Monthly Archives: April 2004

Battle of frames

In BusinessWorld Online, you can read Manuel Buencamino’s masterful analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the various presidential candidates in terms of their marketing themselves.

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Fire in the belly?

In ABS-CBNNEWS.COM, Today newspaper’s editorial looks into the reasons why Fernando Poe Jr.’s campaign is showing signs of incipient distress and self destruction. Today has always had a respectful, and often, enthusiastic, attitude toward FPJ so it can’t be accused of having an “anti FPJ” agenda. The reasons given in the editorial for the signs [...]

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Musing on Mindanao

In Philippine Commentary 2004 Elections Fernando Poe Jr.(FPJ) vs Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) , Jorge Bocobo has been focusing on Mindanao and the Moros. This reminds me of Repulsion and Colonization., which I wrote back in 1996. A problem that modern Moro nationalists have is that their forefathers were strongly pro-American, and were used by [...]

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