Jeanne Assam
Posted on 12/20/2007 5:55:02 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
So the socialists at Time chose the press-squashing, opponent-jailing, freedom-restricting Vlad the Putin. Pathetic choice, I agree.
I would like to have this thread be a place where we can have a conversation about who OUGHT to be the "Person of the Year".
No real rules, since a conversation can go several places.
I would suggest, however, that we pick someone who is not an "icon", or who could credibly be the POY every single year.
For instance, Rush Limbaugh--I love the guy, and he COULD be POY every year...but he is pretty much extraordinary EVERY year. I am thinking we ought to suggest someone who has, this year especially, been a hero to advancing the cause of freedom.
But hey, that is just a suggestion. Let's have some fun.
oops, I forgot my picture is on my about page, now I'll be disqualified for lying.
Nominating additional candidates:
John Bolton
Tom McClintock
Duncan Hunter
Ann Coulter
Melanie Morgan
Phyllis Schlafly
Jeanne Assam
MOY is not an honor. It’s a recognition of the person (or, sometimes, thing) who most shaped the year’s events, “for good or ill.” That is how it has always been defined. When Time put Hitler on the cover once and Stalin twice, it wasn’t praise.
In 2001, the MOY should have been Osama bin Laden. Time wussed out in choosing Giuliani.
Petraeus, hands down.
I would also nominate Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor in October '07...
On June 28th, 2005, Michael would give his life for these ideals. While conducting surveillance on a mountain ridge in Afghanistan, he and three fellow SEALs were surrounded by a much larger enemy force. Their only escape was down the side of a mountain -- and the SEALs launched a valiant counterattack while cascading from cliff to cliff. But as the enemy closed in, Michael recognized that the survival of his men depended on calling back to the base for reinforcements. With complete disregard for his own life, he moved into a clearing where his phone would get reception. He made the call, and Michael then fell under heavy fire. Yet his grace and upbringing never deserted him. Though severely wounded, he said "thank you" before hanging up, and returned to the fight -- before losing his life.
If Ron Paul goes Independent in the general with that big chunk of Soros cash he has stashed away and siphons enough votes away from the GOP candidate to give the Dem nominee victories in a few battleground states then he'll be the undisputed "Man of the Year" in all liberal circles.
great post
The General really has dominated the stage. Domestically his very existence prompted the ad that hurt both the NY Times and showed the Dims to the the wholely owned moveon.org subsidiary they are. Internationally of course his plan in Iraq has the enemy on the run and shown the US is a dependable ally.
The General really has dominated the stage. Domestically his very existence prompted the ad that hurt both the NY Times and showed the Dims to the the wholely owned moveon.org subsidiary they are. Internationally of course his plan in Iraq has the enemy on the run and shown the US is a dependable ally.
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Tough one
Now that’s just lame.
Also going with Petraeus. Great man.
Obama can’t win in the midwest or the south in the general election, so I doubt he will become the Dem’s candidate.
Before everyone sounds off on this they should read the criteria that Time specifies for their own award.
We give it too much legitimacy by arguing against their choice.
Their criteria are that the person be the most influential person, good or bad, worldwide during the year.
Therefore the “Person of the Year” is not necessarily an accolade conferring a positive status, it merely recognizes the impact the person has had globally.
To me, that puts Putin up there with Sarkosy - for similar reasons but vastly different agendas.
Yes, I agree that Petraeus is America’s Person of the Year - God bless him, but history may eventually show that the evil Putin as more influential over the long run.
May the Lord Bless and grant them a very Merry Christmas.
DC Chapter of Free Republic starting with the Trooprally’s, who have spent EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY NIGHT for the last several years out in front of Walter Reed combating the Moonbats.
How can anyone argue with that? Or jveritas, either . . .
Yes General Optimus (Best) Maximus (Greatest) Petraeus is the man of the year and without any doubt.
3) President Bush. He stood firm on his beliefs, some of which I strongly disagree with, while Dems waffled and nuanced. In the end, he humiliated Pelosi and Reid, and Congress has never had a lower rating. With Gen. Patraeus leading his "Surge" in Iraq, the war has turned from a situation where the Democrats were ready to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, to a reality that the troops will probably start coming home VICTORIOUS just as the election gets into swing. Reid, Pelosi, Clinton, Kerry, Murtha, etc., etc. will look stupid.
2) General David Patraeus. Having the guts to take on a war that Harry Reid said was already lost took courage, turning it around and managing it to victory took savy, skill, determination, and a toughness not many have. His victory allowed President Bush to take on the Dems over retreat and funding, by forcing RINOs to side WITH the war, instead of against it. If Gen. Patraeus can fix Baghdad, maybe he can fix Washington D.C.? I know it is a much bigger job to clean up the corruption in D.C compared to Baghdad, but if you gave him four or eight years, who knows?
1) Al Gore. This half-witted-wousy, double-dumb-devinity-dropout-dipstick, triple-chinned-chump, quadruple-Presidential-wannabe-weenie has gifted the Republican party the ultimate Christmas Present. (Would Al celebrate Christmas? Kwanzaa? Festivus?) This numbnuts created AlGore'sGlobalWarmingSCAMTM. By election day next year, every moron-in-middle-of-nowhere is going to know it was all a big-government, big-money SCAM, and that Al Gore and other Democrats were all for taxing our cars, heaters, air conditioners, and even our breath on pure junk science. It should be worth at least a few percentage points at the polls in every precinct, and will cost the Dems the Presidency, as well as seats they never even considered in play.
General Petraeus, our brave troops, and President Bush.
Am glad you included Senator Inhofe. With him I would put as an honorary nominee the weather guy who came out so strongly saying the Global Warming crusade is a bunch of globaloney!
President Bush has been staunchly prolife throughout his almost eight years in the Presidency and through his steel spined determination has directed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as Commander in Chief despite every possible slur, slander, and slithering of his enemies at home and abroad. (i.e. Crazy Chavez...Akmenanutjob). We have not been attacked in six years on American soil. He has held firm against embryonic stem cell federal funding.
Sorry, but I nominate our Commander in Chief.
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