Good Idea: Vet the candidates
Saffy and Mat have already had their shots, thank you.
Not take them to the veterinarian, though some of the prospective candidates for the 2010 presidential elections sound like they could use a rabies shot. I mean put them through a critical examination: who are they, what have they got to offer, why are they running for president, why should we believe them, and other questions that are strangely left out of their campaign ads. Let’s start with their campaign ads. What are they saying, do you buy it, would you vote for them? And if you want to discuss production values and efficiency at delivering the message, I can’t stop you.
Critiques! We want critiques! If possible, please include a link to the political ad you are discussing. Yes, I am making you write my blog for me. Yes, we’d be happy to invite you to the think tank thingy. You will need plenty of caffeine to overcome the ill effects of exposure to political ads.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 13th, 2009 at 10:37
Manny Villar’s new ad is slick. Mar Roxas’ tv ad is melodramatic.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:39
I still think Ako Mismo is a political ad for Smart.
AKO MISMO AND OTHER REFORMATIVE REFORMATS
My first entry:
http://ddperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/ako-mismo-and-other-reformative.html
August 13th, 2009 at 11:30
What do you do when you share DNA make up of a former president and is about to marry a famous newsreader? Run for president. Better yet, ride a padyak to campaign and pretend you like it.
WHAT MAR IS DOING
“Anak itabi mo, lagpas na ako.”
The imagery of Mar Roxas is one that media and semiotic scholars should reconsider. From Mr Palengke to Mr Padyak, Mar’s spin doctors are exactly like that, twirled and dazed.
Honestly Mar should could have been best in DTI monitoring weighing scales in markets. His case resonates the aftermath of elevating leaders to national responsibility (i.e. Juan Flavier, Bayani Fernando who were excellent in DOH and Marikina respectively). He is educated, considerably articulate and telegenic and I do not see these hinted in his TVC.
Mar’s Padyak ad elicited laughters than any brave attempt to serious thought. It failed to acknowledge that voters are now more aware and want Solutions than Problems or representations of it. We have Wilie Revillame to remind us of our problems.
To insist that the youth aims to be seafarer or movie workers is like showing looped Carlo Caparas movies in Antipolo City Jail. The padyak campaign of “i can save this staranded nation” is so Borat.
Would you honestly believe that Mar Roxas of the powerful and rich Araneta Roxas clans will ride in the a pedicab? Hell no. Whoever thought of that Padyak campaign for Mar Roxas should sit in the mythical Row 4 as espoused by the equally yellow Cristy Fermin.
“Why Yellow is the color in the middle of the rainbow?”
The color is further associated with hepatitis, Chinese, and bad teeth. Let us not get into yellow being the overused color in the last two weeks as associated with the mother of Mar’s previously rumored girlfriend. Yellow and blue is like combined Miriam and Ateneo cheering squad.
WHAT MAR SHOULD BE DOING?
Those that will highlight track record and ability to sustain it, those that will amplify solutions than problems without sounding messianic, those that will convey sincerity beyond photoshop…. or a televised national debate in Tagalog or TagLish. Or a YouTube clip.
Or a simple Four Point Agenda of Food, Home, Security and Competitiveness.
I am not part of his media bureau and I do not expect to be given free Araneta concert tickets so I’ll leave this to them.
http://padyak.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/mar-roxas-improves-numbers-in-latest-pulse-asia-survey/
August 13th, 2009 at 15:04
I think the “Ako Mismo” ad is bordering on being a fad. I hope the organizers would follow up on it. Take note of the pirated “Ako Mismo” tags people are buying from bangketas – the people behind it may really commit to something, but the message is lost somehow, i.e., “bili tayo ng Ako Mismo dogtag, kasi suot ni Ely kaya cool.”
