The hands-down winner from Dan (GayPatriotWest) and I as our first GayPatriot Man of the Year: General David Petraeus.
From a TIME Magazine profile written by John McCain written a couple months ago: Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East studies program at Johns Hopkins University, says the sense of optimism he finds among Iraqis is “invested in the arrival in Iraq of General David Petraeus.” Bright, studious, morally committed, physically brave, willing to carry a “heavy rucksack” without complaint and with clear-eyed resolve, Petraeus—along with the courageous men and women he has the honor to command—is our best reason to hope that we might yet avoid the catastrophe of an American defeat in Iraq.
We choose a man who looked at chaos and brought security. A man who looked at despair and brought hope. A man who saw freedom’s defeatists at home and defeated them. A man who upholds and defends the principles of the United States Constitution.
In short, we chose the “anti-Putin.”
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
UPDATE (from GPW): Looks like London’s Telegraph agrees with us (via Instapundit).
That would have been my choice too but Time seems to have a thing for communist leaders from Mao, to Deng, to Gorby.
Glad to see that someone made the right choice in making him Man of the Year. Keep up the good work.
I’m glad other people are as appalled as I am that Time chose Putin for man of the year.
Anybody who’s smeared by the MorOns has got to be good.
Here’s an idea Bruce, how about a poll on which is the most meaningless award. Man of the Year or the Nobel.
Actually, the Man of the Year is very educational.
All the President would need to do is
[*] Poison Hillary, Al Gore, Obama and PM Brown
[*] Tale over CNN, NBC, ABC, and Fox
[*] Have Andrew Sullivan, Glen Greenwald, and Colin Powel all die in mysterious accidents
Then the left would love him and name him Man of the Year!
#5
Have the Clinton’s gotten it? 😉
Certain lefties do seem to have this weird thing going on where a “killer” politician or regime so terrifies them, that they find themselves “fascinated” by him/it (since they can’t admit to feeling terror), and twist their brains into pretzels of rationalization to accept his/its existence, and his/its enemies are then that leftie’s enemies.
Especially if the newfound enemy is, by comparison, very safe to hate. George Bush is clearly safe to hate. As your comment underlines, Livewire, George Bush clearly follows American traditions of tolerating opponents, and is nothing like Putin.
I’m thinking here of that lesbian gal who confessed to warm feelings for Ahmadinnerjacket, but that would only be one example. The admiration of many lefties for such mass murderers as Castro, Che Guevara, Stalin, Mao, Salvador Allende, Saddam (Galloway praised him), Chavez (let’s hope not), etc., is well known.
Is it a form of Stockholm Syndrome? Battered Woman syndrome? It strikes me as a kind of infantile complex, where the abused child needs to justify – and identify him/herself with – the “bad parent” so as to gain an illusion of greater power, security, “rightness”, etc.
Bruce, no one who’s watched the two leading liberal-biased MSM outlets (NYTimes and Time) over the last 20+ years should find it hard to understand that Time’s MOTY would be an avowed, unrepentant Communist leader with a sordid past in leading the KGB when it was terrorizing Russians, eastern Europeans and 7/8ths of the remaining world. I’m glad tho, they didn’t pick binLaden for remaining free so long or the Taliban as the “ComeBack Kid” group.
I think the Time editorial board has much more in common with Putin than with any non-communist. It was a slam dunk… even tho’ Time admits Putin is “no Boy Scout”. Heck, Time makes Pravda look tame on some points of America-bashing.
Good for you and Dan in advancing Gen Petraeus’ accomplishments for worthy note. The one lesson Republicans learned from VietNam is to trust the professional military leaders and let them call the shots… I only wish Rummie had taken that lesson to heart, as W has clearly done.
The one lesson Democrats learned from VietNam (as demonstrated by today’s Congressional leaders) is to distrust the military, insert domestic political considerations into strategic military decisions and play any failure up as a leading indice of where ALL things are heading. “Quagmire” is a term TeddieK likes to append to Iraq… when all TeddieK knows about quagmire is the mud and slit at the bottom of Chappaquiddick.
The surge is working and Gen Petraeus is the reason for it. It has to be one of W’s best decisions in 2 terms of office. Bully for him; bully for Bush; bully for you guys!
When I heard that TIME named Putin as man of the year I thought huh? what did I miss all year? I just assumed that they would pick someone who had an impact on world events. Then I remembered last year their choice was YOU. Remember they put a mirror on the front cover. YOU the consumer, YOU the people, YOU the masses. Wonder what the sales of the Putin issue will be? YAWN.
omg, I had forgotten that! lol! And they refused to list President Bush as one of the 100 most powerful people!
How is that rag still in business?
Do you suppose that if Bush had 14+ journalists killed, they would have named him?
Time magazine is sure a long way from the institution that the Luce’ family started in the early days of the 20th century. Naming Putin over Gen. Petraeus and or those serving in uniform is par for the course for this glossy fish wrap. And, the Dinosaur, Drive-By, Mainstream Media, DDBMSM, wonders why the net, talk radio and Fox News Channel have grown leaps and bounds?!
There’s just something so masculine about a man who is quietly self confident, strong, brave and smart.
The men in women’s fantasies are never nude: they’re wearing a military uniform.
Vera’s about to come down with a case of the vapors…
The thing is that the liberals claim that Bush is/does everything Castro, Chavez, Guevara, Stalin etc. is/was/has done. Which only proves that if Bush was even remotely like them, the liberals would fall to their knees and worship him.
Ergo, every claim they make about Bush must, therefore, be bullshit.
Quick, someone fetch the salts for Vera!
#16 – Salts, nothing. Open a bottle of Johnny Walker Black and wave it under her nose – she’ll be back on her feet before you can say “make it a double.”
I know it works for me every time. 😉
Regards,
Peter H.
Ahmadinejad was ROBBED. I don’t see how Putin could have beaten him. AJ ran a helluva campaign: denying the Holocaust on stage at Columbia; announcing the global launch of his anti-American alliance with Thuggo Chavez; leading an angry mob in a spirited chant of “Death To Israel! Death To Israel!”, hanging gays in the public square and PLUS he’s a legacy! (http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1979.html)
I bet it was in the bag until Time got scooped by Newsweek when they published AJ’s “Special Guest Commentary” which bravely condemned the “Arrogant Unilateralism” of America. (http://www.newsweek.com/id/77945)
By the way, the text below is a must-read comment by someone named “stich” responding to AJ’s article. Get out your barf bags.
“You know, I realize that this man supresses women’s equality, and denies the existence of gay’s in his country, but if you didn’t know better, you might think the Dalai Lama wrote some of this. Instead of always focusing on our differences, and villianizing all that he says and does, I think we should set aside our differences, find some common ground and make an honest effort to make friends with him.”
He is THE choice, and glad to see that so many here agree. Even the media in the UK have acknowledged that our General is the Man of the year…
Here is “The Telegraph’s” Article on on him…
General Petraeus: man with a message of hope