Counseling Raul Lambino on how to debate

By Jun Velasco

THE opposition might explode all the bombs on La Gloria’s face for all they care. But  little one looks unscathed as most everyone has  noticed  lately, with   green eyes to some, with  amusement to the apolitical  and naughty  smiles to  those who are peeved by  the  unimaginative opposition. 

Very recently, she mesmerized the oil-rich sheiks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and successfully brought home more than l35 Filipino OCWs detained in some Saudi jails probably by the expedient of her wink or Mona Lisa smile.

With a political opposition mercilessly wracked by individual ambitions, Philippine politics has been transformed into a sheer power game where skill, talent, imagination and guts rule the roost, matira ang matibay. And La Presidenta, it seems, is enjoying every step of the way. Now, they are singing a new song, “From Saudi With Love.”

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We think something deeper was achieved there, something significant that should lift the spirits of our  motorists, the jeepney, tricycle and other vehicle operators and drivers and the common tao.. It must have something to do with  the price of crude oil, which works like the plague if  it goes up and  God’s blessing if it goes down, and  in most likelihood, what seems impossible may yet come to pass as the little girl displayed unusual power in diplomacy.

Eat your heart out, pare Rod, Ate Glue glows these days. And instead of whining, better send a text to Gons for a round of Light Beer at Celsa’s  lounge at Vicar, yes, on a Friday night  where, Chito says, the DCNHS  combo plays, right Angelo?

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The  nursing schools  of some 37 colleges and universities saved by Attorney non pareil  Gonzalo Duque from  the CHED’s demonic  phase-out by the power of his booming voice (the judge slapped  the Commission on Higher Education right on the face that showed some  commissioners were sleeping on the job or dangling a settlement money) should waste no second to erect  his statue or  monument. He literally saved them.

Had it not been for Gons, the nursing schools should have been buried six feet below the ground, which would be a prelude to worse things to come.

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Give it to Vice Governor Oscar Bengson-Lambino when it comes to playing a politician’s role with savvy and aplomb. He simply threw out a naughty smile when told that the gubernatorial road was too financially bumpy because he didn’t have the millions to fund a gubernatorial campaign.

The money inadequacy goes to show, he said, that he did not amass wealth when he was in the government service.

We told him though that his playing escort to the Arenas mother and daughter – Rosemarie Baby and Rachel Baby — is a political masterstroke because they have the wherewithal and, therefore, the charm or charisma for a winning province-wide campaign.

“They should not underestimate a tried and tested winner,” he said with a winning smile.     

In Manila, Oca’s kin, the omnipresent Raul Lambino of Sigaw ng Bayan is frantically battling all comers on the proposition that the present constitution doesn’t work anymore, is the cause of our failure as a nation, and therefore should be changed if we are to survive.

Some colleagues of Raul are stunned by his energy and brilliance, but we cautioned him against knocking down his opponents, which, we hold, is not good strategy because this debate is not to be won by thrashing the foe to total defeat but by wining souls to the cause.

His last joust with prestigious Philippine Center of Journalism and the opposition could backfire. Better make them win the argument but caged in Raul’s home court.

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