I love watching TV commercials or looking at some ad campaigns. It's amazing how advertising companies turn unreliable products so appealing to the public. It's amazing as well how PR agencies make different politicians appear big or competent enough for different public posts. These days though a lot of interesting advertisements even on radio have been almost replaced by different political ads. We have seen (or heard of) different politicians' desperate attempts to be noticed. Some are well directed, while some are just painfully funny or annoying.
The most interesting of course is Noynoy's ad. It looks like a station ID of both Kapamilya and Kapuso Network. Who does not like to be endorsed by famous celebrities in the country anyway? Of course here in the Philippines, if you want to run for a public post, you should be endorsed by famous celebrities. I just wonder why he was not told to say something. Is it because of his poor speech or smoker's cough?
I'm not in the best position or trying to be intellectual to criticize someone like Noynoy and the rest of the Presidentiables. It would be best for voters to know every Presidentiable very well and not to be influenced by their political ads or their rankings in different surveys. Coming from an influential family does not mean you already have what it takes to become the next president. If you have a lot of money, you can still make a difference or help the marginalized sector. Those who want to run for the public posts should think a million times first (aside from consulting the Pink Sisters or their departed loved ones or their fans) if they are really capable or deserving to be elected for the highest and most important position in the country. As Filipinos, we should have learned our lesson already when we elected those crook-power hungry public officials. We do not want another People Power, do we?
The question is, who will win/ who should win? That's anybody's guess.
For the meantime, let's enjoy watching their political advertisements while they are fooling the rest of the voting population.