Noynoy cover of TIME Magazine

Posted at 04/17/2010 3:48 PM | Updated as of 04/18/2010 12:13 AM

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - Leading presidential candidate Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III of the Liberal Party on Saturday said he was glad to have been featured by the prestigious international magazine TIME, adding that it's always a triumph of the Filipino people if one of their countrymen is cited in such publications.

Among the Filipinos who have graced the cover of TIME in the past generation are Corazon Aquino, Fidel V. Ramos, and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. Environmentalists Chin Chin Gutierrez and Von Hernandez of Greenpeace have also been cited as Asian heroes.

TIME Magazine's April 26 issue, "The New Aquino: Can Noynoy Save the Philippines?" written by Ishaan Tharoor, described Aquino in his campaign sortie in Zamboanga as an “unlikely man of the moment,” emerging on stage looking more like an “abashed computer nerd than the sort of brash, swaggering politician that has become the stock-in-trade in the Philippines”.

The Liberal Party standard-bearer comes from a family whose parents had fought to restore democracy in the Philippines.

“His charismatic father, Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., was the country's greatest champion of democracy before being gunned down in 1983, presumably by agents of the ruling dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Then his mother, Corazon (Cory) Aquino, a once meek housewife, became the figurehead of a popular rebellion in 1986 that toppled Marcos and gifted to the global lexicon the now immortal phrase of democratic revolution - people power,” the article said.

The article said he was encouraged to join the race for the country’s highest political office following the “massive outpouring of public grief and affection that followed his mother’s death from cancer last August.”

Aquino said to TIME: “They made automatic in me the preference to take up the cudgels for those who have less in life, for the powerless".

Philippine economics professor Winnie Monsod was quoted in the article as stating that Aquino "doesn't have his father's charisma, but he has his mother's sincerity. Whether that's enough, I don't know."

Noynoy’s campaign

TIME said Aquino’s campaign “has styled itself as the panacea for an afflicted country,” because his supporters believe he is the “righteous change candidate, destined to overhaul a stagnant status quo and redeem democracy.”

According to TIME, Aquino’s primary goal in his campaign is to curb corruption and “empower the people by delivering them ‘freedom from hunger.’” TIME added that 9 other rival bets have spoken out against corruption—“a problem that is hardwired into the country’s politics”.

TIME quoted political analyst Ramon Casiple as saying, "There are ties of clan, family and region that are stronger than the nation".

The article said “Aquino is not the only candidate promising social renewal, but he seems well suited for the part - carrying himself with an air of almost Gandhian simplicity and uprightness”.

His chief rival, Nacionalista Party's Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar Jr. is described to be a “suave, smiling, businessman with a rags-to-riches story, rising from a Manila slum to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country”.

Populism vs legacy?

It noted “observers say the presidential race has become a contest between Villar's populism (and deep pockets) and the Aquino family legacy.”

The article added: “But there are doubts about how savvy an operator he will be when thrown deep into the murky world of Philippine politics - one, by his own admission, that he has considered forsaking in the past "so not to be compromised anymore."

Casiple added in the article that Aquino “may not be the ultimate architect of change, but he could push open the door for real reform.”

Newsbreak editor, Marites Vitug commented in the story, "Our trust in politics has been so eroded that people just want a new leader who will do the very basic - who will not be corrupt, who will be good."
 


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Mar NOT on the cover of Time magazine

One Sunday morning, in a far away land called America, Vice President Al Gore visits a city in the south west--El Paso, Texas. He sees all the Hispanics there which reminds him of his trip to the Philippines a few weeks from now. He sees smog over the horizon rising from the Mexican factories across the border and wonders if bus and jeepneys in the Philippines are comparable. Suddenly, a bruised Chicano couple with a huge bag runs in front of him.

Gore: Hola! Welcome to the United States!

Latino (startled): Hola.

The Chicanos continue running after they crossed the border, and Gore wonders if Filipinos will run away from him too when he visits them. After all, many people hate his “Inconvenient Truth.” But he is hoping that the new Philippine VP will welcome him. He hopes that she will be someone who also believes in nurturing the environment, and he hopes that it won’t be what Obama calls a “Fat Cat”—an investment banker or mortgage lender who ruined their economy. The Democrats who are now in power are only too willing to help people like Gore and to shun those who ruined America.

Meanwhile, Mar, Loren, Jamby and Nick continue to campaign in the Philippines. They see each other by coincidence during their campaign, and Mar sees a huge billboard of Gore at the SM Mall.

Mar: Climate change? Bullshit! What do we need Gore for. That’s all nonsense!

Nick: Climate change may be more natural than man-made. But we do know that pollution does harm human health. That’s an undisputed fact.

Jamby: Our problems here in the Philippines are actually more basic.

Loren: We need to close our open sewage systems and build sewage treatment plants. We cannot tolerate belching vehicles. And we need to reduce our garbage.

Mar: What the hell for? I don’t understand the need for it.

So Mar leaves and takes a break at the men’s rest room. He puts down his pants and sits on the toilet until his shit falls out from his butt. He flushes his shit and it goes through pipes that eventually lead to an open sewage canal. Then Loren notices it as it passes by.

Loren: Yuck! That’s probably Mar’s shit! Nothing else could be stinkier!

Jamby: How do you know?

Nick: Well, it looks like his face.

