Putin? Please. CNBC Names The American Homeowner Person Of The Year

With all respect to Time magazine and their choice of Russian Prez Vladimir Putin as Person Of The Year, CNBC has a different suggestion for the yearly slot: the American Homeowner.

According to CNBC Senior VP Jonathan Wald: "There is no question that the subprime mortgage crisis has had a major impact on the U.S. and world economy. With foreclosures rising sharply and housing prices dropping in virtually all regions of the country, the plight of the American Homeowner is a story whose scope reaches far beyond the U.S. It has also become a critical topic in the 2008 Presidential campaign."

CNBC's readers, however, don't seem to agree with either institution's choice. According to a live poll running on the site, the vast majority of voters seem to be equally cool to both Putin and the American Homeowner, instead wishing Time had picked someone else.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Comments

[RaisingAwareness]

09:50 PM on 12/23/2007

Here are some previous "winners" of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" that are worthy of some attention:

Hitler -1938
Stalin -1939 & 1942
Khrushchev -1957
Nixon -1971 & 1972
Deng Xiaoping -1978 & 1985
Ayatollah Khomeini -1979
George H. W. Bush -1990
Gingrich -1995
Bill Clinton & Kenneth Star -1998
George W. Bush -2000 & 2004

http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/P­erson_of_t­he_Year

[Rightiesrule]

02:43 AM on 12/20/2007

I would nominate Jeanne Assam as Person Of The Year. She's the church member that was volunteeri­ng as a security guard in Colorado Springs when a gunman entered the church.
While she no doubt has her flaws when a madman entered a church planning mass murder this woman stepped up and defended herself and innocent people. I can't think of a better Person Of The Year.

Of course depending on your politics she's a horrible person because she believes in God, used a gun and didn't put her faith in government for protection­.

[conservativeoriginalist]

03:45 PM on 12/19/2007

My person of the year would be...nobod­y. There is not one person this year who has done anything of significan­t benefit to the world. Yes, there's been grand standing and all the rhetorical pandering one could stomach, but there is not one person's actions that stand above and beyond the fray.

[InofTouch]

12:52 PM on 12/19/2007

find it funny that POTY has to be american ?

[kickemout]

12:11 PM on 12/19/2007

I think the person of the year in both places should be Mr. Micheal Moore. His film SICKO has brought the inefficien­cy of the American Health Care System to the forefront, and now candidates on both sides are being forced to talk about it and offer their plans. This was long overdue, and we have this one man, and his team of movie makers to thank for it.

[tao53nyc]

12:10 PM on 12/19/2007

You've got to be kidding. That's as absurd as Putin.

The sub-prime crisis was created by the Fed's printing of cheap money along with unscrupulo­us lenders taking advantage of the desire of certain economical­ly marginal people for home ownership. This, despite the fact that, under more honest circumstan­ces, those people never would have qualified for home loans. And now we're going to glorify them as something noble? They were certainly suckered in, but that doesn't entitle them to "person of the year" status.

Ridiculous­.