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Mar 28th 10 Posted by Arnold in Politics

I’m going for Noynoy Aquino, and here’s why…

Before I explain why I’m voting for Noynoy, let me lay the groundwork:

I don’t believe in the common and perhaps the most attractive promise of a number of candidates: that if they will be elected, they will solve the problem of poverty. I simply think that 6 years are not enough to solve this issue. A lot of ground work have to be made. A lot of changes have to be implemented so we can start solving poverty.

I also don’t believe that a single candidate can solve our problems. A lot of our candidates promises insane things as if they are super human. We also think that if one is a successful businessman, or has passed bills in congress, or has executive experience, he can solve the problems we’re facing. They may solve some of the problems, but NOT the main problem…

* * *

I think that our main problem right now is TRUST or the lack of. For the past 12 years, the government lost it. The people are simply uninspired. They would rather live somewhere else than here. They lost hope. They don’t trust the government anymore.

Corruption right and left. Unresolved issues here and there. We just don’t believe anything the government says anymore. We even doubt the smallest and simplest thing they say.

The programs cannot be properly discharge without trust. Investors cannot come in without trust. The workforce will not stay without trust.

How do we bring back trust in the government?

We need a leader who:

  • Is credible, without any sort of baggage or links on corruption
  • Can inspire people to be at their best
  • Can unite a broken nation

This, in my opinion, is what we need for 2010. If this can be fixed, the foundation will have been set for us to become a great nation again.

WHY NOYNOY AQUINO?

Noynoy isn’t a superman. In fact, he is not his father who can deliver a powerful speech. He is not his mother who has the charisma to persuade.

But I believe that Noynoy is the most credible candidate. Someone that we can trust. He doesn’t have the baggage of corruption issues that others have. He doesn’t have the baggage of being linked to the most distrusted administration. Its as if — if he is elected, we can rest in the evening knowing that he’s doing his job and not stealing our money.

Noynoy is also blessed with being the son of our national heros Ninoy and Cory Aquino. You simply cannot disregard that fact. And by that, he has the ability and the popularity to unite this broken nation again. And while I do believe that he cannot solve all the problems that we have right now, if he is going to bring trust to our government and unite our people, he has paved the way to our nation’s future greatness.

What I like best of Noynoy is simply the fact that he is not a know-it-all guy. He doesn’t claim to know all the solutions. And he’s pretty honest about it. Rather, he always aims to empower. As a leader of a small organization myself, I know how important empowerment to people is. His mother, President Cory, was known to doing this. That’s where he must have gotten that value. I believe that the government doesn’t hold all the solutions to our problems. We are a democratic nation. The power lies in the hands of the people. What the government leadership has to do is to empower our people to do what they can do best to fight poverty and serve our nation.

As of March 28, I’m voting for Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas. It’s very unlikely that this is going to change until May 10, 2010.

Noynoy Aquino - empowering the people

  • Nyahaha
    Ang tagal na ng angkan nila sa tarlac, di pa maayos-ayos. Para man lang may pang back up sa slogan nya. Weh.
  • winona
    thank you for this blog post. it reminded me why i decided to vote for noynoy in the first place.
  • Jojo Ayson
    Trust is not enough. He has done nothing in the past 12 years that says that he can do the job. He may be honest, but so what?____He is the son of Ninoy and Cory. But let us be fair to Noynoy. He is NOT Ninoy and he NOT Cory.
  • Tin B
    i am filipino. i am proud. and i am not desperate. i have a choice.

    i urge you to re-think. i urge you to reconsider. i urge you not to be desperate enough to vote based on a survey conducted on no less than 2,000 correspondents. you have a choice. the more you allow your choices to be overpowered, the more you drive this country to poverty. the more you allow this government to corrupt and exploit your decision. how can you?

    when noynoy wins, his parents track record will not bring jobs, shelter, food, education, tourism, or health care. his track record won't. and the surveys won't. when noynoy wins, go ask the social weather station to give you a job and to raise the salary of doctors and teachers. they're the reason everybody picked noynoy anyway.

