Why Do They Keep Talking About Failed Elections?

And we haven't even had elections yet. Do they know something we don't - especially the current administration.

Of course they do. They're the ones in power after all. So there is a provision in the constitution that allows for the military to take over should there be a power vacuum and no new president is elected.

Hmmmm between a military junta and a president that everyone hates it's too close to call really. So that's why soon to be former President Arroyo (and I say that with a grain of salt) is running around the country garnering support. Oddly enough it doesn't seem to be for her party's presidential candidate former secretary of defense Gilbert Teodoro, unless of course I miss it which is possible.

"The tours she has been making around the country are her last-minute rounds to check that all her finished projects are being maintained and will be maintained, [and that] all ongoing projects are being continued and the unfinished ones to be assumed and continued by whoever will win in the coming polls,” says Charito Planas, Arroyo's deputy spokesperson.

Good reason. Make it look like she cares for the country's well being.

Even presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III questions the government rumor machine asking, “What is the purpose of raising this scenario? Are they conditioning our minds that this will be the inevitable outcome of a failure of elections?”

Exactly sir. That's exactly what they are doing. Even if another deputy spokesperson, Gary Olivar, blames the opposition of creating it's “own specter” to scare the “people about the so-called election failure in spite of the fact that this has never happened," the fact of the matter is regardless of the finger pointing they all seem to look forward to a failed election.

On an entirely different note I would just like to say that the president (again I say that with a grain of salt) sure has a lot of deputy spokespersons. Which makes me want to ask: what happened to her main spokesperson? Or does that person not want to talk? So much for being a spokesperson, but I digress.

Back to the matter at hand. Well they are calling for a smooth transition and calling on the Church and business community to use their “prestige and moral influence” in averting a possible power vacuum after the elections.

Wow, anytime you combine religion and politics it does not bode well for the people. I always thought that we have what is called the separation of church and state but the fact that the church has more say than the people makes me wonder why don't we just say we have a church state.

And nothing good comes out of it. Them religious people with their holier than thou position as if they're better than us. And it's not like they can suggest anything that can do the country good. They declare things should not be done but they don't offer any effective alternative.

But to get back to the matter at hand. Malacanang assures us that the president will definitely step down on June 30. This from the same president who promised back in 2002 that she would not run for president in 2004.

We all know what happened. Citing a higher cause she ran, supposedly to nourish our future . . . down the drain. 6 years of hell for that.

So her saying that she will step down at the end of her term - well let's just say I'm not holding my breath.

Well until Villar is sworn in that is.