Stop regime of lies, Erap tells poll rivals By Gerry Baldo 02/21/2010

IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES REVEAL DESPERATION Stop regime of lies, Erap tells poll rivals By Gerry Baldo 02/21/2010 Do not sacrifice the truth in exchange for political gains, former President Joseph Estrada advised his rivals who he said were merely telling people what they wanted to hear to get ahead in the surveys. “Do not lie or make impossible and empty promises only to get ahead in the campaign. It is unfair to the people.” This was the advice given by presidential candidate Estrada yesterday to other presidential candidates in interviews in Quezon province where he was on his third campaign sortie since the start of the campaign season. “I won in 1998 and I am confident that we will again because the people know that it is Erap who is sincere and that I tell the truth,” Estrada said in the local dialect to reporters. Estrada’s spokesman Margaux Salcedo said President Erap does not believe in just telling people what they want to hear, like what candidates who are losing momentum or are miserably low in the surveys are doing.  “Just telling people what they want to hear is a sign of desperation and of wanting to win at all costs,” she added.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/headlines/20100221hed1.html

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