While reading my collegue Kit Tatad’s column yesterday on Sen.Grace Poe and her presentation of two birth certificates to the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET), it dawned on me that the senator is doing a Noynoy Aquino: she is presenting “alternative versions” of her birth to prove that she is qualified to remain in the Senate, and to run for president or vice-president in next year’s elections.

She is too ambitious and self-absorbed to realize it, but what she is doing is falsifying her life and her political career. These alternative versions of the circumstances of her birth are headed for the same fate as President Aquino’s ill-fated and now regretted alternative version of the Mamasapano incident.

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