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And the Winners Are…

By Jay Newton-Small | @JNSmall | April 29, 2010 | +

The deadtree cover this week is TIME’s annual 100 most influential people of the year. Who’d we miss? Who shouldn’t be on this list? Let the debate begin.

Update:
Even better: TIME’s least influential list. Hysterical.

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  • captainnoble

    No Paul Krugman? Agree with him or no, he seems to me to have become a very influential voice on economics.

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  • xenosthemutant

    Lula was a good choice by Time. Although a somewhat controversial leader here in Brazil, there is a significant growth in prosperity and national pride.

    Tea Partiers and “Freak Show” news notwhistanding, here is a good Brazilian tip for America: when the bottom half of your population (and consumer) base is healthy and given the opportunity to be productive, your economy grows.

    Lula brought to Brazil the notion that nation building starts from the bottom up. And believe me when I say that we’ve tried “trickle-down economy” for the last 500 years… it didn’t work any too well!

  • afguy

    And believe me when I say that we’ve tried “trickle-down economy” for the last 500 years… it didn’t work any too well!
    .
    But…but…but…
    .
    You’re not us… you see, the only “bullet holes” we will accept as proof will be those we “self-inflicted”.
    .
    Previous, existing examples of failure are for pikers to learn from. We’re different, you see, just because… well, we’re different. And, if you don’t understand the truth of what I just uttered, well, there’s just no reasoning with some people.

  • jbaustian

    Lulu is a good choice because he shows the rest of Latin America that they do not have to follow Castro and Chavez and Morales on the road to ruin.

  • apr2563

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/opinion/29kristof.html
    Another hero: Jimmy Carter
    His center has taken the instances of death and incredible pain from the Guinea worm from 3.5 million in 20 countries to less than 3200 in 4 countries.
    It is expected to be totally eradicated in a few years.

  • jbaustian

    Influential? No. Somewhat famous? Yes.
    .
    But he is often wrong. And he never admits an error, even when he reverses his opinions 180°.
    .
    Also, he is a laughingstock. So he really belongs on the “Least Influential List” where the laughingstocks of politics, economics, business and the media end up.
    .
    BTW, that list is good for some chuckles.

  • jbaustian

    Carter, favorite of despots and dictators everywhere?
    .
    Carter, one of the few bad presidents to end up on the list of bad ex-presidents?
    .
    Carter, a mean and nasty little man.

  • xenosthemutant

    @afguy

    Yes, these are countries of very different people of very different history. As a child of both nations, I understand that pretty well.

    But examples are transferred and learned from country to country. (Ask the founding fathers of the US how they influenced France’s budding of democracy; ask Lady Liberty in NY how they influenced the US.)

    And I’m sorry, learning only from your own mistakes may be macho, but it is a lamentable game plan. Most people (and countries) don`t do it.

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