GW Bush as Time "man of the year"??????

localmotion34 · Post by **localmotion34** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:55 am

can you believe it? what next? why dont we just nominate Saddam for the Nobel Peace Prize, and his "Dr. Germ" (the guy on trial for war crimes) for the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology. for one thing, Bush is setting the US back 20 years from the rest of the world in biomedical technology because of his "morals" and "beliefs". China and south korea are plowing ahead in human cloning and stem cell research, while states like Michigan put criminal penalties for such. privatizing social security despite ummmm, 3, yes 3, nobel lauriates in economics expertise?

is anyone else out there completely and utterly speechless? terrorists? forget terrorists. good ole' bush is here. and heres why:

in 15-20 yrs when the "baby boomer" generation is retired and on social security, many of them will fall victim to an increasing rate of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Of which, china, south korea and some others will most likely have cornered the market with treatments from cloning and stem cells, which will probably still be illegal in the US. Social security and medicare, having been privatized, will have to pay the huge burden of medical expenses from the inability to treat effectively or being at the mercy of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

think its a load of BS? ive spent my masters and now my PHD researching neurodegenerative diseases and some cancer.

PolyVector · Post by **PolyVector** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:02 am

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:18 am

I think it's totall BS ... but then again, all humanists think the same

localmotion34 · Post by **localmotion34** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:43 am

its really not BS. look at the increasing rates of cancer Alzheimers, parkinsons, and other diseases, then look at the increase in the cost of pharmaceuticals. then look at the problems associated with medicare, social security, and health insurance. Chinese and south korean governments have issued FORMAL statements saying they want to lead the world in CLONING, STEM CELL RESEARCH, and PHARMACEUTICALS. Bush issues the "culture of life" and "morally driven" directives of research for the US.

what next? when china and south korea start full scale theraputic human cloning, will bush invade them too? will the US sanction them like the world police? Bush tried to force his beliefs on the rest of humankind DESPITE the expertise of Nobel lauriates and foremost leading experts in their fields.

The_Pharao · Post by **The_Pharao** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:27 am

has Bush not been already person of the year in 2000?
by the way, Adolf Hitler became 1938's Man of the Year. WW2 started 1939, so 1 year left to the next world war 8O

just kidding, hopefully

freedimension · Post by **freedimension** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:05 am

Well, I see it that way: Bush definitely is "Man of the Year 2004" but the reason is not his goodness nor his morality but simply his beeing present in the medias all the year. He's the most spoken of person in the world at that moment. All other reasons would be just stupid.

PolyVector · Post by **PolyVector** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:37 am

George W. Bush is about to set a political record. The first TIME poll since the election has his approval rating at 49%. Gallup has it at 53%, which doesn't sound bad unless you consider that it's the lowest December rating for a re-elected President in Gallup's history.

This is a... good thing?

for reframing reality to match his design

So he's the man of the year for being unpopular and delusional... that's just spiffy :roll:

Post by **freak** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:17 pm

freedimension is right. Being "man of the year" is not neccecarily an honor.
It is defined as "the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news"

And that surely was Bush this year.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Year

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:43 pm

True, but if you read the article it doesn't seem to be pointing out how crappy a job he's been doing.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:22 pm

i don't see the issue, you see, all those participants in the time poll are likely to be us citizens, which, pure coincidently, are the same people who voted for him

PolyVector · Post by **PolyVector** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:09 pm

mostly the diebold machines voted for him... i'm not so sure about the humans operating them...