Whatever happened to Mar Roxas? Sure, most of the population watches Wowowee, and he could win with them, but announcing their wedding? Really? I dare him invite those audience members to his wedding and reception. The “Mr. Palengke” image was better for him – we want someone who would wrestle food prices down, not to padyak our pedicabs. And the old ad (with the jingle) was fun; the new ad says, “I’m watching too much soaps.”
http://www.internetphilippines.com/celebrities/korina-sanchez-mar-roxas-wedding-announcement-in-wowowee/
And is Wowowee the deciding factor for the success of these candidates? Because Manny Villar gave houses to Wowowee contestants a few months back, too. We’re familiar with candidates dancing onstage while campaigning in the provinces – we’re doing it on a whole new level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXCm-XrCl9o
I miss good, articulate speeches in government. Senators can now get away with saying, “saan mo nilagay yung camera?”
August 13th, 2009 at 16:48
Just saw the Bayani ad. Yikes. It’s like something they show on channel 4. But then, he can have the excuse of not spending too much on ads.
But wait! People who watch movies during last full shows in Metro Manila had already seen a preliminary campaign ad! In the guise of MMDA awareness ad! All those things he said about MMDA Gwapo in the ads before the trailers, and it ends with the kid asking, “ang buong Pilipinas po ba pwedeng maging gwapo?” and BF answering, “BAKIT HINDI?” How subtle!
August 13th, 2009 at 20:31
This is regarding Mar Roxas’ campaign approach. He’s a mixture of coy (not having formally declared his candidacy for presidency), aggressive (re-do of the proposal, the publicized pamanhikan), emoting (padyak ad and current “Ikaw lang ang nakinig sa amin†ad), crass (cursing the President in a rally) and somber (“The main issue of the Philippines is poverty†in the ANC leadership summit).
Since Mar’s narrative is a not one of rags-to-riches (Villar) nor one of obvious empathy (Erap), it seems he panders to reach the voters. It is unfortunate that Mar is drumming up publicity mostly by acting like a celebrity.
Mar can choose to show respect for the voters in the country instead. He can discuss the bills he sponsored for poverty, education and health as a senator. He can discuss his record as head of DTI. He can talk about how he tried to work with politicians not of his party, if he did so (important to know if he can build consensus). He can explain his transition plan once president.
He can buy all the ad time he wants. He can make all types of spin. He can guest in all the TV shows. He can even let a clown, or his bride, speak for him. As long as he tackles issue of relevance.
August 13th, 2009 at 21:12
As i see these candidates, they are all sincere and i believe most of them are good and decent people. Yet, they all missed the very important points and all of them looks and speaks the same language, that is government is the solution to all our problems, and government creates wealth and prosperity, centralization of power, and ever expanding
government to take care for us and for our children from cradle to grave. Increasing government means increasing taxes and even worst by inflation tax (increase in the money supply by printing of too much money) that drives up prices, thus devaluating our currency. No wonder why our country is poor and corrupt.
August 13th, 2009 at 23:33
Most politicians are now kissing common people’s backsides. Melodramatic advertisements showing how they used to be poor and how they love the poor bombard us everyday, a morning ritual to go with our coffee and daily dose of crime stories. Just like Erap. *sigh*
In this demanding times that one is either very rich or very poor (most probably the latter), a morality check-up is imperative, not only on the candidates but also on the voters. Back to basics, simple but time-tested values that molded persons like Tita Cory. Let’s return to the smallest things that are often overlooked, and everything will fall in its right place.
August 13th, 2009 at 23:42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uOEME9POqw
Kung Pilipino ka, panoorin mo to! (posted by mgakuwentonimangjuan) – a wake-up call for Filipino voters featuring 2010 candidates
August 14th, 2009 at 09:06
He’s not a presidentiable candidate (guh, I hope not), but will someone please tell Secretary Ronnie V. Puno of the DILG that his ad is so laughable? He’s not supposed to be praised for doing his job. It’s like praising someone for not robbing a bank or paying his taxes. Because people will enlist in the PNP whether he’s the secretary of DILG or not.
