Comments on: TIME Person of the Year 2004: George W. Bush

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:55:21 +0000

So have you signed up for combat duty in Bushâs campaign to spread freedom at gunpoint?

Reverting to type, I see, Anjin.

By: LJD

LJD — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:13:21 +0000

What Asinine-San is trying to say is...

"I have no intellectual statements to make. I regurgitate leftover propaganda from the election, and when that runs out, I ask if YOU have signed up to go to war."

If you point out that you have, then you're a lock-stepping fascist. Whatever.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:16:12 +0000

CJ,

So have you signed up for combat duty in Bush's campaign to spread freedom at gunpoint?

Probably not.

By: cj

cj — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:02:20 +0000

"The Afgan vote was a fine feel-good exercise. The fact remains that the country is still ruled by warlords, the Taliban is still around and opium production is soaring. The elected president (amazingly enough, the guy Bush put in) has almost no influence outside of the capital and takes his life in his hand when he leaves the presidential compound. " I'm sure it felt good to the people who voted. I think this comment epitomizes the difference between "left" and "right" thinking. OF COURSE, warlords still rule, opium is still produced and entrenched ruling parties (Taliban) are still viable. You can't change things overnight. It doesn't mean you can't, piece meal, introduce productive reforms. It doesn't mean you won't have set backs. That is still no logical reason not to try, or evidence that improvements won't gain ground. Seriously, arguments like this make me wonder if the Left has a single thinking brain to share amongst its members.

By: CALIFORNIA YANKEE

CALIFORNIA YANKEE — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:44:15 +0000

President Bush - Time's 'Person of the Year' Time Magazine named President Bush its 2004 "Person of the Year." Time cited President Bush's ability to reshape the rules of politics and secure a second term in office in the midst of what it calls an unpopular war: For

By: The Sanity Inspector

The Sanity Inspector — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 05:32:58 +0000

Come to think of it, Stalin won it, too.

Nice of TIME to acknowledge Bush this way, though. Maybe he'll get Man Of The Decade, like Gorbachev did in '89--though we all know Reagan really deserved the credit Strobe Talbott heaped on Gorby.

By: Myopist

Myopist — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:47:17 +0000

"Bush finds the hostility of his critics reassuring."

Given his critics, hell, so would I.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:10:22 +0000

Meezer:

The Afgan vote was a fine feel-good exercise. The fact remains that the country is still ruled by warlords, the Taliban is still around and opium production is soaring. The elected president (amazingly enough, the guy Bush put in) has almost no influence outside of the capital and takes his life in his hand when he leaves the presidential compound.

I really hope Afganistan becomes a thriving democracy. But it is a bit early to be popping champaign corks. If it makes you feel good to say that I "don't give a damn" about women, by all means, knock yourself out.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:55:40 +0000

No one has slapped sense into Time. With over half of the voting population going for Bush, and the enormous amount of "Red" on the map of the U.S., it's obvious that Bush was an economic decision, much like the way Jesus makes the cover twice a year, and his story hasn't been "news" in 2,000 years.

By: Meezer

Meezer — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:14:57 +0000

I'm guessing anjin-san is secretly a redneck chauvinist from my hometown. 'Cause only one of them could fail to be affected by Afghan women standing in line for hours to VOTE.

Signed: a woman who's sick to death of the Left not really giving a damn about them.

By: Bachbone

Bachbone — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:39:33 +0000

A meaningless "honor." If memory serves me correctly, Hitler made it one year.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:36:41 +0000

The streets or Iraq run red with blood & opium production in Afganistan continues to skyrocket.

This is Bush's "triumph"?

By: kappiy

kappiy — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:01:46 +0000

Did Time replace its editorial board with that of the Onion? There is no other explanation for naming Bush "Man of the Year"--it has got to be a joke!

By: dw

dw — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:44:41 +0000

Actually, Ken, he's not. This image is from a meeting between FDR and Churchill. No Stalin here. Check the cover of Franklin and Winston and compare:

http://tinyurl.com/3m9m6

If it were the classic Yalta shot, anyway, the negative would have to be reversed to put things that way around.

By: On The Third Hand

On The Third Hand — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:24:52 +0000

TIME Person of the Year 2004: George W. Bush
I saw this news at Outside the Beltway. I believe my reaction can best be described by the British slang, "gobsmacked". I expected them to come up with anybody else.