A big catch for the LP

Rep. Luigi Quisumbing has joined the Liberal Party. That’s a big catch for PNoy and Mar Roxas.

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Mar Roxas has always been my idol. Even long before he got the K to his name. I mean the K-ey to the gate of the Palace.

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Mar Roxas, it says here, is “perceived to be the presidential bet” of the Liberals. But Mar is not talking about it. Not yet. He’s keeping is card very close to his chest, away from the eyes – and ears – of Jojo Binay.

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US Sec. of State Hillary Clinton says the US will honor its obligations to Phl under the Mutual Defense Treaty. But it will not take sides should Phl and China fire at each other over the Panatag Shoal.

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Is that what my friend Noy Temyong call “double talk?” And “not walking the talk?” That’s like saying: “I love you, my dear Maria Clara, but if someone rapes you I’ll just stand there and watch.”

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I was reading the interview by Philstar columnist Wilson Lee Flores with Sen. Tito Sotto and I came across a portion where I could sense the Cebuano in Sir Tito.

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The senator remembers quite well his grandfather’s mother named Pascuala Yap. He said of her: “She was a humble fish vendor in Carbon market of Cebu. My grandfather’s dad Marcelino Sotto was a cargador in the pier of Cebu. So the traditional elites of Cebu looked down upon them, because they came from poor families.”

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By the way, how many of us still remember our grandfather’s mother like Sen. Tito does? And what she did for a living?

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Us Pinoys are the No. 1 in the world in English language proficiency. Truth to tell, many of us are not really proficient like that 12 year-old garbage scavenger who managed to carry on a conversation with a reporter of a foreign TV network. The conversation ended with the reporter giving the scavenger two thumbs up as he faced the TV cam.

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OVERHEARD. “Nadakin-as sa hugaw sa tawo ang Amerikano pagkanaug niya sa flyover … Gitabangan ko’g limpyo iyang sapatos.”