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.

Barack Obama

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Pro: Against overwhelming initial odds, he defeated the vastly more experienced Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and John McCain in the general election to become the first African-American President of the country still thought by many to be the world's most powerful.

Con: He neither cured cancer nor won the World Series. Also, could be funnier.

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