Big laugh
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy flew to the United States Sunday to flaunt his “credentials” as a transparent leader and a “corruption fighter” who shares Washington’s “vision of accountability and good governance” in a New York forum which just launchedthe Open Government Partnership, apart from saying that he would be using his trip to get more foreign investments.
There is doubt that he can succeed at that, despite his propaganda machine daily churning out its mantra of the righteous path, accountability and transparency because most, if not all leaders, know that their speeches lead to nothing, except in trying to make themselves look good before the others.
Then too, most if not all these leaders and their aides, certainly know that despite all the talk about good governance, accountability and transparency, what they really do, especially in the case of Noynoy, is to pay lip service to all these.
The world was witness to the Aug. 23 Manila hostage crisis where Noynoy not only muffed it as a leader, but also really muffed up his claim of making officials involved in that botched hostage rescue accountable. Worse, this non-accountability marked in Noynoy’s administration has become even clearer with his penchant for protecting his KKKs (cronies, classmates and shooting buddies) while running after his political foes and engaging in trial and conviction by publicity, since there is little solid evidence presented against his foes..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110920com2.html
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