Unconventional, entertaining and inspiring SONA

WE must thank Heaven that President Rody Duterte did not make good his threat or joke weeks before he assumed office that he would scrap the SONA tradition. At that time people thought he really would. After all, he had scrapped being proclaimed as the elected President of the Philippines in Malacañang. But he probably rejected that because if he didn’t, he would have to be in a formal proclamation ceremony with Vice President Leni Robredo, who belongs to the “enemy” party and who, during the campaign, had given speeches lambasting candidate Duterte and promoting the lie that the Aquino administration was the best we had ever had, and that it was imperative for the Filipinos, if they really wanted the best for our country, to elect Mar Roxas against Rody Duterte.

Duterte gave an inspiring, entertaining and unconventional state-of-the-nation address.