“Apple CEO Steve Jobs is one of the few remaining candidates for Time’s Person of the Year 2009 award, the magazine has announced,” MacNN reports.
“First nominated earlier this month, Jobs is now one of just seven candidates remaining,” MacNN reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” (formerly “Man of the Year”) annually features a man, woman, couple, group, or even an idea, place, or machine that “for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year.” Past choices include: 1930: Mohandas Gandhi; 1938: Adolf Hitler; 1939: Joseph Stalin; 1940: Winston Churchill; 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1952: Queen Elizabeth II; 1961: John F. Kennedy; 1963: Martin Luther King Jr.; 1966: 25-and-under generation; 1971: Richard M. Nixon; 1975: American women; 1976: Jimmy Carter; 1980: Ronald Reagan; 1982: The computer; 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev; 1992: Bill Clinton; 1994: Pope John Paul II; 2000: George W. Bush; 2001: Rudolph Giuliani; 2006: You; 2007: Vladimir Putin.
TIME Magazine’s seven “Person of the Year” candidates for 2009:
• Steve Jobs
• Ben Bernanke
• The Chinese worker
• Nancy Pelosi
• Stanley McChrystal
• Usain Bolt
• Barack Obama
TIME’s POTY will be revealed live on NBC’s “Today Show” on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Cast your vote here.
MacDailyNews Take: If only Woz had won “Dancing With The Stars.”
Go, Jobsian Voters! Go! Fetch thineselves unto the iVote booths and push thou the Holy Single Button of Jobs!
I voted for the chinese worker… with out them we wouldn’t have our apple products as cheap as they are…
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I guess I can’t win it everyyear. I suppose I’ll vote for Jobs this time.
I voted for General Stanley McChrystal, if it weren’t for him and the men and women who volunteer, you wouldn’t have the freedom to nominate Steve Jobs, Chinese worker, the Republican Party “Party of NO!” (although the Dems don’t need any Republican to vote for their crap, the Dems can pass everything without a single Republican vote, be it in the Senate or the House of Representatives… hmmm, appears some Dems have joined the Party of NO making them more bipartisan then Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s BS.)
Now go ahead and flame me, you have that freedom, thanks to General Stanley McChrystal and the soldiers he leads… and the person I voted for as Person of the Year!
Can’t vote, requires flash plugin.. oh the irony…
The biased left-leaning Time Magazine will give it to Obama regardless of your vote or the following fact:
Obama Job Approval Falls to New Low at 44%
24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18.
What the difference between Usain Bolt and Nancy Pelosi? One can run out of town the fastest and the other ought to be the first one run out of town.
What? No Glen Beck or Sarah Palin?!
I’m with Rot’nApple, definitely General McChrystal on behalf of the US Military!
I’d go for the Republican “Party of NO”. Someone’s got to say NO to all the unconstitutional spending going on!
Really… kinda like the left leaning Time gave POTY to George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Look it up, the POTY isn’t the best person of the year, it’s the person who made the most news in the year.
No Sarah Palin? That’s fine, as long as Sarah PAC continues to grow…