PRESIDENT BS Aquino’s last State of the Nation Address this past Monday should not have been the swan song he attempted to make it; he still has about nine and a half months to wait before he legitimately becomes a lame duck in the six-week period between next May’s elections and the inauguration at the end of June 2016.

Don’t try to tell him that, though. Aquino’s two hours and fifteen minutes of heavy breathing was clearly the last word as far as he was concerned, and if it wasn’t clear enough from the content of his speech Monday, it certainly was after the amateurishly contrived leak on Wednesday that Aquino would “anoint” Secretary of the Interior and Local Government Mar Roxas as the Liberal Party standard-bearer on Friday (even though declaring a candidacy this early is an apparent violation of election rules).

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