Speech long on promises, empty in content — solons
By Angie Rosales 07/02/2010 Legislators described President Aquino’s inaugural speech as spiced with motherhood statements and promises to elicit thundering applause but was empty overall in its content. Even Aquino’s former colleagues in the Senate expressed disappointment over the inaugural speech. Sen. Edgardo Angara yesterday joined those who criticized Aquino’s speech, describing it as a mere enumeration of “doable problems,” far from the inspirational speeches expected of a leader of the country. “There is no soaring oratorical rhetoric. There is no grand vision he described which usually a new president opens his administration with a challenge to the people because you need to motivate and inspire people. What he did, by way of inspiring people is to enumerate and list down practical, doable problems which every Filipino knows is close to, because it affects him,” Angara said. “He hits the heartstring of the ordinary people. That’s his way, I guess, of inspiring,” the senator said, appearing in the weekly Kapihan sa Senado news forum. Asked about his impression on Aquino’s speech, Angara admitted that he was expecting a “Kennedy-type or Obama-type” of oratory that expresses hope for a new Philippines. Yet, the senator himself was still soft on the new Chief Executive, as he himself provided possible explanation as to the lack of fireworks in the inaugural speech. “I’m just too traditional, old fashioned maybe,” he said, adding that avoiding the burning issue on the Hacienda Luisita dispute in the speech could have been deliberate as it may constitute subjudice as the case is currently pending before the Supreme Court. “But on second thought, maybe it’s really not in the character of the President. I don’t know who his speechwriter,” he said. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100702hed2.html |
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