Reading from the media accounts of the oral arguments last Tuesday at the Supreme Court on the Comelec disqualification cases of Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares, I had a vision of Ms. Poe as a politician who is running the gauntlet in her obsession to become president of our republic.

“Running the gauntlet” is an idiom that entered the English language in 1676 according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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