What a number of us saw last Wednesday was a President still incapable of putting forward brave and sustainable reforms. We saw a virtuous but unresponsive President who still thinks that his personal integrity is enough to create a just society. We saw how self-righteousness can sometimes be more stubborn than self-interest. We saw that good intentions are not enough. The presidential address last Wednesday diverted public discourse to back to where we were almost four years ago, when politics was about drawing boundaries between reformists versus trapos in the aftermath of the Arroyo regime. But the discourse has moved on. The pork barrel controversy has created the space for Filipinos to have a serious discussion not only about bringing thieves behind bars but also crippling networks of patronage, replacing money politics with political participation and closing loopholes in the budget process. rappler/thought-leaders/42827-president-as-spin-doctor
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:54:07 +0000
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