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Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: soda72 on December 20, 2004, 10:54:49 AM
President George W Bush has been named "Person of the Year" by Time magazine for the second time in four years.

:D
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: Blooz on December 20, 2004, 11:21:39 AM
Too bad they couldn't put the faces of all those soldiers that are helping to build free nations on the cover.

They deserve it more.
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: Airhead on December 20, 2004, 12:53:33 PM
Maybe it's time to start putting up statues of GWB and put his image on billboards.
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on December 20, 2004, 12:54:19 PM
Don't forget the oaths to our benevolent leader.
-SW
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: TalonX on December 20, 2004, 12:57:49 PM
It was appropriate.

He certainly has done more to effect world change than anyone else this year....also, the Time selection isn't necessarily all glowing praise....rather, they maintain a criterion of "newsworthiness" in their selection.     (ie, some rather nefarious characters have been named in the past).

Regarding the fallen soldiers - I agree, but never are the faces seen of these brave men.

Do something for a serviceman's family this year.   Forget the cover of Time.

Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: Yeager on December 20, 2004, 02:14:09 PM
gschmoltz is a putz
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 20, 2004, 02:44:16 PM
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Originally posted by Blooz
Too bad they couldn't put the faces of all those soldiers that are helping to build free nations on the cover.

They deserve it more.


they did that last year

(http://i.timeinc.net/time/personoftheyear/2003/images/cover_thumb.jpg)
Title: Re: Re: W - Person of the year
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 20, 2004, 03:01:07 PM
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Originally posted by GScholz
Well he's in good company ... Adolf Hitler ... Josef Stalin ... Ayatollah Khomeiny ...


Yes along with

Charles Lindberg,
 FDR (twice),
Eisenhower(twice),
 Winston Curchill(twice),
 Harry Truman (twice),
 Queen Elizabeth II,
The Americn Fighting Man,
 JFK,
Martain Luther King,
 Pope John XXIII,
Pope John Paul II,
Gorbachev (twice)
Title: Re: Re: W - Person of the year
Post by: soda72 on December 20, 2004, 03:05:02 PM
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Originally posted by GScholz
Well he's in good company ... Adolf Hitler ... Josef Stalin ... Ayatollah Khomeiny ...


It's not: Time Magazine's Most Likeable Man of the Year

also note the key word "second" which puts him with:

Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton(a.k.a slick willy).
Title: Re: Re: Re: W - Person of the year
Post by: hawker238 on December 20, 2004, 03:23:43 PM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Yes along with

Charles Lindberg,
 FDR (twice),
Eisenhower(twice),
 Winston Curchill(twice),
 Harry Truman (twice),
 Queen Elizabeth II,
The Americn Fighting Man,
 JFK,
Martain Luther King,
 Pope John XXIII,
Pope John Paul II,
Gorbachev (twice)


Pffft, Lindhberg was a nazi.....
Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: W - Person of the year
Post by: -tronski- on December 20, 2004, 03:25:20 PM
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Originally posted by hawker238
Pffft, Lindhberg was a nazi.....


Funny...so was hitler :aok

 Tronsky
Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: W - Person of the year
Post by: hawker238 on December 20, 2004, 03:27:07 PM
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Funny...so was hitler :aok

 Tronsky


A lot of guys here dislike him because of the whole "total gun control" thing.


Oh, and the genocide.
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: Pongo on December 20, 2004, 03:39:14 PM
Him or Osama..cant think of any other candidates. And since we dont know if Osama is still with us...
W by default in a thin field.
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: Swager on December 20, 2004, 06:46:04 PM
Time magazine missed a golden opportuntity to honor a person who truely deserved it.

IMHO
Title: W - Person of the year
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 21, 2004, 12:54:50 AM
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Originally posted by Swager
Time magazine missed a golden opportuntity to honor a person who truely deserved it.

IMHO


I dont know about that
I think maybe our on Nilsen deserves it more.
What with all the entertainment he provides with his hat and all LOL