RAPPLER: After 'rushing' deal, PH got nothing from Obama - Joker

"We rushed to sign the EDCA as a gift to President Obama.... No one, but no one, was consulted about its constitutionality or participated in its preparation. It was exclusively Malacañang directed," Arroyo said in a media statement on Tuesday, April 29.

MLA STANDARD: JOJO ROBLES - IT'S COMPLICATED

The Aquino administration, of course, has long peddled the belief that the US has our back in our territorial dispute with China over the Spratly Islands. However, Obama did not even mention China is his speech before the soldiers - something that is bothering people who were hoping fo a more definite statement from the US president on the Spratly Islands, similar to the one he made earlier in Japan.

MANILA STANDARD: OBAMA: US GOAL NOT TO STIFLE CHINA

Hours after the US signed an agreement to bring more American troops to the Philippines, US President Barack Obama said Washington's goal was not to contain China amid a festering territorial dispute over the West Philippine Sea. "We do not have claims in this area territorially. We are an Asia Pacific nation and our primary interest is the peaceful resolution of conflict, freedom of navigation that allows for continued progress and prosperity."

PHILSTAR: JARIUS BONDOC

Obama was NON-COMMITTAL, when asked if America would come to their defense too should Beijing make good its threat forcibly to eject a Philippine Navy vessel from a nearby shoal. Obama's double standard was painfully obvious. In Tokyo he had stated outright that the disputed SENKAKU ISLES BELONG TO JAPAN, so China should lay off. Six days later in Manila, he quibbled that AMERICA TAKES NO SIDE IN TERRITORIAL TIFFS nor is out to "contain China," so he hoped that the latter would "listen to her neighbors."

PHILSTAR: Former President Fidel Ramos, who was present when Obama delivered his remarks, said the Philippines should seek collaboration with China on ISSUES LIKE DISASTER MITIGATION AND POVERTY. He said nations should work together to address common problems INSTEAD OF BICKERING WITH ONE ANOTHER or worse.

ANC: Ombudsman dismisses plunder and graft complaint against PGMA and Dato Arroyo for the Libmanan-Cabusao Dam and Sky bridge 1 and 2 projects in CAMSUR.

TRIBUNE: NOYNOY GETS FAILED GRADE FOR KEY ISSUES - PULSE ASIA

President Aquino was rated a failure in what respondents to a Pulse Asia survey considered should be given priority by his administration, which is keeping commodity prices low with 26 percent indicating approval against 34 PERCENT DISAPPROVAL for a net rating of NEGATIVE EIGHT.

TRIBUNE: NOYNOY GETS FAILED GRADE FOR KEY ISSUES - PULSE ASIA

President Aquino was rated a failure in what respondents to a Pulse Asia survey considered should be given priority by his administration, which is keeping commodity prices low with 26 percent indicating approval against 34 PERCENT DISAPPROVAL for a net rating of NEGATIVE EIGHT.