Inability to reverse course EDITORIAL 09/12/2010

Inability to reverse course

EDITORIAL

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09/12/2010
Corruption and inefficient government, which together defined the nine-year Arroyo administration, remain very much a huge festering sore on the country’s image that thus far the fledgling Aquino administration does not show the capability to address.

In voting for Aquino, by and large, Filipinos, aside from the emotional voting mode they were in, given the wave of sympathy for his mother, Cory, on account of her death from cancer, which death was blatantly exploited for political purposes by the Noynoy camp to the point of making the “Aquino genes” a guarantee of “good and incorruptible governance” something which, ironically, was non-existent under the Cory government, also were expecting him to steer the government into reversing its course and for the nation to regain its long-lost international respectability.

This was what he had pledged during the campaign. 

The votes that Aquino got in the elections last May showed the high expectations of Filipinos for a different deal than that which they got from Gloria.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100912com1.html