coffee politics

since i came into the right to suffrage, there had been many elections in the philippines which i didn't vote for. it used to be because i had important thesis to do or some other schoolwork but then after university, ignorance of philippine politics and being jaded of the trapo (trash) politics became the reasons why i haven't voted in any elections.

don't get me wrong, i came from a family of political background but i really do not know why my cousins or uncle or the countless other politician relatives were elected to office. first of all, philippine politicians do not have clear cut idealogy. and even if they do, they have to articulate it in a very simplified language that the masses can undesrtand...which isn't much. so philippine politics has basically become a politics of pizaz and jazz, of mud slinging and vote buying. so tell me, who wouldn't be weary in all these things?! however, because i still believe that the filipino people deserve someone sensible than the incumbent ones, i have volunteered to non partisan vote counts whenever i can.

it was only recently that my interest in politics was born. it may just be unfortunate though that i became fascinated in american politics rather than the home grown ones. i have been following the primaries since it started thanks to cnn's the situation room's video podcasts.i am amazed at how different a republican's stand is from a democrat's on issues such as international politics, the economy, and social security! further, i am impressed at how each candidate know their policies so well and can navigate around them so deftly that they defend their policies so strongly to be different and better than the other's. i am astounded at how the political analysts know very well the demographic of each state thus enabling them to predict who would win in a certain primary!

my store of politcal jargon has already included words such as the starbucks voters; those educated yuppie uppity (NOT ELITIST! mind you)voters who are pro obama, and the dunkin donut voters; those blue collar workers and single mothers for clinton. if the electorate demographic in the philippines would be defined according to the coffee that they drink, there would be the roasted rice voters, the hand to mouth who drink coffee made from boiling roasted rice in water, and the 3-in-1 voters, the haves and educated ones. however, these two vote not much according to a candidate's platform of government but more on how much each candidate is willing to pay for their votes....(quack, quack, quack, quack!)

two days ago, i saw these interviews of sen. clinton and sen. obama by cnn's wolf blitzer. it strikes me as odd how sen. clinton got the vase of roses as her background while obama has the picture of the white house behind him...hhhhmmmm is that indicative of which candidate cnn is secretly supporting?

(wolf blitzer's interview with sen obama)http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/08/tsr.obama.interview.full.cnn?iref=videosearch

(wolf blitzer's interview with sen clinton)
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/14/tsr.clinton.interview.cnn?iref=videosearch

of course people say that sen.clinton should quit the race but, i say jia you to her. fight on till the bell rings! whether it's sen. obama or sen. clinton, they'll surely win against sen.mccain. it just bother me though as both democrats once said on an interview that when they become the president, they would cut US outsourced international business operations! if this is true, then i suspect that many filipinos who are working for call centers or in the IBO industry might have to go jobless! but then again, that isn't until november.

(i am not making any sense in this post am i, i truly believe so, politics isn't just my cup of kape)