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Yesterday, I went home early to catch some glimpse of GMA’s SONA. As I expected it was just a “GMA show of force”. Manolo was in ANC with Korina and as he said “GMA is now in her best and strongest political situation”.

Read more about SONA with some reactions in MLQ3 and PCIJ.

Read also Paeng’s SONA notebook, Newsstand’s hollow victory and curious language, Unlawyer’s Isang Bansa, Isang Diwa, and Jove’s Sona stories.

And oh, Manolo got “the day after” already.

Interesting site – a collection of opinions and blogs related to Gloriagate.

Some recent entries includes President, pauper and Nag-iisip…

If you are kind of people shouting “Gloria Arroyo! Pekeng Pangulo! Alis jan! Alis jan!” (Yes, I do with Princess inside our house, hehehe).

Here you go people, go and sign here.

If you want some button-banner to display in your site, meron dito si Rose.

If you are joining rallies and want some placards and posters, txtpower have some here.

William Esposo, inq7 wrote:

As an EDSA participant who organized and headed her 1985-86 campaign media bureau, I cannot reconcile this position of our former president with the very events that made EDSA I and her own ascension to the presidency possible. This reeks of double standard, and to her critics – outright hypocrisy.

Conrado de Quiros, inq7 wrote:

I do know how to pray, too: With leaders like these, please lang God, help us.

JB D. Baylon, Malaya said:

As a voter and as a citizen I have come to the agonizing conclusion that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has to go. And it is my prayer that this happens through her resignation, because it will be totally hilarious if another vacancy in the Office of the President of the Republic is declared by the Supreme Court; hilarious but perhaps a result of karma?

Roberto Verzola said “It was a very close contest, with the most probable results ranging from a GMA win of around 156,000 votes or less, to an FPJ win of around 84,000 votes or less.”

Read his opinion in June 21, 2004 archive of Inquirer.

Read the full report here.

PCIJ posted it here and an interesting comment by ichirosan pointing to Dean Jorge Bocobo’s Gloria’s 10 to 1 Landslide in Cebu.

The Committee for the Defense of Lawyers (CODAL) has come out with a legal memorandum citing possible violations of the Constitution and threats to the administration of justice that the president could be liable of. Read it from PCIJ.

Finally, my best read Manuel L. Quezon III and Susan Roces said it!

To all people googling hello garci and gloriagate ringtone; here are the sources you can download it:

PCIJ
yugatech
txtpower
beybe-babe

Another grilling day for Bunye; also an administration solon’s claim that the controversial tape indicated that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo also allegedly cheated in Cebu during the 2004 elections.

Teddyboy grills Bunye in more than 2 hours of confusion before the hearing started.

Update: Jove has his own version of truth.