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Wow.

I have nothing else to add.  I mean they got 14 sentences out of it.

This is a continuation of a previous post regarding Time's Person of the Year.

Here is what Time had to say about Putin:

He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years. Whether he becomes more like the man for whom his grandfather prepared blinis—who himself was twice TIME's Person of the Year—or like Peter the Great, the historical figure he most admires; whether he proves to be a reformer or an autocrat who takes Russia back to an era of repression—this we will know only over the next decade. At significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize, he has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power.

Now let us not beat around the Bush, okay maybe we should. 

In my mind, stability is synonymous with security.  The end goal for security is a stable country.  I mean that is what we are striving to do in Iraq and that is what we strive to do in this country when it comes to terrorism.

When Bush curtails our freedoms in the name of security so that we can continue to live in a stable America, free from the chaos of terrorist strikes, it is the biggest offense against freedom.  In fact, liberals say that they would rather live in a country with that minute chance of being attacked than let the government have the ability to supposedly limit our freedoms and privacy.  And the liberal media has expounded this over and over.  I mean... watch Keith Olbermann.

Yet, the liberal media has this alter ego.   They praise Putin in their analysis for the Person of the Year, yet scold Bush for the same reasons.  When it is Putin, it is understandable "stability before freedom" and with Bush it is contemptible "security over freedom."

Putting leaders like Admadinejad and Putin on pedestals is just more the Jekyll and Hyde from the liberal press.

Are you kidding me?  Putin?

Time magazine named Russian President Vladimir Putin its "Person of the Year" for 2007 on Wednesday, saying he had returned his country from chaos to "the table of world power" though at a cost to democratic principles.

Absolutely unbelievable.  I was rooting for Petraeus -- he would have deserved it.  And I would not have been surprised if they picked Al Gore because of his Nobel.  But Putin?

This just goes to show you the dreamworld that the liberal media lives in.

"He's not a good guy, but he's done extraordinary things," said Time managing editor Richard Stengel, who announced Putin's selection on NBC's "Today Show."

He is a bad guy?  But he is the "Person of the Year"?  It is just a bad punchline...

UPDATE:  Here is the Time article.  I love this quote about Putin:

He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years. Whether he becomes more like the man for whom his grandfather prepared blinis—who himself was twice TIME's Person of the Year—or like Peter the Great, the historical figure he most admires; whether he proves to be a reformer or an autocrat who takes Russia back to an era of repression—this we will know only over the next decade.

What a ridiculous statement.  Who doesn't stand for stability?  Funny how the West can have stability and freedom...  No wonder most of the liberal media was for leaving Saddam in power -- you know "stability before freedom" and all...  I wonder if he would have been named "Person of the Year" if he was still around?  Based on the above quotes (not a good guy, stability before basic rights and freedoms, etc.), he would have qualified.

The surge is working.

A greater sense of confidence produces many benefits. The number of security tips about insurgents that Iraqi civilians provide has jumped sharply. Stores and marketplaces are reopening in Baghdad, increasing the sense of community. People dislocated by sectarian violence are returning to their homes. As a result, "many Baghdadis feel hopeful again about the future, and the fear of civil war is slowly being replaced by optimism that peace might one day return to this city," the Fadhils report. "This change in mood is something huge by itself."