Rummy declined honor as ‘Person of the Year’

[NewJerseyDem]

I don't know if this is old news but I haven't seen it before.

http://www.thehill.com/open_secrets/010704.aspx

It isn’t often that someone turns down an offer to be Time magazine’s “Person of the Year,” especially when that someone is as important as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

But that’s what Rumsfeld did when he learned that Time was planning to honor him in its year-end issue last month.

Rumsfeld told guests at a holiday party that in this year of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military deserved the honor more than he did, which is why Army Sgts. Marquette Whiteside and Ronald Buxton and Spc. Billie Grimes turned up on Time’s Dec. 29 cover.

[xultar]

1. OH, I thought he turned down Satan's person of the year. nevermind.n/t

[Dookus]

2. umm...

being Time's Person of the Year is not an honor.

It's not like they have a big banquet dinner and present an award. It's given to the person they think has had the largest impact, FOR GOOD OR ILL, over the previous year.

When Hitler was so named, it wasn't as an honor.

[Cocoa]

3. Rummy's not a person

he's a monster.

[blm]

4. Hate to say it, but it's a brilliant POLITICAL move.

The public perception factor could make this Play of the Year.

UGH!

[Ilsa]

5. I think hRummy was nominated also by the

funeral industry.

[SheilaT]

6. I'm supposed to believe that

the Person of the Year is something that can be accepted or declined? Why do I have trouble believing this?

[populistmom]

7. Excuse me for a moment

:puke:





Thanks. Yuck.