Person of the Year

Person of the Year

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2009 is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke. You may be wondering, “huh?” But at least it isn’t Barack Obama for the umpteenth time. Or an abstract non-person, such as the Computer.

Usually, we play this game before the announcement and we can see if anyone guesses who wins it, but the announcement keeps getting earlier every year, it seems like. But we can easily second guess this choice. Who do YOU think should be Person of the Year?

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