Russian President Vladimir Putin Named Time's 'Person of the Year'

Fox News ^ | 12/19/07 | AP

[G8 Diplomat]

Chavez is a lock for next year.

Yep. And the year after that it's gonna be Ahmadinejad. Little Kim's probably on the list too. Maybe even Osama bin Laden.

[mware]

1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928 Walter P. Chrysler
1929 Owen D. Young
1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931 Pierre Laval
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935 Haile Selassie
1936 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937 Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938 Adolf Hitler
1939 Joseph Stalin
1940 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942 Joseph Stalin
1943 George Catlett Marshall
1944 Dwight David Eisenhower
1945 Harry Truman
1946 James F. Byrnes
1947 George Catlett Marshall
1948 Harry Truman
1949 Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950 American Fighting-Man
1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
1952 Elizabeth II
1953 Konrad Adenauer
1954 John Foster Dulles
1955 Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 Nikita Krushchev
1958 Charles De Gaulle
1959 Dwight David Eisenhower
1960 U.S. Scientists
1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962 Pope John XXIII
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 General William Childs Westmoreland
1966 Twenty-Five and Under
1967 Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969 The Middle Americans
1970 Willy Brandt
1971 Richard Milhous Nixon
1972 Nixon and Kissinger
1973 John J. Sirica
1974 King Faisal
1975 American Women
1976 Jimmy Carter
1977 Anwar Sadat
1978 Teng Hsiao-P’ing
1979 Ayatullah Khomeini
1980 Ronald Reagan
1981 Lech Walesa
1982 The Computer
1983 Ronald Regan & Yuri Andropov
1984 Peter Ueberroth
1985 Deng Xiaoping
1986 Corazon Aquino
1987 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988 Endangered Earth
1989 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990 The Two George Bushes
1991 Ted Turner
1992 Bill Clinton
1993 The Peacemakers
1994 Pope John Paul II
1995 Newt Gingrich
1996 Dr. David Ho
1997 Andy Grove
1998 Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 Jeff Bezos
2000 George W. Bush
2001 Rudolph Giuliani
2002 The Whistleblowers
2003 The American Soldier
2004 George W. Bush
2005 Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006 You

[G8 Diplomat]

Oh yeah, regarding this last post of mine: can’t forget the nuclear fuel Russia just gave to Iran. That’s a shoo-in for Putin from Time.

[G8 Diplomat]

Thanks...but what’s with 2006? Everyone gets to be person of the year?

[Earthdweller]

If this doesn't prove we are swarming with commies I don't know what does.

Do any of the good little kiddies still hate the "conspiracy" guy McCarthy?

Come on comrades! Raise your mindless little hands!

[Rastus]

They have plenty of brains. They know that the perception of defeat in Iraq is what’s best for their party.

[bray]

What, did Ahmacrazyraghed & Kim Dung ILL bow out??

Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops

[SomeCallMeTim]

Yesterday.. before this announcement, I was thinking about who I would choose... Putin was one of the few names I could come up with.

My reasons, of course.... are a little different from Time’s. Personally, I currently see Putin as THE most dangerous man on earth. He is the main problem in getting meaningful sanctions against Iran. He is constantly making direct threats against the US and our interest. He is leading Russia with an iron hand... the kind not seen since Stalin died.

I happened to be in Moscow last year on the day that one of Putin’s leading critics (a female reporter) was murdered.. in broad daylight... shot in the head as she left her apartment... on Putin’s birthday. This guy is not being subtle anymore in his actions, or his threats.

They have picked the right man.... but, for the wrong reasons.

[mware]

Yeah, that was their choice. I think the cover said Person of the Year is YOU.

[Steve_Seattle]

I thought I knew modern history reasonably well, but there are 10 Times MOY I never heard of:

Walter Chrysler - auto magnate?
Owen Young
Pierre Laval
Hugh Johnson
Mrs. Wallis Simpson - philanthropist?
James Byrnes
Mohammed Mossadegh - sounds familiar, but I can't place him.
Harlow Curtice
Dr. David Ho
Andy Grove

[mware]

Chrysler, yeap you got that one right.

Johnson _ Johnson and Johnson fame????

Wallis Simpson - King Edward gave up the being King to marry her.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Time loves a good commie"

Which is why I'm surprised Fidel Castro never won the award.

[mware]

Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 - July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.

He is best known for his SRC diplomacy and for founding the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of GE in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.

[mware]

Damn check out his.

Pierre Laval (28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician and four times Prime Minister, the third and fourth times being under the Vichy government. After World War II he was convicted of high treason and executed.

[mware]

Johnson was a New Deal Dem helped frame the selective service act.

[Steve_Seattle]

Thanks.

[mware]

James Byrnes should be better known than he is. He was President Truman’s closest foreign policy advisor during 1945. He became Sec. of State on July 3, 1945. But prior to that he almost became President of the United States.

By 1944 Byrnes had been nicknamed the “Assistant President”. One of FDR’s closest advisors on domestic issues, he was director of the Office of War Mobilization. Thru OWM, Byrnes had authority over the large amount of civilian work that was related to the war effort. The Washington Post wrote that his powers appeared to be “exceeded only by the president”. (David Robertson, Sly and Able, pg. 320-327).

[Steve_Seattle]

"Thanks...but what’s with 2006? Everyone gets to be person of the year?"

I never got my plaque.

[Steve_Seattle]

I should have remembered Laval.

[mware]

Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mossadeq (help·info)) (Persian: محمد مصدق‎ Moḥammad Moṣaddeq, also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh) (19 May 1882 – 5 March 1967) served as the Prime Minister of Iran[1][2] from 1951 to 1953. A prominent parlimentarian when Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated in 1951, he was twice appointed to that office by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, after a positive vote of inclination by the parliament.[3] Mossadegh was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran. He was also the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), today known as British Petroleum (BP).