Noynoy Aquino to run for President in 2010
President Noynoy Aquino?
Responding to the calls from various sectors for him to run for presidency, Senator Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III officially announced today his decision to run for President in 2010 exactly 40 days after the death of his mother. The announcement happened at the historic Kalayaan Hall in Club Filipino, San Juan City, this morning.
Interestingly, the historical venue was also the same place where his mother former President Corazon Aquino took her oath last February 25, 1986.
The 49 year-old son of Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. and former President Corazon Aquino will be the standard bearer of the Liberal Party (LP) this coming 2010 elections. In his speech, Noynoy said that:
Tinatanggap ko ang hiling ng sambayanan. Tinatanggap ko ang habilin at tagubilin ng aking mga magulang…Bayang Pilipinas, tatakbo ako sa pangpanguluhan sa 2010…
Aquino also declared that he has chosen Senator and LP President Manuel “Mar” Roxas II as his running mate. However, Aquino is still awaiting for Roxas reply to accept the offer or not.
An estimated 200 supporters attended the event. Aquino’s relatives, siblings and his girlfriend, Valenzuela Councilor Shalani ‘Lani’ Soledad, were also in attendance.
Personally, I became teary eyed while watching the announcement on television as Noynoy Aquino has given me a glimmer of hope to stay here in our country. Best of luck to you Noynoy and Mar! I am hoping for the best.
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Noynoy Aquino to run for President in 2010…
Noynoy Aquino to run for President in 2010…
ay sana naman eh hindi sya corrupt. by popularity, sigurado na sya.
I can see the sincerity in him. Noynoy can be a good Philippine President.
mejo alangan ako sa kanya. di naman porke anak siya e pareho na din ang kalalabasan. alam natin magnda ang hangarin niya, e yun mga nakapalibot kaya sa kanya. siguradong utang na loob system din ang kalalabasan kung sakali man manalo siya sa halalan. sana nga mali ang aking sapntaha.
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Noynoy is the best candidates among those aspiring and aiming the highest political position in our country.
ANg pagtanaw ng utang na loob ay wala namang masama, it depends how you have to do it, maraming paraan kung paano ito gawin sa mabuting aspeto.
Si Noynoy ang taong may paninindigan at prinsipiyo sa buhay na pinamana ng kanyang mga magulang. at siya lamang ang nakikita ko na magkakaron ang pag-asa ang sambayanang pilipino para ituwid ang baluktod na sistema na tinatamasa natin ngayon sa kasalukuyang gobyerno.
Ang talamak na korupsiyon, pagsikil sa karapatang pantao at kawalan ng tamang direksiyon ng gobyernong arroyo ay dapat ng mapatid.
Sa pamamagitan ng isang Tao sa katauhan ni Noynoy ang siyang susi sa kasagutan ng mga hinaing ng taong bayan.
Hindi ang mga Detractors kundi ang Sambayang Pilipino na may paniniwala ang siyang magluloklok kay Senador Noynoy Aquino sa Pakapangulo.
Piso…
Mula sa Puso…
Para kay Noynoy Aquino…
Sa pagka-Pangulo.
Piso…
Mula sa Puso…
Para kay Noynoy Aquino…
Sa pagka-Pangulo.
MAHAL KO ANG BAYAN KO….
[...] Shalani ‘Lani’ San Ramon Soledad is the girlfriend of 2010 Presidential candidate Senator Benigno Simeon ‘Noynoy’ Cojuangco Aquino III. She is only 29 years [...]
@itot -- i will not blame kung medyo alangan ka sa kanya pero among the pool of candidates, siya yung buo ang integrity at mabuting mamamayan. aanhin natin ang matalino, kung kukunin lang ang kaban ng bayan?
@Pinoy -- i do agree. very well said.
@Tiyo Paeng -- Pareho tayo bro. Mahal ko ang bayan natin. Hindi lang piso ang ido-donate ko kundi 1 US Dollar!!! hahaha… Pero kidding aside, I’m inclined to vote for Noynoy.
yep, pero dapat di siya manduhan ng mga nakapalibot. lam mo naman sistema stin kpag naluklok lagi ng may utang na loob
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you can register here to be a volunteer for noynoy’s campaign:
http://noynoyaquino.com/noypi-ako/
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Questions for Noynoy
By Antonio C. Abaya
Written on Sept. 07, 2009
For the Standard Today,
September 08 issue
In my article of August 18, titled No, no, Noynoy, I posed four questions to Noynoy Aquino as he goes on spiritual retreat with the Pink Sisters, to “discern” whether he should run or not for the presidency in the May 2010 elections.
