Maybe they'll give him the peace prize again to.

Congrats Mr. President. Well deserved. Ive heard the hazmat team is on standby outside of FoxNews hq due to the high volume of heads that are about to explode.

Great news!! And the corporate scum of America were defeated wasting billions in trash ads, that's LOL. The bonus is Boehner gets to walk around like a puppy dog wagging his tail. It can't get any better.

Congrats Mr. President. Well deserved

LOL...You did read where the article stated that being named person of the year is not necessarily an accolade.

So my guess is that President Obama was named because he is the most divisive president ever. Or possibly because he is has campaigned the most, He is still campaigning.

Does anyone actually read time magazine anymore

So my guess is that President Obama was named because he is the most divisive president ever.

If you'd read the article, you'd see your guess is wrong.

Hey Lost? Yes, people DO read Time magazine - over 6 million to be specific. We know that YOU don't because big words are hard for you.

I'm not surprised- The President's re-election win was a major coup for his loyalists (the media) and a major blow to his opposition (the Republicans).

Quite frankly I'm glad that Time didn't choose Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Kim Il Sook(or what ever his name is- new leader of North Korea), or illegal immigrants for that matter.

Laughter in the face of defeat is always the sign of a delusional individual. :)

Big deal. I made the cover in '06.

You have to admit this man has done some wonderful things while in office all under the pressure of waking up every morning with the most problems to deal with of anybody in the world. He deserves these accolades because he embraced this position not out of greed like Bush II and Romney dreamt but out of the duty of performing a service to America. We are emerging from the 2008 recession and will come back stronger than ever. Congratulations!

"the weekly newsmagazine selected the person (or sometimes group, or thing) that its editors deemed had the single greatest impact during the past year, for better or for worse."

No surprise here - Unfortunately, he is also the most divisive President in recent history.

So why did the Democrats win the Presidency?

There are now 47 million families that get free food and cash aid, and they credit the Democrats for 'giving' them that largess. At $550 per month average, that's about $300 Billion per year in 'freebies'.

These families are typically also the ones that get an average of about $440 Billion per year in free health care (Medicaid - that figure comes from Obama's 2013 Budget projections).

That amounts to a total of about $740 Billion per year in 'free benefits' that these 47 million families get each year, which amounts to about 70% of the $1.1 Trillion Deficit.

These people have become dependent upon the government, so they naturally will continue to vote for the Democrats. A cynic might suggest that the Democrats are 'buying votes with taxpayer funds', but of course that would be considered 'heartless towards those in need', or even 'racist'.

In addition, the Democrats keep promising 'Amnesty' for the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country, so the 12 million Hispanics that vote will naturally want to vote overwhelmingly in favor of the Democrats who promise to let their friends and relatives stay here and be eligible to work (competing with legal American workers), as well as getting welfare benefits. Ironically, the Democrats don't actually want to 'pass' Amnesty, because it would remove a valuable campaign tactic that they use over and over.

Since Obama got about 65 million of the 126 million votes in this last election, but won by only about 4 million votes, this huge group of roughly 50 million that has become 'dependent' on the government will form a formidable voting block that will ensure the Democrats maintain power well into the future. So how many of the roughly 50 million families that have become dependent on the government voted for the Democrats for purely selfish reasons (Don't touch my benefits)? If only 4 million of the 50 million voted for continued 'free benefits' from the Democrats, that was enough to ensure a Democratic victory. According to exit polls, Obama won this group by almost 11 million votes.

Ironically, even though these policies by the Democrats will drag down future economic growth, ensure high unemployment, and make everyone 'poorer' - witness the $5,000 (10%) drop in average family income over the last 4 years, this actually helps the Democrats win even more votes because it creates even more people that will become 'dependent on the government'.

All of this comes at a great cost (witness the $740 Billion per year spent on welfare and Medicaid above) and the huge cost to taxpayers of the massively growing Debt (which Obama's Budget projects to increase to $20.379 TRILLION within less than 4 years - even if he gets his 'tax increase on the wealthy'). The Debt was only $9.986 Trillion at the end of fiscal 2008, but is now $16.4 Trillion. But the 50 million that get welfare and free medical care don't really care about that, because they know that 'someone else will have to pay for that' (those who actually pay income taxes).

And of course the Democrats will continue to 'play to their base' by claiming 'the rich don't pay their fair share' (even though they pay over 70% of all income taxes), and the Republicans are 'heartless and racist' for calling for 'entitlement reform'.

12/21/12 is just around the corner...

Actually Skip it's we the ppl with jobs that are dragging all the sorry lazy a-s's with us, and I'm not talking party lines, party lines is what got us in this mess to begin with and we'll stay there as long as ppl keep bickering about who is right and who is wrong.

@skip Nicholson, Oklahoma City

An excellent and appropriate choice. Read it and weep hate-mongers, your backward, bigoted philosophy has been rejected by We the people...as we move this country forward dragging your sorry butts behind us.

Congratulations Mr. President

True that Roy- and now all the groups are wanting payback. The latinos claim to won the election for him and want payback. The unions claim to have won the election for him and want payback. The pot smokers claim to have won the election for him and now want payback. Way to go obots, greedy S O B 's

I think my local dog catcher should have been on the cover. He shows more real compassion for the job he has then Mr. Socialist Obama and his vacations are not on the taxpayers dime. Just goes to show that the gimme gimme I want more free benefits group are growing bigger all the time. Another 2 elections and we will be a one party country and then heaven help us all.

...of course Time loves Obozo....he's fufilling their goal of bankrupting the country to the delight of their editorial board and creating as many ignorant welfare slugs as possible.....good job, BO....

LostInThePineBarrens #1.4 & #1.9~~ President Obama was named due to his deserving, (not devisive) by being the president, who worked for all the people in the best interest of America, while being forced to endure the most hatred, bigotry, racism and evil, espoused against him, by republican, radical, extremist.

Also, you are definitly LOST in the mindset, that has been forced upon you by republican, radical extremist, Rush and fox propaganda channel

Cheetah, quit monkeying around.

Well Skip,

Here you go again...............

weep hate-mongers, your backward, bigoted philosophy has been rejected by We the people...as we move this country forward dragging your sorry butts behind us.

All the sorry butts you "claim to be dragging" are a part of "We the People" too dude. In fact "We the People" represent the other 50% of America. I have a fricken job and pay taxes JUST like you. Just because I don't agree with your opinion makes me a backward bigot? Got any mirrors in your home?? I used to enjoy most of your posts even though I didn't agree with some of it. You have have swallowed too much Koolaid dude. All this name calling and holier than thou finger pointing coming from the "toerant" liberals. What a joke!!!

So glad that Obama is the face of this nation for the next four years.

Of course he is the person of the year - is there a single other name you've spoken more in the last 12 months (aside from those of your family and friends) than his?

I think Charles Manson was Man of the Year also....good company.....

Anderson-656479 "Roy Roy Roy where to begin. Lets see I voted for OBAMA and I have never in my life taken food stamps or medicaid. Obama won by over 6 million in the popular vote so that is a mistake in your comments.And please do a little research. The majority of people receiving food stamps, medicaid and public assistance are from the beloved Red states."

