Posted by Pete Souza at 4:42 pm CST
Robert Gates, the president's nominee for secretary of defense, offers an all-smiles review of how his confirmation might be going. Chicago Tribune photo by Pete Souza.
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Jury out on this guy yet we shall see.
HERE VOTE FOR PERSON OF THE YEAR
http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2006/walkup/
Do not like the way this vote is going
Posted by: Dale Peters | December 5, 2006 4:56 PM
No rubber stamp! Be careful what you vote for...you just may get it!
Posted by: lochnessmonster | December 5, 2006 5:26 PM
Gee, that was easy. I expected a bit more... confirmation proceedings.
Posted by: Bill | December 5, 2006 6:28 PM
Dale:
Do you think that poll is correct? Maybe people don't know who he is or if they do, maybe are voting for him just to "skew" things up?
Posted by: lochnessmonster | December 6, 2006 5:52 AM
Un-like most of the Bush nominees,Gates provided honest,straight forward answers to questions.
Posted by: Raving Loon | December 6, 2006 9:35 AM
Dale:
Do you think that poll is correct? Maybe people don't know who he is or if they do, maybe are voting for him just to "skew" things up?
Posted by: lochnessmonster | Dec 6, 2006 5:52:21 AM
It's Most Influential person, Loch, not person who did the most good. Hitler was MotY sometime in the late 30s.
Posted by: Cheryl | December 6, 2006 1:49 PM
Yeah, one year Stalin got it.
Posted by: c.morris | December 6, 2006 8:13 PM
Stalin got it twice. Hitler won it once. The poll used to be said to be based on who was in the news the most that year, but now Time has a description that could've only been written by a lawyer of what exactly Person of the Year is given for. I defy anyone to make cogent sense of that description.
Posted by: Bill | December 7, 2006 3:45 PM
Getting back to Gates; He looks too happy in this picture for some reason, considering the huge burden/problem he is about to assume.
Posted by: c.morris | December 7, 2006 9:18 PM
Maybe he's blissfully ignorant?
Posted by: Bill | December 8, 2006 12:00 AM