SONA means Same Old Nondescript Act Monday, July 24, 2006
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I’ve signed out already but I just couldn’t resist commenting on the SONA of PGMA. So here’s my two-cents worth on the SONA.
It really is a miracle that she delivered her 6th (!) address to the nation; that means she has been the reigning queen for the past six years. The news said that it was a sixty-one minute speech with about 26,000 characters, the second longest speech compared to the past ones. But I really didn’t care. It was a fully scripted geography lesson, and what a boring unsuccessful class session it was. She had to resort to name-dropping and the appearance of various personalities to make it a “lively” presentation, the power point thing didn’t help much. But what irked me the most was the super-Philips1600watts-vacuuming act of “janitor-fish” and “leech-erous” politicians sucking up by punctuating each statement with an applause! And they added a standing ovation, my arse! Poor PGMA, her spin doctors had to resort to using those blinking APPLAUSE box used in TV shows.
What I was really looking forward to was just a simple, straight-forward update on the accomplishments of the promises made in past SONAs. But there was none. All she blabbed about were those grandiose plans. Oh all right, I’m all for those plans, if all of those are true, hindi ba “drawing-drawing” lang. But given the situation for the past six years, plans like those she mentioned end up like the phantom weapons of mass destruction Bush and Blair used as lame excuses to invade Iraq for its oil reserves (well this is another topic I will elaborate at a later time). I pity the Ifugao family she presented, they’ll probably end up like the three kids of the bangkang papel fame, broken promises, broken dreams.
Haaay…buhay…mahal na ang gulay…dahil sa bagyo po, nanay…
May hope pa kaya para sa Pilipinas…siguro, kung magkakatotoo ang mga SONAs…
It’s 6:16am, haven’t slept yet, but still a hopeful insomniac (but i’m so tempted to change it to hopeless na…)
Hi, Cham. Still a vamp as ever. We have more in common than I realized, looking at your About section =) I like your comments regarding the SONA. I didn’t even bother to listen to all of it, but most of it was to highlight the achievements of a few Filipinos that were personal and not in any way political achievements. It’s probably to make up for lack of the latter. Sigh. And why she’s asking a 1.2 trillion budget for no concrete programs aligned to her plans is beyond me, unless it’s to dig us into a deeper hole. Well, we are here, so for the meantime, let’s hope for the best and keep the faith.