Not true - According to Wikipedia, Obama got 65.6 million votes, and Romney got 60.9 million votes, a different of 4.7 million votes. The majority of people on welfare/medicaid are from strongly Democratic States like California, Illinois and New York - in fact, California, with only about 12% of the U S population, has almost 35% of all welfare cases.

Perhaps it's YOU that needs to do your research.

If you voted for Obama but are not on welfare, all that means is that you are not part of the 11 million net voters who voted for Obama and DO get government 'freebies' like welfare and Medicaid.

The media has their noses so far up Obama's butt this should come as no surprise to anyone. As far as I am concerned, that little girl from Pakistan would have been a far more worthy choice. Unfortunately, she can not bestow and favors on the people making the decision so she lost out. About the only way anyone could say that Obama deserves this would be in the sense that the award is sometimes about negative aspects not positive. Obama has done more to divide this country and promote class warfare than any president in history. His policies have done little to improve the economy while increasing the debt by massive amounts. He has presided over the largest increase in debt, both in dollars and as a percentage of GDP, in history and has little to show for it. He blames the tax cut for the rich that Bush passed for this debt, but the reality is that those cuts represent a very small portion of the budget deficits during his term (less than 3% even by democrat numbers). Obama promises everyone all kinds of added benefits but has no way to pay for them other than by borrowing even more money. He does not care because he will be out of office before the bill comes due. Obama bought the election with handouts that the rest of us, and our grandchildren, and even our great grandchildren will be paying for well into the future.

President Obama deserves the accolade. The majority of people in this country voted for him. TWICE!! You hateful posters on here are sore losers who never understood what the election was all about in the first place! Those of you who think the Republicans should have won, are the very same people Mitt Romney could care less about!! Your party doesn't care about you! It cares about corporate welfare and corporate profits NOT the average family! President Obama cares about the average family. THAT is why he got elected. THAT is why he is person of the year. Get over it.

Also, the majority of people on welfare are in Republican controlled states. The majority of people without healthcare are in Republican controlled states. The states with the highest poverty levels are Republican controlled states. The lowest education rates are in Republican controlled states. Proof of the last statement is the posts I've read here. Too many Fox watchers. Not enough people who can think for themselves!

Hey, Everybody, and I mean Everybody!

Republicans and Teabaggers are now "FLOCKING" to my World-Famous and Award-Winning post #1.37, just ABOVE on this THREAD.

Check it out, it's Post #1.37, just ABOVE.

My post will "Blow your Mind and Knock your Socks" off, it's that good.

Then get Back to Me, and tell me what You think, ok?

Post #1.37, just above.

ps. I can't wait for Obama to Re-enact the Obama "SNITCH-LINE", once again!

We've got to get all GUNS out of the Hands of you white-racist Republicans and crazy-wacko Teabaggers!

Now, don't we?

“He’s basically the beneficiary and the author of a kind of a New America, a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of,” Stengel said

This is one of the most say-nothing, open-ended statements I've read. It doesn't say he did anything. It leaves it open to the reader's opinion. This reader see he stands for un-American ideals and his policies are detrimental to the American people/economy. So he gets to be man of the year for being the worst President ever. Thanks so much Time for showing how unimportant your magazine has become. I know I stopped reading your magazine as it became filled with more Ads than content and when you thought I should provide you with my credit card number so you could renew at your discretion. Sorry Charlie, not your call.

The President of the United States

has served us honorably.

Don't bother- just another koolaid drinker blathering about their messiah.

Nancy-305998~~You may know, that you are not a repub or a teapartier, but you do not have a clue of the facts of what Obama has acted on, and accomplished for America. Obama will go down in history as the greatest, most accomplished president, ever.

A loser magazine had to put a "LOSER" president on it's cover. Obama and his smug ugly face makes me want to puke! Thank goddness I quit reading this rag years ago. Won't get my money.

chuck-2111043 "To Nancy, Lost, Sad, and you other haters. The Debt is from Bush's using the government credit card to much Ie 2 wars not paid for, Tax cuts not paid for"

In spite of what you claim, the fact is that the total Deficits under Bush for his 8 fiscal years in office (2001 - 2008) amounted to only $2.005 Trillion (including the war costs and the tax cut effects). That's an average Deficit of only $251 Billion per year.

For Obama, the Deficits for his first 4 fiscal years (2009 - 2012) are $5.333 Trillion. That's an average Deficit of $1,333 Billion per year - more than 5 times as much as under Bush.

Source - The Obama White House 2013 Budget - Historical Tables - Table 1.1;
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals

Congrats to President Obama.

wb52 #1.43~~George Bush, was also in that company, TWICE! Posting, bigoted comments, will always come back to bite you bigoted haters of Obama.

This is just another sign on the wall... this country is in BAD shape... REALLLLLY BAD SHAPE!!!

if OBUMMER can win man of the year then I Think Hitlers Ghost is going to win the PEACE PRIZE this year... lol

these prizes are so fake now.... the Globalists have their plan... and OBUMMER IS THEIR MOUTH RIGHT NOW...

WEAK SAUCE!

Oh brother, about as deserving as his Nobel Peace Prize - NOT!

Of the three choices shown in the headline of the article - - - What ever happened to: "None of the above?"

For those that claim that Red (Republican States) have the most welfare/Medicaid cases, the N Y Times did an analysis after the 2008 election, and here are the results;

Welfare/Medicaid cases in States won by Obama = 22.235 million (73%).

Welfare/Medicaid cases in States won by McCain = 8.077 million (27%).

Since then, the number of cases in Democratic States has risen dramatically, with total cases increasing from about 30 million in 2008 to about 47 million in 2012.

Here's the link to the study;

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/25/us/20090126-welfare-table.html

As an Independent, speaking from under "ANOTHER" collapsed thread, I say:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

(As long as this is not a loophole out of making "New" Year's Resolutions!)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

RepublicansForObama-6186389

I think your comments are unfounded at best.... So feel free to try again, and in that process try to use articles which use only facts and not hearsay....

Thx....

reading these comments....this my impression..an earlier post stated this current POTUS has been the most divisive POTUS ever.....I think he's not too far off on that statement....their may have been one possibly worse....Johnson ?..Reagan ?..Nixon ?..Bush#2...Clinton.&...Clinton ?.or some other POTUS long before any of us were a cell..so after reading this tripe ?.is it any wonder why the nation is in the shape its in ?..WE as a nation can't agree on anything nor know how to compromise !! most of ya's sound like tikes throwing the toys out of the playpen or another metaphor ..its like 2 one eyed men with seperate agendas leading 2 opposing herds of blind sheeple....pathetic isn't it ?

Ok RepublicansForObama-6186389, I’ll play the guessing game with you.

Let's see...

