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Tambayan ng mga Chicx at Tsonx => General Discussion => Current Events => Topic started by: bohica on December 11, 2013, 09:31:54 AM
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Bohi's comments: No matter how hard Noynoy and his allies spin it, they played partisan politics during the time when help was needed.
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Doing the media rounds yesterday, Mar Roxas, reacting to Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez’s statements before the Senate, claimed that it has been Romualdez who was engaging in politics at its worst by accusing him and Noynoy of not moving to help the Taclobanons in their hour of need.
But in truth, even as Mar claims that Romualdez is twisting the facts, he just isn’t credible, because the facts, supporting the Tacloban mayor’s statements, can be easily verified, as footage and commentaries from the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and his TV team, as well those from other foreign journalists, have proven Romualdez’s statements. Did not the nation see and hear Cooper saying that there is no presence of the national government, days after the super storm hit the Visayas, Tacloban in particular? How can this now be denied by Mar and Noy?
That politics was prioritized by Noynoy and of course Mar, and yes, Dinky Soliman and Defense Chief Voltaire Gazmin, was evident in the fact that even as Noynoy and Mar were in Tacloban holding a meeting with local officials and businessmen, there was absolutely no compassion, no sensitivity, no helping hand from Noynoy. All these insensitivity, ineptitude and his usual brand of vindictiveness were there for all to see. Recall when a trader whose store was looted, told Noynoy that he was shot at by one of the looters, Noynoy, the unfeeling, the vindictive, the uncaring, actually shot back by saying, “Well, you’re not dead, are you?”
Even Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Noynoy spoke of the national government not being around and compared Noynoy’s inept handling of the crisis to that of the Bush legacy after Katrina.
At that time, stores were already looted, and chaos ruled, and it was the businessmen who had asked for protection and help from the national government. That was two days after the super typhoon hit.
How then can Mar now claim that the national government was already there ready with the additional police force, when such footage verifies the claim of Romualdez?
Roxas also had to admit that he did ask Romualdez for a letter and that he did say that it was needed because of the sensitive situation of Romualdez being the mayor, while Aquino is president.
If that is not letting partisan politics into the aid and relief being sought by Romualdez, what else then can be called? That is not Romualdez twisting facts. It is Mar who is twisting the facts, to save his, and Noynoy’s vindictive skin.
While Mar confirmed that he had asked the mayor to write a letter about asking for the national government’s help, which Romualdez rejected since it could be construed as his having resigned from office and giving up control of the city, Mar’s explanation was that Noynoy was just being careful about being seen as taking over Tacloban when the mayor is a known political enemy of the President.
“This is why I said to (the mayor). ‘You have to understand. You are a Romualdez and the President is an Aquino.’ He is being very careful in just taking over because he does not want anything to be misconstrued. What I said was we are just being careful on this matter,” Mar was quoted as saying in interviews.
That’s BS and a lot of Filipinos know it is. Did Mar and Noynoy ask other local officials whose districts and provinces were also reeling from the super typhoon the same thing? Absolutely not. In fact, in one district where Noynoy and his aides, including Mar, had their LP ally, Noynoy was even praising the local executives, saying that they had prepared well, since the deaths were minimal.
Mar condemned politics being played in such situations, saying such politics was at its worst, and the kind of politics that makes one retch.
Excuse me while I retch at Mar’s explanations and spins. It is he and the Noynoy administration that causes one to vomit because the vindictive politics they play, and in such a crisis, is the worst kind of Liberal Party politics, combined with the vindictiveness of Noynoy, merely because he is now in power in Malacañang and the Romualdezes who are Marcoses’ kin, therefore must be made to pay.
Noynoy can be the president of the yellows, but he does not deserve to be the president of the non-yellow nation.
Noynoy sucks.