{"id":2782,"date":"2010-01-11T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2010-01-11T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:00:55","slug":"repostpagbabago-and-what-it-really-means-to-us-pinoys-filipino-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/11\/repostpagbabago-and-what-it-really-means-to-us-pinoys-filipino-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Pagbabago and what it really means to us, Pinoys &#124; Filipino Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Aquino and Villar do not offer \u201cpagbabago\u201d\u2013they offer an \u201cexchange\u201d or only \u201cpalitan\u201d\u2014from an administration dominated by one elite group to another. They want their elite groups to transpose the existing one.<br \/>\nWorst, are the two remaining presidentiables, namely Teodoro and Gordon who offer the worst form of \u201cpagbabago\u201d. There is nothing transformative about Gordon\u2019s \u201ctransformative politics\u201d, read his platform\u2014there\u2019s no \u201ctransformative ideas\u201d there\u2013only motherhood statements.<br \/>\nGordon wants to barter and what\u2019s worst, he will be bartering our very futures when he becomes president. What Gordon offers is what we call \u201ccosmetic change\u201d\u2013he wants nothing more than changes in the exterior aspect of our life.<br \/>\nTeodoro offers new leadership only, the kind which we have been accustomed to since nine years ago. Nothing about pagbabago as we want or aspire for\u2014more of \u201ctransactional\u201d change. In fact, Teodoro wants Gloria to be on his side when he wins and that is so evident in his public statements. Teodoro represents grossly traditional or G.T. politics.<br \/>\nWho, then, holds the right interpretation of \u201cpagbabago\u201d ? Is Erap Estrada, who did not attend the forum, offers us the \u201cpagbabago\u201d which we so desperately seek?<br \/>\nNo. Estrada just wants to continue what he failed to finish. He offers nothing new, except perhaps, a new face?<br \/>\nWho, then, holds the right interpretation of \u201cpagbabago\u201d?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/filipinovoices.com\/pagbabago-and-what-it-really-means-to-us-pinoys?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FilipinoVoices+%28Filipino+Voices%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Pagbabago and what it really means to us, Pinoys | Filipino Voices<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquino and Villar do not offer \u201cpagbabago\u201d\u2013they offer an \u201cexchange\u201d or only \u201cpalitan\u201d\u2014from an administration dominated by one elite group to another. They want their elite groups to transpose the existing one. Worst, are the two remaining presidentiables, namely Teodoro and Gordon who offer the worst form of \u201cpagbabago\u201d. There is nothing transformative about Gordon\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/11\/repostpagbabago-and-what-it-really-means-to-us-pinoys-filipino-voices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Pagbabago and what it really means to us, Pinoys &#124; Filipino Voices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,71,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-politics","category-presidential-election-watch-2010","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}