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Article: Lacking in savoir faire.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 4, 2003
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It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
Gore Vidal
THE outstanding impression of observers of the Arroyo administration is the abundance of youthful technocrats in the Cabinet and key GFIs and OGCCs, and their dreadful lack of political savvy and, savoir faire that invariably come with experience, maturity, and ripened wisdom of human relationships, the vagaries of politics, and the dynamics of world affairs.
Thus, the dearth of political sophistication, the arrogance of power derived without the benefit of elections, and the grabbing of strategic posts in the bureaucracy in 2001 by the Arroyo parallelists, i.e. parallel campaign ...