TIME Person Of The Year - VOTE!!!

[Infinite Hope]

While I'm an Al Gore fan, I think clearly the person on the list at the link below who embodies what the year 2006 was, is Nancy Pelosi. I encourage you all to vote for her. (Please keep this K&R)

http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2006/walkup/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. kick

Pelosi and Gore tied at 11%, but others have a bigger vote tally....

[Avalux]

2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is winning.

:wtf:

[Clark2008]

6. Well, he certainly has made an impact on the world, now

hasn't he?

[Avalux]

11. Yep. Maliki blew off Bush for talks with him today.

I bet Bush is PISSED. :evilgrin:

(not that it's a good thing, but I like the thought of Bush throwing a tantrum)

[Infinite Hope]

24. He has indeed. He's leading the faction of anti-U.S. sentiment...

in a way that Chavez was unable to make resonate. He's been able to do it in a statesman-like manner. Sure his comments are often unstatesman-like, but his 60 Minutes interview and apparent-diplomatic means of spiting the U.S. are the key difference between him and Chavez.

[mom cat]

20. I thought you were kidding. He has 35%.

[IndianaGreen]

41. I voted for him, but the real winner this year is a country: Iran

According to TIME's own criteria:

TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year. Who do you think fits the bill this year?

America's invasion of Iraq and our undermining of Lebanon's coalition government by supporting Israel's bombing, has made Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the big winners.

Look at what Iran has achieved, or is on the verge of achieving, thanks to American stupidity: Put Hamas in power in Palestine, will put Hizbollah in power in Lebanon, put a puppet regime in power in Iraq.

[Mark E. Smith]

3. K

[warrens]

4. Rice?

What the hell did SHE do this year?

[blondeatlast]

31. To my knowledge, as much as I have in terms of diplomacy.

I went to Germany and the Czech Republic and was polite and pleasant and attempted to speak the languages.

I think I have her beat, in fact...

[Sweet Freedom]

5. Results so far

TIME's Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year. Who do you think fits the bill this year?

35% Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
14% The YouTube Guys
13% George W. Bush
11% Al Gore
11% Nancy Pelosi
7% Condoleezza Rice
5% Kim Jong Il
4% Hugo Chavez

[skiddlybop]

9. You know, folks, honestly

I think it would be a wonderful and meaningful joke to play on the MSM to go ahead and swamp the vote for George W. Bush and make them write some transparently false bullshit that will damage their reputation as badly as Bush's already is.

The right-wingers voted and voted for Reagan and the greatest American ever or some shit like that and it was a HUGE FUCKING EMBARRASSMENT.

I say, let's give them the vote-for-the-worst treatment like those American Idol viewers and vote for Bush.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Actually, Bush deserves to win...

as the criteria is who has been in the news/changed life "for good or ill"...I can think of no one who has had more impact on my life in the past year than the man who continues to prosecute an illegal war despite overwhelming evidence of its failure; who continues to wiretap illegaly in defiance of the Constitution; who attachs "signing statements" to allow how to ignore/implement any law how he chooses, surpassing all predecessors combined, and in defiance of the Constitution; who authored and ramrodded through congress the heinous Military Commissions Act...need I go on?

If the voting were specifically for who has had the most POSITIVE impact on my life in the past year, I'd go with Gore or Dean or Olbermann, but otherwise, the competition isn't even close: it's Bush.

[zbdent]

32. That has a ring of truth ... didn't Time have Hitler or Saddam as MOTY

one year?

[Laurab]

38. Hitler and Stalin, I'm not sure about Saddam

I cancelled my subscription when they named Bush person of the year a couple years ago, and got an email back telling me it was NOT necessarily a compliment - that Hitler and Stalin had both been chosen, so then I kind of figured bush was in good company. They said it was the person who had affected the world the most or some shit like that (I'm quite sure the same email didn't go out to grateful right wingers).

[Hepburn]

7. Oh, brother....the choices???

Condi Rice???? :puke:

[rep the dems]

8. They ought to have a write in option.

But since they don't I'll vote for Gore. :)

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Not a person, but a phenomenon for this year: YouTube

Thanks to YouTube, George Felix Allen's "macaca" spread like wildfire and started his long spiral into political oblivion (as well as the loss of his Senate Seat). He never recovered from that remark.

:think:

[sandnsea]

43. I think so too

YouTube really was 'it' this year. Like it or not, we're in a visual age. If we'd had YouTube in 2004, maybe we could have gotten out the John Kerry message that needed to get out instead of the one the media pushed on everybody. Maybe we would have had some videos of those teachers getting arrested for t-shirts, or people being thrown out of Bush events or the actual loyalty oaths. People just don't seem to register print as being real anymore.

[Deep13]

12. Real answer: Howard Dean

My vote had to be for Dubya since all the events of last year seemed to be connected to his incompetence.

