Time loves going left with this issue, but the magazine says that the controversial figure elected by President Obama who basically steers the United States’ ailing economy is the person that had the most effect on our lives this year. Here were the runners up:
2. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Stengel told TODAY’s Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira that McChrystal came “very close” to usurping Bernanke’s Person of the Year cover: “He really was the prime mover behind the change in Afghanistan strategy.”
3. The Chinese worker — an acknowledgement of an increasingly influential group of people in one of the world’s most powerful economies.
4. Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Speaker of the House.
5. Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
And here’s what Time’s managing editor Richard Stengel had to say about the person who probably should have won the award again, “Obama could be Person of the Year every year, but not this year…”.
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this is the guy that owns our asses, probably 1 of the elite 12 that will eventually have power over the globe!
Slight correction: on the main page, you referred to Bernanke as the man elected by Obama. He was in fact first appointed to the FED by G W Bush, even though Obama chose to keep him for a second term.