speculate on who will be Time magazine's person/people of the year

1) Steve Jobs
2) Pope Benedict XVI
3) Bill and Melinda Gates
4) The Google Guys
5) J.K. Rowling (malevolentmuse, musicianswife611)
6) Rick Warren
7) Condoleezza Rice
8) Valerie Plame (malevolentmuse)
9) Bono
10) Mother Nature (Cathie, Cathie’s mom, malevolentmuse)
11) George W. Bush (StorageGump)
12) Lance Armstrong (Shannon)

We had several that made it to the list. I have to think that I’m changing my vote as Mother Nature was a force that brought to light a lot of ugliness in the world, but also brought out a lot of good. Who do you think now?

and had some interesting thoughts on who it might be…

We came up with the following list:

1. The founders of Google for they have boosted the stock market and have had huge gain since their IPO

2. Texas Governor, Rick Perry for welcoming victims of Katrina

3. Michael Brown (malevolentmuse, romanticrose)

4. Karl Rove (malevolentmuse)

5. Valerie Plame (malevolentmuse, Uncle Enore)

6. Mayor Ray Nagin for the verbal smack down (Birgitte)

7. President Bush (Uncle Enore)

8. Suddam Hussein

9. Michael Jackson (malevolentmuse)

10. Rosa Parks (my mother)

11. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter of course

12. Pat Fitzgerald

13. Pope John Paul II (Desolateirony, drahknon)

Who do you think it will be and why.