1: Barack Obama

If Obama is a true white than I'm pretty sure that he won't be judge before he even started or have these people saying all sorts of bad things about him. I know one white guy who works in walmart who wouldn't want to be in contact with an Obama book as if it's some sort of virus or feces.

DEMOCRATIC CORLEONE CRIME FAMILY AND THE REPUBLICAN SOPRANO CRIME FAMILY PART 2

In order to ensure the loyalty of its foot soldiers, The Democratic Corleones will pour funds into Community Organizers hereafter to be called - Obama???s Warriors. These organizers will organize the streets - building by building and entire parts of cities - street by street. They will be the community Capos dispensing largesse to the captive population granting jobs in the new citizen???s militia, providing for everybody???s needs from food aid to after school activities to health care.

To ensure that the Corleones will never again have to suffer the humiliation of surrendering power to the Sopranos, organizations such as ACORN will be given tens of millions and the avid support and assistance of the Community Organizers and Citizen Militias to register using whatever means necessary from handing out cigarettes to free hamburgers to everyone and anyone sporting a pulse. Just to ensure no one is missed or forgotten, they will go through with great care community phone books - page by page - phone number by phone number - filling out registration forms on the missings behalf and affixing their signatures just to make it all legal. To ensure no one is missed, good organization will ensure that this be done multiple times on multiple registration forms to allow those who might be missed to be replaced by those who were not missed.

For all those not recorded in phone books but live at no fixed address, then a street by street, head by head search will ensue to make sure all the living are accounted for and registered. Again, just to be absolutely certain that all the living have been accounted for, the local graveyards will be visited and names taken off headstones and assigned to the missing, missing - estimates of which the Community organizers will provide.

Long will live and prosper the Democratic Corleones.

we indians should be proud that two people of our country have made it into the world's most powerful list.The inclusion of SRK into this list shows that at last Bollywood has come of age. And as far as some critics have mentioned that he is not popular in india let me assure you that not only is he popular but he is also revered in the country.We indians just swoon over his charm and wit!!!!

I acnnot belive this that shahrukh khan is in this list

Seems he mighthave requested you to put his name ... pathetic
he is not No 1 celebrity in india how can u make him 50 powerful person

Sachin , amitabh bachchan amd aamire khan are bigger stars than him and more powerful than him

SRK sucks

"...whether he can save capitalism."? Capitalism DIED with the election of FDR. Now, we have a Nazi economy of fasism-socialism, which is incompatible with capitalism.

"...whether he can save capitalism"? Capitalism DIED with the election of FDR. Now we have a Nazi economy of fascism-socialism, which is incompatible with capitalism.

Congratulations Shahrukh Khan!! THE KING OF BOLLYWOOD.

I was just reading over the comments and I am very disappointed in the level of communication: irrational thought, profane language and basically immature thinking. This is grade school level stuff, folks. Read the comments through the filter of maturity and you'll see what I mean. Better yet, monitor your own comments for maturity.

How can we possibly expect others -- leaders and the media, for instance -- to listen to us if we can't communicate as mature adults? Believe me, they aren't listening.

I encourage all commenters to step up their level of thinking, to think and communicate maturely. Ranting, profanity and name calling don't get it.

We humans have made a pretty big mess of the world. Yes, we expect much from our leaders, but it's time we expect much from ourselves. Think! Communicate intelligently! Grow up now! Jane Iddings, Blogger, GrowUpNow.info and BarackObamaRealMaturity.com

We expect much from Barack Obama and in turn we citizens must expect much from ourselves. His mission is so huge that unless we citizens join forces with him in an intelligent, mature way, how can we possibly expect him to succeed? Carping, name calling and ill-thought out criticism serve no one. If ever we needed to grow up -- to be intellectually, emotionally and spiritually mature -- now is the time. Barack Obama cannot do the job alone. The next time anyone criticizes Obama, that person must first asks themselves what they are doing to help Amercia and the world get back on track. Jane Iddings, Blogger, GrowUpNow.info and BarackObamaRealMaturiy.com

The USA has no money of its own therefore it has to raise your taxes to pay for these new jobs that balak is goinh to create..or..he will rob your social security to pay for them...and you voted for this?

Just as primitive communism and feudalism were relegated to the trash heap of history such awaits the fate of capitalism.

Free at last
Free at last
Thanks God (or Allah, or science, or mother earth or whatever)
That Savior Obama is in charge of the Office of the President elect
Because we will be free (of every ailment on the earth (cancer, war, drought, cubs losing, Brett Farve not being resigned by the Packers, ALL of course, President Bush's fault) at last . . .

As an editorial comment: Perhaps the media should begin doing their job and not place halo's over The head of the Office of the President Elect Obama's head for everyhting he never done.

Why aren't the yokels that are taking cheap shots at Barack Obama giving the Bush/Cheney Administration a free pass? They're the ones who have nearly destroyed our country. .

Wow now Obama is.... almost Magical? where are the editors? " His birth, background and eloquence, they believe, give him almost magical qualities. " Is Obama the Wizard of OZ? Is this serious magazine or "PEOPLE/US"? Is he Celebrity?

I used to think Fareed Zakaria was worth reading.

Excuse me... but What Day has Obama been president so far? I go by actions not by intentions!.

Obama our Savior? is this for real? Just in Time for Kwanzaa! oops Christmas...

Who will be the Priests? The Scientists speculating on evolution (officially 150 years old in 2009 actually older, besides one must understand genetics to understand "evolution" Google "junk DNA") and string theory (11 degrees of freedom in a 5 dimensional universe, i can prove anything with that) not proved but believing by faith? there is separation of church and state for you! The priesthood of the Doctorate-Expertise and the Church of the Laboratory. The theology of Humanity's arrogance to know all despite the limitations that are obvious. Science is about finding error and a limited methodology to one domain of human understanding. It makes a poor religion, but so many folks hardly know the history of science they are fooled by the experts and eiltes.

Why are we in this situation economically and politically in 2008 just like in 1980 with Carter? we did nothing for over 30 ears since the first energy crisis. We probably could have survived the mortgage mess but for the energy issues.

This is a GLOBAL CRISIS. EVERYONE played a part. There are no innocents.

The humility that is needed to be wise is not here. Knowledge is nothing without wisdom.