Who will be TIME Magazine's Person of the Year?

[Bicoastal]

Hmmmm...

2000--George W. Bush
1992--Bill Clinton
1988--"The Endangered Earth"
1980--Ronald Reagan
1976--Jimmy Carter
1968--The Apollo 8 Astronauts
1964--Lyndon Johnson
1960--"US Scientists"
1952--Elizabeth II
1948--Harry S Truman
1932--Franklin D. Roosevelt
1928--Walter Chrysler

As a non-incumbent President, Obama has a 58% chance of making it on the cover.

[TheDonkey]

1. Sarah Palin!

joking! god no. It'll be Obama.

[Bicoastal]

5. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

What if they do a big ol' switcheroo and it IS her!

Do you put it past them?

[Larry in KC]

6. Yes, I have to say, I do. I put it past them. Thank goodness.

[treestar]

18. if they do that, I will rip up every Time I see, even if it gets me

arrested!!!!!

[Seen the light]

2. I'll post a youtube video of me jumping through rings of fire if it's not Obama

I mean....come on. How can it not be?

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. I'll post a youtube video of me setting Time magazines on fire if it's Palin

And yes, I mean right in the racks.

Don't worry.... I'll make sure the fire doesn't spread..... except to maybe some other right wing magazines. :evilgrin:

[FrenchieCat]

3. I don't care about Time Magazine. I just don't. Mark Haleperin helped me with that.

[elleng]

4. It had BETTER be Obama!

[Occam Bandage]

7. The last four election-year covers have been the winner of the White House.

I don't think that's about to change.

[Bicoastal]

8. Actually, in 1996, it was someone other than Clinton.

[Occam Bandage]

10. You're right; it was that AIDS researcher.

That was not one of their best picks.

[babylonsister]

9. It could be GWB for failure. nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. Gotta be Obama. No one else even close.

[camera obscura]

12. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Sarah Palin, after their shenanigans (like picking "You") recently

They seem to have forgotten about the historical aspect in favor of selling copies.

[Zavulon]

14. I stopped giving a fuck about this award

as soon as they said "YOU" are the person of the year. I've never seen a worse journalistic cop-out, not even in the Washington Times.

They could name Palin the person of the year and I wouldn't give a shit. I stopped reading the magazine right when they set the cop-out cold standard.

In answer to the OP, it SHOULD be Obama, but watch the magazine pick Axl Rose or some shit.

[mtnester]

15. I hope they figure it out

and make it the US voter. It would be appropriate and everyone would go "yeah, that's right!"

Put a photo of a cross section of voters on the cover.


but who am I

It could also be some dumb ass move like Palin, or more likely in the dumb ass move category, Joe the Plumber

[Bad Thoughts]

16. "The Voter" or "The Unappreciated Taxpayer)

Time is getting good at cheesing out, and they will pick a collective "man of the year" that reflects either the election or the bailout.

[Youphemism]

17. There's an argument that it would be Bush...

TIME always reminds people that the Person of the Year is the person who had the most impact -- positive or negative -- on the world.

While I still think that's Obama, causing a world economic collapse is a pretty close second place. The destruction caused by Bush is the only thing that even approaches the impact of the history-making ascendance of Obama, in a polar opposite kinda way.