AFTER President BS Aquino 3rd’s sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA), the overwhelming volume of conversation about the 2 hour and 15 minute speech – one of the longest on record – was not about its contents, per se, but about how those contents were so little changed from any of the previous five SONA speeches.

Indeed, any listener could have been forgiven for thinking he was hearing, as PNoy made his opening his remarks with an unconvincing attempt to blame his predecessor for ills the country continues to suffer, a recording of the SONA from 2010. Or 2011, or 2012. Monday’s SONA was no more unique or enlightening than any of Aquino’s others, and after having listened to it for nearly two hours, it was difficult not to feel one’s time was being wasted.

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