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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:51 PM
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Poll question: TIME's Person of the Year?
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 04:52 PM by underpants
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:54 PM
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1. Howard Dean- and his 50 state strategy
He did more to turn things around this year than anyone else. He gets my vote- he always has.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:55 PM
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4. Mine too
and I should have had a Emmanuel/Schumer/Dean option but I wanted to throw the last two in there-as a guess.
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MazeRat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:03 PM
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15. mine three... well done Dr. Dean!!! -nt
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:55 PM
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2. Help me out here, because I simply cannot fathom how it cannot be Pelosi.
This is historic -- the first woman Speaker of the House -- yet it is as if it never happened, or the corporate media questions her leadership ad nauseum, or fabricates internecine fighting which is supposed to be her fault somehow.

It must be Nancy Pelosi.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:56 PM
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5. It will be Pelosi next year - she isn't even speaker yet. n/t
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:57 PM
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7. That's a very good point
Truly historic. Of course Time is petrified of seeming too liberal so that might conterweight Pelosi.

Good point. I had seen her name on many (but not all) lists and it really hadn't hit me how historic this is-Boy that full on onslaught on her worked huh?
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feduppuke Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:59 PM
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12. Amen!
Gotta be Pelosi. Was Newt POTY in 1994?
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:55 PM
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3. Howard Dean
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 04:59 PM by LSK
50 state strategy.
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L A Woman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:56 PM
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6. The Person of the Year is the person who had the most influence...
not the person you like the best. Nancy Pelosi - maybe next year.

I'd say the American voter.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:58 PM
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9. Oooh good one
:thumbsup:
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:57 PM
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8. it will be Barack Obama n/t
Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 04:58 PM by Syrinx
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:59 PM
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10. I purposely didn't mention Obama
since he is so hot hot hot right now. I was avoiding going along with the crowd.

Could be.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 04:59 PM
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11. an amalgam of Sheehan, Colbert, Stewart, Olberman and probably some
others, for tipping things back the way they should be.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:00 PM
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13. Other....
Howard Stern.



:silly:
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:02 PM
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14. Rumsfeld.
I've said it before - I'll be really surprised if it's not Rumsfeld, with Cheney/Wolfowitz/the Neoconservatives running a close second.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:05 PM
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16. the white-collar criminal n/t
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:05 PM
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17. Jon Stewart



.... after all, he did come up with the Word of the Year.




Truthiness.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:07 PM
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18. that was Stephen Colbert
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:09 PM
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22. You're right.


(Must not post impulsively)
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:13 PM
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24. Hey- I love them both
maybe they will be "persons of the year" Did you see the great Rolling Stone interview with them?
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:25 PM
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25. I scanned over it on line, didn't read it in detail.



Thanks for the reminder



I would not at all be surprised to learn they are serious contenders for the title.
Both are gifted observers.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:08 PM
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19. In all fairness, it should be Nancy Pelosi- first woman speaker of the house and all.
But shouldn't Al Gore be one of the choices, too?

Seems like there's a chronic case of leaving his name off of polls, around here.:evilgrin:
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Lasthorseman Donating Member (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:08 PM
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20. My take
I have to view Nov 7 as a rejection "election" and not a glowing endorsement of Democrats who have consistenly FAILED at even slowing Chimpy's deliberate destruction of America. Dean, well maybe he did lot's of work for the party and all but still, Man of the Year?
Pelosi, and her Satanic Six for 06 openly endorses the "recommendations" of the 911 commission which we all know was a whitewash job by handpicked Bush apologist frat boys.
Impeachment,arrest and Hague War Crimes trials, then I'll think about the Democratic party.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:09 PM
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21. American Military Service Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan
I think, without question, these people (for better or worse) have been at the center of the debate(s) for the entire year.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:42 AM
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27. 2003


They could go the American Soldier as person of the year but I doubt it.
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:10 PM
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23. Al Gore
period.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 05:35 PM
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26. Dean
although he won't get it. If they give it to anyone from the DEM party, I think it'll be Pelosi.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:44 AM
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28. Al Gore... can one man help save the planet?
at least he is trying.
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 11:26 AM
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29. Stephen Colbert
For his absolute courage to roast the President of the United States to his face

on live TV at the Whitw House Correspondents Dinner.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 11:29 AM
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30. This question again? Come on, it's the YouTube guys. Who else dominated the whole year?
Of course if they really wanted to be honest, they'd make the Iraqi insurgents who murder civilians the men of the year. They're the ones who convinced voters Iraq was unwinnable.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 02:08 PM
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31. Borat!
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