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Subscribe to RSSOn Tuesday morning, TIME magazine's short list of eight potential choices for its iconic Person of the Year cover was revealed live on TODAY. The list includes Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!; Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt; Undocumented Americans; Bill and Hillary Clinton; President Barack Obama; Malala Yousafzai, the student activist from Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple; and the Higgs Boson and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.
As it has for the past 85 years, the weekly newsmagazine will select the person (or sometimes group, or thing) that its editors deem had the single greatest impact during the past year, for better or for worse. Last year's choice was The Protester.
Some 5.6 million people have already voted in TIME's reader poll. On Dec. 13, TIME revealed that the winner was Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of North Korea.
Also in the top 10 in TIME's reader poll: funnyman Jon Stewart; Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas; Burmese leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein; New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie, and two choices who also made it onto the magazine's short list: Mohammed Morsi and Undocumented Immigrants.
TIME's official choice will come from this short list of eight, and will be revealed Wednesday morning live on TODAY, on TIME.com, and via TIME's Twitter feed.
Which is your pick?
More from TIME magazine:
- President Obama: 'These Tragedies Must End'
- Malala Yousafzai and why education should in the foreign policy debate
- Apple CEO Tim Cook announces U.S. Mac production, warns: 'Don't bet against us'
- Mohammed Morsi's moment
- The Higgs boson, Fabiola Giannati and the Cathedral of Science
- Marissa Mayer's Wall Street debut sends Yahoo! stock surging
- Bill & Hillary Clinton: What will diplomacy look like in the 21st century?
- Undocumented Americans: Not legal, not leaving
- Slideshow: TIME Persons of the Year 1999-2011
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I can't believe how many people have voted for the President and the Clintons. As much as I adore them both, the represent what is already understood. An America which endures and strives to be better. Just as we always have.
Malala Yousafzai got my vote. Singhandedly she represents the greatest threat to Islamist fundamentalists around the world. Her image. Her voice. Her message heard by tens of millions of Muslim women who took for granted that things would not, could not change for them... at least not for their betterment.
Malala Yousafzai has dramatically altered the balance of thought in the Muslim world and her survival from assassination lends hope where others perceived none.
Malala Yousafzai is definitely my Person of the Year.
i vote for the illegal alien criminal mexicans or what time magazine likes to call "undocumented americans" that scurry across our borders every hour of every day.
I vote for Dawn Hochsprung, for preventing even more lives lost and facing this evil criminal head on. Forget the politicians and forget Obama.
Enough celebrating of these overblown egos. Give it to some real people. The teachers and kids of Sandy Hook. The adults were making a difference and as for the kids, we will never know how the world would have been changed. We can only guess.
My vote is for those lost little souls at Sandy Hook elementary. They never had a chance to shine in this world so we should honor them in every way possible.
The problem is that the list was done and ready for publication before Friday. Maybe Time will rethink it.
TIME magazine is an irrelevant, joke of a joke publication? Undoccumented Americans? really? Will this exclude the millions who committed felony crimes and bog down our jails while we wait for ICE to deport? Obama? really? who has proven his experience as a community organizer accomplishes very little when it comes to organizing our politicians? he can't even influence that group! Clinton? say what? Libya! how about those four americans who asked for help and were left to die. Talk about making the ultimate sacrifice for our country. How about Jaycee Duggard? let's go with an American who showed tenacity. Let's pick a soldier. Let us pick a child. A doctor...I detest TIME magazine.
Lots of Commies on this list, have to go with the young lady who stood up for her beliefs but hey it's Time so they will most likely go with one of the Commies!
The correct word is "Illegal alien" there is no such word as undocumented in our immigration policies.
Undocumented for sure. They elected a President...
If they are undocumented, they are not citizens. And only citizens can vote. Take a civics class.
being a non-citizen never stopped any illegal from voting democrat. you must be high again.
Morsi? Really? A power hungry wannabe dictator? What is Time thinking of?
Perasons of the year: Gun shot victums.
Times Person nof the Year, has become just as irrelevant as is a Nobel Prize is now, ever since The Nobel Committee gave one to Barack Hussein Obama, not for anything he had done mind you, but according to the Nobel Committee, for what he said he was going to do.
Really, really, are Nobel or Time Magazine that hard up for likely candidates ? They (Time and Nobel) have lost any and all respect they may have once enjoyed. They are no longer relevent or applicable. They have both become stand-up comedians one liners.
BTW, I'll bet Obama manages to eke out a win. Maybe Time should consider having Times Liar of the Year. At least Obama could be a straight forward winner in that one.
Your hate has consumed your soul. Stop with the middle name of the President. Everybody knows it. And the President received the Nobel prize for something he did prior to becoming President (and he donated the money to charity). Your hateful comments have defined you as a bitter person. i feel very sorry for you.
