The Debate

The Taiwanese presidential election came to a new climax as the final debate ended yesterday evening. The debate, however, was a great disappointment for its pick of question and the candidates' failing to answering the questions accurately.

Questions like, "Do you see aboriginals as Taiwanese?" I mean, what should the candidates answer to that? "No"?? Then there's the PR when answering to each question, bowing to apologize to his former mishap, speaking of his past achievement while being the governor and mayor, everything but answering the actual questions.

After watching it for 15 mins, I was fed up and turned to HBO. Not only the debate was a waste of money, time, it was a great humiliation to the Taiwanese people like a slap in the face, knowing that our two president candidates are incompetent in answering factually to what they plan on doing, where they tend to get the tax money from, how they plan on improving Taiwan's economic funk.

The only positive outcome was the fact that this debate questions were formed by the ordinary joe through the internet, though there should have been a smarter person choosing these questions and not the average joe.

Having a glimpse at the choices of our future president, it comes apparent that the gloom of Taiwan's ambiguity in the political arena may persist in the coming years while the economic sluggishness prevails.