{"id":3482,"date":"2010-02-18T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2010-02-18T07:31:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T12:31:02","slug":"rrepost-invisible-platform-manuel-l-quezon-iii-the-daily-dose-the-long-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/rrepost-invisible-platform-manuel-l-quezon-iii-the-daily-dose-the-long-view\/","title":{"rendered":"rrePost:: Invisible platform : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose :: The Long View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If machinery wins National Elections (I&#8217;m acutely aware that local elections can be won by a better party machinery) then Pichay should be a senator now. Obviously he isn&#8217;t. QED.<br \/>\nWish people really call BS on these politicians. We would have a shorter news cast.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have heard it said that Teodoro played a central role in formulating the <a href=\"http:\/\/npcparty.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=8&amp;Itemid=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPC platform<\/a> and he himself has been saying things that suggest familiarity with a draft platform. This has been particularly true in recent weeks, coinciding with the period work on a platform has been taking place, as Magno mentioned. The term \u201csubsidiarity\u201d that he mentioned at a recent forum is a vintage Christian Democratic one and is, surely, a hint of what the Lakas-Kampi-CMD platform might put forward. This inability to publish a platform means the ruling coalition believes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/index.php\/top-stories\/9744-gibo-ratings-to-surge-in-march-predicts-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prospero Pichay\u2019s statement<\/a> that their candidate will win because of party machinery and not public sentiment.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2010\/02\/18\/the-long-view-invisible-platform\/\">The Long View: Invisible platform : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If machinery wins National Elections (I&#8217;m acutely aware that local elections can be won by a better party machinery) then Pichay should be a senator now. Obviously he isn&#8217;t. QED. Wish people really call BS on these politicians. We would have a shorter news cast. I have heard it said that Teodoro played a central &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/rrepost-invisible-platform-manuel-l-quezon-iii-the-daily-dose-the-long-view\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rrePost:: Invisible platform : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose :: The Long View&#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":[10,24,62,64,65,66,71,78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-class-of-politician","category-election","category-personal-angol","category-pettiness","category-philippines","category-politics","category-presidential-election-watch-2010","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","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=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}