Time Mag's Person Of The Year --- Who Would YOU Nominate?

the dalai lama. because year after year, day after day, he remains the one person who remains compassionate, patient, loving and forgiving regardless of world or personal events.

how'ze about you, cat? who would you pick?

I canceled my subscription long ago
http://theinsideout.us/Gallery/Politics/canceltime

The Dalai Lama would be a good choice

But if it were my choice I would choose the people of Iraq who have been torn up and suffering unjustly for the past 12 to 13 years - they deserve a spot light, but they won't fit on the cover.

So Time is just a worthless magazine, good for nothing except maybe package stuffing.

Mona, I like whom you've nominated..... nice choice and reason.

I've nominated Congressman Dennis Kucinich. He has kept pressure on this administration to deal with the world peacefully, voted against the Iraq war in the first place, and puts forth legislation to treat the people of the US as if they were more important than corporations.

Wow, Roger. I LOVE your nomition too.

I like their choice! As a people we are becoming more active in our world and I think it's a good thing. I think it's neat that they acknowledge that a bunch of tiny voices are as important as one big one.

henthabox, thanks for nominating Rumsfeld and why....... such a good analysis...

Mary, sounds like your compassion runs in the family.

Aileen, well said!

This is a wonderful question. It really makes me think about the men in the world, those in my life immediately and those that influence from afar. Jimmy Carter has already won the acclaim, probably. My dog is female and, well - a dog. It's only fair that Mary chose her favorite brother (another excellent choice.)

So tough...

I will sleep on it and get back with you. This is an excellent question.

d m, Carter won in 1976.... and deserves the title. I admire him.

If the idea was technology and the internet super highway then it should have been shared by Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Apple Computer).

Absolutely, Carter is a big hero in my world (he was my 1st vote!) And now he is still doing such good work. He was immediately my first thought for man of the year, any year.

So cool that Carter won the year I went to my first political rally and voted (Carter.) I read his historical novel The Honet's Nest recently, not the best fiction, but important to me as a man who grew up in the south and was fed the common, northern perspective of the Revolutionary War. This view was just as valid and a unique perspective. The revolution was started in the North and won in the South. Those hot, humid swamps will slow any unprepared army down.

I decided that Man of the Year should be all men who are single fathers. Guess who my choice for Woman of the Year should be? That's right, single mothers!

;-)

Cat,

Love Dennis the Menace! And Jimmy, Teddy, Barrack...

But I would nominate Deepak Chopra for his monumental peace movement.

Mary G. I give my vote to your brother. He sounds like a wonderful man, of whom you have every reason to be proud!

I don't care for many of our politicians. I really don't care for celebrities, and all the other people, who I think should have been nominated, already have been. Not nearly enough people in the world to look up to anymore.

However, people like Mary's brother, who are doing what they can, where they can, are real heroes in my eyes. Tell him Merry Christmas for me!

Cat, I think I would pick Glenn Beck because he is exposing the evil that exists in the world. He is trying to get everyone to wake up and be aware.

I would have to pick Nancy Grace as Woman of the Year for her efforts in finding missing children, abusive husbands, crooked judges and speaking her mind.

Well that's easy...the same person that actually won the Time's Mag Person of the Year, but, they refused to name him...Ahmadinejad of Iran...the only other serious contender was Hugo Chavez...whom they would, also, never actually name. It's all very politically correct but totally divorced from reality. See:

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10185

No doubt in my mind. The person of the year is that young American man or woman who now lies in flag-draped coffin, thanks to Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld's insane escapade in Iraq. The thousands of potentially productive and well-lived lives wasted, and the tens of thousands of family members and friends bereaved, in an utterly futile effort, make this fool's errand a travesty of historic proportions. The stupidity and hubris that led to what will, I fear, become a disaster of earth-shaking proportions, will not go unpunished.

My second choice would be Mary's brother Micah. I pray that the good Lord will watch over him and bring him home safe.

Felix, I hope you are kidding. If not, that magazine is sick. Well, maybe not sick just owned by the New York Times. Figures.


I guess Kadalfi (sic) and Fidel are close runner ups.

See? It's tough to pick, isn't it? I so appreciate your comments....
Anita, great choices in the techno field...
d.m. single parents have quite the job, and my daughter is now facing that reality.....
(I remember being a senior in High School, d m, and saying I'd vote for Carter.... mind you this is a Baptist High School..... I was told Carter was evil! He he... can you just hear them all?)
Ah, Barbary, I've admired Depok for a long time.... Have some of his books and every time I read him or hear him, I feel more human and open.
Marsha, thanks on behalf of Mary
June, excellent choices as well....... see how tough this is?
Just when I decide I think of more.... he he. not enough years.
Felix, I see you are reading and paying attention... excellent. Except for his latest holocaust denial, Ahmadinejad's and Chavez's standing up for sovereignity against the consequences and bullying by our country make them both fine contenders.
Did you know Chavez offered to donate oil to our hurricaine victims and the area and the US refused?????
Paul, no one could say it better. I would add the Iraqi people in their graves as well.
And again, on behalf of Mary, thank you.

Why would I be kidding, June?

"Person of the Year, is the figure who, for good or evil, dominates the news."

If not Ahmadinejad than it would have to be Chavez...the two big winners on the world stage. This not a popularity contest and this is not People Magazine and even if it were a popularity contest they would still win over war criminals Rumsfeld and Cheney. The big winner in the Middle East this year is clearly Ahmadinejad irregardless of how good or bad that reality may be and after him it's clearly Hugo Chavez who is liberating South America from foreign exploitation and manipulation. We don't have to like them...it's just a fact that they have had stellar years for whatever their' causes may be while Bush and Blair have been the clear losers. Time Magazine has named Stalin, Hitler and the Ayatollah Khomeini as Man of the Year in the past...this year they coped out.

No, June, I certainly was not kidding.

Yes, Cat...Chavez has become a symbol of respect for the sovereignty of small nations...the total opposite of global bullies like Bush and Blair whom are globally despised. Chavez is the darling of the Third World's poor, downtrodden and oppressed.

You have opened a thoughtful dialogue of thought, haven't you! Thanks...

Ronald McDonald
that guys a saviour among us al

Andreas, thanks for the memory.... when my eldest were quite young, I was running low on funds. My daughter told me to go to McDonald's as Ronald Mc Donald is nice and there you always get change. (the running ad was you always get change at Mc D's)

I agree with Time Magazine's choice. The millions of people behind the user generated content on the World Wide Web with its blogs, file sharing portals, social networking sited and collaborative encyclopedia are gradually but firmly and irreversibly changing the mode of intellectual exchange. It is no wonder that political powers are increasingly becoming apprehensive of this upstart contender.

Time Magazines Man of the year..should in fact be mankind itself
i mean common how can we call one man better than all for one year when its systematically impossible for that one man to even dream of doing it themself. i mean common Mankind keeps the world running average people like us
so i think it pettty and immorale to giive the award to just one person.
unless that person is me ..


Cheers

db 10

~~Al Gore~~
I would like to see every magazine in this country and world for that matter put Al Gore on the cover of their next issue with his story inside. Maybe then people would pay attention to him, all the wisdom, knowledge, and experience the man has. It was a travesty that Americans let the presidential election be stolen away from him and really pushed us into a downward spiral and this mess.