Clueless, flip-flopping candidate FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/21/2010

Clueless, flip-flopping candidate

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/21/2010 From the statements he utters on several positions taken, it really looks like Noynoy Aquino has no understanding of how things work in government. Of course, when it comes to flip-flopping political statements, Noynoy is proving to one and all just how much of a political opportunist or the trapo he derides, he has become. It will be recalled that Noynoy, immediately upon accepting the Liberal Party’s standard bearership, said he will be going after Marcos and his ill-gotten wealth, and as the days went by, tossed some more anti-Marcos spiels, such as still wanting to get to the bottom of his father’s murder and the brains behind the slaying, which everyone knows, he and the Aquino clan believe it to be Marcos. These days however, he has been directing all his attacks at Gloria Arroyo, vowing to create a commission — not unlike his mother’s failed Presidential Commission on Good Government, where commissions were good to the commissioners, all of whom appear to have gotten wealthy on the job..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100321com2.html

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