Benigno Noynoy Aquino – Why Gloria Arroyo needs to be scared of him now – Inside report – Video
Should Gloria Macapagal Arroyo be scared of Benigno Noynoy Aquino, the new President of the Philippines?
After nine years of Gloria Arroyo, the Philippines is gearing up for a new president. Benigno Aquino, known as Noynoy, is set to take power from Gloria Arroyo, the outgoing president. But can Benigno Aquino deliver the change his people desperately need? This is an inside story video about our new President of the Philippines, Benigno Noynoy Aquino.
This interesting report shows different opinions and highlights the many challenges facing our new leader Noynoy. As always, feel free to comment, tweet and share 
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By Manila Informer - Thu May 13, 2010 - 5:27 pm
As usual foreign media simpliflies the status of Philippine politics…bestowing sainthood to another Aquino..who like his mother promised honesty but never quiet fulfilled it. People are hopeful but blinded by what they perceive or know very little about. They totally overlooked a very good man …Gilbert Teodoro…because they were blinded by hate for Gloria Macapagal, who has done a lot. Unfortunately like the Filipinos, the foreign media are so mesmerized by the Aquino magic that they see what she achieved during her time…there was corruption too during her time and a lot coming from allies and her own family. No one you interveiwed ever admitted that Benigno Aquino III was capable…only maybe. They only think, ask your questions as fast as you can..you will notice that people who are answering you, the answers are from themselves not from Noynoy himself.
i agree with Ma. Amanda Gana. i think the perceptions about aquino are all because of the massive promotions made immediately after the passing of madam cory. people — and filipinos especially — tend to go with the flow and forget that the swirling current may hide sharp rocks and holes. if i'm not mistaken, madam cory's term was plagued by the most number of coup attempts by far — which goes to show that the general electorate really needs to do its research as to whom shall bear the burden of running the philippines. i'm sure we'll get there. soon.
but then, i'm just a hopeful filipino.
ms. gana seemed to imply that noynoy like her mother had promised honesty but never quite fulfilled it. it seems unfair to say that for noynoy hasn't even begun yet his role as the new president of the philippines. many seemed to think that the filipino voter is blinded by the mystique of the aquino name. they seemed to have no understanding of the corruption that took place during gloria's government, so huge that the people voted for noynoy for a change, so that taken in this context, a vote for noynoy becomes a vote against gloria.
i like gilbert, but his tragedy is his infinite faith in gloria, his sense of utang na loob. and many did not vote for him because utang na loob as a filipino value always necessitates payback time. since the president can choose who the speaker of the house will be, gibo if elected could choose gloria to be the speaker; he promised to be supportive of gloria so it is likely that he would support her desire for a charter change to reach her ambition of becoming prime minister. all because of his utang na loob. it's truly tragic because he seemed to forget, like his master gloria, that everything ends where national interest begins.
gloria has the most brilliant mind of all the elected politicians in our country: she could have stopped graft and corruption, turn a bleeding economy into a very health one so that when she is gone, people will remember her with respect and with fondness. but she didn't. perhaps her political ambition quashed her idealism so that in the end, the interest of the country ended where her political ambitions began. she became an expert in exploiting what she knew as an inherent weakness of men: to hold on to power. it's like saying to them walk with me and i will protect you; be with me and i will give you endless power. but power breeds greed and greed breeds corruption..and misery for the people. so media reports abound about gloria's hiring of justices whose goal is to seemingly protect her vested intersts, some news articles even call the court of justice as "court of arroyo," we constantly read news about how millions of arroyo money were used to buy the "yes" of senators and congressmen. truly, she seems to have brought to the highest form of political creativity the dictum which says everyone has a price.
noynoy on the other hand is so honest, seemingly so naive; too transparent…too tactless. he hasn't learned from gloria's finesse, from her artistic way of hiding true intent. so he now talks left and right about investigating the corruption charges against gloria…about preventing the marcoses' from getting back their sequestered wealth. what he doesn't realize is that those who are against him sees him as a vengeful man, not making any distinction though, that noynoy is not doing this because he was the one personally hurt, but because it is the clamor of the many, of those who were the ones most affected by corruption. more importantly, noynoy doesn't seem to realize that these talks breed anger and fear among those who are corrupt for his talks threaten their status quo…and right now, they may be huddled, planning, thinking…what are we to do with this president apparent?
well, someone from the camp of gloria has already floated the idea that the election machines are flawed; that congressional canvassing may even result in a win for villar (a technique used to hide the real objective, to draw people's attention away from the real goal, so they named villar as a potential winner instead of naming their real choice). but if the election machines are flawed, then the entire election process is flawed, and so all votes for all positions need to be counted again. so where do we go once this idea is transformed into reality?
it is best if noynoy should concentrate on what he had already started: reaching out for the opposition and listening to them, choosing for his cabinet the best of minds: men and women who had demonstrated honesty and integrity and galing and talino like gibo and gordon; thinking of ways and means to defend the bleeding economy like reducing graft and corruption, reducing the budget, increasing taxes for the rich and the middle class, imposing surcharges to companies earning millions, strengthening the educational system including research. running after gloria and the marcoses can be done, too, with fairness and justice at the right time…for surely, there is always the right time for everything.