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                    [Title] => Letter To The Editor: Well where do we start?
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The invasion of my island has already started, the political candidates, grinning, (as only political hopefuls can grin) seen only through the blacked out windows of their multi million peso foreign SUVs did arrive, showering the attendant and attentive masses with promises, snacks, 'pigs on sticks', parades, bands, jugglers, and attendant clowns in a show with everything but Yul Brynner, and if I may dare say it, probably 'considerations and a small token of their thanks in anticipation of electoral support'; and a statutory balloon of course.

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I have over the last few weeks, listened to and read commentary from one person or another using personal lifestyle attacks on opponents running for political office...

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What I can’t understand is, why, when under the laws of this land (as I understand them) one has to be 40 or over (39-year-olds need not apply), a Filipino, read and write ones own name, an automatic qualification for application to the office of the Presidency of my country has been accepted and one can proceed in promoting ones platform, ideas, etcetera at ones own expense.

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The invasion of my island has already started, the political candidates, grinning, (as only political hopefuls can grin) seen only through the blacked out windows of their multi million peso foreign SUVs did arrive, showering the attendant and attentive masses with promises, snacks, 'pigs on sticks', parades, bands, jugglers, and attendant clowns in a show with everything but Yul Brynner, and if I may dare say it, probably 'considerations and a small token of their thanks in anticipation of electoral support'; and a statutory balloon of course.

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I have over the last few weeks, listened to and read commentary from one person or another using personal lifestyle attacks on opponents running for political office...

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What I can’t understand is, why, when under the laws of this land (as I understand them) one has to be 40 or over (39-year-olds need not apply), a Filipino, read and write ones own name, an automatic qualification for application to the office of the Presidency of my country has been accepted and one can proceed in promoting ones platform, ideas, etcetera at ones own expense.

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