AS I was listing my choices for the coming senatorial and local elections, I felt a sense of hopelessness. There are only two people on my list:
- a very old man who should have retired but felt that no one can fill in his shoes yet; and
- someone who dared not to be proclaimed by presidents he previously asked to resign (nevertheless, if he is not married to a megastar he would not have that "principle."
- We have bright young lawyers who talk too much but work too little (if they did their homework, they could have impeached GMA)…
- We have returning political veterans who never achieved anything substantial other than spark EDSA Dos by blocking the opening of the second envelope…
- We have children and relatives of heroes… but we all have heroes' blood in all of us…
- We have millionaires who swindled banks, depositors and house buyers to accumulate wealth (sipag at tyaga… at maraming pagbalimbing)…
- We have populists… they do not understand a single word they are harking (ever thought about the consequences of abolishing VAT or not paying our national debt)…
- We have local government officials who came from provinces that are not known for their progress or unparalleled development…
- We have political neophytes with no clear understanding of the legislative process…
- We have glorious men in uniform whose greatness was shot down because of women in their lives (one was asked by his mother to stop a mutiny, the other was caught in his female friend's house)…
- We have action stars who brawl on national TV and it is not part of a movie or a show…
- We have a dumb bar topnotcher who disgraces two universities with his un-common sense