    i have decided on who I wanted to vote, when someone asked me, where would you rather live -- in SBMA or in Tarlac? and that's the real survey.
  • I'm sure you watched on TV news how Gordon's bullying nature manifested when he was displeased by the results of the series of surveys showing his consistent very low rating. Gordon threatened to sue these survey institutions in court. How much more if he is the chief executive already? who is safe from his anger? If Gordon was the consistent topnotch-er of these surveys, do think he will behave like that? For sure, he will defend the result of the survey as fair if it favors him. The voters know Gordon very much. Surveys showed majority do not like him. Forget all these bragging of accomplishment because people are fed-up already with that antediluvian way of personal salesmanship. See what happen to the lady senator who habitually brag her fantastic accomplishment with flying colors. Do the Filipino voters likes her to be their president?

    When Villar's, Willy Rebillame's show was scheduled in SBFZ one Saturday night, permit was not granted. why? Is it because Gordon's 2nd place status after Noynoy's in his own city shown by surveys might be lost to Villar's favor?
  • So, this is the reason why Noynoy's websites was hacked about a week ago; to prevent people from knowing the truth about Noynoy's accomplishment both in congress and the senate; so that those who claim Noynoy has accomplished nothing can continue claiming so.

    Well, it's to late now. In six (6) days, we will see if the Filipino voters believed these zero accomplishment issue against Noynoy.
  • GORDON FOR PRESIDENT
    yes, of course we need to trust the government. but we need someone who can do something. he's been in the government for all those years and done NOTHING.
  • Second Delfino
    why? i want to know more about Remulla as well
  • Second Delfino
    Noynoy dreams BUT HAS NO PLAN. Has he laid out any plan at all? NO. What has he done in all his years in Congress and the Senate? NOTHING MUCH. What does he say when endorsing his senatoriables? "kailangan KO po sila.". It should be -kailangan NYO po sila-. What does that say about him? That he cannot think for himself and needs all his pawns to do so. If you've seen "Harapan" for the senatoriables, you'll see how much non-great minds he has in his ticket. (i.e. TG Guingona). I think it SHOULD NOT be just about how good-natured a person is. We need someone who can SHOW US THE WAY TO BETTERMENT HIMSELF. One who has a vision and concrete plans. One who has done it himself. Go GORDON!
  • Dindo Villacampa
    sorry, i meant "someone" and not "something" in the last sentence
  • Dindo Villacampa
    Mr Rances, you mentioned a while back that Subic was already ready for occupancy and that the WOW Philippines tourism campaign was not as effective as Gordon supporters make it out to be. However, let me point out that while the two accomplishments above are not as successful as many seem to think (according to you), what has Noynoy done to equal these? He has been a legislator for nine years and he has not passed ONE law. not ONE. Common. How can you believe that he is the most qualified candidate for President when he has been a legislator for that long and not achieved anything? We need something who has actually proven himself and not someone who been living off his family name all these years.
  • jan amoranto
    NOYNOY is my president! because i believe he can do something re: corruption.
  • Rex Ian Sayson
    Hi everyone,

    Just wanted to share a reflection I've been going through some time now about "wasted votes". Is there really such a thing?

    Which vote is a wasted vote? The one used to give the best candidate a fighting chance, or the one used to let a supposed front-runner's backers control the outcome with unscientific surveys? Having generated the largest business portfolio for my previous company using market research, it really bothers me that the methodologies behind the various election surveys seem so loose that the results are practically useless except for whatever agendas those who paid for the surveys may have.

    For example, if Noynoy A is really the front-runner, how come most people I speak with are supporting Gordon?

    Obviously since I'm not a Villar-ionaire I can't do a proper survey myself at this point, but it's very worrying - look at the financial crisis caused by believing too much in credit ratings paid for by the companies being rated themselves - how much misery has been caused by this ill-placed compianza? Should we peg our faith in getting the leaders we deserve on unscientific surveys, or should we peg our faith on finding the best fit candidate for our country's needs?

