Thread: TIME magazine names Obama as 2008 Person of the Year

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Time magazine on Wednesday named US president-elect Barack Obama its 2008 "Person of the Year."
"For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the president-elect is TIME's Person of the Year," the newsweekly said.

AFP: Time magazine names Obama 2008 "Person of the Year"

What an exceptional honor for an exceptional man. Obama is going to bring this country back on track.

I would hope... considering Obama paid for it.

Well I guess huh? I mean if the Time Person of the Year can't put this country back on track then who can??!

Originally Posted by metheron

Well I guess huh? I mean if the Time Person of the Year can't put this country back on track then who can??!

The sexiest man of the year?

Meth, I think we are fucked.

2000 George W. Bush b. 1946
2001 Rudolph Giuliani b. 1944
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush b. 1946 2nd time chosen
2005 The Good Samaritans
2007 Vladimir Putin

Originally Posted by Notmyrealname

The sexiest man of the year?

Hugh Jackman For President.

Originally Posted by freckles

Meth, I think we are fucked.

2000 George W. Bush b. 1946
2001 Rudolph Giuliani b. 1944
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush b. 1946 2nd time chosen
2005 The Good Samaritans
2007 Vladimir Putin

Ha ha ha ha..........Bush won it twice!!!

Wait, both in election years......

I think I see a pattern!!

critics of the choice want proof that Obama is, in fact, legally a "person"

-from some other website

Originally Posted by metheron

Ha ha ha ha..........Bush won it twice!!!

Wait, both in election years......

I think I see a pattern!!

Bush earned it though.

Originally Posted by TenGig

critics of the choice want proof that Obama is, in fact, legally a "person"

-from some other website

That's a good point... I would like to see proof of that too.