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CET · 12-20-2004, 12:53 AM

NNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...on_of_the_year

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Time Selects Bush As Person of the Year

Sun Dec 19, 9:26 PM ET White House - AP

By SAM DOLNICK, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - After winning re-election and "reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style," President George Bush (news - web sites) for the second time was chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Year.

The magazine's editors tapped Bush "for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes ? and ours ? on his faith in the power of leadership."

Time's 2004 Person of the Year package, on newsstands Monday, includes an Oval Office interview with Bush, an interview with his father, former President George H. W. Bush, and a profile of Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove.

In an interview with the magazine, Bush attributed his victory over Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) to his foreign policy and the wars he began in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites).

"The election was about the use of American influence," Bush said.

After a grueling campaign, Bush remains a polarizing figure in America and around the world, and that's part of the reason the magazine selected him, said Managing Editor Jim Kelly.

"Many, many Americans deeply wish he had not won," Kelly said in a telephone interview. "And yet he did."

In the Time article, Bush said he relishes that some people dislike him.

"I think the natural instinct for most people in the political world is that they want people to like them," Bush said. "On the other hand, I think sometimes I take kind of a delight in who the critics are."

Bush joins six other presidents who have twice been named the magazine's Person of the Year: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower (first as a general), Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) and Bill Clinton (news - web sites). Franklin Roosevelt holds the record with three nods from the editors.

Kelly said Bush has changed dramatically since he was named Person of the Year in 2000 after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency.

"He is not the same man," Kelly said. "He's a much more resolute man. He is personally as charming as ever but I think the kind of face he's shown to the American public is one of much, much greater determination."

The magazine gives the title to the person who had the greatest impact, good or bad, over the year.

Asked on ABC's "This Week" how Bush reacted when he learned of Time's decision, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said the president was "not worried about what pundits might be saying."

Card praised Bush as a "great liberator" for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq and lauded Bush's tax cuts, education and Medicare reform packages and plans to remake Social Security (news - web sites).

"So I think he's got the right ingredients to be recognized as the Person of the Year," Card said.

Kelly said other candidates included Michael Moore and Mel Gibson, "because in different ways their movies tapped in to deep cultural streams," and political strategist Rove, who is widely credited with engineering Bush's win. Kelly said choosing Rove alone would have taken away from the credit he said Bush deserves.

This is the first time an individual has been named since 2001, when then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was celebrated for his response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The magazine featured the American soldier last year; in 2002, it tapped Coleen Rowley, the FBI (news - web sites) agent who wrote a critical memo on FBI intelligence failures, and Cynthia Cooper and Sherron Watkins, who blew the whistle on scandals at Enron and Worldcom.

kmanrox · 12-20-2004, 12:54 AM

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J-Reel · 12-20-2004, 12:56 AM

It's really Fuckin Mind-Boggling Isn't it?

CET · 12-20-2004, 01:01 AM

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I'm sure that you'll get over seeing this story again.

Jim_Gunn · 12-20-2004, 01:48 AM

W is in good company- Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of The Year in 1938.

CET · 12-20-2004, 01:52 AM

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W is in good company- Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of The Year in 1938.

That's true, but I can't figure out anything he did to make him to note worthy, aside from rigging another election.

flashfire · 12-20-2004, 03:12 AM

what a buch of idiots

Mefo · 12-20-2004, 03:17 AM

lol somehow that proofs how stupid some people are

Victor-E · 12-20-2004, 03:18 AM

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Originally posted by CET
That's true, but I can't figure out anything he did to make him to note worthy, aside from rigging another election.

He proved to the world that over half of Americans are morons.

JamesK2 · 12-20-2004, 03:53 AM

How much does it cost to be a person of the year?

xclusive · 12-20-2004, 06:04 AM

fixed just like the election...

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