    What would you like our country to have achieved 6 years from now? How do we measure the achievements we would like our people to have accomplished in 6 years, 12 years, 24 years, and what kind of proven accomplishments let us know which candidates are the best choice?

    I am sure different voters will have different criteria, and different results, but I hope you'd help spread the word to let the best candidate win, and not necessarily the ones pre-selected by paid-for survey companies. Personally, I'm impressed with this platform and the values, qualifications and experience behind ithttp://bit.ly/cABGn9

    Just to share, where I'm from, I can go jogging at night, there's a functioning public library, LTO transactions take 15 minutes, public school students have international-standard classrooms, and it doesn't even need to collect the same taxes as Makati. Do we want to just survive in our country, or really live?

    I believe our people will make the right choice if we just remind ourselves to stay focused on what this election is about - our future, our dreams, and our loved ones.

    May the best candidate win.

    What do you think? Please spread the word to everyone you care about also

    Cheers :)
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  • anyonebutnoynoy
    now im tired. ill just wait for the cows to come home, its a better scenario than watch these two top liberals win 2010.
  • Very well said, sir.
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  • Armando Rances
    Well, your view is your own view; mine is mine; others are theirs. You can call your view "holistic if that is want you to call it; but you can't call other views idealistic because I'm not. I'm a realist. I look not just into every minute detail but also the big picture. I've been following the sessions of both houses of the senate and congress aired on radio or TV ever since the Estrada administration . I observed who's protecting who; I saw who benefited from something; how collusion suppressed valid issues; how money calls a quorums for controversial bills; and, I know most of the candidates, except Perlas and Gordon's Nephew. My conviction to vote for Noynoy is not based on idealism. He fits the office he is seeking for.
  • Armando Rances
    Amen
  • kaku13
    I am an evangelical Christian... I am for NoyNOY Aquino.... I just pray that the wounds in the Body of Christ brought by politics be healed now!
  • Armando Rances
    Look! We really see things in different perspective. I believe you've seen what are published in Noynoy's websites, but you don't pay any attention to the laws that he passes the way you don't pay attention to my family name. You have been replying my posts, but you call me Mr. Roces instead of Mr. Rances which is clearly printed on my posts that you're replying.

    I did not compare David with Noynoy. I Just expounded my criticism to Mike's citing "the truth will set us free" then call Noynoy Negative and incompetent. My message there is clear. Our countrymen had been praying for good and honest leaders for a long time already, that God might hear us this time. My point is let the hands of God work through the honest votes of our people. Let's not confuse the dictates of the peoples conscience by telling them to be technical with their choice, because if God is offering his help through our conscience, then technicalities will pollute our conscience; and then, what? We are lost again.

