Barack Obama tipped to be Time Magazine's Person of the Year

[tekisui]

November 14th, 2008 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI -
New York, November 14 (ANI): U.S.

President-elect Barack Obama was once again the locus of discussions at Thursday’’s Time lunch, where guests agreed that the Democrat had a lock on becoming the magazine’’s Person of the Year.

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Senator from North Carolina John Edwards, said that Obama had come to seem “more like a symbol than a man … I hope he’’s big enough to get us through the hard times,” reports the New York Daily News.

John Slattery of “Mad Men” said that “There’’s nowhere to go but up.”
Declining suggestions that his Harvard Law School buddy might name him attorney general, Democratic politician Artur Davis also agreed that Obama was 2008′’s likely Person. (ANI)

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/barack-obama-tipped-to-be-time-magazines-person-of-the-year_100119111.html

No surprise there, who else could it have been?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "It should have been ME!!!"

Probable breakfast repartee at the Palin house.

[zbdent]

3. It wouldn't surprise me if Time pulled that stunt ...

the failed Repuke VP candidate, instead of the winner of the election, would get the nod because "she shook up" the election ...

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[Alter Ego]

9. Hitler was Time's POTY too.

(invokes Godwin's Law)

[zbdent]

10. I remember seeing that ... but was that the POTY for a U.S. election year?

edited to add:

Just checked Wikipedia: George W. Bush was the first President to make the election year POTY both times re-elected.

Time Man/Person of the Year as President in election year

1928 - not Hoover (re-elected, not POTY)
1932 - FDR (also 1934)
1936 - not FDR
1940 - not FDR (but was 1941)
1944 - not FDR (Truman was in 1945)
1948 - Truman
1952 - not Eisenhower
1956 - not Eisenhower
1960 - not Kennedy (was in 1961)
1964 - Johnson (was in 1967)
1968 - not Nixon (was in 1971)
1972 - Nixon (shared with Kissinger)
1976 - Carter
1980 - Reagan (was in 1983)
1984 - not Reagan
1988 - not Bush (was in 1990)
1992 - Clinton
1996 - not Clinton (was in 1998, which was shared with Ken Starr)
2000 - Bush 43
2004 - Bush 43

[No Elephants]

2. That occurred to me when I saw Obama's face on a magazine cover a few days ago. I cannot recall

the world cheering before when a President got elected. However, maybe Obama should get it next year. Maybe for the same reasons Hoover should have been Time Person of the Year ("for worse"), W. should be. He had a lot to do with the global economic collapse. Maybe Time could name him, his father, Reagan, Gingrich and DeLay jointly.


From http://www.mahalo.com/Time_Magazine

Person of the Year
Every year since 1927, TIME has named a Person of the Year and featured him or her on their cover. The criteria for selecting the Person of the Year is defined as the person, who "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year." Notable selections include Charles Lindbergh, who was both the first and youngest selection, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose three selections are the most any one person has gotten. Every President of the United States since 1927, with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Gerald Ford, has been selected as the Person of the Year. In 1999, Albert Einstein was named the TIME Person of the Century.4

[BeyondGeography]

4. Elizabeth Edwards still doesn't get it

What a dumbass quote.

[FrenchieCat]

17. perhaps she was talking about her own husband,

and they took the quote out of context?

[BeyondGeography]

19. She wasn't

and they didn't. And it's nothing new, coming from her.

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/08/08/elizabeth-edwards-regret-we-cant-make-john-black/

[Lucky 13]

5. Who else could it have possibly been?

He's changed everything. Achieved something once only dreamed about. Inspired an entire nation - and the world.

not picking him would have been a gross injustice.

[Blasphemer]

6. Isn't the President-Elect almost always the POY? I just took it for granted that he would be... nt

[rvablue]

12. I think the only alternative to Obama could be "The Youth Vote", but I think it'll be Obama. n/t

[Alter Ego]

13. As long as they don't do something retarded like "ITZ U GUYZ. U GUYZ ARE THE GREATEST!"

again.

[JI7]

21. i hate it when they do things like that

[calico1]

22. Sarah Palin!

:rofl:

[nyccitizen]

7. The "Person of the Year" thing wasn't necessarily an honor...

It's supposed to be the person who, for better or worse, most effects the news globally. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. People forget Hitler was named Person of the Year in the 30s.

These days, people seem to think it's an award or a distinction, and Time uses that to effect their decision. I believe the last enemy of the US to be named Person of the Year was the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Time was put off about how his supporters used their cover as proof that they were defeating America.

In 2001, even though it was difficult to deny that Osama Bin Laden had most effected the global news, they named Rudy Giuliani Person of the Year... admitting that they didn't "want to be on the wrong side of history".

[Bonn1997]

8. "Who else could it have been?" Well here's one obvious possibility...

Joe the Plumber!

[liberalpragmatist]

11. Favorite response to the 2006 choice of "you"

A friend of mine, learning that TIME's Person of the Year was "YOU" asked, "Can I put this on my resume?"

[Love Bug]

14. That popping sound you hear

is a few more freeper heads exploding! lol

[AspenRose]

15. As long as it's not Caribou Barbie

PLEASE, no more of that idiot

[grantcart]

16. wow never saw that one coming

[BklynChick]

18. it has to be him.

[WI_DEM]

20. Of course he will be TIMES person of the year--his was a historic election.

[democrattotheend]

23. Yup, I think that's pretty obvious

Nobody else anywhere in the world has made news as monumental this year.