Bottomline: Noy has not delivered
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The nation seems to have acquired a belligerent president in the person of Noynoy Aquino, resulting in what is expected to be more hardships for Filipinos as the economic difficulties are aggravated by the political friction he has been, and still is, causing.
The House opposition, which is at the moment mainly the wing supporting former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo, is offering critical collaboration to get things going primarily in the legislative mill, but Noynoy’s response to the offer was his spokesmen letting loose a barrage of wisecracks against the Arroyo camp.
Noynoy has shown, too many times, that he is not presidential at all, and worse, there appears to be no hope of his ever conducting himself as President of the Republic as well as a statesman. Neither, it seems, are his spokesmen conducting themselves with proper decorum, since they too, engage in sniping at Noynoy’s political foes and demeaning the Office of the President.
Gloria indeed should be made to answer for a lot of allegations of improprieties during her term, but an earnest offer for political collaboration should have been entertained since nothing is really moving in terms of governance under Noynoy.
What the nation has are frequent speeches about the ills of the past topped by already annoying spiels about the straight path and ending poverty and corruption — all rhetoric, and not an iota of substance in these spiels.
Noynoy has given the nation a pure talk show of an administration. It exudes all the bravura in his and in most of the other speeches of officials under him, but it has become only too clear that they are direly short of equivalent achievements.
Even his much hyped Truth Commission, the creation which was among his first presidential proclamation, appeared to have reached a legal deadend since the Supreme Court had ruled that its creation was against the Constitution — although the high court did provide guidelines on how to create such a body within constitutional parameters, which Noynoy has refused to do, relishing instead in more of his snipes at the SC justices.
It is tempting to surmise that Noynoy is keeping up the word war against the camp of Gloria as a way of diverting public notice from his administration’s incompetency that is becoming more conspicuous by the day.
Launching a war against anybody is a worn-out political gambit to win public support. Former Argentina President Leopold Galtieri even had to provoke a war with mighty Britain over the Falkland Islands just to turn around public sentiment on his military junta.
Noynoy’s ratings are starting to dive, obviously as a result of the public growing weary over the same line of promises dished out by Noynoy in each of his speeches about a clean government and running after all the public scalawags while remaining directionless and visionless.
He, however, has proven that he does not practice what he preaches about cleaning the government of incompetent and corrupt officials.
In too many occasions, Noynoy would defend close allies who are patently corrupt or inefficient.
By keeping up the friction with Gloria, Noynoy apparently wants to rally the nation behind him against a perceived enemy.
The enemy, however, is not exactly Gloria herself but the corruption and abuse of power that have plagued her administration for the past nine years.
The hope for Noynoy to eradicate these problems in one fell swoop was what made voters offer him a crack at the presidency.
Such problems remain, however.
Of course it would be convenient for Noynoy to put the blame on Gloria for all the ills that bug his administration, including those he created.
Change is really elusive and Noynoy has failed to deliver. That’s the bottomline.
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