A battle made in heaven EDITORIAL 03/12/2010

A battle made in heaven EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 03/12/2010 With just a few days into the May 10 elections, candidates are frantic in giving their all, which is everything including the kitchen sink, in making a final dash for victory. Charges, whether wild or legitimate, fly in all directions and from such scraps of allegations, the public forms a consensus on who best to elect as leaders. Several political pundits are now looking at an Erap Estrada-Noynoy Aquino battle for the presidency with the way the ill-starred candidacy of Manuel Villar appears headed for a crash dive as a result of the still unresolved C-5 anomaly and talks about him being a secret anointed of, or an insurance candidate for, Gloria. An Aquino-Estrada tipoff would be interesting since it would be a virtual test of divine justice. It was the group backing Aquino, which is composed of the civil socialites made up of Makati big business executives, Catholic bishops, and the well-heeled in society, that had conspired to bring down Estrada despite his being voted by some 11 million Filipinos in 1998, the biggest landslide vote ever received by any Philippine president.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100312com1.html

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