1. You’re no more a republican than I am, but you’re not an independent either, nor are you conservative by nature.
2. You’re male, of average looks, through slightly overweight, less than 35 years old, and you don’t spend much time at a gym or outdoors.
3. In your school years, you went to a public school in a metropolitan area, did not excel in math or literature, did not take chemistry, never participated as a member of a school debate team, and did not graduate with honors. Your interest in history is not acedemic, and limited to internet postings leaving you with little knowledge of world history before the 1960s, and little of that.
4. You do not personally know anyone who is, or ever was a Tea Party Member. You do not own a rifle, a pistol, or a shotgun, have never hunted, do not own a pickup or a motorcycle, have never lived on, or worked on a farm, and do not currently work in any of the building trades as an apprentice or a journeyman.
5. I’m guessing you do not hold a Bachelors degree in anything, though this guess is a stretch given today’s colleges. But you may have attended
   college at some point in your life, or thought about it; and you may have even graduated from one of the local community colleges near where you live or lived. But you do not have a Bachelors degree in engineering, accounting, economics, law, or any of the medical fields or physical sciences. Writing has never been your strong point.
6. You are employed, and make less than $35,000.00 per year, and your work does not involve heavy physical labor outdoors, operating heavy machinery, or developing computer software systems, and you do not own a business employing other people.
7. You still live in the same state you were born in, but it’s not Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Washington, Oregon, Montana, either of the Dakotas, Colorado, Vermont, Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, or Kentucky, and you have
   never travelled or lived overseas.
8. You’ve never served in the military, and no one in your immediate family has ever served in combat, or has been stabbed or shot and killed in your lifetime.
9. You’ve never voted in a presidential election more than twice.
10. You’ve never read the Patriot Act, the articles of the Geneva Convention, or the works or Karl Marx. You’ve never mailed a letter to a congressional representative, cannot name the countries that made up Yugoslavia without looking them up, and do not know the major provinces being targeted by drones in Pakistan, or who is operating them. You do know which President has unleashed the most drones on Pakistan’s civil population, accumulating the highest body count, including the largest number of children killed, but you do not accept it.
11. You’re a big fan of pizza, computer games, and beer. You like to spend time talking with your friends, but they tend to shun you and your views, which bothers you because you truly believe you really do understand the
    world much better than they do.
12. You do not speak any other language than English, and you are White.

How did I do?

@Roy Wilson. I was not going to respond but I had to say something. You tried to correct someone by saying, "perhaps its You that needs to do your research". Roy, it is YOU that needs to do your research, anyone with a College Degree or any type of knowledge knows that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. If you wrote a paper and credited wikipedia as one of your sources you would get a Zero on that paper. I can go on there right now and say that Romney won by a Billion votes and people would believe it. Please find a reliable source before you post so called "facts".

LOL, the RWNJ's ARE losing their minds!

I enjoyed reading all the collapsed posts and seeing what sore losers the GOP/TP are and how many people give Time Magazine the thumbs up for its awesome selection for Person of the Year.

Not only is President one of the most admired people in the world, he is loved by millions here in America. It feels good to have a strong and wise leader.

I have been voting since the Carter years, and I can vouch that President Obama is the greatest President we have had in my lifetime.

Hitler made the cover. Why not Obama?

also a correct choice.

I think it should have been the principal of Sandy Hook Elem School, hands down. Not even close. What were they thinking?

Sending in cancellation notice for my subscription. Maybe 12-21-12 will put us out of our misery.

Obummer has done NOTHING for America. He has increased RACISM, doubled the black male unemployment rate, there is a 40% increase in black households headed by one parent. 75% of the prisoners in jails are black. Black crime on blacks is well over 80%. Obummer refuses to raise the level of education in the U.S., refuses to remove the illegal immigrants. Entitilement programs at an all time high. Obummer signed free trade agreements with Australia, New Zealand and South Korea exporting hundreds of thousands more jobs.

Now he has authorized the Department of Interior to spend upwards of $700,000 to correct 47 letters on a poorly constructed monument but to whom else but MLK!

Blacks voted by color to the tune of 95% for Obummer. His margin of victory was less than 4.7 million votes. You take away the 15,700,000 black votes or split them fairly and Obummer would have lost by a landslide.

Whenever I see a vote 95% for someone, I see a South American dictator or voter fraud or a racist rigged vote count.

Well chosen, totally agree. President Obama is a great individual, and history will bear that out.

yep, he's right up there with all the great socialists of history. Men of the year, Hitler, Stalin, Ayatollah Koeimani, Putin, and now Obama,. You do realize people don't actually read Time Magazine anymore???

Time for another "Nobel Peace Prize". //sarcasm//

IT's a stupid choice were these people making this decision drunk!!! Time magazine is going to go the way that Nesweek and other magazines that really have no value go!!!

Mark, you apparently wouldn't know a socialist even if they introduced themselves.

ROFL - OBUMMER HAS WON THIS 2 TIMES!

George Bush won this 2 times also...

and Benji Bernaci (sp?) also won...

This magazine doesn't mean ANYTHING...

They just try to indoctrinate you sheeple into thinking these TOOLS are important...

WEAK SAUCE!

Marks1 #2.6~~Yep, Obama is right up there with G W Bush also!

@Marks: Reagan, Bush1 & 2 (he made it twice) make the cover of Time. Do we have to put them in the same category of the others????

creative, because this CLOWN doesnt deserve it, what a liberal rag, hope they go belly up. last time I read it

Obama, although valid to be in the running, was not the clear choice. I'm against politicians, celebrities or CEOs from being chosen because they are doing what they do, and little else. I would prefer people with true courage, that step outside the boundaries of their lives, and go above and beyond just being themselves. Oh well, no accounting for the people of Time and how they sort of think.

Why obama??He is turning this into a comunist country.He is no good,you will all see,when it's too late!

For those that claim that Red (Republican States) have the most welfare/Medicaid cases, the N Y Times did an analysis after the 2008 election, and here are the results;

Welfare/Medicaid cases in States won by Obama = 22.235 million (73%).

Welfare/Medicaid cases in States won by McCain = 8.077 million (27%).

Since then, the number of cases in Democratic States has risen dramatically, with total cases increasing from about 30 million in 2008 to about 47 million in 2012.

Here's the link to the study;

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/25/us/20090126-welfare-table.html

Malala should have won.

But Obama was better than his illegal aliens.

So why did the Democrats win the Presidency?

There are now 47 million families that get free food and cash aid, and they credit the Democrats for 'giving' them that largess. At $550 per month average, that's about $300 Billion per year in 'freebies'.

These families are typically also the ones that get an average of about $440 Billion per year in free health care (Medicaid - that figure comes from Obama's 2013 Budget projections).

That amounts to a total of about $740 Billion per year in 'free benefits' that these 47 million families get each year, which amounts to about 70% of the $1.1 Trillion Deficit.

These people have become dependent upon the government, so they naturally will continue to vote for the Democrats. A cynic might suggest that the Democrats are 'buying votes with taxpayer funds', but of course that would be considered 'heartless towards those in need', or even 'racist'.

In addition, the Democrats keep promising 'Amnesty' for the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country, so the 12 million Hispanics that vote will naturally want to vote overwhelmingly in favor of the Democrats who promise to let their friends and relatives stay here and be eligible to work (competing with legal American workers), as well as getting welfare benefits. Ironically, the Democrats don't actually want to 'pass' Amnesty, because it would remove a valuable campaign tactic that they use over and over.

Since Obama got about 65 million of the 126 million votes in this last election, but won by only about 4 million votes, this huge group of roughly 50 million that has become 'dependent' on the government will form a formidable voting block that will ensure the Democrats maintain power well into the future. So how many of the roughly 50 million families that have become dependent on the government voted for the Democrats for purely selfish reasons (Don't touch my benefits)? If only 4 million of the 50 million voted for continued 'free benefits' from the Democrats, that was enough to ensure a Democratic victory. According to exit polls, Obama won this group by almost 11 million votes.