    If we don't exercise caution in electing the 15th president of the Philippines... well I don't want to expound my little knowledge about occult science, I just don't want a wrong 15th president making our country a hell. Of course, don't take it literally. If you know anyone who is an expert numerologist you can ask him/her what makes a wrong 15th president. Or Just check "wikipedia" for Ryder-Waite TAROT and see what's behind the 15th (XV) card. Behind that card is the master of lies, deception, arrogance, covetousness, destruction, etc.. We don't have to believe that; just for curiosity's sake only.
  • Anyonebutnoynoy
    and my apology to the author, if your blog became an avenue for expressing my intense disappointment. Tao lang din po, nagtatampo sa kapwa tao. :)
  • Anyonebutnoynoy
    hindi lahat ng post dito is about block propaganda-ish of some sort, some here like mine is mere opinion. funny cause people think im campaigning for certain candidate because up to now im not decided yet. But one thing i have decided is to vote ANYONE BUT Noynoy.... nagpapakaholistic lang ako... i am not convince in anyway of by mere words "hindi ako magnanakaw, lalaban tayo! lalaban tayo! " unang una, these are all words, before leading a country lead your family and stand by CARP and distribute Lands, second Lalaban tayo , lalaban tayo is really literally gives me ringing in the ears, sounds very chaotic to me.....and third ang walang kamatay matay na empty resume....... Sana maging Holistic ang view natin, hindi idealistic....lahat ng anggulo tingnan.......ano bang nagawa ng dalawang magkatandem na to at biglang naging agent of change sila? diyan tayo babalik sa resume, tingnan natin at suportahan natin ang pagiging agent of change daw nila ..... Asan?
  • Armando Rances
    hahahaha... your welcome, anyone....
  • anyonebutnoynoy
    propaganda ish? mr. armando seriously, dont.. just dont try and assess my post as some propaganda.... because please..... if you dont even notice my nick its "anyonebutnoynoy" i dont have a candidate, i only have the angst for someone running like him. Someone catapulted by chance and surname. and besides Mr. Rances....You have to accept the fact na He was Liberal's Bet NOT because oh his so called "accomplishements that are posted in his websites that all i have to do is find it" but because he had the right timing on his side, that famous clamour, that famous sisters and showbizz at his back, the infamous outcome of PGMA administration and because he was born with that surname..... Please...... Sana naman maging holistic ang view po natin... sana lahat ng anggulo tingnan natin.... hindi dahil sinabi | "hindi ako magnanakaw" hooray na corruptionless na....
    gee.... kala ko ba "we are not born yesterday? eh bakit hindi holistic view ka?
  • anyonebutnoynoy
    Mr. Roces, Mr.Roces Mr. ROces...... tsk tsk tsk, confused ka naman ata. at ginamit mo pa ang Biblya sa pagpoprove ng kung ano man point eto....Sir, God chose David for one and only reason, HE is GOD, and alam niya ang ikabubuti ng kanyang mga creation. So please dont tell me na you used this as an example that Mr. Benigno Aquino's son is like David because hindi siGod ang pumili sa kanya kundi ang pagkakataon, Ang dala ng mga damdamin, ang Liberal party, at si Mar Roxas. and besides kahit sino mang nag start ng mudslinging na yan, David was never a mudslinger himself. Have you seen your candidate,answering issues from the very start? ganun ba tingin natin ang isang pinili ng Diyos for us?

    The boy who have no concrete qualification is David, and David is not Mr. Benigno Aquino's Son. These two are way different, the latter stood in one corner behind his family while hundreds of famers remained landless and remained widows . The latter sat on that senate chair for years without passing any law...The latter is not David.. so please.... isn't this blasphemy?
  • anyonebutnoynoy
    and your reply is suppose to be of what essense? TO be honest with you, i feel that he's winning 2010 and i already accepted that, as i accept the fact that this is WE again are going entirely with the flow. ... and thank you for proving my point... that noynoy is nothing but a blank resume, and will be blank till the cows come home... moooooo..... and FYI, my series of posts here is not to change your minds, i just want answers..... and i get none... iboto mo si noynoy, wala ako pakialam but just give me answers.... thats all......
  • nilda galera
    para huwag maaksaya ang boto ninyo iboto si NOYNOY at Mar para sa total change sa ating Bayan tungo sa pag-unlad at kapayapaan for the good future of the next generation.
  • Armando Rances
    hahahaha.... Anti-Noynoy camp will hate you for that!

