The SONA you didn’t hear

AFTER then-President Benigno Aquino 3rd delivered his first state-of-the-nation address six years ago, Fidel Ramos, a loyal defender of his mother Corazon who succeeded her as President, said it was “the most unpresidential SONA” he’d heard.

One reason: Aquino’s relentless attacks on purported failings and anomalies under Gloria Arroyo, an unseemly excoriation of his predecessor to which no other President had ever stooped, not even his mother, despite her bitterness over the assassination of her husband by soldiers of the Marcos regime.