Cardinal Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila may have taken a bold step when he met the other day with Vice President Jejomar Binay, Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, and Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares to confer his episcopal blessings upon the wannabes. It is easy enough to assume that all three politicians had wanted to see the Cardinal separately in private, but the Cardinal decided to see them all together instead. He thus bestowed upon them the same blessing; no one got more, no one got less. But by receiving them together, the Cardinal might have unwittingly lent the impression that he considered all three of them potential presidential candidates for 2016. This may have been a mistake.

Why so? Because, first of all, the three are not yet candidates.

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