Mar’s shit then goes through a pipe that leads to Manila Bay. Somehow, it keeps going until a small school of fish feed on it. (Just like rabbits which eat their own feces, sometimes animals feed on it to redigest wasted nutrients.) Eventually, the fish that ate parts of Mar’s manure are caught by Navotas fishermen. They then sell it to the wet market vendors, but some of it ends up as canned sardines. The people who eat it then hail Mar as their “Palengke King” since his shit is tasty for them.

But some parts of Mar’s shit gushes away where a whale shark gulps it. The shark then swims toward Subic Bay and gulps more shit from the untreated waters of Olonggapo. Starting to feel its tummy ache, it swims southward toward Boracay where it gulps more shit from the tourists that swim in their own untreated shit. However, the shark swims away and reaches a tourist spot for whale watchers, but it is eventually poisoned by Mar’s shit, together with all the garbage it swallowed, and dies. European tourists eventually see the dead whale shark beached on the shore.

Euro Tourist 1: We should’ve ignored this country like other Europeans. All they have here is shit, unlike in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam where they have Buddhist temples that attract millions of tourists every year. All they have here are shit and Catholic churches that remind me of the time a priest molested me and kissed my ass.

Euro Tourist 2: Yeah, we’ll just tell all our friends to skip this country next time.

But the story of Mar’s shit does not end there. Unless a miracle happens, which is unlikely, Mar will win in the elections and his shit will haunt Filipinos for the years to come.

Rodney St.Michael http://freeasean.tripod.com http://syncmyworld.blogspot.com http://myconnected.webs.com

Time: Follow the Middle Way--Choose the Lesser Evil

Gay Gibo: All candidates are so evil aren't they? So who should the people vote for?

Gay Gordon: Choose the lesser evil -- It's a choice between the Pimp, the Crook, the Retard and the Whore.

Gibo: The Retard & the Whore are better than the Pimp & the Crook.

Gordon: That's right.

Gibo: People should follow the Middle Way then. They should vote for Noynoy and Loren.

Gordon: Mannn, you surprise me sometimes. You're a genius!

Rodney St.Michael http://freeasean.tripod.com http://syncmyworld.blogspot.com http://myconnected.webs.com

VILLAR and AMPATUANS.....The Great....

VILLAR and Ampatuans are the GREAT PRETENDERs and GREAT LIARs.

Ano ang pagkakahawig ng Maguindanao Massacre sa Norzagaray Bulacan at San Pedro Laguna?.......Idinaan sa TAKOT ang dalawang magkaibang insidente!!!


Number 1 Supporter ni VILLAR!

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GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO at ANDAL AMPATUAN, JR.! CHECK! CHECK! CHECK!
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SA PARAISO NI VILLAR, MARAMI NA SILA!
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Naranasan mo na bang PUMATAY ng MAHIHIRAP?

Upang MAAGAW ang MUNTING dampa na bunga ng kanilang SIKAP?

Si Manny VILLAR! ARMALITE at DAHAS ang pangtapos sa MAHIHIRAP!

(Subaybayan ang kwentong buhay ng mga taong biktima ng LAND GRABBING ni VILLAR sa Paradise Park, San Pedro Laguna, sa Norzagaray, Bulacan, sa IloIlo, sa Las Pinas,. . . WOW! Malapit nang BUONG PILIPINAS!)

MANNY VILLAR!!! HINDI LAMANG C5 AT TAGA! ! !

ALAM AT GINAGAWA LAHAT NG KLASE NG PANGWAWALANGHIYA!!!
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Ang Mga Senador ni Villar, Tunay na OPO-POPOSISYON !

GILBERT REMULLA, ADEL TAMANO, PIA CAYETANO, TOOTS OPLE , RAMON MITRA, GWEN PIMENTEL, SATUR OCAMPO, LIZA MAZA, BONGBONG MARCOS, ARIEL QUERUBIN, MIRRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, BONG REVILLA

OPO, Gusto naming maging BILYONARYO, tulad ni VILLAROYO!

OPO, PARARAMIHIN namin ang MAHIHIRAP para marami ang MANGARAP!

OPO, MagpapaTUTA kami kay MANNY, para EVERYBODY HAPPY!

OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO!OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO!OPO!
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HUWAG KALIMUTAN ! ! !

Si Manny Villar ay

TUNAY NA SINUNGALING ! ! !

TUNAY NA MANGGAGANTSO ! ! !

TUNAY NA MANLOLOKO ! ! !

MAGNANAKAW PA ! ! !


Bopol_Journalism!

What's wrong of being a nerd, nothing!.

Remember Bill Gates & this Silicon Vally nerds who are billionaires.
At least ang mga nerd ay naka focus sa work nila at hindi sa pangungurakot.

Villarroyo is going down the drain at kasama kana roon.


Better Man ! ! !

Don't STOP thinking about tomorrow! VOTE NOYNOY AQUINO for PRESIDENT! A man with HONOUR and INTEGRITY, he's a better man for a better FUTURE!!!


Beloved Fatherland ! ! !

Future of our BELOVED FATHERLAND! NOYNOY AQUINO for PRESIDENT, sing it out to the whole nation! Philippines and for the GOOD of our entire FATHERLAND...


DUMB tonyabs

then why you're still commenting? you can't stomached the truth right?

Sorry for you..you've pick the wrong candidate..

I only have one concern, can't you read??

I say it again,

"I hate Villar more than Noynoy..He's more evil.."


DUMB tonyabs

then why you're still commenting? you can't stomached the truth right?

Sorry for you..you've pick the wrong candidate..

I only have one concern, can't you read??

I say it again,

"I hate Villar more than Noynoy..He's more evil.."



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