Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008?

Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps? Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are most deserving.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Pro: His continued polemics (this year he called 9/11 a "suspect event" and gloated as the American economy sank), plus Iran's nuclear arsenal, still scare — or at least annoy — the West.

Con: What has he really done except rant? Plus, he's not even the most powerful person in Iran. That honor goes to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who really calls the foreign policy shots.

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