TIME Person of the Year For 2007 - Vladimir Putin »

Posted By TimALoftis 1 year, 6 months ago in News

No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking.

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    tdrapeau1 year, 6 months ago

    I think he could stare down Ivan Drago.

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    idyll1 year, 6 months ago

    This is very wrong.

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    doppich1 year, 6 months ago

    The Propeller branch of the Neocon Party is celebrating - they feared it would be Gore.

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    Skeptic1 year, 6 months ago

    Has Al Gore asked for a recount yet?

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    KYRed1 year, 6 months ago

    He jailed my favorite Russian presedential contender. yeah. That looks like Time's man of the Year.

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      saneman1 year, 6 months ago

      At least Bush is or should be the poster child or boy for the Special Olympics.

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      bill29361 year, 6 months ago

      Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and now Putin all 'Time Man/Person of the Year'. Will history repeat itself in this case?

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      THOMNH621 year, 6 months ago

      neocons are not celebrating, this is rediculous, only Time could pick a hard cor communist like Putin to be the man of the yr. If you think living in Russia is any better than it was before the cold war then go visit. Now there is a country where the difference between the poor and the rich is one stands in line for bread, the other is filthy rich.

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      saneman1 year, 6 months ago

      I promote a cage fight match between Putin and Bush to determine who really is the person of the year and put it on pay-per-view TV.

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      walden31 year, 6 months ago

      Putin is well-deserving. His influence is rising both domestically and internationally. Russia controls an enormous amount of natural resources and he is forming regional alliances. I hope he doesn't completely shut down the democratic process though.

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      Joer4x41 year, 6 months ago

      A great choice. Someone who we can admire and model our lives after. A murderer!

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      Charlson1 year, 6 months ago

      Is Time taunting us?

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        THOMNH621 year, 6 months ago

        I wonder where NelsonR is on this one, Putin must be his man of the yr.

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          BravoSierra1 year, 6 months ago

          Person of the Year started as "good guy/gal of the year". Time has it all wrong this time. Gorbachev...detente...good; Putin, hardline KGB Soviet style tyrant...not good.

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            Commodore11 year, 6 months ago

            Great. Another Russian dictator gets elected by TIME as person of the year. Big deal. I swear the TIME brass must have their heads up their butts. I'm surprised it wasn't Hugo Chavez or Ahmadinejad or Ding Dong from North Korea or hell even Usama Bin Laden. I don't read TIME anyway. What a waste of talent.

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            Grrr1 year, 6 months ago

            Putin sure bitch-slapped W every time they've met for the last couple years, though. First laugh, last laugh, and everything in between. W is such a milk-toast idiot, an O.G. like Putin will always eat him for breakfast.

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            jmopinion1 year, 6 months ago

            I have talked to a few people that have been to Russia within the past few years and they tell me it is pretty damned scary for foreigners.

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              Macondo1 year, 6 months ago

              The man of the year is Ann Coutler O-)

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                Macondo1 year, 6 months ago

                PERSON is "a human being regarded as an individual".

                Politicians are not individuals.

                From Latin roots individual also means indivisible.

                Politicians have split personalities and do not qualifie.

                So by definition the "Person of the year"can not be either Putin or Bushi.

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                  calitennflo1 year, 6 months ago

                  The world will find that Russia is the top dog now and the United States is liken a 3rd world country...I like the way that Putin has so skillfully guided his people since the vote to bring the courts to order here in California was shot down ... (Nov.2005) He then closed the doors to the US and was not heard for a period of time. Since...he's in control, and has time after time made Bush look like he is...nothing.

                  See...we would not have what we have today if it wasn't for the Russians...no weather service plus alot more! They have been continually put down by the US and I forsee the opposite coming to the US. Physics...

                  I agree with Time...Putin is not a liar...not like the Bushs.

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                    HMMace1 year, 6 months ago

                    Is being an assassin a requirment for being "Person" of the year???

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                      calguy21231 year, 6 months ago

                      I can't stand the Orielly brigade comments on this for whom Petraeus is GOD! Forget the world, how many people in USA know who Petraeus is. The world (most of which is outside the US) doesn't give a rat's ass to Iraq or to Petraeus, and TIME does have a global audience. Its TIME's man of the year, not TIME's US man of the year.

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                        Markus691 year, 6 months ago

                        The right choice, IMHO. Putin is very strong person

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