Ironically, even though these policies by the Democrats will drag down future economic growth, ensure high unemployment, and make everyone 'poorer' - witness the $5,000 (10%) drop in average family income over the last 4 years, this actually helps the Democrats win even more votes because it creates even more people that will become 'dependent on the government'.

All of this comes at a great cost (witness the $740 Billion per year spent on welfare and Medicaid above) and the huge cost to taxpayers of the massively growing Debt (which Obama's Budget projects to increase to $20.379 TRILLION within less than 4 years - even if he gets his 'tax increase on the wealthy'). The Debt was only $9.986 Trillion at the end of fiscal 2008, but is now $16.4 Trillion. But the 50 million that get welfare and free medical care don't really care about that, because they know that 'someone else will have to pay for that' (those who actually pay income taxes).

And of course the Democrats will continue to 'play to their base' by claiming 'the rich don't pay their fair share' (even though they pay over 70% of all income taxes), and the Republicans are 'heartless and racist' for calling for 'entitlement reform'.

While Obama won the Presidency, he did it by turning Americans against each other - The people against the 'rich' (Class/Envy Warfare), Single women against men (War on Women). The people against Business (The War on Corporations). Racial politics (Minorities against Whites - it was no coincidence that articles about how Americans have become more 'racist' in the last 4 years came out just before the election - A).

The politics of division may help win elections, but it will not make us come together as a Nation.

A - Interestingly, studies have shown much more racial animosity by minorities against Whites than vice-versa. The results of the last election bear this out - with minorites voting against Romney by about a 80% to 20% margin.

Here are the average Unemployment Rates among recent Presidents;

Bush 1 - 6.28%

Clinton - 5.20%

Bush 2 - 5.33%

Obama - 9.10% (thru 2011).

Perhaps his 'War on Business' isn't working out so well for those seeking a job. It's no coincidence that there was a record 81,000 pages of new anti-business regulations in Obama's first year in office (2009). Perhaps that has something to do with the persistent high Unemployment Rate and slow job growth.

Oh, pleeeeze! This president has driven this country into moral bankruptcy and for this he is given the honor of Person of the Year?? What a backward world!!

Soon as I saw the title to this article I knew it would suck in a bunch of Obama hating trolls with their fox news talking points.

Obama blah blah socialists, Obama blah blah country down the drain. Just think guys, only 4 more years and you can start whining about President Hillary Clinton.

lol @ Roy. Nice spin on Dubya's unemployment rates. I guess the rates that resulted from the Bush recession were a result of Obama's policies in your weird little world, eh?

Samantha, what exactly has Obama done to drive us into "moral bankruptcy?"

jeff,

Would prefer Hillary over the current clown any day of the year. And this is from an independent.

Correct choice? WHY????????????????????????

Pigotry, you are a, well a PIG.

hockeymom1111, the magazine was already sent to printing when the tragedy happened. You don't receive the magazine in the mail do you? If you did then you would know this!! *rolling eyes*

ROY WILSON-336103, do your homework! The highest the unemployment rate was at 7.3% under GWB. Since Obama cannot enact things to turn it around when he was first sworn into office, the unemployment rate went to 10% just 9 months later. That is not enough time to make significant changes. However, by the end of 2009 the unemployment rate dropped to 9.9%. The end of 2010 the unemployment rate dropped 9.4% and the end of 2011 the rate dropped to 8.5%. And guess what?? As of November 2012 the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7%!!! Now it was under GWB that the economy began to collapse...do you need a financial history lesson on our economy?? Hear is a reminder...housing bubble and financial banks!!

Check the Bureau of Labor Statics Data, ROY WILSON-336103!! This website might help you because I don't know where you get your data from because it is wrong!

Just because he's on the cover doesn't mean Comrade Obambam's a hero, Julieann. Hitler was Time's Man of the Year, too. The 27 that died are heros and should be reconized as such.

Well, one thing needs to be said: TIME never was known for good taste.

roy,

you have a skewed idea of reality. why don't you just admit that you hate the president and no matter what he were to do you would take the opposite stance. maybe the women and minorities and working class americans turned to obama because the republicans sold their collective souls to big business and the radical religious right more than a decade ago. i was a republican for more than 25 years, voting straight ticket all the way, until the christian coalition came along in the 90s and decided they were going to dictate to the republicans how they would vote. AND then the republicans in congress signed their allegiance to us, the people, away to a lobbyist grover norquist. a lobbyist!!! one man who said that he didn't care who was in the white house, they, meaning big business just needed a body that would sign the legislation that they wanted. only now, after seeing that this allegiance isn't winning them any votes, have some republicans refused to sign his demand never to raise taxes. believe me, he and his overlords don't care about you. if they did, people would be making enough income to live on and we wouldn't be talking about people living off the government.

you talked about all those people who are living off the government like leeches. well, i wonder how many of those leeches are the elderly who have nothing more to live on than social security. have you looked into lately how much the average recipient gets? it's around $1400 a month. my mother only gets $1200. she wouldn't be getting that if she hadn't been married to my dad because my mother never worked! she wasn't lazy, good for nothing leech, she was disabled...her entire adult life. in your world she would be dead. thank god, your world doesn't exist. my mother is a better christian than most of you out there...and she's a buddhist.

and what about all the people doing the low end work in this country? you have people waiting on you all day long...at the restaurant, at the grocery store, at the department store, cleaning your stinky sheets after your hotel stay, bringing in the harvest of the food you eat (despite ring wing rhetoric, not all field workers are illegal). we're ALWAYS going to need these low end jobs filled. and yet, the companies that run these businesses refuse to pay their employees enough money to live on. a spokeswoman for walmart proudly announced a while back on tv that their employees make on the average $12 an hour! she was proud of that! are you kidding me? you try living on $12 an hour. you might, if you work, your wife works and your kids work. and don't say that these people aren't working hard enough and aren't trying hard enough to get ahead. someone will ALWAYS be needed for these jobs. so we penalize them, call them names and insult them? you try being a grocery clerk for awhile. it's not easy. i know, that's what i do. but, you see, i'm one of the lucky ones. i belong to a union so i make a decent wage. it still isn't enough to live on, but with my retirement i make it. i'm not old enough for social security, but when i am, you bet i'm going to take it. i'ts my money. i put it there, i earned it. the american worker is worth more than slave labor.

if you want people to stop feeding off the government, maybe you should be demanding that businesses like walmart, that made billions in profit last year, pay their employees higher wages. can't you see that these companies are allowing YOU to foot the bill for those less fortunate than you, while they pocket the profit and move it to off shore accounts to keep from paying taxes. you pick on the honest, hard working americans and accuse them of being losers, but the truth is, it's big businesses that are keeping us down by refusing to keep wages up with the cost of living. the company i work for made $584million in net profit last year. they made so much that they were able to give $68million to charity. now, if they had given their employee another $68million some of my fellow employees who work just as hard as i do, would not have to be on public assistance because their job description means they will never make as much as me. walmart made billions in profit and yet they can't pay their employees a living wage? and it's the employees fault?

you live in bizarro world, my friend and i know everything i have just said will fall on deaf ears, because there is not a man so blind as he who will not see. and i believe you can't see past your personal hatred for one man. i would say i feel sorry for you...but i don't.

oh the green eyed monsters are out today. No matter what anyone might say about Obama, you are wrong. Communist, wrong. I know communisum and he is not, as a matter of fact some republicans with their over the top conservatisum are more communist with their not wanting certain personal freedoms we should have. Some of you complain about all the wrong he has done, but none of the good things, he has done more good than Bush ever did, that no good for nothing put America on the brink of ruin. Obama is bringing us back. Oh and by the way Obama has deported more illegals than any other president and that is a fact.

