Posted on 09/11/2006 12:00:20 PM PDT by redstates4ever
She's in her late 70's, I think. She still looks pretty good for her age.
MY EYES!!!! It burns, it burns!!!
"Oooh, now I wish I'd bought those pink pumps!".....
I once ha the pleasure of meeting her as First Lady. She asked my Scout Troop to assist with a flag ceremony at the American Cemetary in Manila.
The Marcos tale is a sad one. I was there when they were elected. They were the darlings of the public. She was a world class beauty and he was a genuine war hero. When thinking of Marcos a real hero and Kerry a publicity hound in Vietnam to get the ribbon Kerry looks really bad by comparision. He held two campaign gatherings literally in my back yard. Over the wall and fence was a large open space in the center of old Makati. The message was in Tagalog so I don't know what was said.
The people loved the Kennedy's and transferred that sentiment to the Marcos family. Son Bong Bong was John John to the press and the nation.
To get to the shoes..... there is a village near Manila called Marikina. There they make shoes, not by machine but carefully by hand. There are tons of shops and most every residence has shoes. It has long been my belief that some enterprising soul gave First Lady Imelda some shoes, special shoes, an offering of near reverance and all they had to give. It cought on and before she knew it Imelda had thousands.
Lastly in this little piece, it is said that power corrupts. The Marcos story proves the point. They started as the best the nation could produce and ended in disgrace. .
Come to the party afterwards - we're cooking a Saint Bernard!
I see you still believe the disingenuous media smear about the 3,000 pairs of shoes. You should read attorney Gerry Spence's account of this where he explains how the media treated this dishonestly. It's found in his book "From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America" (Paperback)1996.
To sum it up, one of the most widespread Phillipine "cottage industries" is the making of shoes, and there is a tradition of these craftsmen sending a pair of their shoes to the First Lady. It's a status and honor thing, where they can then then claim "the First Lady has a pair of my shoes".
Mrs. Marcos didn't buy or wear 3,000 pairs of shoes - they were gifts from humble craftsmen all over the Phillipines as tokens of honor and respect. Moreover, she didn't just dump them in a storage bin somewhere, but insisted that proper closets for their storage and display be constructed in the Presidential Palace so that the donors would know their gifts were being properly honored. Her mistake was to take some MSM scum on a tour of the palace and show them those closets. They of course completely ignored her explanation of why there were so many shoes and concocted their own slanderous version of the story. She has been unfairly maligned.
see post #26
Its a little known story you'd never hear from the MSM. Anyone who's been in the PI knows about the shoe and leather goods industry...
So you also have a counter for the reports that they demanded a meeting with the Beatles while they were on a world tour?
OMG, Rita looks like a fool!
"Ferdie, I still object to your wearing my canary yellow pumps."
No, nor do I need one. A simple "So what?" is sufficient.
Why was it locked?
I didn't know that about the shoes, but, geez, what's with the sleeves on those dresses?
Good post! Of course, back then the MSM ruled the roost, so everyone had to swallow the party line, and no one would think to challenge it, especially if he happened to be unfamiliar with Phillipine culture. They've lied to us about a lot of other issues over the years....
The Filippinas valued the enlarged sleeves as haute coture. I can't remember the word for them. The same was for men, a barong tagolog. a very fine lose weaved and long taoled shirt worn with tail out.
Both were business and formal wear replacing the American dress that was often not suited to the climate.
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