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...
