The only administration candidate who lost was Bobbit Sanchez, who today believes he was junked by his own party after drawing flak as a presumed leftist. All that did was give Cory Aquino to believe she had the mandate to turn Edsa I into a victory for her kind. It ended up being won for Cory, Sin, Fidel Ramos and their friends. Won by the people, it did not redound to the benefit of the people. It redounded to the benefit of Cory, Sin, Ramos and Ms Macapagal, who were pretty nearly the same beneficiaries of the first Edsa.
Political maturity is a tricky thing.
It s not just the poor that need to show political maturity, we do too. I should think the true test of political maturity is our willingness to understand why the poor voted the way they did. I should think the true test of political maturity is our ability to respond to the challenge that vote poses for us. We ve dug a hole in this country, true. The other poor - Ma.