Gibo is incompetent

Gibo + Ondoy = Incompetence.

When Mar Roxas decided not to run for President in 2010, I thought Gibo Teodoro, Jr. would be the next best bet.

But the slow and incompetent response of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), of which Gibo is the chairman, during the typhoon Ondoy calamity convinced me otherwise. If how he performed that day is a prelude to his performance come 2010, we're in for some six years more of hell (as of nine under Gloria is not enough).

At the very least, NDCC thought it wise to remove Gibo's ads about "disaster preparedness" from the networks that very day and every day afterwards. But still, I feel cheated, and I'm sure, a thousand other Filipinos too. In the TV ads, it seems we were ready for any disaster. But it was clear it was all propaganda, just like the economic figures now and then cited by our government.

I would have put that issue to rest, but a replacement ad is now being aired.



Galing at talino? If he doesn't sound boastful in asserting that, I don't know what would. So what if he graduated magna cum laude from law? Or that he was a bar topnotcher? We've had enough of this uber-intelligent people running our government. Remember Gloria has an economics degree kuno - it didn't help.

Are the people in-charge of his ads commissioning any survey at all? Perhaps it would be wise to check what the average Filipino needs now - not someone who has the brains, but someone they can believe in.

Gibo may not have noted from his Sociology 101 (or Philippine Institutions, whatever they call it at the University of the Philippines, where he graduated) that majority of Filipinos are poor, and don't finish college (or even have the means to enroll in college, for that matter). They may admire his accomplishments, but they cannot identify with him. I can't even identify with him, and I'm one of those "pinagpala" who were able to go to college. In politics, identification is king. Just look at what Manny Villar is trying to do. (Unfortunately, his trapo image works against him.)



In classic Chinese political theory, there's a concept known as the mandate of heaven. When the heavens do not approve of the ruler any more, the gods send disasters, including the death of several key leaders (in Gloria's time, how many can you name? FPJ, Roco, Manalo, etc.). Unfortunately for Gibo, he is part of Gloria's dynasty. (The term dynasty can also refer to the succession of "appointed" or "annointed" successors, not just the immediate family members of the ruling family - confer Byzantine history.)

And the heavens had spoken. Gloria and her dynasty must go. That includes Gibo.

Okay, I might be rationalizing my dislike for Gibo since the Ondoy disaster. But unfortunately,

"The image of a meeting being held with the top brass while my son was waiting for help sitting in the rain on the rooftop on the middle of flood water does not speak well. Management style or not, this is a bad response." -Atty. Trixie Angeles