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I beg to disagree with Sen. Mar Roxas when he said that love and
politics should not mix. He may not like to mix the two but there is
no way he could isolate one from the other.
Mar, definitely the 2010 presidential candidate
of the Liberal Party despite his claims that he is not yet thinking
of it, spoke of a dividing line between love and politics when Sen.
Ping Lacson proposed that the opposition unity should start with the
wedding of Mar with Korina Sanchez of ABS-CBN, his girl friend of
five years.
Ping said that to start opposition talks for a
common presidential candidate, the Mar-Korina wedding should have
former President Erap Estrada as godfather, Sen. Manny Villar as
best man and himself and Sen. Loren Legarda as sponsors.
Hey, wait, Ping forgot to mention the role of
Mayor Jojo Binay of Makati City in the wedding entourage! Couldn’t
he be the ring bearer? “I’ll suggest that, but I will say that
it came from you,” Ping told me. Oops. And what about Sen. Chiz
Escudero? “He could be the coin bearer,” a staffer of Chiz who
looked like Judee Aguilar said.
This scenario, however, would not happen because
Mar would have none of it. Perhaps, Erap would not be the ninong
and, definitely, Jojo would not be the ring bearer. Nevertheless,
the people, especially the admirers of Mar and Korina would never
allow them to make their wedding (“soon,” Mar said on Friday) a
private one.
The wife a private person?
Mar can separate his political life from his
love life only if he wants to keep the love of his life away from
politics. But since Korina has been making daily commentaries on
politics in her radio program with Ted Failon over DZMM, I wonder
how he could possibly do this.
Of course, I know of some politicians who do not
want their wife to be involved in politics, but this is mainly
because they do not want to lose votes. There is one politician from
Central Luzon who once allowed his wife to join him in the campaign.
However, when the wife openly put on lotion on her hands after
shaking hands with the electorate, the politician immediately asked
her not to join him again. Some wives do not want to be exposed to
the heat of the sun.
efrendanao2003@yahoo.com
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