Obama: Time 'Person of the Year,' 2008

A well deserved award for our next President, President-elect Obama. He ran a fair and open campaign, always trying to take the high road. America will be served well, with our new President, President-elect Obama. I wish him well, as I know, most Americans, do, too !!
Good luck, President-elect Obama.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Don, you do know he is just going to redirect our troops to Afghanistan and Pakistan right?

Other than wining an election, what has this man done for the state of Illinois, what has he done for the country?

can any of you BO supporters name one person he has helped, one organization that he actually improved, even one piece of legislation that he has passed, just one, ever???

The areas he was an "organizer" in are still slums.

And now he is a rock star because he wins an election? this has gone beyond just being silly

I will give him credit that he convinced millions of Americans to vote for him, and I guess he impacted those same folks, but hopefully he can actually do something for this country in the coming years to really earn that title.

"A well deserved award for our next President, President-elect Obama."
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | December 17, 2008 10:46 AM.
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Don, it's not an award at all. It simply acknowledges a person's impact on the headlines. Notice that previous winners include Putin, Nixon, Kissinger and Hitler. Are you proud of them too?

"So says Time magazine, with that long history of idetifying that person..."

Frank James's pronouncements on world affairs might be taken more seriously if he learned how to spell words such as "identifying".

His grasp of historical fact is no better. Adolf Hitler was NOT Man of the Year "a few times during the 1930s and 40s." Hitler won that honor ONCE--in 1938.

Where did Barney Frank rank in the process?

Jimmy Carter won Time's "Man of the Year" for 1976. Things didn't work out so well after that...

Remember the movie

AS GOOD AS IT GETS.

Where Jack Nicholson tells Helen Hunt:

"You make me want to be a better man."

Obama's main accomplishment so far, apart from moving from state senator to President in 4 years, is:

He inspires others to be better people.

I offer no insult to Barack Obama for suggesting that his selection as Time’s “Man of The Year” is no honor. However, how could Obama consider it an honor to be put in the same category as previously selected tyrants like Hitler, Khomeini, Putin, Zhang Yimou, or George W. Bush? I wouldn’t. I think the problem lies in the narrowness of the criterion for selection as merely having the “greatest impact” within the year. For this distinction to be an honor, it should be limited to those who had the greatest impact “for the good.” I offer no opinion as to whether Obama would or should have still won the award under such a modified criterion.

The problem with Time's 'person of the year' choice is that it their choice is not really 'who is the person of the year?', that is, a unique, amazing person, but rather 'who has been the most ubiquitous, made the loudest splash in the pool, and who is the one that the 'herd' identifies as the person most in their face of the year. It has nothing to do with accomplishment and so really it is the most popular person of the year according to the herd. This is part of why the mass media loses ad revenues and loses readership. They are trite and can't get beyond 'what everybody knows and thinks'. Instead of really going out there and finding a person that matters they have to have a personality contest, which is not the same thing. Person of the year does not have to mean a person everyone knows about. That's what would make it interesting. By naming Obama it means I don't even have to crack the issue - since i already know what it says and I've heard it before. Do something ORIGINAL Time magazine: find a person who is not a spectacle and make them your person of the year. Tell us who it is. Don't give us the name we just passed to you and claim to be cutting edge. The worst thing in the world is to be boring and Time really is. Goodbye mass media outlets. You have become like a fast food burger: the same old thing that people in their right minds want to get away from when they decide to expand their minds.

You know I would probably call him con artist of the year instead. For him to be able to sell the idea that he is so squeaky clean and was able to avoid all the corruption in politics even though he surrounded himself with corrupt and radical people who put him on the fast track, just shows that if you believe he is different then all the rest, you will believe anything.

Nice work "Time"- and please continue to bring us those great articles on Obama's neckties, puppies, and how he likes to play basketball.

Pay no mind to the stench of the political smoke-plume coming out of Illinois either, that's all just a "distraction"... after-all, our intentions SHOULD be suspect if we ask to know all the details, right?

Thankfully, facing long stays in the Gray Bar Hotel, Rezko and/or Blago might be just a bit more motivated than the media is to shed some light on the many problematic events in Obama's past.

What a shame we have to look to scoundrels like these to bring reality to a large part of the electorate, when the clues were there all along for anyone who cared to take more than a perfunctory glance.

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Did the designer of this magazine cover intentionally make it look like a communist propaganda poster, or was that just a Freudian slip?

Cover of Time?

Y'aint seen nothin' yet.

This is going to be one of the most beloved Presidents of all time.

Haha, Obama is the person of the year? What has he done for our country or the state of Illinois? TIME picked a candidate and didn't decide Ron Paul? Nothing but redundant misrepresentation of the logical people in America.