Wasn't Time's Man of the Year decided January 15?

If they select anyone other than Sullenberger, time to toss my subscription.

The helicopter/plane collision adds yet another layer to the obvious difficulty of the man's accomplishment.

There is no one else who can be in this ballpark.

 

Simon, where the hell did this come from? Non sequitor if there ever was one, man. Not judging... just wondering why anyone thinks about this in August.

 

I dig Sully as much as anyone, but isn't the criteria the person who has most shaped the events of the year?
It won't be Obama, don't know who the leader in the clubhouse is at this point. Glenn Beck?

 

I'd say a man who did the heavy lifting on saving about 100 lives has shaped quite a few events this year.

But I'm picking up what you're putting down, Dan.

 

Why wouldn't it be Obama?

 

Not quite sure how the events of last weekend have any relation to what Sully did or put it in any greater perspective.

 

The only person who won two years in a row was Nixon, who shared the second honor with Kissinger for China.
I've always thought the idea of naming the winner of the Presidential election before they were inaugurated was stupid - better to do it after their first year. In 2000 they took cover shots of Bush and Gore and, like the rest of us, let the Supreme Court pick the winner.
Time will pull something out of its ass, something trendy to generate cable chatter.

 

Maybe the Twitter founder, then. (Biz Stone, I just looked it up)

 

Maybe it's You's year again.

I'd give it to The Predatory Lender (they do say shaped for better or worse, right?) Or maybe the inventor of Twitter (that is, if I were just a bit faster).

 

The Lobbyist

The Mistress

The Dead Celebrities

 

Ahem...





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