes per city in pinas,check out the crime index,i hear of crimes often over there having family in the old bill,and a lot of small minor crimes go unrecorded.Its not the petty phone snatchers or appliance thieves who need to end up as salvage,they are easy targets,its bigger fish.

[London_Manila]

... WHY a "crackpot"? Because he aims to/dares to "break the mould" perpetrated by the greed of the Cojuangco~Aquino clans (under the guise of "people power") since the Marcos regime was ousted?




Sure ... he did. But ... ... as you've admitted, he'd the grace to aoplogise, for which - in turn - he received a Papal blessing.




See http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....n-the-election ... #6.



Yes, ... as they do in most major cities worldwide. Yet how come Davao was voted as being 'fourth safest city in Asia'?



Bank of Philippine Islands may Sue Senator Trillanes over fake claims:

http://okd2.com/bpi-sue-trillanes-de...ness-sabotage/



... perhaps Filipinos finally realise with hindsight that the nation's economy was at its height (ahead of Singapore) during the said Imelda's much~maligned late husband's period of Martial Law ... only to slither rapidly downhill (as I've already indicated in my opening paragrah above) once the greedy, self~serving Aquinos took over the reins.



... rubbish! Duterte is a lawyer - a first-time passer of the Bar Exams. Forbye, a former State Prosecutor ... unlike Poe, who taught in US Nursery Schools despite [apparently] failing their National Teaching Board Exams.

My cat could pass the Bar exams in the Philippines if the right people were bribed

Fourth safest city in Asia = now that really takes the biscuit

I notice you fail to comment on Durterte's financial situation and endless list of private properties

His sledgehammer style of diplomacy will not work on the worlds stage and he will make the
Philippines a laughing stock

IMHO and of course totally unscientific he just looks like a thug and somewhat deranged

My friends are working in the financial institutions in Makati and they have seen huge
outflows of foreign investments every time Durterte tops the latest opinion polls
Shares are not seen as a good bet now in the Philippines due to Durterte

His whole election campaign is based upon eradicating crime and drugs the the Philippines so on that basis Davao should be drug and crime free then

[Ako Si Jamie]

They say there's a fine line between a crackpot and a genius.

Not saying Duterte's either but he's a better candidate than the usual self-serving fraudsters which get elected.

[Ako Si Jamie]

it's always seemed to me that the voters seem to want Entertainers

President Pacquaio maybe one day? The title certainly has a ring to it.

[Tawi2]

I spoke to someone in Davao this morning who described duterte as the best of lesser evils,they are all corrupt but its hobsons choice.If pacman ran then i could seenhim getting massive votes,it was only a few years ago that people were indeed saying Pacman For President.