Person of the Year 2008: Barack Obama (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

TIME ^ | December 17, 2008 | Staff

[abb]

ou probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish.

To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude. You can't quite put your finger on it ...

"It's like the set of The Office," someone offers.

Bingo.

It is here that we find Barack Obama one soul-freezingly cold December day, mentally unpacking the crate of crushing problems — some old, some new, all ugly — that he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States. Most of his hours inside the presidential-transition office are spent in this bland and bare-bones room. You would think the President-elect — a guy who draws 100,000 people to a speech in St. Louis, Mo., who raises three-quarters of a billion dollars, who is facing the toughest first year since Franklin Roosevelt's — might merit a leather chair. Maybe a credenza? A hutch?

[abb]

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ping

[Paladin2]

I hope this changes.

[gridlock]

OK. We're done with the hagiography. Can we all be bored with Barack now?

[Slapshot68]

The final straw for me with Time was when I read the article about Putin where they practically fawned over the guy and made several inferences to most of the world’s problems being the fault of the U.S.

“Time” for Time to close up or move offshore since they’ve decided to be so anti-American.

[abb]

The real point is what TIME says no longer matters.

For The Longest TIME

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Crying TIME

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cbs17-2008dec17,0,7202949.story
CBS fires nearly 30 people in its entertainment division

http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/
Detroit Gets To Work on Next Year’s Model

[abb]

[Le Chien Rouge]

Is this not the same magazine that once named Hitler and Stalin —”Person of the Year”?????.....

[Perdogg]

Don’t forget about the Man-of-the-year jinx.

[WayneM]

I will do my best to ignore him.

Otherwise, he deserves the same respect shown by the KOS crowd to President Bush.

[abb]

Ayup.

http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa050400a.htm

[Carl LaFong]

Vladimir Putin to Barack 0bama: seems pretty much like a lateral move to me.

[abb]

TIME

[abb]

"Time, oh, time
Where did you go
Time, oh, good, good time
Where did you go"

[rod1]

Let’s see didn’t the Time Mag’s Carney just get a big adminstrative position from the O? Good thing quid pro quo doesn’t apply to “journalism”. (sacasm intended).

[abb]

I still have not figured out why Carney quit at TIME. I mean, what's the difference?

Turn Back The Hands of TIME

[VlPu]

Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Hitler fled to Spain, South America in 1945
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message683558/pg1

[Bahbah]

"And then the final thing, just to round out my Happy List, is climate change. All the indicators are that this is happening faster than even the most pessimistic scientists were anticipating a couple of years ago."

All the indicators are that this is not happening at all. So he's dumb or dishonest. Actually, he's both. And worse.