In tondo, his birthplace, erap estrada formally announced what we already know – he will run for president. With him is Makati mayor jejomar binay who will run for vice-president.

He made an hour long speech. I looked if he was reading off a teleprompter, I could not see very well. He made a relatively good speech. I will be impressed much if there was no teleprompter. He made sense most of the time, in some parts I was not sure what he meant.

He made a few mistakes in some parts. There was this part here he went through the SWS survey on hunger twice. It looked like he may have forgotten he had already mentioned it. He memorized his speech and his way of getting back on track was to repeat chunks of it.

We think arroyo will have quite a difficult time when erap starts to give speeches to the voters. in this speech, erap spent a lot of time talking about the injustice he suffered under arroyo and how arroyo’s administration has done badly on the economy and the country. The passion and richness of his anti-arroyo speech makes you think arroyo herself is running for president.

Erap mentioned he is also doing this for his best friend fernando poe jr. who ran against arroyo and everyone suspects, even this guy named Garci, was cheated in the election by a margin of 1 million votes.

I think everybody deserves a second chance. We are not GOD to judge anyone.

HOWEVER, it was the voice and desire of the Filipino nation that took him out of his seat. LET US NOT PUT TO WASTE THE EFFORT OF WHAT WE FOUGHT FOR.

And what you think if he won and committed another crime we could easily impeach him again like we did before? Yes we could. But that would mean we’re taking our own laws for granted. EDSA 2 was made through extra-constitutional means. And I’m telling you it won’t be good for our country. Let’s try to focus first on the economy and how to lift our country from the deep ravine it has fallen into.

What is your suggestion?