My sense is that Noynoy had already decided to run when he talked to Mar Roxas two weekends ago, before he left for Davao and Zamboanga for his retreat. That is what Roxas said, that Noynoy had told him at the start of their four meetings, that he had decided to run for president.
So going on a spiritual retreat to “discern” whether to run or not, is just political theatre, a deliberate effort to recapture the Cory Magick in 1986 when she went on her spiritual retreat, also with the Pink Sisters, to “discern” whether or not to run in the snap elections of February 1986.
The four questions I asked of Noynoy in my Aug 18 article were as follows:
Question One: Will President Noynoy mix pro-Communists and anti-Communists in his Cabinet, as his mother Cory Aquino did during her watch? That would be a precursor to endless conflicts within his government, as it was in Cory’s.
This would have some bearing on his presidential decisions as they affect some other key issues, as I will explain in the other questions. It should be kept in mind that two of the loudest drumbeaters for Noynoy were the most virulent critics of his mother Cory Aquino’s Magick during her watch, as Kris Aquino knows only too well, when they were beating the drums for Joma Sison’s Magick.
Question Two. Will President Noynoy release the 14 “consultants” of the National Democratic Front detained by the military, as demanded by the Communists as a pre-condition for the resumption of “peace talks,” as his mother Cory Aquino did Joma and other top-ranking Communists in 1987, which directly led to military coups against her?
Again, how will President Noynoy navigate this mine field, given that his noisiest drumbeater retains his anti-military mindset, even if he has apparently tacitly, though not publicly, admitted that Joma’s Magick was a juvenile delusion?
Question Three. Will President Noynoy exempt the family crown jewel, the Hacienda Luisita, from land reform, as his mother Cory Aquino did during her watch? What would such exemption do to his presumed goal to be seen as the Reformer of Philippine Society.
Question Four. Will President Noynoy refrain from lifting a finger against the Arroyos, as his mother Cory Aquino refrained from lifting a finger against the Marcoses during her watch. Twenty three years later, not a single Marcos heir has gone to jail for his plunder. Can we foresee that 23 years from now, not a single Arroyo heir will have gone to jail for her plunder?
There are additional questions that Noynoy should ponder as he goes on retreat.
Question Five. Will President Noynoy refrain from investigating and prosecuting officials who were/are personally loyal to him, as his mother Cory Aquino did officials who were personally loyal to her?
In 1987, the beauteous mannequin and socialite Conchitina Sevilla-Bernardo ran for vice-mayor of Makati and won. Months into her new job, Conchitina was aghast at the corruption rampant in the Makati municipio (Makati was not yet a city) under Jejomar Binay, and complained about it to President Cory Aquino.
President Aquino is said to have begged off doing anything about it, on the grounds that Binay was a loyal follower and supported her and Ninoy during the dark days under Marcos. Whereupon Conchitina resigned from her position. Would President Noynoy learn anything from this episode, since Binay is one of his backers?
Question Six. Will President Noynoy dilly-dally – or go on retreat again with the Pink Sisters – on the question of the Visiting Forces Agreement with the US, as his mother did on the question of the US military bases agreement in 1991?
During the debate on the US military bases in 1990-1991, President Aquino pointedly took a neutral position, no doubt torn between the advice of her pro-Communist Cabinet members and their allies in media – including Noynoy’s principal drumbeater -- to scrap the bases agreement, and her own instinctively pro-American leanings to extend it.
President Aquino did not take a position until the last few weeks before the Senate vote. She led a march in favor of the bases agreement that pointedly passed in front of the Senate hall (in the old Legislative building on P.Burgos street) and into the Luneta where she spoke before a pro-US bases rally.
But by that time, it was too late. Public opinion had shifted against the US bases, thanks to a virulently anti-American Manila media – including Noynoy’s noisiest drumbeater – and the US bases agreement was scrapped by the Senate. How would President Noynoy and the Pink Sisters handle the VFA?
Question Seven. How will Present Noynoy and the Pink Sisters solve the looming power crisis?. In 1987 his mother Cory Aquino, under pressure from environmentalists and anti-US bases activists (who connected the horror at the US bases’ presumed nuclear weapons with the horror at nuclear energy in general) ordered the mothballing of the completed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
That removed 620 mw from the projected capacity of Napocor’s power generation program. This major slack could have been made up for by the about-to-be completed 300 mw Calaca power plant in Batangas and 300 mw Masinloc power plant in Zambales. But these two power plants were not commissioned by President Cory because of environmentalists’ objections to their use of coal, then as now considered a dirty fuel.
The resulting power shortage resulted in debilitating power outages in Metro Manila and other areas that lasted up to 10 hours everyday in 1991-92, and stunted the country’s GDP to negative 0.6 percent in 1991 and positive 0.3 percent in 1992, causing the closure of hundreds of enterprises and the loss of jobs for hundreds of thousands of workers.
