Who’s got balls to put up with an Aquino extended term?

There’s an undercurrent talk in the grapevine that of the presidential aspirants in the 2016 elections, Grace Liamanzares, nee Poe, is the American boy. At once, I am inclined to give credence to these whispers. Here’s somebody, quite unknown in Philippine politics, has not held any political office, and yet suddenly springs into the senatorial race. You don’t do that feat unless you’ve got some big benefactor behind you. And now here she is, after just a little over three years in her learning process at the Senate, aspiring for the highest post of the land. Something must be cooking for this woman. But it is a topic deserving attention much deeper than hearkening to presidential gossip. Machinations by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) take a lot of sleuthing to uncover.

My kumpadre, a colleague in the journalistic craft whose got some substantial connect in Philippine economic and political affairs, insists that a sure clue to determining Grace as the American boy in the 2016 presidential contest is a 90-year-old Filipino entrepreneur who is said to be minding the huge finances in Grace’s presidential drive. In the period covered by the most recent Pulse Asia Survey, Grace spent P220 million in ads, just a little less than the biggest spender Roxas, at P250 million. Wife of a US navy officer and part heiress to the modest estate of Da King, Fernando Poe, Jr., Grace can’t have that much money of her own to sustain the enormous logistical requirements of the presidential campaign; but Washington has.