• 6 AUGUST - *1907 - Gen. Macario Sakay, one of the Filipino military leaders who had continued fighting the imperialist United States invaders eight years into the Ph...
    11 years ago

......................................................................................

The Daily Tribune

(Without Fear or Favor)

Specials:

Bulatlat.com

World Wildlife Fund for Nature-Philippines

The Philippines Matrix Project

Noynoy: No need to step out of parents’ shadows 08/01/2010

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Noynoy: No need to step out of parents’ shadows


08/01/2010
President Aquino elected yesterday to stay in the shadows of his popular parents, the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino and the late former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino, on whose memories propelled his candidacy in the recent May 10 elections despite demands that he prove his own mettle as leader of the nation and not merely the son of two democracy icons.

Former President Aquino died Aug. 1 last year after a long battle with colon cancer while Ninoy was assassinated on the airport tarmac Aug. 21, 1983. 

Aquino said he is not bothered by critics who said he remains in the shadows of his deceased parents whose contributions to Philippine democracy are appreaciated worldwide.

“Getting out of their shadows means that I’ll (have to) make my own mark. I think what I’ve always stated is that I am continuing the fight that both of them have rendered for the people. So why is there a need to reinvent the wheel, why is there a need to digress and diverge from what they were fighting for,” he told reporters during the unveiling of the gigantic photo mosaic in Cory’s honor at the Rizal Park.

Aquino admitted that had it not been for the so-called “resurgence of hope” that happened during the death of his mother last year he would have not been elected President.... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100801hed3.html


0 comments

Blog Archive