Procrastinator-in-Chief

PRESIDENT Aquino clearly needs the light interviews with the likes of Vice Ganda, the media settings where his handle of the country’s affairs will be unchallenged. Media interviews that lob softball questions, pandering questions that would not make him squirm on his seat. Friendly questions that only require one-liners to meet the criteria of plausible answers. Such interviews, at the very least, provide him with the much-needed break from the torrents of criticisms that he and his administration have been getting from all fronts of late.

Even on the development front, even in the area of preparing the country for global competitiveness, even in what are essentially 21st century concerns such as modernizing the frayed infrastructure of the country (which are supposed to be his areas of expertise), Mr. Aquino is not getting any good marks. In fact, a correspondent of this space recently fired off a long e-mail that essentially tags the president as the “Procrastinator-in-Chief.”