A 234-year old democracy like the US, had two father-son tandems who became presidents. The Bushes and the Adams.
While, the Philippines, a 112-year old democracy (less than half the age of US) would soon have two of such tandems, father-daughter in Diosdado-Gloria and a highly probable mother-son team-up in Cory-Noynoy.
What does that say about our tendency to believe that leadership skills can be inherited? Or are we just suckers for certain family names which have nice rings to them?
Hmm…come to think of it, they could be names for airports. Oh, but wait……they already are.
---------here I am thankful for a generally peaceful and relatively "smooth" first ever automated elections.
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