Posted on 11/14/2008 3:57:21 PM PST by lewisglad
When it announces the winner next month, will Time opt for Barack Obama or Sarah Palin?
Does Time have the nerve to go out on a limb and select Palin over the obvious pick, President-elect Barack Obama?
Vice-presidential contender Sarah Palin should be named as Time Magazine's Person of the Year, says Jon Friedman. Then again, Palin achieved something remarkable in her own right. She showed it was possible for anyone to rise to political prominence on the national stage.
Palin's overnight fame seemed even more unlikely than that of Obama, who had followed a carefully scripted game plan designed to capitalize on the disillusionment over such better-known and seasoned rivals as Hillary Clinton.
Remember, only a handful of political junkies outside of Alaska knew much about Palin as recently as Aug. 28. Then, 24 hours later, John McCain tapped her to be his running mate and unwittingly unleashed Palinmania. McCain was the presidential candidate on the Republican ticket -- but was there ever any doubt about which one was driving the media train? It was Palin.
I hope Time selects Palin for these reasons: Palin made politics seem exciting every day.
Obama, presumably, will get many opportunities to be named a Person of the Year during the years he occupies the White House. It would be fun to watch so many Americans go nuts because Time, once again, chose someone unexpected.
No doubt, plenty of jaded readers will ask, who cares? It's a fair point but, ultimately, a short-sighted one. Yes, the relevance of weekly news magazines has receded dramatically during the digital era. Still, Time's Person of the Year is probably the only end-of-the-year award that matters anymore.
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Great idea, is there a write in vote?
I suspect they’ll make “The One” superbeing of eternity.
good choice
It will be Hussein.
Guaranteed.
Don’t forget Joe the Plumber.
The black christ of the left is a lock.
Who gives a crap what Time magazine thinks in the first place? Not I.
JoMa
They will probably portray the One sitting on a golden throne wearing a purple robe with the world being his footrest.
Come on....you know it’s going to be Bambi.
Nope. I don’t want to see her beautiful face on that rag.
It is reserved for people like Jimmy Carter, Ayotollah Khomeni, Stalin and so on.
Just like the idiotic Nobel prize. What a steaming pantload.
Ugh, as credible as the UN Peace Prize.
I don’t get it. Sarah Palin isn’t a terrorist or a communist dictator. Wouldn’t Bill Ayers be more up Time Magazine’s alley?
I despise Obama but he is far and away the appropriate choice for what I believe is a very dubious distinction that I care very little about.
Time? I think the published a magazine when I was a kid. I wonder whatever happened to that magazine?
I would eat the magazine if it is not Obama! That is ridiculous.
Arafat, Gorby, Jimmy Carter, Mandela and Kofi Anan each have one of those. Ronald Reagan does not. I think I'd more rather 0bama have one than not.
This, of course, from a publication with a proven track record of awarding their POTY to freaks and weirdos (with a couple of exceptions.) In fact, judging from their list, TIME should re-name the award "Thing of the Year", because it seems that anyone and anything goes.
If, by some unforseen cataclysm Zero doesn't get it, they'll probably award it to their deputy chief sub-editor's daughter's grade 7 teacher's neice's pet turtle.
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