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Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year for 2017?
Time ^ | 11/17/2017 | Time Staff

Posted on 11/18/2017 1:34:57 PM PST by grayboots

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a “Person of the Year,” defined as a person (or people) who has had the most influence over the news in the last 12 months.

In 2016, the Person of the Year was Donald J. Trump, who upended the political world after unexpectedly defeating his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to become the President of the United States. The year before, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was named Person of the Year after she led Europe through a series of political and economic crises.

Many of 2017’s biggest headlines were a reflection of the year that preceded it. After President Trump was inaugurated in January, both the U.S. and the world began adjusting to a new administration and a new President who wanted to undo much of his predecessor’s legacy, whether that meant withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement or working to revamp the nation’s healthcare system. Warnings from the intelligence community that Russia was attempting to wage an interference campaign in the 2016 election escalated into a major investigation helmed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller; the inquiry has already resulted in indictments against two former Trump campaign officials. In another major news story of 2017, sexual harassment and misconduct allegations against powerful figures like Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and comedian Louis C.K. sparked a long overdue conversation about the treatment of women in the workplace.

TIME’s editors ultimately have jurisdiction over who is deemed Person of the Year — but the reader plays an important role. TIME’s annual Person of the Year poll provides the editors a window into who you think most shaped 2017. This is your chance to cast your vote for who you think had the biggest influence over the news.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017review; manoftheyear; poll; time; timemag
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To: grayboots

This will kill Time Magazine but it should be quite obvious that the Person of the Year is Donald J.Trump.

Who else would be of such Importance as to change the direction of the United States from Socialistic back to a Free country.


21 posted on 11/18/2017 1:49:42 PM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: grayboots

President Trump again as far as I am concerned.


22 posted on 11/18/2017 1:50:05 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

President Trump, of course, he’s got the world on a string!

“I’ve got the world on a string
I’m sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life...”


23 posted on 11/18/2017 1:52:23 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: grayboots

How could Man of the Year be possibly be anyone but Kapernick or Al Franken?

They’ve both suffered so much for their viewpoints.


24 posted on 11/18/2017 1:53:10 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: grayboots

Who’s the queerest of them all?


25 posted on 11/18/2017 1:53:32 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: USCG SimTech

It should be President Trump for his accomplishments, but I’m betting it will be Kaepernick for starting the kneeling movement, of which Time, undoubtedly, approves.


26 posted on 11/18/2017 1:54:36 PM PST by mairdie
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To: grayboots

Find someone who actually gives a rip and it to him.


27 posted on 11/18/2017 1:54:50 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: grayboots

Harvey + Spacey


28 posted on 11/18/2017 1:55:34 PM PST by x
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To: Robert DeLong

Is it an honor? Consider that Adolf Hitler was their Man of the Year in 1938. Stalin was their Man of the Year in 1939 and again in 1942. Even further to the Left were MOTYs Obama and Clinton.


29 posted on 11/18/2017 1:55:47 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: grayboots

....” Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year for 2017?”....

LOLOLOLOL...........you’re right not worth the time.


30 posted on 11/18/2017 1:57:48 PM PST by caww (freeen)
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To: grayboots

My prediction: #Metoo


31 posted on 11/18/2017 1:59:05 PM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
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To: grayboots

Russia


32 posted on 11/18/2017 2:00:06 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: grayboots

In keeping with TIME’s editorial standards and past selections, it should be either Nicholas Maduro or Kim Jong Un.


33 posted on 11/18/2017 2:00:41 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

“I think it should be the World’s Greatest Living Human: Placido Domingo.”

Placido will enthusiastically agree.


34 posted on 11/18/2017 2:00:44 PM PST by map
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To: grayboots
Hillary! It is so obvious …
35 posted on 11/18/2017 2:01:06 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: grayboots

Climate Change


36 posted on 11/18/2017 2:01:19 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: grayboots

Weinstein


37 posted on 11/18/2017 2:01:53 PM PST by Mercat
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To: grayboots
🙀. What a quandary. But gotta be either kap or hildabeast for their efforts to bring peopl........ Never mind. 😹🍿🍻
38 posted on 11/18/2017 2:02:02 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: BenLurkin

Was thinking the same thing.


39 posted on 11/18/2017 2:03:36 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: grayboots

Vladimir Putin, if the criteria is one who influenced the course of events for better or worse.

Russia helped pushed ISIS out of Syria and Iraq

Russian Collusion is being repeated ad nauseum in the USA

Russia has some influence over North Korea

etc.


40 posted on 11/18/2017 2:04:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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