Great choice! President Obama is the only choice! Why? I believe in him. I believe he will continue to get the United States on the correct path for growing the jobs market, education, economically, global warming, health care (especially mental illness) and gun control. More than 50 % of Americans who can vote, opted to have President Obama, continue his quest, to stabilize our country. After his term, I know President Obama will continue to be a powerful asset for the United States.

TIME............ YOU HAVE DONE YOURSELF PROUD!

I need to subscribe to TIME, again!

YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!! He is a idiot!!!!! And everyone who believes in him or voted for him are too!!!!!

Last time I buy a Time!!!!!

Didn't even have to read most of the posters' comments. This is Laughable!

Why not RI's govenor Chaffee? Today I needed a good laugh. Obama couldn't be the best man in an all girl chorus, never mind the man of the year. Just wrap another peace medal around his neck. "Awards" like this are why nobody reads Time crap anymore. Switch over to FHM. At least there's something ther to admire.

This will sure make Chris Matthews happy!

I would handle his copy with gloves though, if you know what I mean.

Why so much jealousy and what difference does it make to anyone here? I think Obama is a good choice because of global impact in many different ways.

Emotionally, I would've like seen the child Malala who fought for years for education in her country risking her life against the Taliban. I think she had a global impact as a role model for many.

So was Bush, man of the year, ha ha ha to you. And yes I do whistle to Obama's tune and I bet you still praise and whistle to Bush tune, while I would go with Obama any day before the man who brought America to it's Knees, that little man Bush.

To ObamaWhistles,

I imagine it is not very fun being you.

oh yes it is, on election day 11/6/12 I was happy happy happy and still am. Republicans are the ones that aren't happy and will never be if they don't change their old outdated way. First of all get rid of those teabaggers and send them back to where they belong, to the 18th century.

jeanette, post is below is soooooo gross, if it takes so little for you to do something gross like that, I wonder what happens to you when you look at someone like Romney who is so obviously such a dishonorable man, who has tried for the Presidency 3 times and failed all 3 times, doesn't surprise me.

So who do you think had a greater impact?

He's like the Kardasians, just fame for the sake of fame. Nothing to do with any achievements that have had a positive impact.

So, Trevor you think his reelection is going to have no impact good or bad?

@ Trevor: Seriously? Are you high?

It's a Democracy. Majority rules. Where else but in America?

Hey Jeannie? You make me throw up a LOT.

Jeanette..throwing up?...are you sure it's not morning sickness?

Actually, we live in a Republic. A Republic and a Democracy have some pointed differences...I wish you democrats would learn more about those differences. The Majority doesn't always rule--there are certain rights that citizens have that cannot be overridden by a mere majority.

Our idiot president is allowed to ignore this fact and breaks the laws of the land repeatedly because he knows his majority has no interest in learning about the form of government that we have in place. If people like you would learn more about our form of government then it would become a lot harder for guys like obama to get elected in the first place.

Great posting, snake09! POTUS Obama truly deserved it.

Especially after puting up with the psycho-type BS from the repuliturds, pathetic neo-nuts, NRA gun-goobers, birther idiots, Nazi-types, lying haters, and every type of right-wingnut political loon in America.

Excellent and the absolute best choice by Time magazine! Again...!

*sigh* Some general responses to the idiocy spewing from the true sheeple, the Foxindoctrinated.

Here's the thing:

Someone stated Obama was the most divisive president in the history of America. One other Republican President pops to mind immediately and he went by the name Lincoln. Others that come to mind have names like Jefferson, Washington, Roosevelt (both), Kennedy, Nixon and... oh wait... Dubya. The list is extensive, actually, considering how few Presidents our republic has had.

One man's divisiveness is another man's march forward toward progress or backward toward failed policies. (Trickle down what? Voodoo who?)

Some other self-impressed Conservative wanted to lecture Democrats on the differences between our Republic and a Democracy, citing the fact that our Republic has protections built in to protect the minority from the majority. Now, I don't want to go off on a rant here, but NeoCons only bring that argument up when, well, they're in the minority.

Otherwise they seem more than happy to stomp on the rights of the minority group of the day. Heh, if that weren't the case, the Supreme Court wouldn't be looking at the silliness that is DOMA and the repeal to much of the Civil Rights Act. Oh, and back-dooring intrusive ultrasound reg's on women thinking about abortion and the list goes on.

Also, the only Laws Obama has trampled over are those tried and true GOP standards like warrant-less wiretaps, CIA driven drone warfare, rendition without representation... good ol' RepubliHawk causes. Unless you want to cite some fantasy Executive Decisions, I'd say Obama played far too nice and within the spirit of bipartisanship with an opposition that put personal enmity before the good of the country!

As for silly little Jeanette and her gag reaction over Obama being named Times Person of the Year.... consider this, he WON with over a half billion dollars of dark money arrayed against him, every right wing moderate and nutcase calling for and predicting his downfall, and the Tea Party all but calling him the "N" word whenever they could. He won. Consider this the consolation prize and go sit down, eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's and deal with it.

Hey Jeanette, don't choke on your puck, save for the next time the wacky teaparty comes up for election. And to Diane from IL, I find it funny how you are so quick to point out what Obama did not do for IL, what about Congress, the do nothing Republican party, the filibuster party, the Grover Norquist pledge party, and now they are about to run us off a cliff. At least Obama is creating jobs, our economy is coming back(might I add with no help from the right). Maybe before spouting off check the facts, oh that's right you watch Faux.

@Laura I'm not a repub or dem, but what makes you think it's the gov'ts job to create jobs? In a true democracy it's the ppl's responsibilities to create jobs not the gov'ts, the gov't is meant to be an overseers so too speak, making sure fair business practices are enforced. This is one of the problems I have with our system, our politicians make it harder and harder for citizens to form their own business, and we as a ppl have forced to many single family business's out of business with this sue happy culture we live in, I can't even imagine what it must cost to insure a business these days and have a lawyer on retainer.

I don't know how many times I have to say it, but the more you let big gov't in, the more they control your life, and maybe you all want it that way, but I know I can run my life just fine with out uncle sam looking over my shoulder. I think we as a country have lost that hard edge that our great grandparents who fought for freedom in WW1/WW2 had, they didn't take crap from nobody and they worked and fought for every penny they earned, not hard to see how that is changed these days, our politicians sold us out for money in their own pockets while stealing from yours.

And these are the same ppl you want to do business with or create jobs that they run, they couldn't balance a 10,000 checkbook, much less the billions they are trying to do now.

This is why I quit reading Time, they have become a joke. Why not make someone the person of the year that has done something good rather then name someone who went out to divide this country knowing that was the only chance of winning the election because his record sure could not. How about naming someone person of the year that took a business and made something out of nothing rather then naming the president who presided over the largest debt in the history of this nation taken out in a four year period. This man get the Nobel Prize for doing nothing but based on the hopes that were never fulfilled.

