Kaban ni D_BystandeR: PAGKALARINONG MAMABA UG PAGKAUTOKAN, MANAG-UBAN BA???

Being a Bar topnotcher could be like magic that can transform your life and your love-life to a more resplendent level. And many, as enumerated in this article as Bar topnotchers, have become great leaders of our  country, like Don Sergio Osmena of Cebu who became president when Pres. Manuel L. Quezon died and did not finish his term, as well as  Presidents Manuel Roxas, Diosdado Macapagal, Ferdinand Marcos and  Carlos P. Garcia. But being a Bar topnotcher is not a guarantee that you  can also become an eloquent speaker too. There are many who did not  top the Bar but are known of their eloquence as good and fiery speakers.  One of them is Sen. Raul Manglapuz who confided with humility that he  only got 75 percent when he took the Bar. Sen. Gene Magsaysay, the  younger brod of Pres. Ramon "Monching" Magsaysay got 86 percent in the Bar but comparing him with Sen. Manglapuz, if they are made to stand in the same stage and asked to deliver a speech one after the other, I'm sure Manglapuz will surely get a far greater number of thunderous applause over Gene Magsaysay. And our very own Talyux Bacalso, who was elected to become one of our Constitutional Delegates at the same time with former CJ Davide, was considered our number Cebuano orator of his time even though he was only a barrister. And even my son, lawyer James Lobedica, although  he was like Sen. Manglapuz who was only able to pass the Bar, is also a gifted speaker having won 3 consecutive years in our town of Minglanilla in the 1980's as the acknowledged champion in extemporaneous speech contests held and  sponsored by a youth organization. Even in his College of Law class in USC as a law proper student, he also became a ruling champion in an extemporaneous speech contest in their class where his college of law professor Gabby Ingles was one of the 3 board of judges, that was years ago before Ingles became a Senior Associate Justice in the Court of Appeals for the Visayas. Being a Bar topnotcher and at the same time gifted with a talent as an eloquentspeaker is something that is rare to find.

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with an article written by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez for The FREEMAN, entitled, "The importance of being a Bar topnotcher." It came out on January 24, 2016.