December 19, 200421 yr Time names Bush 2004 ?Person of the Year? Magazine chooses president for ?sticking to his guns? NEW YORK - President Bush?s bold, uncompromising leadership and his clear-cut election victory made him Time magazine?s ?Person of the Year? for 2004, its managing editor said on Sunday. Time chose Bush ?for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years,? Jim Kelly wrote in the magazine. Bush was also Time?s choice to appear on the cover in 2000 after winning the presidential election despite losing the popular vote. His father, President George H. W. Bush, was named ?Man of the Year? in 1990 for what Time called his mastery of foreign policy and his wavering domestic record. Last year the magazine picked ?The American Soldier.? Some will be pleased, others will sigh ?Obviously many supporters of the president will be pleased, many people who do not support the president will probably sigh,? Kelly said. ?But even those who may not have voted for him will acknowledge that this is one of the more influential presidents of the last 50 years.? Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson. The winner must be ?the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse,? he said. American aviator Charles Lindbergh was Time?s first ?Man of the Year? in 1927. Some selections have been notoriously unpopular, such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942, and Iran?s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. This year the magazine named the conservative ?Power Line? as its first ?Blog of the Year.? Kelly said blogs, Web sites that often mix news, gossip and opinion, are ?here to stay.?
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year.
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months.
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months. 638558[/snapback] But hardly in a good way. Remember, they picked Osama as the Man of the Year in 01 or 02, I think.
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months. 638558[/snapback] But hardly in a good way. Remember, they picked Osama as the Man of the Year in 01 or 02, I think. 638573[/snapback] In a good way for about half the country, in a bad way for another half. As the article said, Time was expecting only people who supported Bush to support thier choice.
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months. 638558[/snapback] But hardly in a good way. Remember, they picked Osama as the Man of the Year in 01 or 02, I think. 638573[/snapback] In a good way for about half the country, in a bad way for another half. As the article said, Time was expecting only people who supported Bush to support thier choice. 638575[/snapback] Not to mention the fact that nobody outside of this country supports Bush, except Putin, which isn't a good thing. He just likes the example that Bush has set.
December 19, 200421 yr cover of time when he was person of the year in 00 the cover this year 638524[/snapback] If you ever wanted an indication of how much the Presidency ages you, there it is.
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months. 638558[/snapback] But hardly in a good way. Remember, they picked Osama as the Man of the Year in 01 or 02, I think. 638573[/snapback] Ummm....yeah. I know. Good or bad, he was definitely talked about. Way to bring your politics into this. Good job.
December 19, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months. 638558[/snapback] But hardly in a good way. Remember, they picked Osama as the Man of the Year in 01 or 02, I think. 638573[/snapback] Ummm....yeah. I know. Good or bad, he was definitely talked about. Way to bring your politics into this. Good job. 638641[/snapback] You're very welcome. For the record, I don't hate Republicans, just Bush and his people (Karl Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.).
December 20, 200421 yr Wouldn't Lance Armstrong have been a better choice that everyone could have agreed with?
December 20, 200421 yr Wouldn't Lance Armstrong have been a better choice that everyone could have agreed with? 638778[/snapback] But did Lance Armstrong have everyone talking like Bush did, like him or hate him? His being in the White House had the biggest impact of anyone this year, because the presidential election was Pro-Bush vs Anti-Bush as opposed to Bush vs Kerry. While what Lance does continues to amaze, people are becoming numb to the true meaning of his impact on not only sports but just the over all feeling of hope. I think we can all agree that it's a better pick than SI's choice of Red Sox Nation.
December 20, 200421 yr I can't say I disagree with their decision, because in all honesty I can't think of any one who deserves it.
December 20, 200421 yr I think the nation state of Iraq should have gotten it. 639040[/snapback] Iraq isn't a nation-state.
December 20, 200421 yr What criteria do they use for this thing anyway? From the justification I've heard for this, you'd think they'd just put the US President on there every year. Anyway...the man of the year was Jesus, no question. If the magazine had any guts, they'd have put Jesus up there. From Mel Gibson to President Bush, Jesus was your common thread.
December 20, 200421 yr Anyway...the man of the year was Jesus, no question. If the magazine had any guts, they'd have put Jesus up there. From Mel Gibson to President Bush, Jesus was your common thread. 639062[/snapback] I can agree with that. But they don't have the balls so it's a moot point.
December 20, 200421 yr Kelly said he and his staff debated giving the award to others including Karl Rove, the president?s influential political adviser, and filmmakers Michael Moore and Mel Gibson I guess it wasn't much of a year. 638555[/snapback] You're right. Good choice, his name was defnitely the talk of almost everybody for about 6 months. 638558[/snapback] But hardly in a good way. Remember, they picked Osama as the Man of the Year in 01 or 02, I think. 638573[/snapback] osama was never person of the year they considered giving it to him in 01 but gave it to nyc mayor rudy giuliani instead
December 20, 200421 yr The nip shoulda gotten it. Single nubbingly caused changes in performances at the pro-bowl, caused every show and its mother to now be delayed an hour, makes everything on tv that is questionable to be blown up out of porportion, and it was the first nip 10 year old boys throughout the nation have seen.
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