Barack Obama Named Time's 'Person of the Year'

me and my kin voted for sara palen. aint my vote wurth nothin? this obumma feller is a demoncrate. demoncrates is bad. there gonna rase my tax. i aint got many chikins left to gives them.

Not too difficult to get yourself on the cover of a magazine you 'own'. Oprah does it.

that obumma feller aint borned from hear. he cant be precedent. he aint no red bludded americen. i heared tell he has blew blud. that prooves hes from space or mars or neptoon or somewares and wernt borned at all.

my shiney hat keeps them peeple from space from gettin to my mind.

Great satire "jim". You sound just like those right wing nuts.

Paulson by far is the worst person of the year...350 BILLION! without any requirements to have them actually loan the money as they did in Europe....

no shock that they kept it...who did not see this coming besides Paulson?

i don't think that it was rocket science...good news though is that he did not get his blanket immunity that he sought in the Law and if his complicity in this theft can be proven he should go to prison and if the bankers can be proven to have sat on the money with a nefarious purpose...they should go to a not so cushy prison as well...

maybe they can perform a musical and do a prison circuit tour to try to rehabilitate their names...

seriously...these criminals should all go down hard to reintroduce moral hazard to the United States

perp walks are cleansing...hard time is a wake up call

OMG! These nuts are coming out of the woodwork. Jim, you need to go to school, get a job (and therapy). Accept it! Your candidate lost! Move on!

The Bankers Depression Of The 1930's

In 1930, America did not lack industrial capacity, fertile farm land, skilled and willing workers or industrious farm families. It had an extensive and highly efficient transportation system in railroads, road networks, and inland and ocean waterways. Communications between regions and localities were the best in the world, utilizing telephone, Teletype, radio, and a well-operated government mail system. No war had ravaged the cities or the countryside, no pestilence weakened the population, nor had famine stalked the land.

The United States of America in 1930 lacked only one thing: an adequate supply of money to carry on trade and commerce. In the early 1930's, Bankers, not Congress, had become the only source of new money and credit. Bankers deliberately refused loans to industries, stores and farms.
Payments on existing loans were required however, and money rapidly disappeared from circulation. Goods were available to be purchased, jobs waiting to be done, but the lack of money brought the nation to a standstill. By this simple ploy America was put in a "depression" and the greedy Bankers took possession of hundreds of thousands of farms, homes, and business properties. The people were told, "times are hard," and "money is short." Not understanding the system, they were cruelly robbed of their earnings, their savings, and their property.

Money For Peace? No! Money For War? YES!






does history repeat? yes
can we learn from the past & change the outcome? again...yes

We do a disservice to the Americans that suffered before Us if We let it happen again ...fool the American People once...shame on you...fool Us twice with the same trick...shame on Us

Maybe next year, Time can have as it's "Person of the year" the American taxpayer, who will be giving much more than they should under a corrupt, "spread the wealth", Obama administration. Or, perhaps, the person of the year could be the American entrepreneurs- people from the private sector who will continue to invest, grow their companies, create jobs, and slowly get us out of this economic malaise the liberal Congress has forced upon us.

BTW, Paulson and Palin were among Time's runners-up. Remember, it's not who did the most good or anything, it's whoever "most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year." Which is why the likes of Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam have made it in the past. By that standard, I guess Paulson has to be a runner-up, and I guess Palin too.

I see less sense in their other choices, Nicolas Sarkozy (despite a nice and probably deserved tribute to him from Tony Blair) and Zhang Yimou (for the Olympics opening ceremony, of all things). I might have had Hillary or even McCain as runners-up, as they were in "real life." Possibly Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase and one of the few (relative) "winners" (and maybe even (relative) "good guys") in the financial mess. Conceivably Sheila Bair, though including her *and* Dimon in addition to Paulson (in a group of only five total) would probably be overemphasizing the financial stuff, if that's possible. Too early to give anything to Elizabeth Warren (Harvard law professor and head of the board overseeing the financial bailout), though I've admired her ever since I first heard of her book, "The Two-Income Trap," and related research into how we *really* live today. Also too early for Zardari in Pakistan, or anyone in or working on the Middle East. Putin, China, and even natural disasters are (for now) last year's news at best. And India (or Brazil?) may still be mostly next year's. And there wasn't a tech "gimmicky concept pick" this year.