This is not hating just reality. We need to lift our eyes towards a higher prize then what people today are thinking is a sign of greatness.

Jeanette--Please...you have never bought a Time Magazine. Never read a word.

Peridot6000 Who said I would soil my hands touching Time magazine?

Well said Independant Jon! I bet 80% of more of Americans don't know the difference. I have heard countless number of times people referring to the US as a democracy. Just makes you realize how many stupid people there really are.

The Times didn't do it. It was a mjority vote from people like yourself. Did you vote and do you believe in Democracy?

I did vote and I believe in Democracy but we both lost

Maybe if we cut education some more people will learn we aren't a democracy.

Louis from Col.'s quote "The Times didn't do it. It was a mjority vote from people like yourself. Did you vote and do you believe in Democracy?"

No Louis I believe in a Constitutional Republic like America where mob rule (democracy) doesn't trump my rights that are innate within the Constitution, where individual freedoms are not taken away via the popular will of the people (idiots of America). I assume you were taught by a history teacher that was a little lacking in basic knowledge, eh?

@JCBwhatever:

I keep hearing this and maybe because I live in reality and not a DisneyChannel sitcom I don't get it... but what rights, what freedoms have you lot from the Right actually lost? You show up to political rally's armed, you can call the president all sorts of names, walk the line on actual federal crimes threatening the commander-in-chief, run FoxPropaganda 24/7.... Jackboots are not kicking down the doors of Evangelical Snakekissing nut jobs and you can run candidates like Angle, West, O'Donnel, et al...

So what constitutional freedoms have you lost?

…and JCB which party wants to do away with the Department of Education? Oh thats right the Reps. The dumber they are the more they fall for the BS sprouting out of the mouths of Rush, Fox, etc. The Rep. party believes in the stupid vote. They just can't get either coast to fall for that garbage. We in the Northeast pride ourselves on the best education systems in the USA. As long as we are producing intelligent thoughtful people perhaps we can prevent the Reps. party of hate and loathing from being relavent.

Louis, try again, we didn't vote it. The staff at Time picks the Person of the Year. In the TODAY poll, the article said the pakistani girl narrowly defeated Obama. The article even says the editors and staff pick the PotY.

Anderson-656479

"…and JCB which party wants to do away with the Department of Education? Oh that's right the Reps. The dumber they are the more they fall for the BS sprouting out of the mouths of Rush, Fox, etc. The Rep. party believes in the stupid vote. They just can't get either coast to fall for that garbage. We in the Northeast pride ourselves on the best education systems in the USA. As long as we are producing intelligent thoughtful people perhaps we can prevent the Reps. party of hate and loathing from being relavent."

Anderson, get back on your meds, you need them. The Dept. of Education, the poster child of failure. I despise Rush, and I watch the PBS news hour if I watch news. You Sir appear to me to be full of hate toward others whom you have zero idea about what at all "they think". The Education in this country is pathetic, we spend more per person than any western country but Austria, and we get crap for our money. My sister MBA/PHD is a professor at a major NYC University, and says without equivocation that today's junior in college was a 12th grader in the 70's, we have raised two generations of entitled idiots, and you think the northeast is producing "intelligent thoughtful" beings, your a fool. Hell, they can't even produce a 3 page single spaced layout of a business plan as a senior in college and being business majors. To look at some of her students "supposed work" is mind-blowing, they are inept at putting their ideas on paper Anderson, and please use spell check because you can't spell.

Morpheus's quote "

@JCBwhatever:

I keep hearing this and maybe because I live in reality and not a DisneyChannel sitcom I don't get it... but what rights, what freedoms have you lot from the Right actually lost? You show up to political rally's armed, you can call the president all sorts of names, walk the line on actual federal crimes threatening the commander-in-chief, run FoxPropaganda 24/7.... Jackboots are not kicking down the doors of Evangelical Snakekissing nut jobs and you can run candidates like Angle, West, O'Donnel, et al...

So what constitutional freedoms have you lost?"

Are you just crazy or are you just a nutcase. Who in the hell are you talking about? "armed" at political rallies? Hello.... Jackboots? My point is in fact with a democracy the majority can take away rights from the minority through simply having more votes. A democracy is nothing but mob rule, and I don't watch Fox anything. You liberals are always the first to call others names, but I'm an independent not a conservative anything, probably more social liberal than you are. The fact remains we as a country are in serious trouble, the numbers don't add up, and they never did. You best start hoping for "real change" because the road we are on is not sustainable. Start using spell check OK, you can't spell anything right, know it all.

And you sir should follow your on advice and spell check as well as check your syntax.

Anderson-656479---As long as you are producing mindless followers in the NorthEast as you put it. Do you have really good education programs or indoctrination programs. Your argument you produce people tells me what you are all about, you describe all of the people as thoughtful, and caring. I think you are the one listening Fox and Rush, I certainly do not or I would not be on this site. As far as Obama being what ever of the year it also includes his new America. I kind of like the old one where however many had disagreements, there was room for all views not one where one side thinks they are smarter than the other so they should be right. I have met some very smart people who never finished high school.

JCB: Glenn Beck much? ;) I love how when a democratic system doesn't go your way, suddenly it's not desirable.

You probably never subscribe. Too ignorant.

What wonderful news! Congratulations, Mr. President!

Pedestrians in SF's quote "JCB: Glenn Beck much? ;) I love how when a democratic system doesn't go your way, suddenly it's not desirable."

Your dumb as dirt. We do not live in a "democratic system", and we never have buffoon. We live in a Constitutional Republic ruled by laws, not votes. My god, we are a nation of complete idiots!! Glenn Beck is crazy as hell, and as dumb as you are.

Are you cancelling out Democracy,where the majority rules?

Majority Rules. That went out the window a long time ago.

@fishing...Couldn't agree with you more. It's now "Minority Rules" and screw the Majority!

Oh Louis, here you go again "Are you cancelling out Democracy,where the majority rules?"

No Lewis the "majority" doesn't rule, the LAW rules. If it were up to the majority black people would still be sitting in the back of the bus my friend. We are a "Republic" dude, and thank God we are, so the "majority" like you can't take away my rights. "never underestimate the stupidity of the American public" This President sure didn't, and that's why he got re-elected. Promises, promises. American dreamers, as we hit the wall.

sureeeeeeee

Who did the republicons have that they think should have been on the cover?

1. Romney, who lost to Palin and Mccain, who lost to President Obama.

2. Romney who was last last choice left for repubs after Pawlenty, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum,....who lost to President Obama....

3. Ly'in Ryan caught ly'in as much as Romney.....

4. Rove ..who tried to fix the elections with computor voter changes in Ohio that was found out and stopped.

5. Rove and ALEC who tried to rig the election with voter suppression laws all over the nation and then had repubs caught with voter fraud, hired by GOP to change voter registrations.

6.Norquist, who failed America with his Norquist pledge to make American economy fail by not raising any taxes to keep the economy in a tailspin....

7. All republican politicians, taking the pledge to vote against America to try and make President Obama appear to fail fixing the economy.

If Time gave out award to worst enemy of the United States....any one of the 7 points above people could win.

very few read Time anymore, and this is one of the reasons why.

I have an idea starsailing how about the teachers at Sandy Brook Elementary School? That's an example of a true hero. Not Comrade Obambam.

