Comments on: Gordon: Lapid > Aquino

By: Myron

Myron — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:03:55 +0000

I’ll give Gordon kudos for being Dick if he doesn’t take back that statement. The statement simply works in many levels if you try to understand it.

By: onetamad

onetamad — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:19:48 +0000

Yeah, he does. But he can’t, won’t tone it down. Which in itself is pretty refreshing.

By: BenK

BenK — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:59:21 +0000

onetamad : @BenK: Points taken. But using Lapid as an example sort of lowers the bar even more, doesn’t it? I mean, he may have held positions in the executive and the legislative, but that’s pretty much it. Sort of like coming in to work for attendance’s sake. He’s never really made a stand on anything. Which, at least, Aquino has. He spent hours wrangling with Joker Arroyo over gerrymandering congressional districts, say. Which, I guess, isn’t really an achievement since Sen. Arroyo is a pretty cranky old guy who tends to be contrarian by general principle, but still…

Right. Probably not a good example, but I see what he was getting at. That's one of the problems with Dick -- I like the guy, but he does have a habit of saying things that come out sounding wrong. The other (however unlikely) possibility is that, for once, he was trying for a little subtlety and just said it to bag on Ignoy. Which, if that's the case, makes it a pretty awesome comment.

By: onetamad

onetamad — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:44:23 +0000

@Anonymouse: It’s not funny, but it does make you think…

By: onetamad

onetamad — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:43:50 +0000

@BenK: Points taken. But using Lapid as an example sort of lowers the bar even more, doesn’t it?

I mean, he may have held positions in the executive and the legislative, but that’s pretty much it. Sort of like coming in to work for attendance’s sake.

He’s never really made a stand on anything. Which, at least, Aquino has.

He spent hours wrangling with Joker Arroyo over gerrymandering congressional districts, say. Which, I guess, isn’t really an achievement since Sen. Arroyo is a pretty cranky old guy who tends to be contrarian by general principle, but still…

By: BenK

BenK — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:53:50 +0000

I think the point Big Dick may have been making is that the bar of standards that says Ignoy can even be a candidate is so low that even a doofus like Lapid could step over it. Actually, taken at face value, Dick’s comment is entirely accurate. Lapid was a governor, and even though he spends most of his time in the Senate impersonating a cardboard cut-out, if you compare his legislative record to Ignoy’s, he comes across like one hard-working son of a B. Not that I’m suggesting he’d be anywhere near being a worthy candidate for President — but sure, Lapid does in fact make the list of “people more qualified than Ignoy” in literal terms, and makes it comfortably.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:03:09 +0000

Surely this must be some kind of joke, or hyperbole gone wrong. It’s not even funny…

By: Nepenthe

Nepenthe — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:40:41 +0000

Ohhh! and said with gusto and all the sarcasm that Kuya Dick can muster.