Time's Person of the Year

1938 Adolf Hitler 1889–1945
1939 Joseph Stalin
1942 Joseph Stalin
1951 Mohammed Mossadegh
1957 Nikita Khrushchev
1971 Richard Nixon
1972 Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini
2004 George W. Bush

The picture of the dollar bill on the same cover tells the story of 2008. The election was the latest way in which we expressed our choices. The people with the dollars will now run our country. It is just a coincidence that only the same persons who gave us the world economy in the nineties are now re-running the "NEW"
administration as we meet this CHANGE head on.
This is not change from the bottom up as we were led to expect.

uh...let's just re-write over the corporate fascist criminals that are STILL giving away everything to the Corporations as they pack up that has gutted America between Clinton & Obama...

you trolls are funny...you can't wash it off...but keep trying...it is funny to watch you try to scrub that tattoo

LOL

the People know...the rules are all changed now...push against that CHANGE and rue the day you made that choice if you are an elected official

;-)

DaveRaves apparently needs a reality check. Seems to me the current president, Bush - the one you idolize, worship, and adore - has doled out billions (or at least Congress - of BOTH parties - did with his 100% approval)- with more sure to follow before January.
So how is the "free market capitalist" Bush doing so far? Seems the private sector isn't faring well under his rule.

I voted Barack Obama, cause I'm about as sick of hearing his name as I am of hearing George W. Bush.

And he hasn't even made it to office yet to fuck stuff up yet...

And he hasn't even made it to office yet to fuck stuff up yet...


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but fantasizing about it results in a lot of premature objectulations.

As I said before, try to think about sex - that's a surefire turnoff for most wignuts. It'll give you staying power long after your colander helmets have oxidized.

Hillary Clinton is the Person of the Year

Hillary Clinton EARNED more Votes than any Presidential Primary candidate in the history of America

Hillary Clinton Won the Popular Vote
Hillary Clinton Won the Electoral Vote
Hillary Clinton Won 1734 Pledged Delegates
Barack Obama Received 1738 Pledged Delegates

2008 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY VOTING STATES:
from Peniel Cronin "Primary versus Caucus" 2008
http://www.lynettelong.com/2008DemPr...10-22-2008.pdf
http://www.lynettelong.com/CAUCUSFRAUD/

39 Primaries (State Run, State Financed)
34,863,326 Votes Cast -97% of the total Votes cast
17,673,679 Votes - 50.7% Hillary Clinton - 1555 Pledged Delegates
17,189,647 Votes - 49.3% Barack Obama - 1416 Pledged Delegates
Hillary Clinton: + 484,032 Votes (1.4%) and 139 Pedged Delegates

All Votes Abroad
10,070 Votes and 7 Pledged Delegates - Hillary Clinton
19,371 Votes and 10 Pledged Delegates - Barack Obama

13 Caucuses + Texas (Party Run, Party Financed)
1,057,136 Votes Cast -2.9% of the total Votes cast -558,030 of these Votes (53%) were estimated by the Democratic Party
378,684 Estimated Votes - 35.8% Hillary Clinton - 172 Delegates
678,452 Estimated Votes - 64.2% Barack Obama - 312 Delegates
Barack Obama + 299,768 Estimated Votes (28.4%) and 140 Pledged Delegates

If they were voting for the biggest liar in the country this year, Obama takes it hands down. Can't wait for Rezko, Blagojevich and Jessie Jr. to start singing like canaries. Obama can run but he can't hide and the truth is right on his heels. About time.

Carol,
Are you on your meds today? Something seems to be sticking in your tin foil. Try some Midol,morphine, heroin, zanax, ceraquil anything to shut you up sweetie.