Just as empty a promise
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy may not realize it, but almost everytime he snipes at his predecessor, Gloria Arroyo, he comes off sounding and looking ridiculous, mainly because what he really is doing is taking credit for something that he did not do, nor was even around to be a part of it.
Take his bragging about the economy doing well, which he incorporated as one of his achievements for his 100 days report.
It certainly wasn’t because of him that the second quarter economic growth had risen. He wasn’t president for that quarter and he certainly had nothing to do with the growth.
What he was doing was stealing the credit and he certainly knows it.
Noynoy even took the credit for that claimed $2.4 billion in investments, as well as the Millenium Challenge deal, all of which were already clinched during Gloria’s time.
Just recently, with the delivery of the largest Philippine built ship whose rites he presided over, Noynoy took another snipe at Gloria, saying the country has come a long way, and used the Gloria paper boats, or the bangkang papel spiel Gloria had for her first State of the Nation Address as reference..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101113com2.html
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