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[On the other hand]

I remember being really enthusiastic about her back in the 80s, when I was an idealistic teenager and People Power the media buzzword, blah blah blah. In retrospect, though, I don't even quite know what her ideology was, and she is generally regarded as having been of debatable effectiveness as president. But her husband WAS murdered by Marcos, and she DID win that election, for what that's worth.

RIP.

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[Summer Wine]

It did change the country though and that was the issue.

Marcos was in for 20 yrs. I am sorry about her husband though.

Get off the plane, walk over here and security puts bullets into you.

Oh, by the way, we never catch the guys who did it.

Die with an audience and you live forever. The criminals never seem to pay for it though.

[ManintheMiddle]

May the angels sing thy praises, Cory.

"Corazon" means "from the heart," apt for this woman who dared to stand up to Marcos after one of his henchman shot her husband to death. She could have retired in comfort on her family's sugar plantation but put herself at risk by campaigning.

She was only ineffective in the eyes of those who expected her to be their savior. But she did try to do alot including land reform which at first even the Communists praised her for. Compare her to that vampress Imelda Marcos and she comes out smelling like gardenias. She met resistance at every turn once in office and yet kept plugging away.

It was said on both sides of the aisle after her speech to a Joint Session of Congress that she had delivered one of the most eloquent tributes to freedom and the American ideal ever heard in that chamber. And she single handedly convinced George Schulz to get Reagan to oust Marcos once and for all.

A magnificent but mild mannered person who was a reluctant politician--as Mandela described her.

The Filipino people, perhaps the most warm-hearted in Asia, deserve better than the corrupt leaders they've usually had to settle for.