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darthdrago
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11/11/07 1:38pm
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Nicolas Sarkozy.
If he keeps his momentum, he'll be poised to make more changes with an impact in France (France!!!) than whoever the wins the US Presidency next year. Plus he openly admires America and wants to improve US-French relations.
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Jabba-wocky
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Ender_Sai posted:
If it's Ron Paul it will cement TIME's descent into intellectual mediocrity and render it unfit to wipe my arse with.
Just saying.  
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The cover story on the workout plan of George W Bush a few years back didn't do that for you already?
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Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon
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11/13/07 3:08am
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I kinda liked winning last year, so I'm hoping for a repeat victory...
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darthOB1
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11/13/07 8:05am
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Fluke_Groundrunner
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11/14/07 9:27am
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Obi-Zahn Kenobi posted:
Darth Mischievous posted:
Obi-Zahn Kenobi posted:
I say Al Gore. Won a Nobel Prize, made a crappy movie that won him an Oscar. Did some activist stuff. Works for me.
You're probably right that it will be Gore.
Plus, I'm sure the staff of TIME thinks he should have been Man of the Year in 2000.
The only reason for it not to be Gore is if people think that Time has a liberal agenda and the magazine is afraid of negative repercussions with comments like these.
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Obi-Wan McCartney
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I lost respect for this distinction when they copped out and gave it to Guiliani over Osama Bin Laden, who clearly was man of the year that year. Its not like Man of the Year is supposed to be an award, its a distinction for a person or thing making the news and making the biggest waves that year.
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Ender_Sai
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Precisely OWM and it's like in 2000 when Bush was MOTY simply for winning one of the most uninspiring contests of the last millenia.
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Rogue_Ten
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Its not like Man of the Year is supposed to be an award, its a distinction for a person or thing making the news and making the biggest waves that year.
That's what it seems like to me too. They gave it to Hitler in the thirties, in fact. Along those same lines, I could see them giving it to Paul or Ahmadinejad this year. Though, in the final analysis, I really have no idea who they'll pick. I'm not good at this sort of choice.
The only reason for it not to be Gore is if people think that Time has a liberal agenda and the magazine is afraid of negative repercussions with comments like these.
Is that their reputation now? I've always been led to think of them as the conservative element of the Newsweek/Time binary. Then again, I don't really read Time...
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Fluke_Groundrunner
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Rogue_Ten posted:
The only reason for it not to be Gore is if people think that Time has a liberal agenda and the magazine is afraid of negative repercussions with comments like these.
Is that their reputation now? I've always been led to think of them as the conservative element of the Newsweek/Time binary. Then again, I don't really read Time...
I don't know either, but if Gore wins people will accuse Time of being liberal as if they are giving Gore an award.
I don't see how it can't be Gore, unless they choose Ahmadinejad. Both of those two have generated quite a bit of debate, for and against what they say and do.
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Radical-Edward
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11/16/07 6:00am
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It'll be Gore. He's still riding high on his wave of success. Time can't pass this up. His face will sell magazines. Musharraf won't.
Petraeus was going to be my first thought out of the can (I've kind of put Gore out of mind, and only remember that he exists when I see his name in print...every other day) He is, after all, responsible for the most significant event in US politics this year (the Surge hearings) and he's also overseen the new paradigm of business in Iraq, regardless of anyone's opinions on the war or how it is going.
Ahmedinejad, however: who else has had such an impact on global dialogue? He's reunited the US and Europe, he's made Putin rich, China jealous, and has everybody else shaking in their boots. When he sneezes, the world rushes into action...and he barely has any actual power within Iran at all! I'd say he's had a bigger impact on the shape of the world than anyone else this year.
But the award is still going to go to Gore.
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Rogue_Ten
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Having thought about it, Ahmadinejad is probably the best choice. I mean, to give it to Gore would almost seem, to me, to be losing sight of the fact that this wasn't some grand emergence year for him. He's been doing this for thirty years, and he's withstood the ignorance for just as long. This year really wasn't that special for him, IMO.
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Darth-Ghost
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Ahmadinjead actually hasn't done much in 2007. He visited a college in the US, and that's basically it. Iran has been in the news a lot, but not because of Ahmadinjead this year, but because of the fuss over their nuclear program and the earlier British hostage crisis. 2006, on the other hand, was his year and he should have gotten it, and I won't deny I was disappointed when it went to "you." As for Petraeus, he's just following orders from Bush on overlooking the surge, which has brought violence levels in Iraq down from "armageddon" to merely "catastrophic."
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11/16/07 5:08pm
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Man of the Year has gone to things other than people before.
Past non-human winners have included The American Fighting-Man, Hungarian Freedom Fighter, U.S. Scientists, The Generation Twenty-Five and Under, Middle Americans, American women, The Computer, Earth, Peacemakers, Whistleblowers, Good Samaritans, You, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. In any case: four of the last five have abstracts, which may mean that they're going to push more towards putting people up front and center. A real life person as Man of the Year, can you imagine that?
My bet though: the Iraqi Resistance Fighter.
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darthdrago
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Raven posted:
Man of the Year has gone to things other than people before.
Past non-human winners have included The American Fighting-Man, Hungarian Freedom Fighter, U.S. Scientists, The Generation Twenty-Five and Under, Middle Americans, American women, The Computer, Earth, Peacemakers, Whistleblowers, Good Samaritans, You, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. In any case: four of the last five have abstracts, which may mean that they're going to push more towards putting people up front and center. A real life person as Man of the Year, can you imagine that?
My bet though: the Iraqi Resistance Fighter.
Middle Americans and American women aren't people? 
No argument on Hitler or Stalin though.
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dizfactor
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11/19/07 12:44pm
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Seriously, who cares? I cannot remember a time in the past 10-15 years that TIME magazine has even flirted with relevance. It's one of those bastions of traditional American print media who don't seem to have noticed that the world has moved on without them.
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