An amateur is an amateur
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The amateurish ways of the Aquino administration resurfaced in its largely gauche response to the series of terror alerts on the country issued by western countries, which were efforts to dismiss these by bandying that the threat does not exist and by floating the idea that the advisories were connected with the plan of Noynoy to review the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).
Negation and retaliation through the floating of rumors is the trademark of the Noynoy campaign machinery in the May 10 national elections. It was very effective in neutralizing his chief rival then for the presidency, Sen. Manuel Villar Jr., who succumbed to attacks, including the allegation that he was the secret candidate of then President Arroyo, from the Aquino demolition team that saw his candidacy on a steep downhill fall.
It is ridiculous for the camp of Noynoy that this same tactic would be effective as a form of detente.
Connecting the VFA to the advisories was an obvious Palace ploy in its ridiculous belief that the countries which issued the warnings, which were by the way addressed to their own citizens and not to Noynoy or his government, can be politically pressured into removing these.
A wild guess is that the Palace reaction on the supposed VFA connection of the advisories was triggered either by text messages, blog entries or twitter comments that are so easy to manipulate as source of false information..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101108com1.html
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