The electorate (some say it’s the PCOS machines) sent BS Aquino 3rd to Malacañang with high expectations that he would follow a straight path as he had vowed. He was touted as the leader who would correct what’s ailing the country. Now, we know that the supposed medicine for the nation’s ills turned out to be nothing more than snake oil.

The great hopes raised by the ascendancy of BS Aquino have been quashed. The people (PCOS machines?) didn’t get a newly minted reformist. What we got is a lemon instead, like a car that turned out to lack the excellent features it’s touted to have.

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