Vote for Time magazine person of the year

[az chela]

I just went to Time magazines person of the year for 2005 and voted for Cindy Sheehan.
I think that she deserves this honor more than anyone else for standing up to this evil bush administration and demanding an answer to what is his noble cause that our troops are dying for.
What she did at Camp Casey and DC gave all of us hope that this war can be stopped and we can get rid of these people running this government and supporting this war.
A lot of you dont realize that Cindy has done this at great personal expense.she sacrificed a lot to keep this movement going.Her husband divorced her,his family put an article in the paper denoucing her and her beliefs,a lot of her friends walked away from her.She lost her home and now lives in an apartment and travels constantly
and pays her own way.NO she isnt getting rich from this, quite the opposite as she pays for plane tickets to attend all of these events.When she went to Crawford it was just her and her sister and it grew into a city of its own.I can think of no one that has done anything that surpasses this.

[theivoryqueen]

1. I love it!

That would be great if Ms. Sheehan won. After those Bush-man-of-the-year Time covers, it'd be nice to have the contrast.

[az chela]

2. And he is one of the people that they are suggesting for it

Please everyone send this to as many people as you can.We need to help support Cindy like she supported all of us.If you know of any vets against the war forward it to them.
Thank you so much

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. you have a likn

went over anc CUOLD NOT find it

[az chela]

4. Yahoo put time magazine person of the year in and it will bring up

the past years and the last link says vote for person for 2005.It has a place on the right where you can put in a name and a comment

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Here's the link

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2005/walkup/talkback.html

Really disgusting how many people are writing in W. Yeeeecch.

[freeplessinseattle]

6. direct link to poll

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2005/walkup/index.html

[rpannier]

7. I wrote for FitzGerald or scrub. Read my reason. Hope you like it.

Either Patrick FitzGerald for his dogged determination to root out corruption. Or, George Bush. I mean, let's be honest, Hurricane Katrina was probably the biggest natural disaster of the year, but Bush created the biggest man-made disasters for the whole year. Bush has shown us what true incompetance really looks like.

[rodeodance]

8. Results thus far.

Who Should Be Person of the Year?
TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year. Who do you think fits the bill this year?
33% J.K. Rowling


19% Mother Nature

13% Bono


8% Steve Jobs

7% Lance Armstrong


5% The Google Guys

4% George W. Bush


3% Pope Benedict XVI

3% Condoleezza Rice


2% Bill and Melinda Gates

2% Valerie Plame


1% Rick Warren

Note on Poll Results

[rpannier]

9. I love the for good or ill part

2001 should have been that wacko bin laden, but they were afraid they'd lose subscribers.

[paineinthearse]

10. I don't see Cindy's name, how do we vote for her?

These are the nominees I see:

Who Should Be Person of the Year?
TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year. Who do you think fits the bill this year?

Steve Jobs Pope Benedict XVI

Bill and Melinda Gates The Google Guys

J.K. Rowling Rick Warren

Condoleezza Rice Valerie Plame

Bono Mother Nature

George W. Bush Lance Armstrong

[The Truffle]

11. I voted for New Orleans as City of the Year

New Orleans, more than any person, represents the the poisonous effects of the Bush administration.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi The Truffle!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[petgoat]

13. Cindy Has Endorsed the WorldCan'tWait Statement

Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.

Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.

Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

<snip>

History is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!


http://www.worldcantwait.org/

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