    See how desperate the mudslinger's camp to beat Noynoy's coming landslide victory? They scripted another hate campaign against Noynoy. They prepared a mass conference for the hated mass murderer of Maguindanao only to declare their clans support for Noynoy. Isn't that another funny desperate black propaganda against the people's choice. How can a mass murderer call a press conference inside a maximum security detention camp, declare support for a yellow candidate, while he is wearing an orange bracelet with the name of the orange presidential candidate on it?
  • beng
    God! raggster you are great! you dissected the issues well. You should be one of Noynoy's analyst. Your presentation was coherent, factual, logical and simply awesome! I bet that humongous guy who will vote for the liar, corrupt and landgrabber Villaroyo is now eating his words he he. keep it up! my friend and tuloy ang laban. I suggest that the Noynoy campaign people will print the opinion of the dimwit guy and you rebuttal. Need i say more? Awesome!
  • kapinoyan
    Those I voted for President in the past elections all lost. Alejo Santos in 1981. Cory Aquino in 1986. Miriam Defensor Santiago in 1992. Alfredo Lim in 1998. Panfilo Lacson in 2004. This trend convinces me my vote is hexed! Hence in this year's elections my vote shall be for Manny Villar.

    Congratulations then to His Excellency, Noy Aquino, President of the Republic of the Philippines!
  • Armando Rances
    Well, Mike:
    I just hope you really understand the deeper meaning of the phrase," the truth will set you free."
    Noynoy is not incompetent the way you portrayed him. He is not a neophyte in politics and
    government. All you have to do is check his websites and you will see; he is no nonsense. He
    knows what lies ahead and how complicated the problems he should be facing if he won the
    presidency. His guts to run for the highest office means that he knows what to do, and he is
    determined to pursue it because he saw the need to, and he feels his calling, and the massive
    support for him shown by the Filipinos confirms that calling.

    Never use verses from the bible just to justify your choice of a candidate whom you believe
    possed superb qualifications. Our countrymen had been praying for honest and good leaders
    for a very long time already. Who knows, God hear our prayers this time. God knows who fits
    the job. His methods is not the same as man's, i.e. resume, work experience, wealth, outputs
    connections, popularity, etc..

    When God chose David to be king, he was the least qualified, being a young shepherd, and a
    musician. He was not even an experienced soldier. When his countrymen's army was deeply
    worried because of the giant, Goliath's constant challenging for them to fight, and not one of
    king Saul's best warriors was willing to accept Goliath's challenge, David felt his calling and
    fought the giant. To everyone's amazement the boy David killed the feared giant and gave
    victory to his country and his God. The boy chosen by God, whom, experts at that time
    assessed him with no qualifications, no experience, and no expertise, answered his calling. By
    defeating the Philistine Giant, Israel's army regained their courage and chased the terrified
    Philistine army away. The boy who haven't shown any concrete qualification became the great
    king of Israel.

    The muds slinging was started by Villar's camp. Noynoy's camp responded only. When Noynoy exposed Villar's lies of being poor, his brother Danny died because they don't have money to buy medicine, he (Noynoy) was telling the truth. Villar's brother was confined in expensive FEU Hospital, not in free PGH for 13 days before he died of "leukemia" (incurable during that time). The funeral was serviced by "Funeraria Paz." Expensive funeral parlor, isn't it? So, do you believe Danny died because Villar's family has no money?
  • Mike
    I still don't understand why some Christians support and plans to vote for a candidate who not only lags in terms of competence & achievements (the truth will set you free) but who also TAKES JOY IN MUDSLINGING!!! A mudslinger is a brother to the corrupt - that's moral corruption!! I'll NEVER entrust the future of this country to such a NEGATIVE, INCOMPETENT person. NO to Noynoy Aquino - should have been Mar Roxas, tsktsk.

    Go for THE candidate who doesn't put the other candidates down just to raise himself up. New kind of politics - positive campaign! I think therefore i am for Gibo.
    http://www.thepoc.net/commentaries/6041-noynoy-aq...
  • Armando Rances
    Joseph,
    I worked in Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) between July 2002-December 2002. I saw what the Americans left there: International class airport with buildings and huge warehouses with vast open lots for container depots, a good harbor with buildings warehouses and also vast open container depots. They also left several buildings, quarters, power and communication facilities and a number of others more. All these facilities that the Americans left are usable, some needs only upgrading. Most of the buildings and quarters there and other facilities including sport complex, club houses (e.g. Yacth Club) are ready for occupancy. There are existing beach resorts, duty free stores, hotels, food business, a dock yard and other business before it was converted to SBMA. It was a tourist destination. SBMA was bound for progress even if that was charged to people other than Gordon. The Americans left Subic with a vast lucrative resources needed for progress and development including vast idle lands. All the government needs to do was to showcase those resources and invite both local and foreign investors. And that's what brought SBMA to it's status nowadays. It's not because of Gordon's ability; the resouces are there already.

