Honeymoon No More

            From all indication, it appears that P-NOY doesn’t need the prescribed 100 days honeymoon grace period from the media. And the better we write it off to focus more in achieving what has been urgently identified issues to be resolved. The media will be there anyway documenting and packaging it for general reading and viewing public.

 He even took the initiative of briefing his Cabinet members for an acceptable decorum before media to secure its smooth relationship with journalists under his term. His light banters showing how he inherited  and outgrown his articulate father  endearing  him to media shows why  he doesn’t  need anymore one hundred days  ceasefire for his administration. His own inaugural Presidential speech written in Tagalog which reputedly underwent ten personal revisions telling it all, is also a revelation despite honest mistake of not including issues on agrarian reform, environment, Mindanao continuing peace problem and the likes. How he transformed even the event it into peoples’ inauguration  starting it ahead of schedule redefines what it is like having similar activities under his administration. Good grief!

            With his spitfire impromptu talk on wide ranging issues I first noted in many Presidential debate last election indicated that there would be no hostility between him and the media once he gets elected. He did garnering as many mandate there is available, registering one  of the biggest margin in Presidential election  in Philippine’s history. That strikes a familiar chord among journalist hitting us real hard where we’re vulnerable most - our minds. Giving us  benefits of our doubts, Yes Sir,  in the words of Sun Tzu in his The Art of War is like capturing us without firing a single bullet. The catch however  is, how he would match up the speed of  his words with action. In that case the media would be quick to draw the lines and might not  even observe at all any deal for honeymoon forming a battlefront.

Comes July 26, 2010 he would be delivering his first ever SONA. By now he would  probably  have shoplisted items to be dished out.  But most importantly, might  have already resolved some of the implacable issues of the day. He did extending reconciliatory arms recognizing some whom he might have  earlier robbed elbows against the like of  Justice Corona of the Supreme Court in effect respecting the power of PGMA, the erstwhile Palace occupant who appointed the Chief Justice into the highest seat of the Judiciary. He rightly installed too the Truth Commission to look into illegal and shady deals of the past for possible indictment of those responsible in the irregularities as in ZTE-Broadband Deal, Hello Garci scandal, Diosdado Macapagal externsion Road network etc.

There’s high hopes too of  passing the new FOI Bill authored by Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casino into Law as confided lately by Riza Hontiveros when she last visited and talk in Cagayan de Oro. And as if raising the bar of agrarian reform, he said he would resolved the 6,453 hectares Hacienda Luisita case before his term ends. “I have already divested my less than  1% share,” he revealed and even allow the Supreme Court and DAR to treat it as any ordinary case. How sure we could take his words seriously for this is not clear. How about those whose lives  sacrificed in the pursuit of justice  inside the Hacienda? Will their souls not prick his conscience crying and haunting his dreams until justice is given?  How about the Desaparecidos or Involuntary disappearances, the 140 journalists killed, 103 of whom happened over the last nine years including the gruesome cold-blooded Maguindanao Massacre victims by the Ampatuans which CHR and DOJ  lately subjected the eyewitness into vicious cycle of  passing the buck when what the victims needed are protection and security.

There’s seemingly partial treatment of Mindanao too as not a single Cabinet member was given to a Muslim or Mindanaoan save for Cayetano Paderangga handling NEDA post.  Why not give a slot for instance for Adel Tamano or anybody else who could represent Mindanao. If P-NOY is dead serious in getting the cooperation  all the population specially Mindanao, he better practice what he earlier preached as he is now the President of the entire Nation, his loyalty to all his bosses never mind the heavy load he’ll carry. The Cabinet is already top-heavy with people from his party. Then there’s some of the unpredictable and ambitious Hyatt 10 getting juicy position. I don’t think they deserve this. What’s the guarantee anyway that these same people the likes of Dinky Soliman, Butch Abad and the rest of the gang would not abandon ship when unpredictable weather comes. Worst, the President have taken the remnants of past administration in their hold-over capacity and reserve some post for his closest partymates when the ban of  their  eligibility expires after one year. How is this! There’s just no logic here putting people with impunity sensitive positions without  ever considering its repercussion to the entire population.

That’s the subtle way of power sharing. Why not give the chance to fresh faces who could equally handle the job better. Maybe, the Media would not reconsider that honeymoon deal as reality check. From the looks of it, no problem gauging the sincerity written all over P-NOY’s faces. But check it  in his facial expression, we might be taken only for a ride. In that case, I’m ready reconsidering my proposal here as  it might lead more to confusion.