The point Revillame was trying to make was that the media was not being truthful in its crowd estimates when it came to Villar’s campaign sorties. Later, news clips showed Revillame leaving the rally site surrounded by what appeared to be bodyguards, looking like a big shot who had all the influence in the world.

I didn’t know whether to hate him some more or just laugh.

I decided to laugh.

For one thing, the point he was trying to make was stupid. Who cares how many attend Villar’s rallies? Besides, when you’re as delusive as the master you serve, 1,000 can look like 10,000, 5,000 can look like 50,000, and so on and so forth. The point is, it’s not how many are attending Villar’s rallies but how many are not.

The recent surveys of SWS and Pulse Asia reveal it: Villar’s ratings are plummeting, all due to the fact that Villar’s true colors are showing. He is lying through his teeth when he bandies about that he was born and grew up poor.

If Villar’s campaign is all about lies, what do you think his presidency will be like if he wins? But here’s what makes shivers run up and down my spine. If he wins what role will he give the national sleaze, Willie Revillame, in his government?

Speculate and weep.

Villar insists that his family was really poor. He insists that his brother died because they had no money. Yet reports have it that Villar’s brother died in FEU hospital in 1962, when FEU could have been compared then with today’s Makati Medical hospital or St. Luke’s. His remains were then taken care by Funeraria Paz, a funeral house then and now not a choice of the poor.

But these are all beside the point. It’s not just the big lie that Villar wants to perpetuate that he was poor. It’s his unwillingness to answer questions from his Senate colleagues about his involvement in the C5 controversy. It’s his obscene campaign spending (I ask again, why is he so desperate to win the presidency?). It’s his association with political whore, Loren Legarda, whose ambition is so obvious. Last but not the least, personally, it’s his association with the National Sleaze, Willie Revillame.

There’s still one point that Villar hasn’t clarified: his studying in private schools. If his family was really poor, how could his parents have afforded enrolling him and his siblings in private schools? Will Manny Villar justify this by saying his father also borrowed money?

Hard to believe. Like all that Villar is saying. They’re all hard to believe!

He’s a liar, plain and simple. Like GMA. Do you want this man President of the Republic of the Philippines?

I shudder at the thought.

One of these is the disqualification of Gov. Grace Padaca on the grounds that a recount revealed she lost the election by 1,051 votes. The funny thing is that the Comelec said that one man was responsible for writing those 1,051 questionable ballots. Can I say, ridiculous?

It is rumored that the Comelec 2nd division can be swayed by the highest bidder. While that may seem extreme, it is not implausible.

So when Pamatong accused the Comelec of being thieves, he may not have been far from the truth.