Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke is Time's person of the yr.

[Driving Rain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091216/ap_ ... on_of_year

What is surprising about this story is how he beat out AV Canada's own Driving Rain

[Phaedrus]

Can a Nobel Prize be far behind?

[North Shore]

If you read stuff on the blogosphere, Bernanke should be strung up for the rip-off he's enabling..

[Siddley Hawker]

He joins an illustrious list. Adolf Hitler was Time's Man-of-the-Year in 1939. Mahatma Ghandi was never Time's Man-of-the Year at all.

[AEROBAT]

Helicopter Ben Bernanke. They call him helicopter Ben due to a statement he made that he would have helicopters dump billions of dollars over New York if that is what it took to stop a recession. One of the men who helped cause the worst financial mess since 1929 is now supposed to stop it from spreading.

[JakeYYZ]

I hereby nominate Tiger Woods as "Husband of the Year".

[Driving Rain]

He joins an illustrious list. Adolf Hitler was Time's Man-of-the-Year in 1939. Mahatma Ghandi was never Time's Man-of-the Year at all.

I so want to make that list.

[Four1oh]

From Wiki:
"Time's most famous feature throughout its history has been the annual "Person of the Year" (formerly "Man of the Year") cover story, in which Time recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news. Despite the title, the recipient is not necessarily individuals or even human beings – for instance, on January 3, 1983 the personal computer was recognized as "Machine of the Year" (Time.com). In 1989 "Endangered Earth" was named as "Planet Of The Year." In 1999, Albert Einstein was chosen by Time as Person of the Century.
Controversy has occasionally arisen because of the designation of alleged dictators and warmongers as "Persons of the Year". The distinction is supposed to go to the person who, for good or ill, has most affected the course of the year; it is therefore not necessarily an honor or a reward. In the past, such figures as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have been Man of the Year. In 2001, Time was accused of giving way to political correctness when it named Rudy Giuliani Person of the Year. Corazon Aquino who restored democracy in the Philippines and impressed the U.S. Congress with her speeches is one of four women to grace Time as Woman of the Year.
In 2006 the Person of the Year was designated as "You", a move that was met with split reviews. Some thought the concept was creative; others wanted an actual person of the year. Others stated, again, that it was due to perceptions of misguided patriotism for many assumed the just bearer of the title to be the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. Editor Stengel reflected that, if it had been a mistake, "we're only going to make it once."[15]
In 2008, the person of the year was Barack Obama, with Sarah Palin as a . up. Obama is the twelfth U.S. President (or President-elect) so honored, following a line of every president since Franklin Roosevelt, with the sole exception of Gerald Ford."