The Candidates: Ms. Panday, Dirty Harry, the Clone and the Mayor

Let’s not fool ourselves into believing that the May election is one in which Filipino voters will choose a President they think  has the best platform of government for the country.

The scheduled “presidential” debates are not likely to be real exchanges of rational thinking to crystallize issues in the same way the college debates of our youth sought to thresh out issues. It will be a contest of sound bites, of the best and most imaginative verbal dirt-hurling in an “ang-pikon-talo” match – all intended to project a certain image of the candidate.