Look before you leap

The action star turned president. The nocturnal president. The poster boy of corruption. The academically challenged president.

Joseph Estrada, “Erap” to his millions of tangahanga, suffered miserably in the past. He has been scraped off his office, cutting short his six-year Presidential into two and a half. He has been jailed and convicted. But he has been pardoned since, thanks to Madame Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

After being away for so many years from the cockfight that is politics, now he’s back, vowing as he does to continue what he has started. But for lack of anything newer and better and more convincing to show to the voters why he still remains to be the best choice, Erap—-or whoever is in-charge of building him up—-has rummaged in his baul and found his most-prized possession: his many years of experience in public service.

Setting aside the question if Erap is allowed to run for any public office this coming elections, many are afraid that The Erap might win because of his still-wide masa following.

But let us look before we leap, i.e., let us look at Erap's past before we ever think of voting for him as a President---again. Read A portrait of Erap as a public servant at RP2010.com.