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If you’re taking notice of the political scene in the US, you’ve probably already come across the name, Barack Obama. If not, you might ask, who is he?

Barack Obama is the junior United States senator from Illinois. He recently announced his intention to run for the US presidency and is currently number 2 in the polls –after Hillary Clinton– in the run for the Democratic party nomination. He’s exciting, articulate, witty, highly intelligent and invites awe wherever he speaks

Four months into his senate career, Time magazine named him one of “the world’s most influential people,” calling him “one of the most admired politicians in America.”

Addressing a meeting of the Democratic National Committee one week before announcing his candidacy, Obama called on Democrats to steer clear of negative campaigning (Philippine politicos, listen up!):

"This is not a game. This can’t be about who digs up more skeletons on who, who makes the fewest slip-ups on the campaign trail. We owe it to the American people to do more than that. We owe them an election where voters are inspired–where they believe that we might be able to do things that we haven’t done before. We don’t want another election where voters are simply holding their noses and feel like they’re choosing the lesser of two evils. So we’ve got to rise up out of the cynicism that’s become so pervasive and ask the people all across America to start believing again."

So why am I writing about an American persona in a Philippine blog? It’s because I wish that someone exciting would also emerge in our political arena. What we have, however, is the same stale (dare I say, rotten?) trapos who seem to be running more for the best stylized image, rather than on the strength of character and vision. Even maverick senator Joker Arroyo jumped into the bandwagon with his “Pipol’s Dragon” ad. Susmaryosep!

Thus it’s no wonder Filipinos are approaching the elections with the same ho-hum, what’s new mentality with neither hope nor excitement for the future. I guess this is why we can be so easily enthralled by Wowowee, Korean soaps, the highly unimaginative Pinoy Big Brother and the other trashy fare we get from TV and movies (”Cute ang Ina Mo” rests my case).

We don’t see vision; we don’t see mission-based platforms; we don’t see character. What we see instead is a parade of fools.

Quick, someone make me an American so I can vote for Barack Obama!

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