[Infinite Hope]

23. I have to agree that Dean should be the one, hands down. n/t

[Larry Allen]

34. Howard Dean 2006. John Conyers 2007

[NobleCynic]

47. Aye, Dean would have been a better option than the YouTube Guys

As is you're right. For better or worse, Bush had the largest impact on our lives. Emphasis on the worse.

[Ian_rd]

13. Remember: Person of the Year does not mean Best Person of the Year

... but rather the most important figure in world events. Hitler, Stalin, and Khomeini are previous Men of the Year.

Bush would normally top the list because of his effect on the world, albeit for the worse, but still - his influence cannot be denied. This year however, none of the choices stand out for me. Bush no longer because of his growing impotence. Condi? WTF has she done besides go on a constant world vacation changing nothing with every trip? Gore for his campaign to raise global warming awareness and Kim Jong Il for his nuke testing top the offered list for me. But what's missing are the netroots. Pelosi is on the list, but she didn't put herself there, DailyKOS did, DU did, Crooks and Liars did, and on and on. This year marks a major (hopefully) shift in the policy of the world's greatest power and the people responsible are ... us. And most especially the people who facilitated this phenomenon by running and maintaining DU and KOS and Wonkette and Raw Story, etc.

Edit: It's great when "the people" outweigh any "person" as the true movers. The following needs to be a choice: "The American Voters"

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. "The American Voters" I kind of like that...

or I'd go with "The Liberal Netroots"

[enid602]

14. torn

I'm torn between Haggard and Foley. Their influence has not been adequately measured.

[DUgosh]

15. Hand's down

It's Cindy Sheenan

[Ninja Jordan]

39. uh, no

[wicket]

18. Done

:kick:

35% Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


14% The YouTube Guys

13% George W. Bush


11% Al Gore

11% Nancy Pelosi


7% Condoleezza Rice

5% Kim Jong Il


4% Hugo Chavez

[MorningGlow]

19. I like how the YouTube guys have more votes than Georgie n/t

[wake.up.america]

22. The Blogosphere

[David Zephyr]

21. Nancy Pelosi.

That's my choice.

[HughBeaumont]

25. Why is the Silverspoon Simian even ON this list?

You get undeservedly selected twice - DONE. Finito. This piece of human garbage needs to be JAILED not lauded.

[we can do it]

26. Who The F#@k Voted For Boosh?

[Efilroft Sul]

27. It should be John Murtha.

He got the ball rolling last November regarding our troops being redeployed from Iraq. He was the first major hawk who broke ranks with the White House and said it was unwinnable there. And that was the narrative upon which the elections were written this year. What Murtha said last year resonated throughout 2006, was debated, derided, and finally agreed upon by the majority of the electorate this year.

[lala_rawraw]

28. i voted YouTube

[xxqqqzme]

29. Where's Howard Dean?

W/o his leadership there would be no Pelosi/Speaker; no democratic majority; no grass/net roots working for those progressive candidates - hell, he even inspired people to run for office.

[blue cat]

30. Voted for Gore

but Pelosi would be my second choice.

[cui bono]

33. Voted for Gore. What he is doing is truly global and for all of humanity.

The others are more compartmentalized. And I think what Gore is doing is the most important since if things don't change environmentally none of what the others are doing will matter much longer anyway.

[AlamoDemoc]

35. I voted, but am not gonna say who...lol K&R

[Vincardog]

36. 35% Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 14% The YouTube Guys now

35% Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 14% The YouTube Guys
13% George W. Bush 11% Al Gore
11% Nancy Pelosi 7% Condoleezza Rice
5% Kim Jong Il 4% Hugo Chavez

[Uncle Joe]

37. Without Al Gore championing the internet, it's possible

we would not have a youtube, or a Democratic controlled Congress with Nancy Pelosi as leader.

I believe, aside from his efforts to save life as we know it Al has done more for democracy than other living political leader by empowering the people to help offset the mass corporate media's domination of information supplied to the American People.

I voted for Al Gore

[Doctor_J]

40. It would be really tempting to vote for Smirk.

He's the big story this year - global disaster.

[cobaindrain]

42. Tammy Duckworth!

[IndyOp]

44. Gore! Gore! Gore! (n/t)

[jillan]

45. Voted for Nancy but

emailed them and told them that I would like to see Michael J Fox nominated. He is my Person of the Year. I am so thankful he stood up and showed America why they need to fund Stem Cell reseaerch.

[maggiegault]

48. That's A Good One

My vote would be for the families of our soldiers who are currently deployed. That includes me, in a shocking back-patting. We live the horror of AWOL's "policies" and the fear that it all brings every single day. Don't do it for me. Do it for the children of our soldiers, who bear the brunt of AWOL's quest for immortality.

[NobleCynic]

46. Sadly, Bush is still a valid choice for this

It says for better or for worse after all.

[donheld]

49. Here's a vote for Hugo

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[eppur_se_muova]

50. Jack Abramoff !!!! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

51. I voted for Nancy,

but I do believe that "Frank" (as Bill Maher calls him), Ahmadinejad will undoubtedly win, and probably should.

[citizen snips]

52. I voted for Chavez.

n/t