Open Thread: Turkish PM Erdogan Time's Person of the Year?

November 15th, 2010 9:18 AM

He leads the pack - as of this posting - in the Time Magazine POTY poll (h/t Charlie Spiering at the Washington Examiner). The top 5 candidates are:

1. Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
2. Lady Gaga,
3. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,
4. Jon Stewart/Steven Colbert (apparently now a single person),
5. Glenn Beck.

Check out the full list here. What do you think? Keep in mind that the Person of the Year is not always an agent of positive change (e.g. Vladimir Putin).