NOYNOY at TIME

First, was Corazon Aquino

Former Philippine President Corzaon Aquino

Then next was her son

Running for Philippine President (2010 election) Noynoy Aquino

These two Aquino made it to the TIME Magazine Cover, First was during in 1987 and now in 2010. Binigno "noynoy" Aquino, cover in TIME magazine April 25 issue. We'll it must be an Achievement for him to conquer TIME. I admit I Haven't read the issue yet not until today when I found an article about this April 25 issue. This issue entitled ''CAN NOYNOY SAVE THE PHILIPPINES''.

Here are some excerpts from this issue:

• ''It's past midnight in Zamboanga and Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino III slouches in his chair, a glass of Coke in one hand and a cigarette in another. He's tired and bleary-eyed and wracked by a cold. A grueling day of audiences, processions and interviews in three different provinces across the southern Philippine island of Mindanao is drawing to a close in the hotel lobby...''
• ''For the Philippines, Aquino is an unlikely man of the moment. At a rally earlier in the day, tens of thousands had crammed into a stadium to hear the presidential candidate speak. Kris Aquino, his youngest sister and a celebrity talk-show host, revved up the crowd alongside her husband, an equally telegenic basketball star. High-school dance troupes garbed in yellow — the Aquino colors — spun cartwheels on stage. Yet when 50-year-old Noynoy emerged, hunched and bespectacled, amid blaring music and streams of confetti, he cut an awkward figure. Shirt loose, pants baggy and hair thinning, he looked more an abashed computer nerd than the sort of brash, swaggering politician that has become the stock-in-trade in the Philippines...''
• ''Yet, for all the zeal he inspires, aquino himself is also a product of the status quo. Both his parents, Ninoy and Cory, came from pedigreed stock — landed, aristocratic families that have long been part of the ruling establishment. Similarly, Aquino's vice-presidential running mate, Mar Roxas, is the grandson of Manuel Roxas, the country's first President. Arroyo, their erstwhile foe, is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, another President from the early days of the republic. And though they eventually faced each other as enemies, Ninoy and Marcos were members of the same fraternity at an elite Philippine university. Like a pantomime of ancient Rome, Manila's political landscape has been shaped for generations by the intimacies and vendettas of an entrenched rank of patricians.

for full article click: TIME MAGAZINE 

My Personal note, is the APRIL 25 ISSUE a plus point for him or not? is it a shame or our pride? Apparently, read the whole article and discover for yourself.