Would you vote for him?

To indulge my curiosity, I began a presumptuous inquiry on how people around me--friends, family and colleagues--perceive one of the country’s presidential aspirants, Senator Noynoy Aquino, the one person who supposedly could bring renewed hope for the nation. I asked whether or not they would vote for him and why. Surprisingly, most said that they won’t for various reasons: his mediocre performance as a senator and his inexperience in governance; his feudalistic heritage highlighted by the Hacienda Luisita issue--the albatross around his neck--that has tainted him despite his good intention, sound platform and what they say as his capability to unite the nation; that he is merely a passing fancy made fashionable by the weight of his parents’ name and the showbiz glitz of his kid sister; his “messianic posturing” and “indecisiveness”, gleaned from his need to go on a weeklong retreat to seek divine guidance on whether or not to run for the presidency.

I, too, am not yet convinced. They say that the 2010 elections would be a battle between Good and Evil. It would probably be more like choosing the least of several evils.