Finally Full Blown Electioneering Now Ongoing - It's Time For The Big Push

So it's official. All candidates national and local are now officially able to annoy the heck out of everyone.

Before we were just fed the national candidates' crap. Now it's time for the local candidates to get into the act with their own campaigns.

And it will be one interesting ride.

Of course the biggest issue is still that of the party-list system. What with Mikey Arroyo being the major player in that controversy.

In fact he has been challenged to be a "sikyu" or security guard for one 24-hour tour of duty. This was made by his detractors who of course question, and rightly so, his experience concerning security guards, other than being guarded by them.

Yes, Mr. Arroyo, much as it is a novel defense, being guarded by security guards unfortunately does not constitute experience in that sector.

Of course he did not say that - to do so would be downright stupid on his part - but I'm just pre-empting him just in case he thinks of it.

I wonder which group of security guards agreed to have Mikey Arroyo as their representatives? I wonder how much they got paid for it. Shhhhhh . . . I'm sorry I guess we're not allowed to say bribery in these matters.

If there's anything as absurd as Mikey Arroyo as a representative for security guards, it's cosmetic surgeon Manny Calayan as a representative for media and showbiz workers.

As one fellow blogger (and I appologize I don't know the name since I picked it out in the news) said: “[Calayan] must be imagining: if we can use pork to beautify our streets, why not use it to beautify the face of millions of starving Filipinos? We might be poor but we won’t look poor.”

To put it mildly: only in the Philippines.