Is Obama's Time but also the era of Wall Street scammers
Raju Narisetti -
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:22 PM
In what was a predictable pick, here is what Time magazine had to say in naming Barack Obama as its 2008 "Person of the Year":
"For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year." (Read full package of stories here)
If the criteria is that Time's “Person of the Year” selection was the “person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year,” this Romantic Realist thinks a more interesting and riskier bet would have been to give it to all the:
The Wall Street scammers.
After all, they have upended the global economy like nothing else has this year.
But I suspect Time will sell a boatload of the year-end issue given how Obama mania will peak through 20 January inauguration in Washington DC when he is sworn-in as the President. And who would buy yet another downer on scandals and resulting economic gloom?
Meanwhile, if we were to pick someone for India's Person(s) of the Year, would it be a) its cricketers (IPL, Aussie win, England win)? b) the team at ISRO? 3) the UPA for securing the India-US nuclear deal? Or...?
Just wondering.