Last Year it was “You,” this year it’s Vladimir Putin. Last year “You” won ’Person of the Year’ for changing the face of media through the internets. This year, Putin won it for making Russia relevant again.
Putin has come under heavy criticism from um, most people, for anti-democratic tactics in order to preserve stability in his vodka loving nation. A lot of Americans (myself included) felt that Russia had fallen off the map as far as large scale global influence-Putin has turned this around and thus Time gave him the honor, even though it’s not necessarily an honor.
Putin joins the likes of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin (who won it twice) and of course President Num Nuts among other shady characters to be named ‘Person of the Year’.
Putin, who looks like he can crush your bones with his mind, is an intimidating looking dude. He almost makes Dick Cheney seem like a suave Sean Connery. But have no fear, our trusted ’Decider’ said he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw a good man. To quote Rudolph Giuliani, “Thank god George Bush is our president!”
Image from Time.
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