Originally posted by FMF
The U.K.'s Independent offers a few more possibilities that might give us a more outside the box winner:

The Congolese gynaecologist [b]Denis Mukwege.

Chinese free speech campaigner and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.

Bolivia's first indigenous president Evo Morales.

Afghani women's rights activist and (banned) legislator [ ...[text shortened]... s/johann-hari/johann-hari-amid-dark-times-meet-the-most-inspiring-people-of-2009-1852835.html[/b]

My vote goes to USArmyParatrooper. He is extremely intelligent, very charismatic and strikingly handsome. We are lucky to have him.

Originally posted by USArmyParatrooper
My vote goes to USArmyParatrooper. He is extremely intelligent, very charismatic and strikingly handsome. We are lucky to have him.

Originally posted by FMF
Nominations? Shortlists?

The Charleston Daily Mail says it's [b]Sarah Palin for energizing conservative America when it is/was on the mat and seemingly rudderless. http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/6511

Some would perhaps say it's President Barack Obama for winning the U.S. election with a famously insurgent campaign against the Was ...[text shortened]... as a Rwandan human rights activist.

Who should it be, according to RHP Debates Forum?[/b]

Either Obama or Ahmadinejad.

Bob Dylan.

Originally posted by rwingett
My vote goes for Evo Morales.

Originally posted by badmoon
Bob Dylan.

Sean Hannity, he's a God fearing, caring individual who attempts to show us all the true way.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Can't say I have been really impressed with any man (or woman) this year.

Originally posted by Hugh Glass
Sean Hannity, he's a God fearing, caring individual who attempts to show us all the true way.

Originally posted by generalissimo
wrong thread, its the "man of the year", not the "idiot of the year".

Originally posted by FMF
Sean Hannity is about as savvy as they come. You've got your plastic pants on back to front.

Originally posted by generalissimo
are you on something? what plastic pants?

Originally posted by FMF
OK, let's put it another way. Sean Hannity is about as savvy as they come. And yet you call him an "idiot". That's some real intellectual bravado you got there. You must really think you're a badass debater. One of the smoothest and most successful media operators, polemicists and attack dog authors in the U.S. public domain is an "idiot". generalissimo told us ...[text shortened]... o. How the plastic pants metaphor fits into all that, well that's for you to figure out.