Gloria Arroyo and husband Mikey Arroyo played golf for media consumption Saturday. The said activity was a prelude to a day of discussing the supposed merger of Kampi and Lakas CMD.
This is another insult to the intelligence of the Filipino people. Last week pictures were appearing in major dailies showing GMA and husband Mike playing golf in Shenzhen, China with ZTE officials. Those images have been engraved in the minds of the people. The difference is that those images were associated with impropriety with the President playing golf with a project supplier.
Judges are enjoined, out of propriety and delicadeza, from having a coffee time with any of the litigants to avoid doubts and questions of partiality and fairness. Of course, the natural reaction of the people would be that the case has been fixed over a cup of coffee. Now, why would that GMA ZTE golf game be treated differently. The pictures would not lie that GMA played golf with a supplier who is bidding for a contract. There was impropriety there for sure but the administration has lost the sense of delicadeza and would just insincerely justify the act as aboveboard even how clumsy the alibi would be.
Perhaps the new golf game is hoped to erase the stigma of the Shenzhen golf game. That the said occasion was intended for an “official business activity”, which is the merger talks between Lakas and Kampi was just a subterfuge, a façade. If it was seriously a merger related activity, why it have to be done during a golf tournament and why there are no Lakas figureheads present in that golf game ever mentioned. Was there really a serious Lakas-Kampi merger summit? Or was the said merger activity was only used as a front to staged a remake of that infamous golf game which was the main objective in the first place. That for them playing golf is just for official business, no hocus pocus whatsoever.
Looks like they are running out of good scripts out there.
