When I wrote two successive columns on the subject of character and the presidency, I thought that it was a good way to send Grace Poe into exile from this column for a spell. It would be more prudent and kind to readers to leave her citizenship conundrum to the ministration of other pundits and the Supreme court, who know the law better than I.

I confess to being exhausted mentally by Ms. Poe’s haunting of our national politics, because I could not see any compelling reason why the nation and serious journalism should spend so much time on her. I could not see any qualities or attributes of character in the lady, no single sterling achievement, that would make her suitable as a possible successor to President Benigno BS. Aquino 3rd. I saw no difference in vacuity of persona between the false choice offered by her adoptive father Fernando Poe, Jr. in 2004, and the false choice she is offering us now. I see only missing parts and blanks in their backgrounds.

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