Chamblee54

It is December, which means a lot of things. Included is the POTTY award. … Person of the Time year. Some naysayers would tell you that print media is obsolete, and point to the POTTY.
This tradition started in 1927 , during a slow news week. Charles Lindbergh, namesake of a Buckhead road, was the first POTTY. In 1929, Owen D. Young became the first unknown POTTY. In 1930, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the first non USA resident. In 1936, Wallis Simpson became the first female to win the award, which was initially called Man of the Year.
In 1938, fun loving Adolph Hitler won, followed in 1939 (and 1942) by Joseph Stalin. 1950 saw the first group award, with “the American fighting man” honored. In 1951, Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh was the man. The CIA disagreed, and helped ease him out of office in 1953. We are still dealing with the effects of that.
The POTUS is almost always a POTTY. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were not chosen for this honor. Gerald Ford could not chew gum, and accept the award, at the same time. Other than that, all men elected to the oval office have been the POTTY, usually more than once.
Mercy killing for the POTTY? Maybe after 2006, when the winner was YOU. The years before that had numerous embarrassments. This year is no worse than the 1995 selection of Newt Gingrich, and maybe a bit better than 1993. That year saw The Peacemakers as the POTTY, including Yassir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.
The POTTY for 2011 is The Protester. Considering the sanitation issues at some OWS sites, a POTTY might come in handy. One runner up is Kate Middleton, who married Prince William. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress . HT to joemyg-d.