August 14th, 2009 at 16:22
My first reaction to the AKO MISMO ad was : ANO ITO? Mobile phone? Unfortunately, I still don’t get it (that’s because I don’t even try). I am hoping that the ad will serve its purpose: tell it as it is because there are people who stop thinking the moment they switch the tv on (ako yun, mismo). Still, I’d rather watch the AKO MISMO ad even if its meaning is lost on me everytime rather than the “Ikaw lang ang nakinig sa amin..”. It’s toe curling. Obvious na obvious! It will never convince me to vote for him. We need something that’s not melodramatic. Enough of the emotional appeal!
August 15th, 2009 at 03:15
Mar Roxas’s sense of the ridiculous
Sa loob ng beerhouse:
G.R.O. (Sumasayaw): Ganito po sa amin, walang maayos na trabaho. Walang tutulong.
MAR ROXAS: Anak tumabi ka…ako ang gigiling.
(Inside a beerhouse:
G.R.O. (Dancing lasciviously): It’s been always like this. I cannot find a decent job. No one is going to help.
MAR ROXAS: Anak move over…let me do the dancing.)
I was in the toilet during my break when I received this SMS joke from a classmate in college. Political jokes do not interest me. They are uninteresting, funny in a very shallow way, and they lose their humor pretty quickly. Besides politicians in the Philippines are more laughable than the jokes they inspire. It’s like doing a parody of a joke. And that’s not at all funny.
Reading this joke above, however, made me reconsider my prejudgment. It was intelligently written. For one it is making a commentary on the supposed questionable sexuality of presidential candidate Mar Roxas. Not that it matters to me. In fact it doesn’t. But my take on this is a minority; in patriarchal Philippines a leader is compelled to live within the confines of stringent gender roles. Hybridizing is anomalous; and an anomaly is not easily accepted in Philippine politics. It is a sign of weakness, incompetence, moral degeneracy. So being a homosexual or being rumored as homosexual, even a trickle of this flamboyant blood running in one’s vein means a doomed political career.
In the Philippines they want to liken their male leaders to boars inseminating as many mistresses as their semen sac can ejaculate. And their female leaders to be feminine and virginal. In the event she exhibits any sign of ‘libertarian’ tendencies then all is going down the drain for her.
Confused, unsure, or men and women opting to be in the middle ground are forever barred from politics. So they either remain closeted or come out and forget about politics altogether. This is Roxas’s problem. Unless he disproves this accusation hurled at him on his being binabae, baklush, bayot, bading, fairy, etc. then his dream of being in Malacanang is laid off. This will explain his much publicized rushed engagement with popular newreader Korina Sanches.
But the more important subtext of this joke is the politicians over-eagerness to help their voters that they end up disenfranchizing them in the crucial part of decision-making, of letting them decide their fate. Instead of empowering the voters and letting them find solutions to their individual problems by themselves, through their own effort and intellect, our politicians claim the burdens to themselves eventually making the forget them very reason why they are in public office.
Politicians in the Philippines are the most braggart lot; they’re so full of themselves, and are self proclaimed messiahs.
Mar Roxas, in his comatose-inducing Padyak ads, took the place of the boy in the driver’s seat, seated him in the passengers’ seat with his sister and drove the pedicab and jejunely uttered the flavorless tagline: Lalaban tayo! (We’ll fight this out!) He never proposed a solution, probably he meant to drive for the boy for a day, an earning insufficient to feed the boy’s family. Or he might have even wanted for himself the contemptibly small amount the boy will earn for a day in driving pedicab.
The greed.
Filipino politicians need to do a thorough system review and ask themselves whether their public relations department is doing its job. Gone are the days of gullible voters. Technology and the media are breeding more educated and sophisticated citizens. Why not instead of waging ad wars based on soap operatic themes, politicians consider presenting us definite platform of government? Enough with neurons-obliterating tactics. We demand substantial discussion of issues and not pa-pogi stance that has been repeatedly tried in previous elections. We’re sick and tired. And the political jokes circulating around is our response.
Don’t take us seriously and we’ll make fools out of you.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:50
ms. jessica, is it true that teddy locsin will run under UNO as senatorial candidate?