The close advisers of Vice President Jejomar Binay, the putative front runner in the 2016 presidential race, have been mostly drawn from the camps of three former presidents: Marcos, Estrada and Mrs. Arroyo. If you say that is a good thing and a positive one , and it would add to the intellectual and moral heft of Mr. Binay, I would not even know how to answer back.
Sure, Joey Salgado, who trained under the late journalism great Joe Burgos, is with Mr. Binay. But Joey’s role is crafting words and media strategy, not on nation-changing policy directions. Mr. Binay would not turn to Joey, say, to get an adequate briefing on how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Crimea would impact on the defense preparations in the Pacific Rim.
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