Raffy’s “Impossible Dream”

By Al S. Mendoza

 

I just watched the 6th edition in the big screen of “Mission Impossible,” the former series in black and white TV in the Sixties.

Now called “Mission Impossible—Rogue Nation,” it stars hunk Tom Cruise and sultry Swedish Rebecca “The Thigh Assassin” Ferguson.

The film’s third star with equal billing is the BMW M3, the pricey muscle that was mercilessly mangled if only to showcase the car’s magnificence in bodily build, enduring durability and lasting looks.

Go watch it and you will know what I mean.

And speaking of “impossible,” here is a new version of the song, “Impossible Dream,” the favorite of the late, lamented Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino.

It was sent to me by Raffy Baraan, the keen, no-nonsense former provincial administrator of Pangasinan and the pride and joy of Dasol whom Guv Spines considers as his “pillar of knowledge of everything under the sun.”

 

Here is Raffy’s “Impossible Dream.”

 

“To dream the impossible dream,

To fight the unbeatable POE

To bear with Chiz ESCUDERO

That’s where BINAY wants to go.

To right the unrightable wrong

DUTERTE will shot near and far

PINOY with his arms and all too weary

Can’t reach the unreachable star.

This is MAR’S quest

To follow that star,

No matter how hopeless,

No matter how far.

To be willing to run,

Tho the polls show he’s down,

To be willing to die—

Till the Palace ever be mine!”

 

In Raffy’s song, Poe, Escudero, Binay, Duterte and Mar enjoy prominent positions.

Seemingly, all are ripe for the presidential derby in 2016—save, maybe, for Escudero.

But Escudero wants to run for vice president under Poe’s ticket.

With a presumed Poe victory in May, that would eliminate Grace in 2022—the year Escudero is targeting to go for his own run at the Palace.

The problem is, both Poe and Escudero are insisting they’d only run as independents.

Crazy would be our numerous political parties to support such positioning; even billionaires, including the wealthy Chinese block, will not touch the pair with a 10-foot pole.

There is no stopping Binay from running even as his popularity ratings had continuously dipped tremendously the last few months amid corruption charges hounding him when he was mayor of Makati.

He tenaciously leans on his line:  “The charges are nothing but merely politically motivated.”

But that defense is fast crumbling and, unless he faces his accusers squarely and mounts a credible offensive to offset the massive charges against him, his Palace pitch could be bamboozled pretty soon.

Duterte could be a wise choice, a credible alternative.

However, his tarrying could backfire in the end so that he should make up his mind if he would run or not—now.

As for Mar, well, he has the massive government machinery, and a giant political party backing him up—a sure weapon of mass destruction to his foes next year.

But it’s still a long way to go from here.

So, let’s just sit back and relax, and watch the show unfold; the mission impossible that is the Palace quest is a sure blockbuster come May.

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