No surprise that Time’s Person of the Year is Barack Obama, the incoming 44th president of the United States and the first African-American to hold the job. It’s difficult to think of a bigger newsmaker than Obama, with the possible exception of some nameless Wall Street crook. Time’s runners-up were Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Zhang Yimou, the filmmaker behind the Beijing Olympics’ amazing opening ceremonies. Apparently when Time asked for public nominations via YouTube, the biggest response came from supporters of Ron Paul. Maybe next year.
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TIME magazine also reports, in other news, that the sun has routinely risen over the eastern horizon for near on a week now.
See how cutting edge we are?
GMC = SoreLoserman.
Get over it.
And once again, Capn comments over what he knows nothing about.
Shocking.
Exactly 70 years ago, Hitler had the same recognition in Time.
Who cares what Time magazine thinks. They even fired the two conservatives that used to write for their magazine, Kristol and Krauthammer, so the magazine could carry on with their pure progressive liberal butt kissing.
Whether you like him or not I think that he deserves the title…Time does not ‘endorse’ the person of the year. Whom else GMC would you pick?
Sore losers just pissed palin didn’t get picked, you betcha!
I see the ODS manifesting itself.
“MartyG
Posted December 17, 2008 at 12:40 pm | Permalink
Exactly 70 years ago, Hitler had the same recognition in Time.”
Exactly 4 years ago, George W Bush had the same recognition in Time.
Exactly 5 years ago, The American Soldier had the same recognition in Time.
Exactly 10 years ago, ‘The Endangered Earth’ had the same recognition in Time.
Exactly 2 years ago, You had the same recognition in Time.
“…the first African-American to hold the job.”
I don’t think this is entirely correct.
“fleettwood
Posted December 17, 2008 at 2:00 pm | Permalink
“…the first African-American to hold the job.”
I don’t think this is entirely correct.”
Perhaps ‘person with the darkest skin ever to hold the job’ would be more accurate.
I was going to write first mulatto, but I think there are some Presidents before who actually have a small part African heritage (though they were white skinned and identified themselves and were identified by others as white.)
I don’t know about this appointment, Obama naming a repub from Illinois for sec. of transportation named LaHood (does that translate into ‘the hood’?).
a little nugget on madoff’s niece.
“Madoff’s niece, Shana, was a compliance lawyer at his firm and last year married Eric Swanson, a former assistant director of compliance and examinations at the SEC. Swanson left the agency in August 2006 and is currently the general counsel of Bats Trading Inc., the third-largest U.S. equity exchange by trading volume.
“Phantom
Posted December 17, 2008 at 5:26 pm | Permalink
a little nugget on madoff’s niece.”
That sounds like a game of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon
The man had done nothing, nothing to deserve this.
Unless you count his skin color………
Praises to the new God Obama.
Freaking press.
Hey Chaplain,
Obama whipped the Clinton machine, he whipped all the slime the Republican machine threw at him and was elected to the most powerful office in the world.
More than you’ve ever done in your sorry life.
Dennis
I’m so old I remember way back when Time Magazine used the title, “Man of the Year.” That was way back when we didn’t see women or persons of unusual ethnicity running or bidding for higher public office. Those people weren’t exceptional newsmakers because the media just ignored them, as did everyone else. We’ve come along way.
That sounds like a game of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon
She was Madoff’s compliance atty., who married the compliance attorney at the SEC (Where Madoff was considered like almost one of the agency), I see very little separation. Considering that madoff had two sons working for him, one might have suspected a little collusion.
Obama is following President George Bush’s footsteps.
George Bush was Times man of the year TWICE!
2000
2004
Times must be a good judge heh?