Speaker Pelosi named finalist for Time magazine 'Person of the Year'

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Speaker Pelosi named finalist for Time magazine 'Person of the Year' By Jordan Fabian - 12/14/09 05:21 PM ET

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is among the seven finalists chosen for Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year," according to media reports on Monday.

Other finalists in the realm of politics include last year's winner President Barack Obama, Afghanistan commanding Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

"Look, she's the first woman Speaker of the House. She's the strongest Speaker of the House in decades," Time managing editor Richard Stengel said of Pelosi on NBC's "Today" show. "She had piloted what is probably the most important legislation in decades through the House. She's a really, really pivotal lawmaker."

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Jamaican sprinter and Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt are also included as finalists.

Another finalist is the "Chinese worker," which the magazine said has become an influential international economic power.

The award is given to an individual who has achieved a notable accomplishment in the past year. Time's editors will name the winner on Wednesday.

Every U.S. president has won the award since Time launched the tradition in 1927, with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford. President George W. Bush won it it 2000 and 2004 following both of his electoral victories.

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What's a Time Magazine? Never heard of it.........

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Shoulda been Beck.

[HiTech RedNeck]

One of those mags of yesteryear like Life and Look?

[wardaddy]

Time has a palin special issue out...the cover looks complimentary...hard to reckon.

[pallis]

That evil face on a cover should be saved for Halloween.

[ClearCase_guy]

I thought Obama had signed a 4-year contract for that gig?

[w1andsodidwe]

This is great. Do it, name her. Then the whole country will understand what fools work at Time.

Of course, they will just name Obama again.

[RichInOC]

Ahem-hem...ahem-hem...

[RanGreHad]

There was a time when it was important. It began its slide downward in the 1970s when it began featuring ice cream on its cover. Just another soft news magazine.

[bwc2221]

Hitler and Stalin have both been Time’s Man of the Year.

[Dixie Yooper]

Nancy, make another appointment with your plastic surgeon. There's still time before they shoot the cover photo.

[paulycy]

She's so honest and helpful to the American people.

[SumProVita]

Satire.....right? ;-/

[votemout]

The person of the year is the one who released the climate change e-mails reveling the fraud of global warming. Will save us trillions and prevent us from having draconion controls placed upon our business and personal lives.

[SoldierDad]

And, now it will be Pelosi’s turn to be Time’s Man of the Year.

[SumProVita]

I would like fellow Freepers to correct the following:

“She’s the strongest Speaker of the House in decades...”

[Cobra64]

Perhaps someone could superimpose this on a Time magazine cover.

[Popman]

Is this Satire!

[Indy Pendance]

Their glory days will never be matched, unless they change their allegiances.

[Cobra64]

"Get my point?!"

[Noumenon]

I’ll have to work that Time mag cover into the AQT somewhere.

[HiTech RedNeck]

She’s the strongest SMELLING Speaker of the House in decades?

[badpacifist]

Move back imma gonna spew

[C210N]

My fav' Nasty video:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the health care reform bill means "a cap on your costs, but no cap on your benefit."

[Indy Pendance]

That’s just gross.

[psjones]

Steve Jobs gets my vote. That iphone is great, I love being able to get on the net even when I’m not in front of my computer. When I have to stand in long lines, the iphone comes out, and I start reading the articles here on Freerepublic.

[Tzimisce]

And in the contest for biggest liberal goon in the world, the finalists are....

[BelleAl]

“When I have to stand in long lines, the iphone comes out, and I start reading the articles here on Freerepublic.”

I do too!

[SkyDancer]

Hitler made it ...

[ought-six]

Is TIME still being published? I haven’t read TIME since the Reagan Administration.

[freekitty]

What is her real title. “The Congressperson most likely to go to jail”?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeah, money don’t grow on trees.

Hose up the existing system, and the market incentive which tended to improve the efficiency of the system (find an easier cheaper way to do the same thing and your profits will go up without you having to raise the amounts you bill) will simply go away.

[MamaDearest]

What's a Time Magazine?

Newsstand magazine sales drop 12 percent

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Time, dropped 0.5 percent to 3.372 million copies, while Newsweek -- which underwent a major redesign this year -- dropped 3.3 percent to 2.646 million copies.

Nancy Pelosi isn't winning any popularity contests

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Poor Nancy.  She's got the Congress in her hands but she can't get any respect--or at least love.  According to Rasmussen Reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains America's best-known - and least-liked - congressional leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Democrats in marginal House districts might want to keep these numbers in mind when they choose whether to do as Speaker Pelosi desires, or to vote to protect the interests of their constituents.

[traditional1]

First, she’s gonna be Time’s Liberal of the Year, then on to win the Nobel Prize for “Plans”, just like The Messiah.

[Pipe Dog]

Nancy, make another appointment with your plastic surgeon. There's still time before they shoot the cover photo.

If Pelosi has her face lifted one more time she'll have a beard!

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[SumProVita]

Good start! ;-)

[getarope]

It should be Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and the female police officer who put down the terrorist at Ft. Hood. Two REAL American heroes!

[Notwithstanding]

THey may have to change the title again, this time from person to “B*tch of the Year”

[SoldierDad]

Ah, well, it would just be a “descriptive” term for her lowness.

[Chode]

ya mean it's NOT the Zer0???

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Speaker Pelosi named finalist for Time magazine 'Person of the Year'

What's a Time Magazine? Never heard of it.........

Of course you have heard of "Time Magazine's Person of the Year." It is the American Version of the Nobel Prize. With a few exceptions, these filthy radical liberals have grabbed control of the world media.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is among the seven finalists chosen for Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year,"

I LOVE the smell of leftist desperation . . . . . ANYtime of the day!!!

[ghostrider]

Yuk! Yetch! Barf! Crap My Pants!

That bag of a filthy liberal skag is Gross.

[gimme1ibertee]

I concur!! Time mag is a rag.

[gimme1ibertee]

Wow....that’s the funniest-and scariest-thing (or things) i’ve seen all day!!!

[stubernx98]

Time mag died when it was sold to Warner by the Luce's in the mid 80’s. I canceled my subscription then.

[Venturer]

If she had been voted “Witch of the Decade”, I would be in complete agreement.

[Nateman]

Another winner like Nancy.

[Brilliant]

They should go back to the old name: “Man of the Year.”