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Presidential instinct TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 10/09/2011

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Presidential instinct

TABLETS OF STONE
Larry Faraon, OP
10/09/2011
If he paid at least a lightning visit to the flooded areas in Luzon immediately upon alighting from the plane from Japan at the Clark Air strip, President Noynoy Aquino would have less explaining (aka justifications) to do rather than if he didn’t. And he didn’t and is now taking all the flak for dilly-dallying or a “better late than later!”

He has lost his terms of endearment to the Filipino people, if ever he registered with such to the Filipino consciousness. But it does not take logic or a matter of management style for something that belongs to purely presidential instinct.

The past presidents floated their relational strategy with the people in terms of familial and familiar intimacy. The late Ferdinand Marcos was an “Apo,” Cory Aquino was a dear “Tita,” Fidel Ramos had his godfather moniker “El Tabako,” Joseph Estrada’s perfect presidential image as “Ama ng Masang Pilipino” and Gloria Arroyo’s sibling appeal as “Ate Glo.”.... MORE

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1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

nagpagamit kasi kay tito babalue eh samantalang alam naman niyang hindi niya kaya kasi nga abs siya.

"And if we are his “bosses,” then we have all the right to “fire” him for disloyalty and unexplainable absence or tardiness!

"The rationalization of a presidential management style is even a blunder. Since when did he have a “style,” especially when there is not even a record of running a government, nor even a local unit, attached to his credentials. Is the question of priorities a matter of style or simply flawed decisions or in fact, indecisiveness!"

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