Sorry but that is his middle name, remember all you goofy liberals calling President George Bush "dubya" all the time, just call this a little payback, Patty.
And again you're wrong about The Nobel Prize (look it up) mainly because Barack Hussein Obama hadn't ever done anything before he became president. He received the Nobel Prize for exactly what I wrote, something he was going to do. Which, BTW, he should return the prize and the money, as he didn't do as he had promised anyway. Same ole, same ole. Oop's I forgot, he was a Senator who voted "present" 108 times, even then he didn't have the courage to stand up for anything.
He was a community organizer in Chicago and a political activist, period. Barack Hussein Obama has never received a paycheck from a private company, he's never worked. How can you be fifty years old and never have had a real job ? He and Moochelle have lived off of other people all their lives. And you liberal fools went so far as to whine about Ann Romney not working, you're all a joke, at least they earned their money.
I guess you have to continually repeat the President's middle name so you won't forget it. You lost. Get over it and move on. And I still feel sorry for you.
Thanks for your concern. And BTW, I didn't lose anything, so there's nothing to get over, but thanks anyhow.
Many years from now, historians will point to Presient Obama's reelection as a signal event in the United States's transition from a white, male, heterosexual, Chistian, English speaking, exploitive, Eurocentric, moneyed hegemony to a multicultural, diverse society. Our country's greatest challenge is keeping itself going during this huge paradigm shift. The Tea Party's slogan about "taking America back" represents the old paradigm, while President Obama represents the new. To me that is a Person of the Year scenario.
...yes, we even need idiots like Cloverine to meet our "multicultural" goals....
Be careful of what you wish for. The country is collapsing under the weight of government.
Many years from now, I hope this country still exists many years from now. This current occupant of the White House isn't doing anything to encourage our further existance.
Years from now, historicans will point to Obama's administration as the beginning of the collapse of America.
I agree.....he'd fit right in the undocumented alien category
ME.
Person of the Year award has become passe.
I've got one that will piss everyone off:
The Mentally Ill
...after all, the four massacres Obama mentioned on Sunday night were all done by mentally disturbed people who illegally acquired firearms.
Gun control is not the issue, the care & treatment of the mentally handicapped is the bottom line catalysts.
For the love of all that’s holy, don’t conflate mental illness with violent behavior. It is ableist and it is insulting to the millions of people who have mental illnesses who would never do something like shoot a bunch of children and teachers. Mental illness does not equal the lack of human compassion required to commit a crime like this and such designations and finger pointing only contribute to marginalizing the mentally ill more than they already are. Mental illness alone is not a reliable predictor of violent behavior.
...but, you can agree that A) We as a society have failed in the identification & treatment of the mentally ill and B) There are certain diagnosed mental illnesses that DO have dangerous violence behavior as a 'norm' for that illness.
Illegal aliens made the list? Are you kidding me?
Malala Yousafzai - hands down
Second choice is Tyrone S. Woods.
The I don't understand why they are on this list is
1. Mohammed Morsi - Right now Egypt is not stable
2. Undocumented Americans - really?
3. Bill and Hillary? - One doesn't have a job and the other is bad at hers
4. Barack Obama - Still no change in america.
5. Tim Cook - Apple isn't doing that great
Undocumented Americans??? Talk about an oxymoron. They are illegals, and they are not Americans. When they get documented, become citizens, learn english, and contribute to the U.S. like the rest of us, then they can be called Americans.
They are actually a token few "undocumented Americans". These are Americans that illegally crossed into Mexico to run the Law in the USA regarding a crime that they committed but avoiding their court date.
OR you can illegally enter North Korea, Kim's Henchmen will ask why as they torture you. You can say, "I just wanted to be the Time Magazine's Person of Year as an Undocumented American!" I am sure Kim's Henchmen would be so understanding and then release you from the Concentration Camp that is mislabeled as a "country".
nominating the ceo of a company that runs slave labor shops in china where people committing suicide and thus is part of the problem is despicable. The real hero is that little girl who got shot in the head for wanting to go to school. She is the solution and the answer, not dictators or privileged wealthy people or CEOs. The last thing we need is elevate greedy corporate leaders without a conscience to such heights. Obama was just doing his job, so was Hillary. They dont need a medal. The real hero is that girl who without tons of money, unlike Clintons, has worked hard to change things in a country run by the TALIBAN. THAT is heroism. It is easy being a saint in paradise, that is all i have to say to clinton and obama.
and why would illegal immigrants be heroes? I dont fault people for wanting to make a better life for themsleves but heroes? They are a drain on society for the most and their illegal status has all sorts of ramifications. Hardly heroes of the person of the year kind.