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Man of the Year: Barack Obama
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TIME Magazine has just announced their Person of the Year for 2008. Rather unsurprisingly, they have chosen President-Elect Barack Obama.
Main article is here. Last year's Person of the Year was Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The four runners-up are
Main article is here. Last year's Person of the Year was Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The four runners-up are
- Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy
- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
- Chinese filmmaker and director of the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympic Games Zhang Yimou
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And the winner was sort of inevitable. Does anybody doubt it would've been the other guy if he'd won?
Yeah it doesn't necessarily mean they did anything particularly good, they just choose the most impactful people of the past year.
Palin is the Christian Right incarnate, the crystallization of everything that's percolated in the grassroots of the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan debuted the Moral Majority.
Meanwhile, our financial system has virtually lived and died by the breath that leaves Paulson's lips, and he has substantially increased the power and visibility of the Treasury Department. It's now one of the 'big Cabinet posts' in the national mind's eye, as big as Defense and State. You couldn't really say that before.
Sarkozy and Yimou are more debatable, but they have also had noteworthy impacts on the world this year. Sarkozy in particular has pulled off the unlikely job of making France relevant again.
I'll join in the opinion that Time's Man of the Year competition has become pathetic and irrelevant.
No, I don't even think they're trying anymore.
Palin helped contribute to Obama winning in a near-landslide. That's positive.
yea, that "you" cover was retarded. I could barely see myself in those cheap things.
The only reason I see Sarkozy getting runner up is the fact that he married a model. Other than that I don't see it.
He was the President of the EU this year, right?
Really, after they picked Putin last year I just gave up on Time. If I conspire and murder, will you put me on the cover of a magazine too?
Probably.
He made headlines by marrying a model and some Canada radio guy impersonating him while pranking Palin.
Who said that Man of the Year had to be a good guy?
You do realize that Stalin and Hitler were men of the year, too. Right?
I'm just going to sit back and wait for the comparisons to start pouring in from the crazies.
My crystal ball says it'll be Putin and how he took advantage of an Obama administration.
No one. This is my own personal metric for the magazine. Me, I stop paying attention when media outlets start idealizing people like Putin. The man has done nothing that would make me want to put him on a pedastal.
Yep. I would've stopped reading the magazine then too, but I wasn't in any kind of position to make that decision, my parents not even being alive and all.
I also figured they changed writers and editorial staff a few times since then. Maybe I was mistaken.
Every elected US President has been picked at least once since the award was invented (this goes back to FDR, who didn't get one in his 2nd term but did twice in his first and once in his third and does not include unelected Ford but does include LBJ).
The last winners have been Putin (dictator), "You" (stupid gimmick), "The Good Samaritans" (stupid gimmick), W (worst President ever), The American Soldier (gimmick, pandering tripe), The Whistleblowers (gimmick), Rudy (shitty mayor whose city was attacked), W (worst President ever), Bezos (made lots of $ in the .com boom), and Ken Starr (wasted two years of the federal governments time in a bald faced partisan attack)/Bill Clinton(mandatory, was ineffective because the only thing people were doing in DC was talking about him sticking a cigar in an intern). As a list its pretty nonsensical.
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The editorial staff and writes have changed since then, but the purpose of the 'Person of the Year' has not.
His very campaign mobilized a political movement and inspire people around the world. He's already had a profound impact on the world, moreso than any other single person last year.
So how about if we had an award for "Worst Human Being in Modern History"? Would we have to disqualify all the folks like Hitler and Stalin and Mao because to recognize their horrors would be "putting them on a pedestal"?
Don't be a doof. Recognizing that someone had a profound effect on the world is not the same as idealizing him. It's not even close.
It's more just them being damnded because they're Time. No matter what they do anymore, the appropriate response is 'whoopdee do.'
Which media outlets idealize people like Putin outside of the country they are running?
I think Paulson isn't that far behind. The bailout was a pretty major event, and he was basically the face of it. It will have an influence on the financial world for years to come.
Edit - That "idealising" Putin comment also confuses me. Is he talking about the occasional Oddly Enough story when Putin gets barechested or saves someone from a tiger?
Time Magazine is pathetic and irrelevant.
When Time Magazine went to glossy print it erased the last use the magazine had - toilet paper.
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It is odd but you will see Sarah Palin as Women of the Year in 2012.
Hey, Time Magazine still serves the important function of sitting in waiting rooms and not being a Women's Health magazine.