StarSailing, Time person of the year doesn't necessarily have to be a politician you asshat....How about the 4 who died in Benghazi?? You do know that it isn't always a positive to be named person of the year??

starsailing

I have a better idea how about 27 people in CT.

Irv..I could agree with that..but too late to get print in production......Robbie chickie baby.!.....It's always a positive person when Democrat...turns out negative when rt winger only......So you have it half .....righty.

So all those embassy people killed under Bush in his 8 years should have been on the cover of Time righty?

So Robbie....All of the troops who died in Iraq because of Bush/Cheney WMD lies...should be on the cover of Time...righty?

I agree Irvmani. There's a difference between dying in battle and dying at the hands of a derange killer, starsailing. Men and women who sign up for the military know going in that they may go to war and may not come back. Parents in Conn sent their kids to school not knowing they would never see them again.

Denise......going to war under a lie.WMD etc......just to give Haliburton war profits, Big Oil the oil fields, and Bush's own reason"I want to be known as a war president, because war presidents are remembered"........Is not what any soldier signs up for...I certainly didn't sign up for any of those reasons. Ask the dead from Iraq war if they did...oh wait...you can't can you? Robbie...can you...You started the conversation with your Fox news Bend over rant!

The death of these innocent children may bring about safer laws and practices that may save many more lives in the future.....not a justifiable cause...but consolation that actions may make things more safe.

Do I sense bitterness starsailing? Spout it somewhere else. What about Benghazi? We gave the abassador to France protection yet the ambassador to Libya didn't have any. Why? NBC News just reported that 3 people resigned over the Benghazi fiasco. If Comrade Obambam didn't do anything wrong then why are they resigning? You can't have safer gun laws until you get the assault rifles off the street and you can't do that because the NRA is too big to allow it.

Aww star....You're so sweet...All your little nicknames for me...Your argument is confusing..So you equate a war that was signed off on by your party to a fuc*ed up ahole that brutally murdered little children and still think that Obama should be "person of the year"....

And when I signed up I KNEW there'd be a chance of me going to war..And I did...And I saw all these Doctors in the reserve piss and moan because, gee I'm just a reservist"...

Yes YOU probably signed up for free schooling and to stay out of jail....But kudos for you for not flunking out of basic....

And ahh yes...When confronted because you're a dimwit always bring up Fox News....(psst..I hate Fox news, think Rush is a tool most of the time, O'Reilly is an idiot, think Olberman is/was a pompous blowhard, Chris Mathews is an ass...and so on...) so thanks for playing the game of life...You lose...again.....

Like totally

Are you spoon fed?

A spoon? About with your own foot! lmao!!!

I HATE disrespect. This is not what we should be teaching our children! Why do you think there are young kids out killing babies!!!!!!!! Think about it! Additionally, what do you think other countries are thinking about Americans that do not respect the Commander in Chief in the greatest country in the world. Especially when the world thinks we have a good President. You all are sickening!

Yes LH...We shall teach our children to like everyone and everything..And to equate someone not liking someone or something as the reason people are killing babies is assinine..And why don't you practice what you preach?? You demand that everyone respect the same as you, but call people names when they don't.....

Naw you aren't full of hypocrisy....

There are kids killing kids, LH because their mothers, knowing they have a mental illlness, teach them to shoot assault rifles! You can't even own a gun legally if you have any kind of mental illness. What kind of mother teaches her mentally deranged kid to shoot a assault rifle?!.

Rob, you look like a child yourself. Should you even be up this late?

psychoannie, i agree. Most of 'thinking' people see reality. The man has escaped every bad decision by way of leaving or excusing. "TIME" doesn't reflect any view I have of what America should be.

That's Comrade Obambam's answer to everything. Leave the country. Let the taxpayers pick up the tab. Ever hear of Camp David Comerade Obambam?

So let me see if i understand this. Psychoannie thinks they don't have Christmas in Hawaii. And Denise, who makes up the funny communist references, thinks that Hawaii is not part of the country.

You Obama haters and name callers are known to be mindless. But you don't do a very good job of winning elections do you? Why is that? Oh, I know, there just aren't very many of you wackos around.

Surely you jest...or perhaps meant "undeserving"

Trivia question: What does Pres. Obama have in common with Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore?? How sad!!!!

prove it

He was being sarcastic.

President Obama is the greatest President since FDR. No doubt about it.

You mean like take out Osama Bin Laden? You know, the man who killed thousands on 9/11?

He didn;t yake out Bin Laden...and the men that actually did woulde have been the better honorees. He would be hiding behind women and children...

Wow...You mean Barack Obama went over to Pakistan and took his rifle and shot Osama bin Laden...I thought Seal Team 6 did that, Barack Obama did nothing more than give the go ahead order, It was a 50/50 proposition, He knew if he said no and people found out it would ruin him so his only choice was to say yes.

and President BUSH said "I don't really care about Osama".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

President Obama combined with our Navy Seal team, and all of the intelligence from Bush's administration and beyond is what took Osama OUT. It doesn't matter who you think did it or not, what matters is the single biggest threat to our freedom is GONE.

lost,

so seal team six killed bin laden on their own? When I was in the military they had a few names for that type of action.

ItsAboutTime-3704531

Are you joking? You don't think they just replaced him with another blood sucking murderer who's waiting it out for his time on the world stage? Give me a break, clueless just like TIME. Time person of the year, what a freakin' joke.

Barack Obama did nothing more than give the go ahead order, It was a 50/50 proposition, He knew if he said no and people found out it would ruin him so his only choice was to say yes.

Remember that he also had the letter drafted and ready blaming the military if it went bad, too.

Wow. I must have missed the part in my comment where I stated "The War on Terror" was over. Hmm.. Thank you so much for pointing that out. My bad....

I love it when someone "who still can't get over the fact that OBAMA WON" continues to whine and cry about it.

P.S. The second biggest threat to our freedom LOST in November.

ItsAboutTime-3704531

The war on terror was never over even when they killed him, no matter how much you'd like to claim Obama is your hero. Ooooh Obama's so special..I guess the years searching for him before the village idiot came aboard account for nothing? Oh right, they just happened to find him because Obama is president, I get it now. If you ask me, he's a lucky bast***, right place, right time.. got his herd to re-elect him...no skill required on his part. Yet he's the Time person of the year, go figure. You must have been part of the Time poll..lol

As a Vet - 13th MEUSOC oorah - from Gulf 1 and beyond - I can tell you that our operations of significance started from the top (Bush 1/Clinton 1) on down. So if Herbert Walker can claim the Gulf 1 victory, Obama can claim Bin Laden.

You GOPers hate him sooo much you just can't actually think straight can you? I mean, I thought you lot were insane over Bill Clinton, but you guys really really really hate Obama. You liked President Palmer in 24 so... it has to be something other than his skin color, right?

I must have missed the part in my comment where I said the war on terror was over. I think you also completely missed my comment:

President Obama combined with our Navy Seal team, and all of the intelligence from Bush's administration and beyond is what took Osama OUT. It doesn't matter who you think did it or not, what matters is the single biggest threat to our freedom is GONE.

Seems to me, I gave credit to more than just President Obama. Perhaps you should slow down and read with comprehension. I know, you are simply blinded by your 'hate' of Obama that you cannot see past your own limitations, but perhaps you can 'try'.

