Who do you think will be Time's Person of the Year?

[Bicoastal]

My money's on the President of Iran, but I'm too lazy to look up the spelling of his name...

[Hatalles]

1. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim

AKA The YouTube boys.

... but I can't take credit for that selection, someone else had mentioned it in another post.

[Bicoastal]

2. Nah.....

They already got theirs for "invention of the year" a few weeks back.

[wickerwoman]

3. Mark Foley

The straw that broke the elephant's back.

[Hissyspit]

4. The safe choice, as ususal. n/t

[Syrinx]

5. Barack Obama

As a symbol of the Democratic resurgence.

[lvx35]

6. Condi Rice. nt

[snowbear]

7. Gross me out....

[lvx35]

10. I know, but that's what CNN was predicting today.

Still trying to make poo smell like roses, I guess.

[Quixote1818]

8. I think it's going to be Murtha but it should be Dean. nt

[XboxWarrior]

9. I hope

It's freakin me.....

just cuz.

I wrote a pretty good country song ?

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Hello? Nancy Pelosi.

First Female Speaker of the House, god-dammit!

[John Q. Citizen]

18. Good choice, for good reason, and as such she's also a symbol of the

Demo resurgence and the repudiation of bushism.

[snowbear]

12. A couple guesses I'll toss out...

If they decide to go for "corporate success" .. Larry Page & Sergey Brin (founders of Google)

If they decide to go "controversial" ... Donald Rumsfeld as a bad choice or Valerie Plame as a good choice

If they decide to go "political" ... (it SHOULD be the Democratic Party, but won't be.. )

If they decide to go with "safe" .. Lance Armstrong.. (or they could repeat the American Soldier for a 3rd time)



Here's the list to date (according to Wikipedia)

1927: Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) (first person chosen)
1928: Walter Chrysler (1875–1940)
1929: Owen Young (1874–1962)
1930: Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
1931: Pierre Laval (1883–1945)
1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
1933: Hugh Johnson (1882–1942)
1934: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) (2nd time)
1935: Haile Selassie I (1892–1975)
1936: Wallis Simpson (1896–1986) (first female chosen)
1937: Chiang Kai-Shek (1887–1975) and Soong May-ling (1898–2003) (first couple chosen)
1938: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
1939: Joseph Stalin (1879–1953)
1940: Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) (3rd time)
1942: Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) (2nd time)
1943: George Marshall (1880–1959)
1944: Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969)
1945: Harry Truman (1884–1972)
1946: James F. Byrnes (1879–1972)
1947: George Marshall (1880–1959) (2nd time)
1948: Harry Truman (1884–1972) (2nd time)
1949: Winston Churchill (1874–1965) (2nd time) ("Man of the Half-Century")

1962 Man of the Year Pope John XXIII1950: The American Fighting-Man (first "abstract" chosen)
1951: Mohammed Mossadegh (1882–1967)
1952: Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
1953: Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)
1954: John Dulles (1888–1959)
1955: Harlow Curtice (1893–1962)
1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957: Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971)
1958: Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
1959: Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) (2nd time)
1960: U.S. scientists (represented by Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Adam Fisher, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segre, John Enders, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell)
1961: John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
1962: Pope John XXIII (1881–1963)
1963: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
1964: Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973)
1965: William Westmoreland (1914–2005)
1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under
1967: Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973) (2nd time)
1968: The Astronauts; Frank Borman (b. 1928), Jim Lovell (b. 1928), William Anders (b. 1933)

January 3, 1969 cover of TIME Magazine with the Apollo 8 crew1969: The Middle Americans
1970: Willy Brandt (1913–1992)
1971: Richard Nixon (1913–1994)
1972: Richard Nixon (1913–1994) (2nd time) and Henry Kissinger (b. 1923)
1973: John Sirica (1904–1992)
1974: King Faisal (1906–1975)
1975: American Women (represented by Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billy Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek)
1976: Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
1977: Anwar Sadat (1918–1981)
1978: Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997)
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini (1902–1989)
1980: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
1981: Lech Wałęsa (b. 1943)
1982: The Computer (first non-human "abstract" chosen)
1983: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) (2nd time) and Yuri Andropov (1914–1984)
1984: Peter Ueberroth (b. 1937)
1985: Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) (2nd time)
1986: Corazón Aquino (b. 1933)
1987: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931)
1988: Endangered Earth ("Planet of the Year")
1989: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931) (Man of the Decade)

1987 Man of the Year Mikhail Gorbachev1990: George H. W. Bush (b. 1924) ("The Two George Bushes")
1991: Ted Turner (b. 1938)
1992: Bill Clinton (b. 1946)
1993: The Peacemakers: Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), F.W. de Klerk (b. 1936), Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), and Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995)
1994: Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)
1995: Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)
1996: David Ho (b. 1952)
1997: Andy Grove (b. 1936)
1998: Bill Clinton (b. 1946) (2nd time) and Kenneth Starr (b. 1946)
1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos (b. 1964)
2000: George W. Bush (b. 1946)
2001: Rudolph Giuliani (b. 1944)
2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom (b. 1963), Sherron Watkins of Enron (b. 1959), and Coleen Rowley of the FBI (b. 1954)
2003: The American Soldier (2nd time)
2004: George W. Bush (b. 1946) (2nd time)
2005: The Good Samaritans: Bono (b. 1960), Bill Gates (b. 1955), and Melinda Gates (b. 1964)

[Chomskyite]

13. My choice

Jon Stewart.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. It's worth reiterating

that Time's "Person of the Year" is not necessarily one whose contribution has been positive, but who has had the most significant effect on human events.

Therefore, I'd go with Rumsfeld.

[Syrinx]

15. well, by that criterion

Cheney. Or if they really want to get real, George Herbert Walker Bush.

[snowbear]

17. Yeah.. I put him down in my "controversial" choice list too..

You're very right... he'll probably wind up getting it..

[Swamp Rat]

16. Bushler

:D

[ThomWV]

19. Nancy Pelosi - - - 1st Woman Speaker

[MiniMe]

20. Webb or Tester

[Toots]

21. Cindy Sheehan would be nice....

As if it matters...:shrug: