DUTERTE was humble enough to admit that he alone is not the answer to all our woes. The majority of us Filipinos are. He can lead us if he wants to and make the regionalistic nature of Filipinos truly suitable with a genuine shift to a federal form of government.
Grace Poe is not a senator by accident. The sacrifices made by FPJ molded her to regain lost grounds as a topnotch solon. The name Poe is heroic and acceptable among marginally Muslim Filipinos and their struggle for self-determination as portrayed by the King of Philippine movies Fernando Poe Jr thru a variety of roles as Muslim hero.
How about a Duterte-Poe tandem to help convince the FPJ-like, Isang-Bala-Ka-Lang crime busting audacity and real life Davao City hero of a mayor in whose decision to run for President still hangs in the balance.
Rodrigo R. Duterte is Visayan by birth, Mindanaoan by choice, Luzonian by adoption and overall as compassionately brave Filipino. Grace Poe is Filipino at heart and eloquently all of the above. By family tradition, her Visayan roots can be traced to her mother that was even captured in the tri-personality Susan, Susay, Susie portrayal of the uncompromising Ilongga woman of the old movie flick that was uniquely Susan Roces.
Duterte and the fight of his life is federalism for all not merely the complimentary Armm of yesterday and BBL today. Grace Poe, mother Susan and late dad FPJ are sympathetic to the cause of the Moro people.
Remember "Perlas Ng Silangan?" Her parents first colored film together. It was an epic movie that graphically reunites the people of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao to the colorful and royal tradition of the Moro community.
The senator relives the advocacy of her dad's true-to-life defense of the Filipino-Muslim culture. In that sense a Duterte-Poe alliance is not improbable on the basis of the twin advocacy for peace and co-existence.
With Grace comes Faith. By conviction and gender excellence, the recent 2015 Palarong Pambansa had exemplified that Faith Nisperos is women empowerment in action.
She is one of the many reasons why volleyball is increasingly popular and the ear-splitting cheers and hoorahs of the fans in the finals at the UM Tagum Gym prove that point.
Nisperos was awarded the Most Valuable Player at the end of a gruelling five-set championship of the sports hostility that was the only acceptable hostility for Mayor Rody Duterte in asking the NPA to hold their peace while Filipino children are having their quest for excellence and peace thru sports.
Ironically, two Davao-born volleyball youngsters have combined skills in so many exciting quick-set kills that defied the gallant floor defense of Valerie Mesiona and Gwen Cabrera from the start to the deciding 5th set 18-16. The see-saw battle frustrated Davraa's second consecutive climb to the finals in back-to-back defeat starting with the 2014 debacle against Western Visayas.
National team star setter of the recent U17 Asean-Australia tourney in Thailand, Rica Diolan was the giver and Nisperos the hitter. Born and trained in Davao, Diolan and Nisperos were the top choices for Best Setter and the most impressive Nisperos as the best volleyball player in a very competitive field of 17 regions and more than two hundred highly trained spikers, setters and Liberos out of some 11 thousand athlete participants of national caliber.
MVP Beat: We won the championship because of teamwork. - Faith JS Nisperos