It also forced thousands of private households (including mine) and thousands of offices, shops and factories to buy and operate their own generators during the outages, adding considerably to their overhead expenses and, more importantly, generating more pollution than what the environmentalists had hoped to prevent by blocking Calaca and Masinloc from operating.
There is a lesson to be learned from this and the other episodes, and that lesson is: wishy-washy leadership cannot solve the country’s problems, even if it is blessed by the Pink Sisters, glamorized by genetic lineage, and fortified by Magick. *****
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It has been a while before I wrote this article, and quite a while before I got this posted. I have done so intentionally so as to prevent the Cory fever from making rabid dogs out of otherwise perceptive people. I used simple reasoning in advancing my proposition: that Noynoy doesn’t deserve the level of trust many Filipinos deliberately or unwittingly gave him.
It’s Not Noynoy vs. GMA
This argument is thrown around every time by everyone from Mar Roxas to my local barbero. The common shut-up question would be: “Why? Do you want to elect a GMA?†Let me point this out to you. I believe that the current administration has wrought enough misery and deceit that the country will feel for years to come. I believe members of her administration lied in our faces and robbed our coffers in broad daylight. I believe her administration tossed many of us into poverty and killed many Filipinos as a safety measure. As Mar said, ramdam ko kayo. But this election it’s not about Noynoy versus GMA. It’s about our choice.
Of course the argument is all about change, but with three or four presidentiables offering the same banana, wouldn’t it be more apt if we compare the presidentiables instead of contrasting Noynoy and GMA? The problem with this comparison is the fact that GMA has been a president for ten years, and Noynoy has been a relatively ignored politician until now. Of course we can count more atrocities from GMA side than from the Aquino side. Of course Noynoy would smell like a baby compared to GMA. Of course Noynoy would look more saintly than GMA. The comparison maybe good for Noynoy’s campaign, but not so for the welfare and future of Filipinos.
And the camp of Noynoy knows it, but nevertheless puts it to good use. The problem is that they seem to forget everything else. During one press conference, Noynoy was asked about the difference between him and her cousin-presidentiable Gibo Teodoro. Caught off guard, Noynoy simply reduced the question into dust, saying he would not honor the question. Then the presidentiable-turned-attack dog Roxas answered the question for Noynoy. Quoted, he said that Noynoy is for the fight against corruption, and Gibo will only continue the mulcting and stealing the Arroyo administration is doing. If Roxas is insinuating that GMA is doing nothing but spending time with the coffers illegally then it would be unfair; if he is saying Gibo will only perpetuate thievery is unfair and dirty. I would like to remind them and their supporters that the Aquino-Roxas tandem haven’t done so well in the corruption battlefield either.
True, the current administration may be stealing everything out of us, but as long as our 1987 Charter stands, the fight is not between Noynoy and GMA. The comparison should not be with GMA because it’s moot, academic and non-sequitur, and for those who wanted an informed electorate this can never be overemphasized. Noynoy is a presidentiable, just like Gibo, Chiz, Manny, etc. To make a better decision on who should be in the halls of Malacanang by June 2010, the comparison should be with each other. GMA is too skewed and too screwed to be used as a benchmark. Right now, we don’t need a crooked yardstick.
Why Should I Trust Noynoy More than Others?
Another argument that has been thrown in to answer the question “Why Noynoy?†zeroes in on trust. Noynoy, they argued, hasn’t been involved in any corruption-laden controversy or any controversy for that matter. He has a ‘clean’ record so to speak and ergo, we should trust him. I should point out that Noynoy has a sanitized record, not a clean one. A quick look into his record in Congress would tell you how “great†your Noynoy hero is. In fact, a quick look into the Hacienda Luisita debacle will disprove all claims he has no bad record to speak of.
History has always told us that you should test something first before you put your money or, in this case, our future on it. Car companies, for example, spend serious money to ensure that their car is safe to drive before it goes out to the showroom. Why should we elect a president on the basis of trusting a deceased former president? Even in jungle survival, you are advised not to eat an unknown, wild berry even if you’re starving and you haven’t seen this berry in don’t-eat-me part of your biology book. The same goes with presidency. Why should I trust my future with a shiny but untested berry like Noynoy when there’s absolutely no guarantee that I will not poison myself should I do so?
