In a recent Manila Press Club forum Sen. Manuel Villar described himself as, "What you see is what you get," and then went on to say that he wasn’t hiding behind the shadow of parents (an obvious dig at Presidential rival, Sen. Noynoy Aquino) nor was he a haciendero.

"What you see is what you get" in website-building shortcut is wysiwyg. When I was starting out to be a webmaster, I used wysiwig applications to build my sites. I hated them. So I taught myself how to write HTML code.

Wysiwygs are for lazy people or for those who don’t know HTML. In other words, there is no depth in wysiwygs. They may look good and appealing for their ease of use in the beginning. But as you get to use them more and more, you realize you can’t really do much with them.

So when Manny Villar describes himself as wysiwyg, he could be telling the truth. He has no depth. He has no imagination. He doesn’t spark any inspiration. The fact that he appears in Wowowee to promote himself already tells me the kind of mentality he has. (Watch Loren Legarda, because she’ll do the same thing.)

Oh, by the way, when he says he doesn’t hide behind the accomplishments of his parents (or something to that effect), he’s again telling the truth, because we don’t know his parents from squat. In effect, I don’t know him. All I know is that he hasn’t sufficiently answered the charges brought against him before a Senate ethics committee about the C-5 road controversy.

Besides, Manny Villar acts, walks and talks like a trapo.

So, dear reader, would you want someone like that as President, a wysiwyg? Or would you rather stake your vote on one whose parents we know as pillars of democracy with no blemish of corruption whatsoever?