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.

George W. Bush

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Pro: Iraq continued to improve, and at least he acted as the economy collapsed, giving Paulson leeway to engineer the bailout.

Con: Let Wall Street run wild under his watch. With his approval ratings at record lows, has there ever been a lamer lame duck?

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