Release us from the chains of mediocrity and banality of Ms. Grace Poe and Sen. Chiz Escudero who want to lead Las Islas de Los Ladrones, whose dysfunctional culture has elected into powerful public offices denizens like clowns, criminals, womanizers.
Poe and Escudero, motivated by surveys, have gone on the campaign trail--this activity is only legally permitted in 2016. They are telling gullible Filipinos they would be doing things to improve their lives--this is also the promise of the other presidential tandems that include Vice-President Jejomar Binay and Sen. Gregorio Honasan.
This was also the promise of Fidel Ramos, Gloria Macapagal and the convicted economic plunderer Joseph "Erap" Estrada who boasted of having seven wives and building each a house of their own.
Such promise will always be broken. When the past presidents came to power, they led in the corruption and the ransacking of the national treasury. They created more political dynasties whose insatiable lust for power and wealth defies reason and control.
Such has been done and will always be done.
Yet, is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Is there hope in Miriam Santiago and Bongbong Marcos, both of whom, along with the late Sen. Joker Arroyo, did not vote for the ouster of Chief Justice Renato Corona in a rigged impeachment trial?
Now come Poe and Escudero, behaving like second rate actors adored by a nation of dumb oxen, with their sterile, obsolete and corrupt minds. They are making noises, trivializing the campaign, as if it is easy to be president and vice-president, respectively.
These are supposed to be exalted positions. Believe it or not, here we are again, in a country where such contested seats of power are just domains of popularity and beauty pageants. As if Poe is running for mayor in some obscure Philippine town, and Escudero, as chief executive in an urban area.
Here they are insulting our collective minds.
There are no debates, no platforms to speak of?
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