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Hundred days into the long wait HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 10/11/2010

Monday, October 11, 2010

Hundred days into the long wait

HE SAYS
Aldrin Cardon
10/11/2010
Take your pick: Nine years of bad governance vs 100 days of poor performance.

Okay it was not that poor, but it was rocky. Noynoy Aquino’s first three months was rough, real rough. So, I’ll still pick P-Noy anytime. Any Pinoy would do that than compare him with Gloria, whose near-decade of reign sunk us further down, in total opposite of her promised land during that joyous celebration of the now besmirched Edsa Dos.

It’s not hard comparing Noynoy with Gloria, but Noynoy would win hands down when ranged against the corrupt former leader branded worse than Marcos was despite clinging on to power in just nearly half of the years spent by the late strongman in the Palace.

Three months after the elections, Noynoy is still successfully riding on sheer luck.

It was his stock that won him the presidency. It was the built-in political support of his father and mother which powered his campaign engine. It was Gloria, herself, that drove the voters away from her candidate — and others likely to give her amnesty for her abuses — and into Noynoy (and second-placer Erap), that there was no way other candidates would have won last May..... MORE

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