P.S. Childish responses would actually mean something, if I respected your opinion :-)

Ya'll know that Bush was the person of the year for 2000 and 2004 right? Repubs, don't get your panties in a wad, they clearly make the president the person of the year after every election.

President Obama deserves to be on the cover much more than Bush ever did.

They could have carved his image in stone. I'd say that was an appropriate medium for a Neanderthal, after all.

ain't no mountain high enough to get that tattooed on itself.

The choice was perfect - it is so entertaining to see the worms writhe in their vitriole

Really I find him insulting, as a hispanic woman, he turns my stomach! He is an arrogant jerk with a personal agenda!

As a Hispanic woman?

Is that suppose to make your comment more meaningful or something?

What does your ethnicity have to do with anything?

As a hispanic male, I see his plan for America is campaining, but agree he has a dangerous agenda....

He ran a clean campaign vs Romney and Ryan whose efforts were almost exclusively built on distortions and outright lies.

Are you smoking crack? I am 55 years old & have NEVER seen a dirtier campaign ran than this one. Worst yet he is a sitting President. He lowered himself to standards that a third grader wouldn't have done. & the pettiness to go along with it. Big Bird, Binders, Romnesia. He couldn't run on his pathetic record so he stooped lower than any Candidate I have ever seen. He wanted re-election at all cost. He showed his true character.

You may want to seek some kind of therapy - your hatred is limitless!

Campaign rehtoric Michelle. Go educate yourself on what he has really accomplished that had been a benefit to the MAJORITY of Americians. Obamacare will not be a benefit once those who cannot afford to buy coverage are also hit with a penalty tax. Or small employers would rather pay the penalty then continue to offer a minimal coverage plan. Yes, let's also slash our military. Good way for him to continue his socialist plan. There is no such thing as a moral, righteous politician.

Summer,

Does the truth hurt? This past campaign was the lowest I have seen in 60 years. By BOTH sides. The truth is Obama's record was pitiful. Even The New York Times said that the major reason he won was that he embraced the old style Chicago "gutter" politics. And the are a liberal rag. Romney was not much better. Sorry but Obama's claim to fame is that he doesn't have one.

Now if he was named person of the year for being the most polarizing and devise. Well that would be a different story. After all, they did say it was for being the best or the worst.

Oh Michelle--you are so deluded.Obama did not get Osama Bin Laden. Seal Team VI got him. He did not run a clean campaign, his minions painted the airwaves with lies about the Republican ticket and party. He barely got 50% of the popular vote---hardly a mandate. The only thing we can be grateful for after that travesty of an election is that he cannot run again. Of course---maybe the US won't need a president in 4 years--Obama will have destroyed this nation by then.

Yea but at least he won the popular vote... not like Bush (who the GOP doesn't like to talk about).... tough... you loose....

Also 47% of the country was appalled at being referred to as leeches by Romney/Ryan.

Umm...no. That was 99% of sheeple that believed the partial quotes and misleading done by Libbys. When the polls swung to Romney leading, the country got complacent and let the loonies decide the election.

Karl Rove is gone. He turned red, puffed up, and exploded in a fat, bloated, wet mess right after his appearance on the Fox News coverage of election night when they announced that Obama had won Ohio and hence was re-elected......

lol...Karl Rove and Dick Morris are still rich and well ...You are still just not

dick morris can't even pick decent prostitutes . the faux bs line was if you keep repeating something enough times the feable minded will buy into it and their lame analogies. the sky is always falling and america is always on the doorstep of doom when things don;t go their way. faux tells these people exactly what they want to hear. they are never wrong. but every other major news agency in the western world can;t be believed. if dick morris next gig is picking race horse winners the fleabaggers would bet on a horse with 3 legs because dick is a faux expert.

karl rove, well what can one say about karl. he should be just about getting out of prison about now for the valerie plame fiasco. how he skated out of that without an indictment is real interesting. this citizens united decision will ensure future elections can be bought . i expect the pr people and big donors will be starting their hillary is the devil campaign soon. tell me something karl would not do to win an election.

AMEN!!!

President Obama is a very great man. You people are not worthy to live in the same country with him. We don't need your kind here.

Ah, just like Reagan and Bush, one a coward, I.e., Beirut Bombing and the other a War Mutt, great covers.

Morning sickness, huh? Stop p*h**kin then! Hee-Hee!!!

Sounds like you have a case of "Romnesia"! Still haven't found a cure, huh? Poor, dumb, fool!

If you think illegal immigrants have no impact why are you so upset they are here?

It is not that they have no impact it was that Times magazine had the gall to refer to them as undocumented "Americans" or did you miss that.

BTW3110: you missed Webba's point. Webba didn't say they have no impact; he/she said they aren't "Americans". Merely pointing out that unless you have achieved legal citizenship you are not an "American," undocumented or otherwise.

A sentiment I whole-heartedly agree with. You can't be an "American" if you have not entered this country in a legal manner, to call them such is a slap in the face of all those people who took the time to do it the legal way.

They are Americans whether you like it or not.

No, by definition they are NOT Americans. Are you really that stupid?

MIkeBC, by definition they are Americans.

Of course they have an impact, a negative one.

MIkeBC, by definition they are Americans.

BTW3110, exactly what "definition" are you referring to? The fact that they live in this country? That would mean that foreign diplomats, people on student or work visas, etc. would ALSO be Americans - and I'm sure even you can see that's patently false. Until someone has legally gained American citizenship, he or she is NOT an American - at least in the sense of the United States of America.

If by Americans, you mean they are from either Central, North or South American, you are correct. If you claim they are Americans as in citizens of the United States of America, you are wrong.

Most European immigrants came here without immigration documents. The government term was WOP (With Out Papers). Later used as a derogatory term for Italian immigrants.

Not to mention i was looking at a globe. It appears that basically anybody not born on an island in the western hemisphere. Was born in America.

@BTW3110

If I enter Mexico illegally, does that make me a Mexican?

If I enter Chile illegally, does that make me a Chilean?

I guess you missed the point…North America, South America, and Central American by definition they are Americans. Anyone in this hemisphere is an American.

The 11 million "undocumented" workers in the US (give or take a few) are going to be documented in about 2 years. Bank on it. Immigration reform is coming, and it will be Reaganesque. Living in SoCal, this is a relief, as there are many "mixed citizenship" families in the Southwest - dad may be documented, the kiddies except maybe the eldest were born here and are citizens, but the mom and often the oldest child not documented. Would have been ideal to fix the borders, but we - and they - can't wait for never. Streamline the paperwork, it is a huge and expensive mess the way it is now.

Funny, I thought that you had to be born here or become an American citizen to be deemed an "American", not simply be born in this hemisphere. So, my son, who was born in Germany as an American citizen born abroad, can't be called "American"????

amanda,

This is not just "PC" but American are the citizens of this whole continent from Canada to Argentina and Chile, including Mexico.

We're U.S. citizens (or not) in this country.

Illegal Americans include all others besides just Mexicans.

Or any other print magazine or newspaper....

They stated that toward the end of the article.

Did you know that during all years of Stalin regime he was also prized by All media and Arts in former SSSR?

Obama is awesome. Excellent choice. @!$%# the naysayers because they don't mean a thing!