65 days of amateurism EDITORIAL 09/03/2010

65 days of amateurism

EDITORIAL

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09/03/2010
It is the 65th day of the Aquino administration and thus far it has shown consistency in its amateurish handling of government.

When the Aquino campaign machinery for the May 10 elections told voters that Aquino and his team will hit the ground running, it never occurred to anybody that what it meant was the administration running around like a headless chicken.

Among the key moves of Noynoy when he assumed power was to appoint three spokesmen and with Cabinet ranks to boot. The idea supposedly was for the administration to communicate effectively with and to the public.

It is not for anybody to tell Noynoy how to run his household, which is the Palace, but the people certainly have a big say in how badly he runs it, especially when it becomes clear that Noynoy has been bringing the country and the Filipino nation down with his incompetence. Besides, he had, anyway, asked for a participative government and did say “Kayo ang boss ko” to the people so it is fair to rate Aquino’s term more than halfway through his first 100 days of reckoning: A fat zero. Nobody is in charge and the promised change or even a ghost of it, is not happening..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100903com1.html