Philippine Presidential candidates 2010

Selection process for the Philippine presidency has begun.  Philippine Presidential candidate are busy positioning themselves to get the nod from major political parties to become their standard bearer.  Administration's Gilbert Teodoro, Philippine Secretary of National Defense, We have Noli de Castro, current Philippine Vice president we also have Bayani Fernando Philippines Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman, Manny Villar Philippine Senate President  and many more.  These are the people whom they think the Philippines need to be the next Philippine President in 2010 Presidential Election.

The opposition is also posturing their own standard Philippine president bearer.  There is no united opposition that really stands out this time, but we have Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay who has declared his desire to be the next Philippine President. We have also former Philippine President (disgraced)Joseph Estrada, whom if he is able to circumvent the constitution, is willing to run again as PhilippinePresidential candidate. The opposition still couldn't unit themselves to select who would be their next Philippine president be, so therefore it is still a wait and see situation.  We cannot discount the possibility also that Philippine Presidential Candidate turncoats from the administration will join the opposition.

If these Philippine Presidential Candidates are not selected, they set up their own political party, hence, there are plenty of Presidential Candidates to choose come election time.  This is where the difficulty arises.  The process of selection will be left for the people to decide.  These political pundits justifies that it is better to have several political parties so that there will be several Philippine presidential candidates to select from.  I fully agree with them, that we should not limit the opportunity to serve the country as president to only a chosen few.  What I doubt however is the ability of the people of the Philippines to select who really is the best Philippine presidential candidate from among these guys.

The constitution does not limit anybody from creating his/her own political party for just as long as he has the capability to put it up.  I heard that they say the constitution doesn't, and I that transpired, so I believe it to be true that it is not a constitutional taboo to set up one's own political party. anytime 

Philippine politics have this mindset that nobody loses the election, but only cheated. They don't accept defeat. This is precisely the reason why the constitution came to be what is it is now because of the same paradigm, the paradigm of "never accepting no for an answer".  If you get "no" to become the political party standard bearer, then, shift to "yes": I can create my own political party.  How is that?

Now we have several political parties existing.  We have Kampi, Lakas, CMD, laban, nacionalista and many more, and all these parties can field in there own Philippine Presidential candidate if they feel they need to.  But IT is almost always that they really feel they need to when the election comes.  The Philippines is just one of the few countries, if not the only one, which fields plenty of presidential candidates during election time, as if it were just a simple city councilor post.

Wouldn't you think it to be a lot betterr when they preselect first the Presidential candidate before they can be fielded out to run and gets our valued votes?  It will be a dilemma on the part of the people of the Philippines to select because they don't have valid information about the presidential candidate other than what they hear about these candidates popularity depicted trimedia.  Usually, the people would just select whoever is most popular. There are more than 85 million people in the Philippines, and  many of them don't really investigate who among these presidenatiables is most reliable.  Even if they do, they can only know so much about the person.  

Often, the winner is the one who is most packaged well on media.  Their win ability is more often attributed to their ability to manipulate the print,  TV and radio media.  You know what media can do!  It can sell to the market any poison and the people will be clueless to buy it until one is dead.  Presidential advertisement is not covered by truth in advertising act that covers advertised products.  So, we are left to trust our gut feel in selecting who will lead our country for the next 4 years.

What I am driving at is that if we can only set up a 2 party system for the Philippine presidential election, then we can give the people the better choices.  We are presenting to them the cream of the crop, not the residue.  Those who can do less are those who exposes themselves most in the campaign...and we have many of this type in the government today.  Shallow politicians!