Time magazine picked Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, as its Person of the Year. He gets the accolade for presiding over a “weak economy” that could have been “much, much weaker.” Pretty feeble. I can’t imagine someone being named Athlete of the Year because while he “lost a few games” he could have lost “many, many more.”
It’s a puzzling choice, even for a magazine that has previously hailed “you” as its Person of the Year. (No offence – I think “you” are pretty good, just not prince of the planet.) Some of the runners-up were pretty odd too: The Chinese Worker and Nancy Pelosi.
I suspect Time knew just as well as everybody else that the real person of the year, whether you worshipped him or were a critic, was – how could it be anyone else? – Barack Obama. Was not Barack Obama sworn in as President in 2009? Was he not – the descriptors are now bonded to his name – “the first black man to occupy the White House?” Was this not a “historic milestone?” Did he not, almost immediately, also win the Nobel Peace Prize? Was he not the predominant politico-celebrity figure of the entire world this year?
What was Time waiting for before it would name him as person of the year? Did he have to win Wimbledon with one hand tied behind his back while simultaneously directing repairs to the Large Hadron Collider?
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Hey, Rex! Maybe Time passed on Obama because they didn’t want the backlash?
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Obama should ’Fairness Doctrine’ them out of existence, how could they not give him the award? They should give the award twice next year!