My Pick For Man of the Year

Just recently, Time magazine announced that they have chosen Barack Obama as their pick for this year's 'Man of the Year'. Of course, that makes perfect sense because the whole Time-Warner/CNN operation has been, and is, in the bag for Barack Obama and the Democrats. They were one of the media cheerleaders that got him elected without any vetting of his past. While Barack's accomplishment of becoming the first Black President (second, if you count Bill Clinton) is a great feat, he doesn't have many more accomplishments beyond that to really warrant the 'Man' title. If Barack Obama is such the "near-god" as the majority of the liberal magazines seem to think, I would expect that there would be plenty of future opportunities for a mag like Time to post Barack as their 'Man' in a year or two or even three or four years from now. However, by choosing him now, what next? Is Barack going to wind up being the 'Man for all Seasons" with him being on the cover of Time each year. That would be record breaking. And, my guess is that will probably be the case. This will make the 9th time in a year that Barack has adorned this magazine cover already (Click to see my previous blog of August titled 'Time and Time, Again' which talked about how ofter Barack has been on the cover of Time). Talk about a habit! (Maybe they should just change the name of their magazine to 'Barack' or 'Obama' or, I know, they could just call it 'BO'!) They're just so ga-ga over Barack at Time that they probably already have next year's Barack 'Man' cover ready along with 11 others for the coming year.

Now to who I really think the 'Man of the Year' should have been. I, unlike Time, based my pick on measurable accomplishments that have had direct impact on our country. To me, the 'Man' who did the most in the last year (actually, year-and-half) to warrant the 'Man' title is General Petraeus. His surge tactics have turned a war around, from looking like a potential loss to, now, looking like a win. He has saved hundreds of American military and civilian Iraqi lives. Thanks to this General, it now looks like we will leave Iraq with honor and we will be able to leave in just a quick, few years. He, literally, broke the back of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Instead of the potential of over a thousand combat deaths in a year, the surge has brought that level to under 200 this year and falling by the day. Quite a demonstrative set of accomplishments. That's why he's the man who should have been picked as the 'Man of the Year'!