A time for Waterloo and Russian winter snow

THE die had been cast as early as 2011. That is, for Vice President Jejomar C. Binay. That was the year he announced he was seeking the highest post of the land.

To many learned observers, that was Binay’s most damaging undoing. In the face of that pronouncement, the man he beat for the vice presidency in 2010 was immediately uptight. Secretary Mar Roxas, endlessly smarting from that defeat, had certainly anticipated this move by Binay, and the minute Binay announced his presidential intention, Roxas set to motion a well-schemed campaign to demolish the Vice President in a most comprehensive manner. With Sen. Antonio Trillianes, in cahoots with Senators Allan Cayetano and Koko Pimentel III, acting as his attack dog in the Senate, charges of graft and corruption were leveled against Binay in the Senate, and transpirations in the consequent Senate investigation on the matter were ventilated in all spheres of the media, the trimedia and the social media, resulting in a widespread damning of the Vice President. By the time the Mamasapano massacre took place, Binay had been so much discredited in the eyes of the nation that the people were in a quandary as to what to do with the President. The people were ready to dispose of him in a coup or something to that effect, but granting PNoy were deposed for his presidential negligence of the SAF 44, who to replace him with? By provision of the Constitution, a corrupt vice president? Thanks to the Roxas demolition of Binay, President Aquino stayed in place. Otherwise, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay would have fulfilled a prediction by a reputed Chinese seer that he would be president sans election.