MANILA — Engaging in a word war against Vice President Jejomar Binay, Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the battle between the straight and the crooked path has began.
“It is ‘daang matuwid’ (straight path) versus ‘daang baluktot’ (crooked path),” Lacierda said as he continued to attack Binay’s spokesman Joey Salgado.
Lacierda said that the division started when Aquino chose to endorse Secretary Mar Roxas over the Vice President for the 2016 presidential race.
Since then, the word war between the two camps errupted.
“Ha! Ha! I love it that Vice President Binay is marching to the beat of our drums! The line in the sand has been drawn since VP Binay bitterly attacked the President after having failed to secure the endorsement of President Aquino,” Lacierda said.
Salgado also criticized the government for using the EDSA revolution to advance the interest of the Liberal Party.
“They were partying in New York or wherever it is that rich haciendero families party in the United States during martial law,” he said.
“It is very convenient, and much safer, to claim to be vanguards of democracy when the democratic order has been restored. The true test of courage is to stare down the armed might of the state when it had the license for summary executions.”