Time Magazine Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin
Posted by: Tomahawk | 12/20/2007 1:10 AM
Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin - His final year as Russia's President has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize--if not always benign--influence on global affairs.
1st Runner Up: Al Gore - He is the kind of leader these times require. Not as President -- God and the Electoral College have given him a different job. As it happens, Al is at work repositioning his country from the inside out as a leader in clean energy; and along the way restoring faith in the U.S. as a moral powerhouse that can lead a great, global spiritual revival as the temperature rises.
2nd Runner Up: J.K. Rowling - She created a billion-dollar media property through Harry Potter - a global cultural figure. Now translated into 65 languages, the books have joined a canon that stretches from Cinderella to Star Wars, giving people a way to discuss culture and commerce, politics and values.
3rd Runner Up: Hu Jintao - He is the Paramount Leader (Head of Party, State, Military) of China, the most populous, economically dynamic and politically intriguing nation in the world.
4th Runner Up: David Patraeus - As Commander of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, he is fighting America's most difficult foreign war, and also one at home.
1st Runner Up: Al Gore - He is the kind of leader these times require. Not as President -- God and the Electoral College have given him a different job. As it happens, Al is at work repositioning his country from the inside out as a leader in clean energy; and along the way restoring faith in the U.S. as a moral powerhouse that can lead a great, global spiritual revival as the temperature rises.
2nd Runner Up: J.K. Rowling - She created a billion-dollar media property through Harry Potter - a global cultural figure. Now translated into 65 languages, the books have joined a canon that stretches from Cinderella to Star Wars, giving people a way to discuss culture and commerce, politics and values.
3rd Runner Up: Hu Jintao - He is the Paramount Leader (Head of Party, State, Military) of China, the most populous, economically dynamic and politically intriguing nation in the world.
4th Runner Up: David Patraeus - As Commander of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq, he is fighting America's most difficult foreign war, and also one at home.
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Mr. Ayer registered as a Republican to be electable in an interim election with no incumbents. He did...
And of their 28 "People Who Mattered", only one Republican Presidential candidate: Ron Paul.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690758_1693558,00.html
(Although with an inaccurate and backhanded text accompanying his photograph.)