Is Obama's Time but also the era of Wall Street scammers
Posted by Raju Narisetti on Wednesday, December 17, 2008In what was a predictable pick, here is what Time magazine had to say in naming Barack Obama as its 2008 “Person of the Year”:
“For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME’s Person of the Year.” (Read full package of stories here)
If the criteria is that Time’s “Person of the Year” selection was the “person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year,” this Romantic Realist thinks a more interesting and riskier bet would have been to give it to all the:
The Wall Street scammers.
After all, they have upended the global economy like nothing else has this year.
But I suspect Time will sell a boatload of the year-end issue given how Obama mania will peak through 20 January inauguration in Washington DC when he is sworn-in as the President. And who would buy yet another downer on scandals and resulting economic gloom?
Meanwhile, if we were to pick someone for India’s Person(s) of the Year, would it be a) its cricketers (IPL, Aussie win, England win)? b) the team at ISRO? 3) the UPA for securing the India-US nuclear deal? Or…?
Just wondering.
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just for securing the India-US deal against the wishes of the left, i will give it to the UPA
I know it is not on the list but I would say Ratan Tata because from Singur to JLR to the terorist attacks, so many things went wrong for him this year. And yet the Taj will be reopening this weekend. He raised a city’s hopes when he said they would be defiant and rebuild the hotel to exactly what it was- that is why my uncle and his family, who spent a scary night holed up at the Taj, have booked the same table they were at on 26/11.
Actually, TIME ALWAYS award the person of the year to the President-elect in an election year. So that is their only criterion for choosing Obama as the person of the year. It is just a tradition. (via email)
BY taking a strong and firm take on the Indo-Us nuclear deal and handling pressure from the Left,he has proved his critcs who had given him the appellation of a “puppet”He is surely the 2008 person of the year!!!