Sri Lanka, April 4 -- At present people are intelligent and have different yardsticks to judge the capacity of potential candidates when the time comes for casting their votes at the elections

When a politician says, 'the intelligent public knows and cannot be fooled', what he or she (our representative in parliament) really means is that the public doesn't know and can be fooled. It's similar to a lady saying 'no' when what she really means is 'yes'; take for example the lady who appears in a television commercial and says 'no' when her husband wants to know whether she has had enough washing clothes by hand and whether he could purchase a washing machine for her.

The good news for the community is that people at present are intelligen...