How soon you people forget.
Posted on 12/23/2005 6:21:24 AM PST by rhema
There is no way Time would have selected someone so insignificant as a lowly, unknown CHRISTIAN! How would it look to the other liberals?
USCG should have at least gotten a mention by TIME for rescuing 7000+ lives in NO without losing one.
For me, the persons of the year were the American soldiers and Iraqi voters.
I am so happy you posted this. I have been thinking the same exact thing. Baptist Men are always so giving and feeding the needy, besides helping build back. My dad is one of those Baptist Men and I thank God for him daily. He is much more of a hero to me than anyone Time would decide upon.
Start your own magazine and you can select who you like. Time has always aimed for people who have an international impact -- including the American soldier.
I'm surprised Marvin didn't call for a boycott of the magazine. That's the usual MO of the nutty wing of the conservative party.
Without whom there would be no America!
Time is a joke. They send me their mags free, unordered, and unwanted for my waiting rooms. I trash them as I do not want my customers reading the trash and lies they spew.
considering the source, i guess bozo (yes i used spell check) deserved man of the year, a stepping stone for the great coveted nobel peace prize.
BONO??? Enough said.
How soon you people forget.
As someone who lives where Hurricane Rita hit hard let me just say I saw the nasty, dirty hard work that those disaster relief volunteers did. Had it not been for their hard work and sacrifice in god awful conditions many folks would be suffering still. They did not help out for recognition but to be good neighbors. For that I thank them.
If your area ever gets hit hard by a disaster you better hope an organized volunteer agency like the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief or Salvation Army is the first one on the scene instead of FEMA or Red Cross because they will totally screw up the recovery.
I mean no disrespect to anyone who participated in the aftermath of natural disasters. There is only one cover that is devoted to "Person of the Year" everyone can't be on it.
Go ahead and honor them. Time made their pick, you make your pick.
Is it too late for Bush? After all this is the year he admitted to an impeachable offense which led to his inevitable impeachment and prison sentence and restored credibilty and the anchor slot to Dan Rather, next year's winner.
I remember when they put "The American Soldier" on their front page. This year however, I have to agree with the original poster that they had many better choices with with they could have gone.
I would have gone with Pope John Paul II, or the Iraqi voter, as their stories captured the attention of the world. I think more so in the case of the former, but due in part to the wall-to-wall TV coverage.
I disagree. After having read Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains" early this year, my eyes have been wide open to the massive suffering on the face of this earth that needs tending to. That Bill and Melinda Gates would devote their capitalist wealth and connections to make this planet better for people who have no voice or choice makes them honorable choices. That is not to discount the efforts of the other millions who do the little things in the face of tragedy. I applaud them as well. I just think Time made a thoughtful choice.
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