Posted on 12/14/2009 4:04:40 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Speaker Pelosi named finalist for Time magazine 'Person of the Year' By Jordan Fabian - 12/14/09 05:21 PM ET
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is among the seven finalists chosen for Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year," according to media reports on Monday.
Other finalists in the realm of politics include last year's winner President Barack Obama, Afghanistan commanding Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
"Look, she's the first woman Speaker of the House. She's the strongest Speaker of the House in decades," Time managing editor Richard Stengel said of Pelosi on NBC's "Today" show. "She had piloted what is probably the most important legislation in decades through the House. She's a really, really pivotal lawmaker."
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Jamaican sprinter and Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt are also included as finalists.
Another finalist is the "Chinese worker," which the magazine said has become an influential international economic power.
The award is given to an individual who has achieved a notable accomplishment in the past year. Time's editors will name the winner on Wednesday.
Every U.S. president has won the award since Time launched the tradition in 1927, with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford. President George W. Bush won it it 2000 and 2004 following both of his electoral victories.
Sure that's why he went to Tennessee. California had just a whole pile of organ donors waiting for him but Steve just really wanted to see Graceland.
Sure that's why he went to Tennessee. California had just a whole pile of organ donors waiting for him but Steve just really wanted to see Graceland.
Well, that was all covered back then, when the news came out. The hospital said that he qualified to be at the top of the list because of his condition, and that he met all the criteria and that Jobs received no other consideration than any patient would have.
Also that was a list was for that state and Jobs qualified there. Apparently (I would say) there was more ahead of him in California than there was in Tennessee. And there was no problem going to Tennessee.
As I said, he was at the top of the list, he met all the criteria, and if he's already at the top of the list, it really doesn't matter -- one way or another.
What you don't get is why was he in line for one in Tennessee and why he wasn't in California.
Do you think that California has fewer potential organ donors dying than Tennessee?
Or do you think that just maybe the California system is so screwed up with bureaucracy and government mandates it has more trouble with getting one to those in need than the medical system in Tennessee?
What you don't get is why was he in line for one in Tennessee and why he wasn't in California.
LOL... very simply because a person can do so and pick any state... :-)
There's nothing mysterious about that. Chalk it up to the fact that Steve Jobs may be intelligent enough to know that it's quicker over "here" than it is "over there"...
Another finalist is the "Chinese worker," which the magazine said has become an influential international economic power... Every U.S. president has won the award since Time launched the tradition in 1927, with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford. President George W. Bush won it it 2000 and 2004 following both of his electoral victories.Gosh, three Pubbies, what a huge surprise.
Where’s the BARF alert?
Only thing Pelosi gets in my book is CINO of the year!
(Catholic In Name Only)
News just out. It’s Fed Chair Bernake. (sp?)
Ummm..., well that’s too bad... :-)
You would have thought, with it being “TIME” that they would have picked Steve Jobs (they like Apple products over there...)...
They didn’t pic Jobs because: TIME is stupid.
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