    Did Gordon's "Wow Philippines" upset the tourism records of our neighbors like Thailand, Indonisia, Singapore, Vietnam etc.? Well, check it out.

    We will see in May 10 how the Automated election works. I believe you're updated how Smartmatic obtained not only the multi-billion peso Picos machine contract that encounters a lot of problems; they also obtained the other remaining contracts wholesale without a public bidding. Very fortunate, isn't it?
  • Armando Rances
    Well, as it seems, that the battle lines are drawn already between Noynoy's supporters and the supporters of other contenders, all we need to do is just vote for our candidates. If it difficult for you to accept the prevailing Noynoy winning advantage, then, you can keep on posting an immaterial Noynoy resume issue till the cows come home. But that won't change our minds. We will vote for Noynoy.
  • Armando Rances
    Sorry Libby, but it seems you're also a victim of black propaganda against Noynoy. Your knowledge of the Hacienda Luisita massacre was based on that "Professional Agitator" Satur Ocampo's fabrication. To share with you the real truth on the Hacienda Luisita Mess. Please view this site, and you will see the actual death of only two (2) people in that mess who's blame falls on Satur Ocampo's hands and the mobs that he brought there. The other deaths brought there by ocampo's mob died in an encounter outside Luisita. Here is the site and the truth.
    http://mangalary.revler.com/2010/03/hacienda-luis...
  • Armando Rances
    I feel sorry for those who believe the block propaganda about noynoy's empty resume. where in fact noynoy's is not empty. His acomplishments are posted in his websites. All you have to do is find it. All surveys proved a Noynoy Aquino landslide victory in May 10. That's the reason behind all this dirty black propaganda against Noynoy. The hopeless chances of their candidate to upset the massive support for Noynoy is what drive their frustrations to resort to dirty mudslinging below the belt. I'm really sorry for your candidate because their dirty trick won't help them win; rather, as it was happening already, will backfire on them, and will push their small margin of support away from them. Really really sorry for you; but, we are not born yesterday.
  • joseph tolentino
    Simple lang..pag tinanaong kung BAKIT SI GORDON? Subic. Olongapo. Red Cross. Wow Philippines. Automated Elections. ....IKAW? Ano bang nagawa ng kandidato mo?
  • anyonebutnoynoy
    Lets give noynoy the benefit of the doubt pero pansin ko lang in most forums na nababasa ko, pagkahaba haba man ng good qualities na meron ang taong to pagkahaba haba man ng defending sa kahit anong aspeto ng pagkatao niya pero pag RESULTS, achievements at laman ng resume parang nawawalan ng boses ang mga followers niya. For an obvious reason, kasi wala tlga.... So ang tanong, papaano nga nagsimula ang lahat? papaano at naging "credible" PRESIDIANTBLE ang taong ito? Pulleeezzzzz enlighten me, ANYONE?
  • So, compromiser ka din, di ba? open your blind eyes. I know na widespread na ang video ng hacienda luisita massacre at ng sctex issue... Paano na ang mga tao sa likod ng presidente mo na iboboto. Mga lumang pulitiko. LAHAT SILA SUMISGAW NG PAGBABAGO, INCLUDING NOYNOY. BUT WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY? NAGING PRESIDENTE ANG NANAY NIYA, AT ITONG SI VILLAR EH NAGING SENATE PRESIDENT AT HOUSE SPEAKER PA....... At hindi qualification na anak siya ni ninoy at cory. hindi namamana ang paglilingkod... look at gloria, na anak din ni Dado macapagal, what happened to our country?
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