http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1696150,00.html

PUTIN





[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 12:06 PM. Reason : a]

12/19/2007 12:04:09 PM

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"A Tsar is Born"

12/19/2007 12:05:35 PM

Putin is the fucking man

12/19/2007 12:12:06 PM

Their president can actually beat up our president.














no really he can.

12/19/2007 12:33:14 PM

he got dat KGB Kung Fu Grip

12/19/2007 12:49:43 PM

You know Hitler won Time's Man of the Year about 70 years ago.

OMFGodwins Law!

12/19/2007 1:47:22 PM

12/19/2007 1:52:45 PM

what a sexist thread/award title

its Time Magazine Person of the Year

12/19/2007 1:54:50 PM

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"You know Hitler won Time's Man of the Year about 70 years ago. "

so............

12/19/2007 1:55:02 PM

Putin's a sambo expert... wouldn't want to mess with him.

12/19/2007 2:43:14 PM

He did Judo and Jujitsu for the KGB. I remember on his visit to Japan, one of the events was him sparring with judo students.

12/19/2007 4:45:26 PM

fuck putin, the guy who was running against him was amazing. he would have been an outstanding president

12/19/2007 4:50:21 PM

kasparov? yeah that guy is smart

12/19/2007 6:44:10 PM

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

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"WASHINGTON (CNN) — Count Republican Mitt Romney among those who aren't happy with Time Magazine's choice of Russian President Vladimir Putin for Person of the Year. In an interview with CNN's Glen Beck, the presidential candidate called the choice "disgusting." "You know, he imprisoned his political opponents. There have been a number of highly suspicious murders," Romney said on Beck's radio show. "He has squelched public dissent and free press. And to suggest that someone like that is the Man of the Year is really disgusting. I'm just appalled." "Clearly General Petraeus is the person, or one of a few people, who would certainly merit that designation," the former Massachusetts governor added. Rival presidential candidate John McCain also said Wednesday he disagreed with the choice. “I noticed that Time Magazine made President Putin the Time Magazine ‘Man of the Year,’” McCain said, according to NBC. “I understand that probably, but my man of the year is one Gen. David Petraeus, our general who has brought success in Iraq.”"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

12/19/2007 9:15:33 PM

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"but my man of the year is one Gen. David Petraeus, our general who has brought success in Iraq"

USA! USA! USA!


how fucking closed minded some people in this country are absolutely amazes me. good job general u are working hard to straighten up a country that bush fucked up. If you think about it Putin is a logical choice. The "man of the year" isn't supposed to be a super hero. The Man is someone who has and will place a major impact onto the world. If you know anything of international politics you will realize that events surrounding Russia and Putin will imprint a major impact into future world events.

12/19/2007 9:20:47 PM

so what you're saying is the president of the united states should be the man of the year, every year, right?

12/19/2007 9:38:17 PM

Putin looks exactly like my old roommate Steve.

That is all that I have to contribute here.

12/19/2007 9:39:45 PM

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"what a sexist thread/award title its Time Magazine Person of the Year"

I dunno man. Between you and me, Hilary can seem pretty mannish at times.

12/19/2007 10:57:53 PM

women have won in the past

12/19/2007 11:01:57 PM

The man of the year is not a popularity contest, its about the person who has changed the world the most (for better or worse) in the past year.

It's like Alberto Gonzales is the lawyer of the year (as voted by the American Bar Association). This is not saying he did a good job, he was just the most high profile lawyer this year.

12/19/2007 11:04:13 PM

I feel like we're talked about this before. 1939 man of the year

12/19/2007 11:20:15 PM

putin would beast the fuck out of gdubb...also that pic of him fishing was cool where he was shirtless(no homo)...i wish russia didnt have any oil...that gives them too much power in a post soviet world...plus its helping their middle class...i heard like now that the price of oil is like 2.5 times higher that a lot of russians have gotten rich...plus he consolidated the media into state run shit....plus hes buddy buddy with iran...plus he wants to point nukes at our missle shield in poland and the other location

12/19/2007 11:23:32 PM

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"Putin is the fucking man"

12/19/2007 11:37:51 PM

putin is doing what is needed to stamp out the corruption and get the ball rolling again in Russia.

12/20/2007 3:01:04 AM

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"putin is doing what is needed to stamp out the corruption"

haha...riiiiiiiiiiight...

12/20/2007 3:49:33 AM

b.c of Boris Yeltson was CLEARLY less corrupt and more competent

12/20/2007 10:52:51 AM

who said anything about boris yeltsin

12/20/2007 4:08:52 PM

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"putin is doing what is needed to stamp out the corruption and get the ball rolling again in Russia."

By using corruption to achieve this goal?

12/24/2007 11:30:05 PM

Not just that, he's using corruption and state-run energy monopolies to accomplish that goal.

There will be a few riduckulously rich people in Russia if they tighten up the energy supply to Europe a little more and keep prices up (and keep building more of those damn gas pipelines).

12/25/2007 12:34:06 AM

I got an idea; lets ready to the troops. We can then invade Russia so in order to free and liberate there people. Rumors state that they have WMD's . Russia is also known to associate with our sworn enemy of the Axis of Evil Iran; who knows they also may have ties to Al Quaeda. As a bonus Russia also has fairly large oil reserve much of which is untapped chillin in Siberia.

12/25/2007 1:22:00 AM

putin is doing what is needed to stamp out the corruptionopposition and get the ball rolling again in Russia.

12/25/2007 1:51:01 AM

^^What the fuck are you blabbering about?

12/25/2007 1:17:20 PM