Another question that begs to be answered is this: “What makes Noynoy ANY DIFFERENT from other presidentiables to merit the trust being given to him, unwittingly or not?†Gibo has played relatively similar stunts during their days in the Congress, albeit he is more amiable to the administration compared to many presidentiables today. Nevertheless, you can’t point one case of corruption against the Defense exec, then and now. Chiz also played his cards well in the Congress, and until now no corruption-based questions are being raised against him. So what anointed Noynoy to make the mediocre politician in him metastasize into the bastion against the ills of government he is being touted now?
Ah, that’s where the Cory factor comes in. Cory took care of Noynoy from childhood, raising him into an ‘upright statesman’. This ‘Cory Factor’ changes everything in the equation. But I would like to ask some questions: What if I happened to be a son of Former President Aquino? Should mere affiliation to the deceased president automatically make me “trustworthy� If the deceased president took care of me during my formative years, would that make me instantly upright, ergo presidentiable? If this is the case, should we look forward to Josh’s presidency? The truth is no, Noynoy is not Cory and the Cory factor can only do so much in building a Noynoy. He may seem to be constantly tugging at the hem of his mother’s skirt, he may have to rely on her in buying his pants even if he is waaaaaaaaaay out of puberty age, but he can make his own decision and his own analysis far beyond what Cory could teach him. There’s some Cory factor in rearing a Noynoy, but he is not entirely dependent on it.
True, it’s not all about competence, but…
They argue that a presidential candidate should not only be competent, but should also be trusted. In agree in this 100%. A quick look at GMA administration would give any one a good picture of what will happen if the president cannot govern with the trust (or mandate) of the people.
Some supporters, however, went too far to claim that we do not need a CEO in Malacanang; we need a janitor to clean up the mess the previous administrator left there. Come on! One more step backward gives us a staggering example of what will happen when we choose our candidates simply on the basis of trust. Erap (who, with the level of education he finished, would certainly be a janitor had he been born in the wrong family) won with an overwhelming mandate of the electorate. After that, in less than two years, he made us regret the decision with all the anomalies he has been into. Let us not forget those 12 years in our presidency when we placed the wrong person at the wrong time in the halls of Malacañang. I don’t think we need an Erap or a GMA when we are sliding down to political, socioeconomic and moral bankruptcy. We don’t need someone who will push us further downhill.
There is this dichotomy between trust and competence that should never be ignored when looking for someone to support when the May elections are held. A president can’t make intelligent decisions if he only has empty space inside his skull; nevertheless, a president cannot govern sanely with people doubting everything he does. You need to scrutinize Noynoy’s competence the same way we have assessed his “trustworthiness†and “goodnessâ€. And up to now, his intellect remains to be tested.
Noynoy Does NOT Have the Monopoly of Goodness
I would also like to emphasize that 2010 election is not just a battle of good vs. evil. It is a battle of platforms, it is a battle of message and it is a battle to determine who can bring this country back from oblivion. Election is not about who is en route to sainthood. Beatify Noynoy if you want, but don’t mix his “goodness†with the “good†in good governance.
This quasi-exclusivity of political goodness has been used over and over by Noynoy and his cohorts. They have flaunted the idea that it’s the yellow ribbon or the deep, dark pit in 2010 elections. But I beg to differ. Nobody has a monopoly of goodness or nationalism. No Noynoy can claim such monopoly. Anybody who has a moral, upright and reasonable mind can bring goodness to the country. Any man courageous enough to seek social redress can bring about positive change. A person who can only forge a scenario where he will come out as a reluctant victor without a real battle is.. well, I really don’t want to spoon-feed.
Why Not Noynoy?
The 2010 election is a crucial one not because there are many debts to settle from the past administration. It is so because only a stable, competent, and trustworthy government can curb the pattern of socioeconomic and political decay plaguing our country today. Only an able and reliable government can invert the curve and uplift lives of the marginalized, the poor and the hungry. And I think a government under the helm of a Noynoy Aquino would not do so; rather, it can start another cycle of changelessness, disparagement, stagnation and distrust on our economy, our government, our lives and our future. We don’t need another schism; we don’t need another round of blaming; we don’t need another family-cum-mafia-based politicking. We need not put a symbol of all of these (and more) in the seat of power.
Greatness and heroism is not inherited nor it is given. Little in his past reflects a future of distinction. His past reflects no merit but dependence on the coattail of his mom and his seeming indulgence in the changelessness of this society. However, I’m in awe how his strategists were able to make his mediocre acts resound prominence. Let’s turn the pages to see how he and his family became instruments to perpetuate a culture of poverty among hacienda farmers. Let’s turn the pages to see how he performed his duty. From what I see, he has done things too little and too late for our country. I don’t think we can afford another Aquino presidency.
YES HE”S THE ONE,AND YES HE CAN.It’s a magic from heaven.
President Aquino once again but this time TOUGH…and civil like PRES.BAM.
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