Captain Barbel for President

2016 will seat a new Philippine president. Will we learn our lessons or will incompetent and corrupt presidents continue to seat on that ill-fated chair. It seems no matter who gets elected, one way or another some people will always find something to complain about it. Why not try to make the best decision on the onset by voting not from the heart.

How many of us are actually trying to have a thorough understanding of what makes these candidates tick? How many of us are trying to understand the ills of our country today independent of our own personal woes? And how many of us are actually thinking through whether promises made prior to elections are doable or not?

Presidential debates are not to see whether a candidate is articulate or not. It is to see whether their platforms actually make sense and whether they have a clear idea of what they are going to do to solve the issues that plague our country.

Some promise that they are the answer to the problem of unemployment, poverty, corruption, etc. But did they actually enumerate at least a clear idea about how they are going to do these?

Let's try to have a clear perspective about our choices of who we want to be president for the next six years. Let us not be blinded by claims to prestigious parents, claims to be the answer to poverty, claims that they can solve the ills of this country in one term. The running of a country is not a one man job. We are all responsible. Let us not expect that one man can solve our woes while we sit down and do nothing.

We are each responsible. Let´s start by voting wisely and not let ourselves be swept off of our feet by super heroic promises of change. Because otherwise we might as well vote Captain Barbel for president.