Here's the list of finalists for TIME's Person of the Year for 2010. Who do you think will/should win and why?
I think "the Unemployed American," and the Chilean miners are both satisfactory choices, for displaying perseverance, patience and hope in situations and circumstances that look completely bleak and hopeless.
Also, with past winners such as Charles Lindbergh, FDR (x3), Winston Churchill, JFK, MLK Jr., 2 different Popes and Gorbachev (i.e. people who have made real, tangible differences and impact in this world), can someone please explain to me how LeBron James, Lady Gaga, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin (amongst others) are finalists?
The Candidates
-Julian Assange
-Glenn Beck
-David Cameron
-The Chilean Miners
-Arne Duncan
-Recep Tayyip Erdogan
-Jonathan Franzen
-Lady Gaga
-Robert Gates
-Tony Hayward
-Hu Jintao
-LeBron James
-Steve Jobs
-Hamid Karzai
-David and Charles Koch
-Liu Xiaobo
-Barack Obama
-Sarah Palin
-Nancy Pelosi
-Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
-Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
-The Unemployed American
-J. Craig Venter
-Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair
-Mark Zuckerberg
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I think "the Unemployed American," and the Chilean miners are both satisfactory choices, for displaying perseverance, patience and hope in situations and circumstances that look completely bleak and hopeless.
Also, with past winners such as Charles Lindbergh, FDR (x3), Winston Churchill, JFK, MLK Jr., 2 different Popes and Gorbachev (i.e. people who have made real, tangible differences and impact in this world), can someone please explain to me how LeBron James, Lady Gaga, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin (amongst others) are finalists?
The Candidates
-Julian Assange
-Glenn Beck
-David Cameron
-The Chilean Miners
-Arne Duncan
-Recep Tayyip Erdogan
-Jonathan Franzen
-Lady Gaga
-Robert Gates
-Tony Hayward
-Hu Jintao
-LeBron James
-Steve Jobs
-Hamid Karzai
-David and Charles Koch
-Liu Xiaobo
-Barack Obama
-Sarah Palin
-Nancy Pelosi
-Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
-Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
-The Unemployed American
-J. Craig Venter
-Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair
-Mark Zuckerberg
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