I'd like to weigh in a bit on this issue. What it is doing is that it's exposing just how stupid our senators, party leaders and those lawyers and spokespeople that surround them are.

In the age of Fil-Ams legitimacy to play in the Philippine Basketball Association, and Asi Taulava's I'm-Filipino-No-I'm-Not carousel with the sport's board of elders, how unlikely is it that Poe, the son of an American and a Spaniard, is not a Filipino citizen? It doesn't matter WHAT he's done in his lifetime (buying property, owning businesses, heck, being a Filipino film superstar), but this goes back to that moment he was born. Are his parents Filipino citizens? Because FPJ is a bastard son (low, I know) he automatically takes the citizenship of his mother, so says those bringing the case forward. She is said to be an American citizen who never became Filipino. The issue is that whether FPJ was indeed born out of wedlock.

Sotto is immeasurably dumb in his defense, at least from what I've read. First, he doesn't counter with proof, and insteads accuses the documents (proving FPJ was born out of wedlock) as forgeries and that there should be a senate inquiry. If there were forgeries, why call on the senate to inquire? So that the investigation can be in YOUR court and you can grease your way out of this one?

Of course, he means to bring it into a venue where it can be investigated properly and with conduct becoming. Meanwhile, they accuse GMA of "masterminding" the disqualification petition. Sure, that's okay. They're doing their friggin job as the opposition. And the public deserves to know whether FPJ has been lying since his very genesis on whether he is indeed qualified to run for president.

We forget that he is Erap's good buddy. And that he has never held a government position, and that he has never had more than a high school education. But that's beside the point now is it?

But perhaps the most dumbfounding comment of them all:

This, as Poe’s supporters, led by Boots Cadsawan, president of the FPJ for President Movement (FPJPM), threatened to launch mass protests equaling that of the so-called EDSA 3, when a mob attacked and almost captured Malacañang.

“The people might hold an uprising [because] no one will believe that [FPJ] is not a Filipino. If he is not a Filipino, who else is?” asked Cadsawan.

We don't even know who has the right to rule over these matters. Comelec, SC or the Presidential Electoral Tribunal.

Dean Jorge Bocobo examines at length. There are now witnesses saying they were asked to falsify these documents.