Who will TIME magazine pick as Person of the Year?

[ColbertWatcher]

[lapfog_1]

1. And after 8 years of being President...

who will be the Secretary General of the United Nations...

"That one"

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Well said! n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. It's more or less agreed that the Secretary General won't come from any permanent Security Council

country. What he'll do after 8 years of being president, I don't know, but I don't think it'll be Secretary General.

By unspoken tradition, a Secretary General has never been chosen from among the five permanent members of the Security Council: the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia. Otherwise, would this be the place for Jimmy Carter, an ex-President with a growing record in international diplomacy, or Andrei Kozyrev, who recently resigned as Russia's Foreign Minister?

Sir Brian Urquhart, who worked for the U.N. for four decades before retiring as an Under Secretary General in 1986, says the world never had a better opportunity to invent a new process for finding a Secretary General. "Either this is an important job or it isn't," he said. "But the permanent security council members who control this thing have to be forthright about what they really want."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E7D81539F932A25751C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

[HopeFor2006]

2. How could it be anyone but President Elect Obama?

[ColbertWatcher]

3. This made me think of making this poll ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/04/uselections2008-comedy

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Kick. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Countdown kick. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Obama, But we love Axelrod and Plouffe also.

[tcfrogs]

7. There's no way it CAN'T be Obama n/t

[gorbal]

9. Obvious winner

The only reason they might not pic him is that he is to obviously the winner.

[Sabriel]

11. I picked other.

I think it'll be "The Voter."

After all, they've been saying all along how we're voting for ideas, not color.

[NightWatcher]

12. how about 53% of the US electorate?

[RB TexLa]

13. Other: Joe the Dumbfuck Plumber, of course

[workinclasszero]

14. Who else but our new President?

GOBAMA!! :D

[IDemo]

15. If not Obama, then the American voter

[peekaloo]

16. That's my pick, too.

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