George Bush is TIME's Person of the Year

[Smurf]

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2004/story.html

He won it in 2000, now he's gotten it again. I think it's worth pointing out that every single american president since roosevelt has won this at least once, sometimes simply for being elected.

 

[check]

Meh, so was Hitler.

 

[Polly]

(unconstructive remark deleted)

 

[the number 42]

The only logical explanation is that 'person' has an entirely different meaning in the US.

 

[Polly]

And what, pray tell, can that meaning possibly be?

 

[dekoi]

Meh, so was Hitler.

Don't forget Stalin.

Isn't this just dandy : http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101390102,00.html

 

[the number 42]

And what, pray tell, can that meaning possibly be?

I'm too polite to hazard a guess.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Time's person of the year, or POTY, is a statement of social and political significance, and not one of goodness or evil.
But in either case I must agree: Bush is POTY.

 

[loseyourname]

Oh come on. How could Kobe Bryant possibly not win this?

 

[cragwolf]

I'm surprised that Bin Laden didn't get the award in 2001. Surely the most influential person that year.

 

[Andromeda321]

They wanted to give it to him but there was an incredible amount of outrage at the suggestion. At least that's how I remember it.

 

[Smurf]

I'm still pissed about 'The American Soldier' getting it in 2003. It's so ridiculous I want to puke.

 

[Dayle Record]

My Mother keeps bringing me her copies of Time. I keep them lying about for at least another visit, by her, and then recycle them. Time's decision to put President Bush up as their person of the year, means I won't ever read Time again. Person, he is the kind of guy that doesn't even believe in the use of the word person, unless it is in the phrase, person of interest. If he is ever tried for war crimes, and I see him on the cover of Time. I'll read that issue.

 

[the number 42]

Do Time run a War Criminal of the Year issue? Seems silly if they don't, these days.