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NEW YORK (AFP) – US President George W. Bush has been dropped from Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people for the first time, in a further sign of his flagging political fortunes.
While Osama bin Laden, Pope Benedict XVI and even Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen managed to find a spot on the fourth annual list due to hit newsstands Friday, the magazine decided that Bush just didn’t make the grade any more.
“I think Bush by this point in his presidency probably has less influence than the position should grant him automatically,” Time’s Deputy Managing Editor Adi Ignatius told AFP, explaining the decision to ditch Bush.
“He’s a lame duck … but his influence is below that of a normal lame duck figure. We just thought Bush was at a low ebb in terms of his influence.”
However, plenty of other politicians, notably Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, managed to squeeze into a packed and varied field of entertainers, philanthropists, sportsmen and entrepreneurs.
Time Magazine for this year's list of the world's 100 most influential people. The fourth annual list, omits US President George W. Bush for the first time but includes Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (AFP/TIME-HO)
The list, which is designed to recognize “the men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world,” does not appear in any order or give the magazine’s reasons why some people were chosen over others.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a showing next to Raul Castro, the younger brother of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Indian Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Other politicians in the mix include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Liu Qi, head of the 2008 Beijing Olympics committee.
Agreed and good riddance.
However numerous subjects remain on the MSM media’s blacklist and without mainstream acknowledgement of these real issues any improvement of the human condition remains bleak at best.
You may of coures call me crazy, psychotic, a tin foil hatter of whatever strikes you as appropriate but I’m starting to view certain publications like Time, Newsweek and others in sort of a metaphysical manner. It’s a sort of psychic impresssion type of thing I would like to learn how to better develop. Anyway a glimpse of the magazine in a first impression way brings about a level of Satanic pond scum like blackness and in relation to the amount of damage the people named in the articles within have wrought upon all of mankind. I have to be in the perfect frame of mind to actually do this but I hope to develop it, with practice, patience and time.
It is the same sort of psychic impression I got the first time I saw a photo of Alberto Gonzales. You have to admit then, the feeling is right.