Being put up there with GW doesn't say much for this award.

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Guest wrote:
Being put up there with GW doesn't say much for this award.

Thank goodness it included the all wonderfull Bill Clinton!

The Time "person of the year" is not an honor or award. It names "the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news" (from Wikipedia). Stalin, Hitler, and the Ayatollah Khomeini have all been persons of the year.

To me, this year's candidate list merely points to what a less-than-interesting year 2005 has been. There was no dominant news story.

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To me, this year's candidate list merely points to what a less-than-interesting year 2005 has been. There was no dominant news story.

You obviously don't live in Sri Lanka/Thailand/Indonesia post-tsunami; New Orleans post-hurricane; Kashmir post-earthquake. You don't often get three more dominant news stories than those in one year.

The quaintly named Mother Nature has got to be more newsworthy than JK Rowling.

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The quaintly named Mother Nature has got to be more newsworthy than JK Rowling.

Well all the recent nature disasters were caused by Voldemort

Seriously, it has been a bad year for natural disasters and I am afraid with the way weather patterns are changing that we are in for more of them

I somehow missed Mother Nature on the list. Definitely gets my vote.

I guess "Syndrome" isn't an important part of the acronym...

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I somehow missed Mother Nature on the list. Definitely gets my vote.

I agree completely. And if I'm not mistaken, it wouldn't be the first time the person of the year wasn't a person. (Didn't computers make person of the year back in the early 80s?)

I don't trust awards, nominations, and so forth.
I always think there is a commercial/political/strategical reason to promote this or that candidate or product...
Furthermore, who are the people who "vote" for the candidate? Are they really cultured? Are they the best minds of Harward or MIT, are they men of science, recognized for this or that talent/discovering? I suppose no. How old are they? And can you figure out how big it is the impact in terms of money and popularity a candidate/company can get if elected? I tell you: huge!

I think any magazine invents its own no-value award, just to make more money playing the old game of the "boss of the village", just like a preistoric tribe. Nothing changed since the preistoric age in the human race, I presume.

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Hang on a minute for a country that reportedly has 80% believers in God, how come Mother Nature gets the blame for all that mayhem.

Maybe some people think that there is more than god behind all this...

steve jobs deserves the fuckin person of the year $#!%...I LOVE IPODS!! and pixar... so #@!$ off u assholes that like mother nature...isnt it called PERSON of the year? is mother nature a fuckin person? no dammit!! so shut the #@!$ up and vote for the iPod man!!