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No-substance speech expected FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/22/2011

Friday, July 22, 2011

No-substance speech expected

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
07/22/2011
Noynoy’s deputy aide, in a radio interview yesterday, bared that his boss’ State of the Nation Address will be short, since he does not like long speeches, but added that Noynoy will be sketching, in his second Sona “in bold strokes,” the country’s future directions.
Just from that information, it can already be gleaned that the Sona will be short on substance, even as it is being claimed that all the other technical details will be separate and given to Congress.
This still means that the speech itself will have little or no substance, especially as it was also bared that “after a year in office, he (Noynoy) will report on where we should, and will be going. He has enough confidence now, based on what he has seen so far,” the aide said.
It looks like Noynoy has little to report on what he had done during his first year in office, which is probably why he will again be making another round of promises that he will unlikely be able to deliver anyway.
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