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Irrelevant Eddie EDITORIAL 12/04/2009

Saturday, December 5, 2009


Irrelevant Eddie


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12/04/2009

Former President Fidel V. Ramos’ call for Gloria to resign the other day would have been relevant five years ago or earlier. But today Gloria won’t care about anything that he says, nor do Filipinos, for that matter, give a hoot about it.

Ramos, by playing what he thought was shrewd politics through all the years that Gloria was in power, has passed on into irrelevance and is reduced to a jumping people power monument in Februarys of every year.

Fast Eddie was, however, among the first to condemn Joseph Estrada when he became President in 1998 for his personal interest: Estrada was already then moving to question and later on possibly charge him for a number of dubious contracts under his watch, primarily the P9-billion Centennial Expo deal.

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