December 19, 2004
Man of the Year?
By Nathan Nance
Guest post by Nate Nance
I can't believe that Time picked George W. Bush as their man of the year for 2004. Their rationale?
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year
Dear Lord. Sometimes I swear I'm really in Bizarro World where everything is totally ass-backwards. Being a complete moron makes you a good leader and not even acknowledging the mistakes you've made qualifies you for the highest job in the land.
This is a guest post by Nathan Nance. Nate is a sports/news clerk at the Waco Tribune-Herald and writer/editor of Common Sense a Texas-based Democratic Web log. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com
Posted by Nathan Nance at December 19, 2004 09:53 AM
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Wasn't Adolf Hitler named Time Man of the Year once for being "influential?"
Remember, it isn't synonymous with "Good Person of the Year"-- Hitler won, Stalin won twice, Khomeini, etc.
But just re-reading that itaclized excerpt-- it sounds like an essay penned by a third-grader who was trying to write what he thought the teacher wanted to read.
I think the hooded figure from Abu Ghraib with his arms outstretched is the real person of the year.
That hooded person did not have any influence on us all -
Look who got elected.
Callers on C-Spans Washington Journal were fun this morning. Those that support GWB were fawning glad that honorable, Christian man of strength and courage won...
And those like me who laughed, or cried or both.
Meanwhile Time Canada has a much more intriguing choice for "Canadian newsmaker of the year":
Who is Maher Arar? We all know the basic contours of his story. In 2002, U.S. officials detained the Canadian software engineer at New York City?s John F. Kennedy International Airport. They alleged that he was linked to al-Qaeda and secretly deported him to Syria, where he says he was tortured.
http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=006
