Bongbong for president? BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/16/2010

Bongbong for president?

BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/16/2010 They’re back. After being unceremoniously being kicked out of the country together with the family patriarch, President Marcos, some 24 years ago in the aftermath of the Edsa I people power uprising, the 80-year-old wife and two children of the late dictator are back in the political scene. And with a vengeance. If the current trend is to continue, only son Bongbong Marcos appears headed for a resounding victory in the senatorial contest; while his mother former First Lady Imelda Marcos has already clinched a seat in the incoming House of Representatives and sister former Rep. Imee Marcos, has won handily as Ilocos Norte governor (after trouncing her first cousin incumbent Gov. Michael Keon) in the just-concluded elections. This is utterly remarkable, because in the span of just 24 years, the Marcoses have managed to reinvent themselves from the pariahs they were made out to be by the “yellow forces” of President Cory Aquino (mother of Sen. Noynoy Aquino who is currently leading the unofficial tally of the presidential elections) into political celebrities that the public can’t seem to get enough of. And to think that the Presidential Commission on Good Government still has to recover some P80 billion of the alleged P140 billion ill-gotten wealth that the deposed dictator is supposed to have amassed during his 20 years in power.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100516com4.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Not on your yellow life FRONTLINE Wanting to have their way again ENQUIRY Why is the random audit taking too long? BLURBAL THRUSTS Bongbong for president? TABLETS OF STONE ‘The people have spoken,’ which people? VIEWPOINTS Clerical obligation FEATURE Fear of Tehran haunts Iranian refugees in Turkey