Time magazines 100 people who shaped the world.

[killerbush]

Time Magazine has come out with a list of the 100 influencial people who have shaped the world. They are broken up into 5 categories. They are Artist and Entertainers, Scientists and Thinkers, Leaders and Revolutionaries, Heroes and Icons, and Builders and Titans. Here are some of the names that made the list in no particular order. Some you will agree with, and some you will absolutely abhor.

George Clooney, The Dixie Chicks, Ellen DeGeneres, Will Smith, Howard Stern, Matt Drudge, Kerry Emanuel, (Katrina), Muqtada Al. Sadr, Hugo Chavez, George Bush, John Mc.Cain, Condi Rice, Oprah Winfrey, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bono, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Paul Simon, Katie Couric, Sean Combs, and Pope Benedict.

If you want to see the whole list;

http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/

[Warpy]

1. As usual it's really a story about

"100 people TIME has bothered to write about in the past year."

Ho hum.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. What about people who shaped the world who didn't live in the 20th Cent.?

:eyes:

[blm]

2. What a FOCKING LIE!!!!

There isn't a lawmaker alive who investigated and exposed more government corruption than John Kerry has or helped to END more wars than John Kerry has, but McCain and Hillary changed the world? BULL - FOCKING - SHIT!

McCain's own bio states he couldn't handle the Vietnam normalization emotionally and it wouldn't have happened without Kerry leading EVERY STEP OF THE WAY and helping McCain to get through it.

FOCK TIME - Their little list is pushing for a McCain-Hillary race in 2008 and they don't give TWO SHITS about FACTS OR HISTORY - TIME hates the truth and doesn't think the American people DESERVE facts.

[killerbush]

3. Next time, don't hold back BLM

[MH1]

5. Yep. You nailed it. nt

[karynnj]

9. I agree - pretty disengenuous that they have only 2 politicians

likely to be important in 2008 - McCain and Hillary. (Unless you count Rice) As of this point, it is hard to list what Hillary has done to change the world, other than as Bill Clinton's wife.

It's not just Kerry who ignored, it's everyone not in favor of continuing the basic effort to "spread democracy". With any fairness, others like Finegold should be mentioned.
As to Kerry, even if he had quietly stated a Massachusetts lawyer, his honesty in 1971 would impact the parallel situation now.

Edited to say - I change my mind Kerry should NOT be there. He DID not shape the world as it is. If Bill Clinton would have listened to him in the 90s and worked against non state terrorism through the banking and communication networks, John Kerry would have shaped the current world. If Bill Clinton pursued the treads still left after the Iran/Contra pardons - to at least establish what happened with the support for the Contras, there may not have been a W Presidency because his dad would have been disgraced and W had little strength on his own. So many Iran/Contra people who are in power now would have been disgraced.

It's not clear if we would be in the second Gore term or the second McCain (or another Republican term, but at any rate the world would have been different. John Kerry did far more than a Senator could have been expected to do and it really seems that he could not have done more - the President could have though. So for this reason, I agree Kerry did not shape this world, he would have been instrumental in shaping a better one if Clinton would have looked at his investigations or if he would have won in 2004. GHWB, Clinton and W did have a hand in shaping this world either by what they did or what they failed to do.

[tridim]

4. Matt Drudge?

OoooKayyy..

I don't even read these shitty magazines when I'm bored out of my mind waiting for my haircut.

[politrix]

7. Next Year

It'll be Colbert.

[blm]

8. This is TIME magazine - they'll ignore Colbert and tap Dennis Miller

or Glenn Beck.