President Noynoy Aquino's smile

This is another fine example on how we just can't please everyone, had he had a disgruntle sad looking face, some would have considered him to be uncaring. People are very quick to make judgments about every move and it is unfortunate but this is part of being in the public eye. My personal opinion, though people should concentrate more on the problem at hand as opposed to what a public figure looks like he is acting. Oh dear.

Noynoy is just a human being. Something caught his attention in one instance and instinctively he smiled back. Of course this doesnt man he doesnt feel a thing. He is hurting also like everybody else. But then the media saw that instance in their camera and overemphasized it, then some PNoy haters caught it and broadcast it back to HK. The Hk people, in their moment of grief and anger, sees the freezed image of Noynoy smiling, and so they got an impression that he is smiling all the time as he talks about the incident. In this moment of sadness, some people in our country still have their own vested interest in mind, not realizing (or just ignoring) that what they are doing is just exposing our kababayans to the potential backlash of HK people when same images are repeated over and over. The silver lining is...the Chinese people are seeing democracy at work in our country, no matter how chaotic it may seems. In their country, any media exposing a smiling polibutro leader in a time of crisis and that person will be on his way to the re-education camp the next day.

I just think that President Noynoy Aquino is a very failing president. I don't care whether he smiled or not in this case. In this issue, his solution was wrong. If he decided to regard that the hostages' lives at first, perhaps the situation was different. Our leader and Hong Kong's President told that Hostage first. Hong Kong President even called Noynoy Aquino but he didn't accept the call. And the hijacker's requirement was not that difficult. I think he just wanted to be back to work because he thought the judgment to fire him was wrong. And no matter what, it was wrong to keep annoying the hijacker, but this is what the government did to him again and again, until the situation was out of control. If the hostages were Noynoy Aquino's family, I think he won't act like to be so careless. If a country's leader can act like this, how can we expect the rescue will be successful?

I think the President needs a crash course on body language. His stance is awkward most of the time. And his smile, too. Let's admit it, our President is not as dashing as Brad Pitt. Nor does he done a Barack Obama stance. But hey, the looks may be lacking but the brains and the character more than enough make up for the physical deficiencies. At this point in time, the words must be heard. The President is sorrowful, as most of us Filipinos, and that is what matters most.

There are people who are trying to blow things up out of proportion. The problem is almost everyone is trying to bite on it. But then again this is democracy in action. Pnoy on the other hand is learning his lessons the hard way. His smile may had been a little insensitive considering the grief of the hongkong people but every one should realize that Pnoy is a Filipino and it is inherent for Filipinos to smile even in times of crisis. Wont you agree?

from gigihk CNN: can you believe a normal person would smile in the tragic scene where 8 foreigners are killed? the idiot president is a beast,he smiled when answering question in press conference,smiled when standing beside the bus.FXXX him. how can he compared the lone hijacker incident with 2002 moscow opera hostage? 40 somthing well-rained millitants hijacked 850 people in a huge opera house,this time it is just one ex-policeman and 25 tourists in the bus!!!! would someone remind this beast,over 130,000 filipinos are currenctly employed in hk as demoestic helpers,we hongkong peole are not anemy of philippine,how could he be so cruel? If no apology is received,no real investigation is made,no one to explain to hk people if any hostage is killed by the useless police,it's natural for hk people to never visit philippine,buy any product or employ them as domestic helper.... I can undertand what she/he feel.I have seen so many comments said that don't blame all of you balabala...I don't know who said that hongkong people and other chinese hate all of you?most of them just blame your incompetent government and idiot president.I can't undertand your filipinos' emotion.would you tell me when your people die in other countries while the president was smilling at the crime scene and its people took photos there with smiles,will you feel that is common and it's just an expression of one's exasperation?if you do,i have to admit you are superman!in a word,those behaviors=coldbloodness.

I just think that President Noynoy Aquino is a very failing president. I don't care whether he smiled or not in this case. In this issue, his solution was wrong. If he decided to regard that the hostages' lives at first, perhaps the situation was different. Our leader and Hong Kong's President told that Hostage first. Hong Kong President even called Noynoy Aquino but he didn't accept the call. And the hijacker's requirement was not that difficult. I think he just wanted to be back to work because he thought the judgment to fire him was wrong. And no matter what, it was wrong to keep annoying the hijacker, but this is what the government did to him again and again, until the situation was out of control. If the hostages were Noynoy Aquino's family, I think he won't act like to be so careless. If a country's leader can act like this, how can we expect the rescue will be successful?

I think its President's Noy natural smiling personality. The Chinese were just so sensitive because of the incident. Maybe, President Noy was over confident of his trust to designated officials in charged. Why have not President Noy personally negotiate the problem. Though, that was not part of his job but the faith is there that he could calm down the taker, in saving the lives of the tourists and for the sake of Country's reputation.

Or maybe we really just misinterpret his body language. as for me, he did try to explain the situation, but now i think he's being judge in his own face.....

I act the same as Pnoy facial expression do. "Smile" to ease the pain. I can't resist not to smile even I pretend to. It is my way of showing that I'm brave enough to face the problem. That's why I understand Pnoy's facial expression. As President, he will show that he is brave enough to face those problems and to do his responsibilities. It is a MAJOR MAJOR mistake (Proud!) of his people for him to resolve and make it right.

Yeah, I watched the news which refered to the president's smile. His smile is untimely when others are immersing in huge grief. As for his explaination "It was an expression of his exasperation", it's so funny.

i don't know..maybe he just want to smile after a horrified thing that just there weer still survivors.

...it's really sad how these negative feedbacks went blowing right after the horrible hostage crisis incident...we can't blame other people if they gave bad opinion to Filipinos, to the Philippines or the President of the Philippines, but I think, it would be best to let the issue subside before dealing with who is the responsible of this incident and who is at fault...we should be working as one and gave our sympathy to the families of the victims of the said incident....with regards to the president noynoy's smile...although, it is not good in viewer's perspective while the issue at hand is serious, but it would be best not to judge him according to a simple gesture, but rather on what will be his future actions with regards to this issue...

Apologized after he made excuses. Admitted his shortcoming AFTER his team lost its dignity. And now, do we see any ACCOUNTABILITY with that? "In fairness"? How would you feel if your family was on that bus and your President smiled while talking about it? Try not to be delusional.

I'd say he is really just a person. His men did something "stupid" out there. He could have been in shock up until this time, not knowing where and when and who to go to first. But I believe he still is doing his best to clean up this mess. His smile, which i have not seen, so i/d just think there was really a better reason for this... He can just try to be more careful with his actions especially these days that his every move is being looked into.

I think this was his so-called expression face. but i do remember his angry and sad face when he was banged by a tony lopez moderator when there was this debate in manila. oh, yeah, not only he was sad but got furious about it.

I have watch the election campaign. even at the high where he was angry, he always had that expression. you can't make him change his facial look. i don't think he's smiling. has any one seen the poster where noynoy was smiling, that's not the kind of smile that he did during the press conference. that's just him.

The near fact that he is the president of the Philippines that is also consider as public figure and yet a son of former Cory Aquino that is also calm who believes that being ill tempered wouldn't do anything good. I would really believe that his smile does not meant anything sarcastically, it all means that he does not want to be pressured on stress that is going around. Being calm would help him to do the right decision.