Give me a break. This has got to be the new lowest of lows in suck-up journalism. The only possible way Bush has the been the man to most change the world in the past year is to most foul up the world in the past year. In that regard, yes, he deserves the nod, but only if Time is willing to say that this is the reason - the same reason, say, Hitler might be man of the year for most impacting the world. Read through the quotes from Time, it doesn't seem that this was their thought.
President Bush's bold, uncompromising leadership and his clear-cut election victory made him Time magazine's ``Person of the Year'' for 2004, its managing editor said on Sunday.Oh gag me. I suggesting taking a subscription to Time off the old Christmas list.
Time chose Bush ``for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years,'' Jim Kelly wrote in the magazine.
