Who TIME Didn't Consider...

Nope, Matt - I don't find any of those people important.

Ron Paul - left out again...

>Eliot Spitzer

Why does he "matter"? Neither the first nor the last politician to get caught with his pants down. Even before that, while he certainly mattered as state AG, not so much as gov, where his self-styled "f***ing steamroller" approach didn't affect his intended targets and only irritated his natural allies.

The only way he mattered was by picking a Lt. Gov. who went on to become the first (I think) legally blind gov in the nation's history, thus enabling a particularly stupid SNL skit and possibly Neil Diamond's next perverted hit song, "Sweet Senator."


>Jeremiah Wright
>Bill Ayers

Obviously didn't matter this year. Well, OK, Wright mattered as the proximate cause of Obama's address on race. But it's at least possible that he would have given such an address anyway, much as Romney had to give one on Mormonism. Ayers has never mattered in the slightest (except obviously to the few people killed by his bombs, and to their loved ones), in the sense of making a difference in the country or the world.


>Barney Frank

Maybe, along with Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer.


>Joe the Plumber

You gotta be kidding. He never has, and never will, "matter" except to his own inflated ego.


>T. Boone Pickens

OK, I'll give you this one.


>Rod Blagojevich

Maybe. But maybe his reason for "mattering" came along too late for their deadline.


>Mitt Romney
>Mike Huckabee

I don't think so. Except to the stupid pundits who called Romney the "front-runner" (and McCain "dead in the water") last year, and the stupider ones who gave Huck his fifteen minutes early this year. But you can hardly "matter" if you're gone by February without having accomplished much. If they "mattered," why not Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson? Would you believe, John Edwards? Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel? Or yes, even Ron Paul? (Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter?)


>Joseph Cao

Possibly, as the first Vietnamese-American in Congress, and maybe a sign (along with Jindal) that diversity is alive and well in Louisiana, despite its having grown less black and more "red." But beating Bill "Icebox" Jefferson isn't all that big an accomplishment in a red state in a red (for it) year.


>Joe Lieberman

Hardly. He made a fool of himself campaigning for McCain (and, implicitly, made McCain look like a fool by having to correct his gaffes), then came groveling back to Harry Reid for absolution.

What's wrong wit Larry Craig? he matters to me so much sweetie make me feel so good.

I do think an honorable mention has to go out to Hillary Clinton. How many times was a fork stuck in her before she landed the #3 spot in the Executive Branch of government?

That is one tough customer.

Of course Obama was going to get the cover. That was a no brainer. Like him or not everyone has to admit he has done some things thus far that I doubt we'll see topped in a long time. Not bad for a virtual nobody in 2004.

PALIN!

Speaker of the House is spot #3 in our government

Voice of Reason1:10PMDec 17th 2008

Speaker of the House is spot #3 in our government
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VoR -

Mrbline did say #3 in the executive branch of our government.

Time's standard has always been the person who had the most impact in the preceding year whether good, bad or something else. There was a flap about that for 2001 as I recall.

Thank you, Lord Kulpen!

We can always count on you to clear things up. I forever remain devoted to your wisdom!

There was another flap when the Ayatollah Khomeni was selected. I think
one of their basises was news-worthy-ness.