Was there any wedding in the first place that merits the luxury of a honeymoon? But that is what everybody would like to afford President-elect Noynoy Aquino, at least for the next one hundred days. But how could he when wedding bells do not fantasize him at all! If the elections were a wedding ceremony complete with “I do’s” and commitments between President Noynoy and the Filipino people, then there needs be a “honeymoon” period even for the first bachelor president of this country. But he did had one, even before the elections. Honeymoons are all sweet, opulent, illusory, as in beholding the lunar shapes and sounds and watching the constellations. As practiced in this country, the first 100 days normally come out as a balato by the media and the people in general to the newly seated president, a sort of temporary reprieve from the usual onslaughts or tirades media normally throw at the new Palace occupant. Originally, however, the first one hundred days pioneered by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a personal test on his first crack on the whip of crisis management in addressing the Great Depression that greeted his inaugural presidency in 1933. It was a make or break for FDR’s presidency and therefore he had no time for a “honeymoon” with the American people or media. FDR and Americans bored their noses together in the mire of economic and political depression to rise above the crisis. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100620com6.html |
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