Our culture tends to exaggerate the burdens placed on the presidency. In our mythology, shaped by a less-than-enlightened and weak political culture, the Philippine president is a superman, omniscient and omnipresent. That flawed perception, precisely, was the void filled up by hacks and flacks of Mr. Aquino. As he is wrapping up his unlamented term, he is touted as an overachieving superman based on some GDP charts and credit upgrades.

Ok, what really took place during the six years of the Aquino administration ?

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