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.

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Pro: The new iPhone is cheaper, better, faster. And after Bloomberg News accidentally published a version of his obituary, Jobs spoke in front of a giant slide that read, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Con: The Google phone is a threat. And is Jobs repeating past mistakes by tightening control over the iPhone's applications, like he did with early Apple computers?

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