2008 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of PGMA

July 28 is the date. It is the scheduled day for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to deliver another State of the Nation Address expected to buzz around her government’s accomplishments and a wish list of legislative bills she wants passed.

Oppositions and protesters are all set too on their planned activities to coincide in this yearly address from the Philippine President. There is a group who is planning to boycott the SONA for considering it useless and just waste of time and electricity. Some will march and maybe surprisingly some will deliver their own SONA.

It is the time and venue for another batch of never ending promises and claimed accomplishments. I wonder how many clap clap clap for this year. After the recent SWS survey where PGMA gets her lowest satisfaction rating ever and as compared to the last three presidents I guess the president’s writers would find a hard time composing the whole speech. BTW, this is the first time for Speaker Prospero Nograles to appear in the SONA occupying one of the important and powerful seats of the venue after dethroning then Speaker Jose de Venecia.