If it isn't Drew, Lowtax, and Sarah Palin, it isn't worth the electrons to push it to my screen.

/not reading the article

Surprised, no Hugo Chavez? And where are all the Republicans?

Didn't Sarkozy take the lead on talks with Russia during the conflict with Georgia? He's also been accused of blurring the lines that separate powers in France and he, too, was right about the war in Iraq. So given what very little I know about European politics I can see him being top dog in Europe.

But in any of these lists your going to get controversial quickly:
Steve Jobs at 34? I'd push him back.
Putin at 9? I'd rank him forward at 7.

TheTurtle: Surprised, no Hugo Chavez? And where are all the Republicans?

I agree with keeping Chavez off, and as for the Repubs: hahahaha the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Did Newsweek publish a similar list last year? I can't seem to find it if they did.

Where the hell is RON PAUL!

So The Philanthropists made the list, but The Aristocrats didn't?

I call bullshiat on that.

TheTurtle: And where are all the Republicans?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*wheeze*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, that was good.

Timothy Geithner checks in a #15. That's gotta be the highest ever for a Treasury Secy.

Thanks to TARP, he basically has the equivalent of the world's 12th largest economy in his pocket. Bigger than S. Korea.

Who?

Jeff Bezos is more powerful than the Dali Lama?

/says everything you need to know about that list.

GAT_00: TheTurtle: And where are all the Republicans?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*wheeze*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, that was good.



So who is responsible for the evils in the world then?

// confused

This is actually worse than a Cracked list.

TheTurtle: Surprised, no Hugo Chavez? And where are all the Republicans?

To be fair, it -is- a Newsweek prediction.

eddyatwork: Where the hell is RON PAUL!

voting No on something.

Interesting to note Newsweek predicts Shahrukh Khan (number 41) most powerful people of 2009.

Kim Jung Il? WTF. The guys is drooling in hiding somewhere.

List fails for not having this guy # 1

Bladel: Timothy Geithner checks in a #15. That's gotta be the highest ever for a Treasury Secy.

Thanks to TARP, he basically has the equivalent of the world's 12th largest economy in his pocket. Bigger than S. Korea.

IMHO, i think he should start a new private bank with that money and sell shares to people making under 100,000 per year annually only. Then lend the money out and sic the FBI on those who default.

/would clean out a lot of garbage in the system

#30-31: Friends of Barack

Bwahahahahahahahaha...
kinda like being the friends of the Clintons.

/it's not my time

actually subby, I think Sarkozy will be extremely influential but I understand why based on history, you would dismiss France entirely.

This guy is different though.

And he has a hot wife.

Shouldn't Chuck Norris be the entire list?

Begs to differ.

Damn, I didn't make the list again!

47: Oprah Winfrey

this is a sad commentary on the state of middle america.

libbynomore2: And he has a hot wife.

That's plenty a reason for me to think Sarkozy will think influential

#29 is my boss. Weird....

I admit, I wouldn't have expected Carrot Top at #3 either.

That's plenty a reason for me to think Sarkozy will be influential

FIFM

suraimu: Begs to differ.





"You're going to love the way you look"

WTF?

Jonny Wilkinson: List fails for not having this guy # 1

This. Bernanke is definitely #1.

DarnoKonrad: suraimu: Begs to differ.
"You're going to love the way you look"
WTF?

He guarantees it.

Hu's not on first?

libbynomore2: actually subby, I think Sarkozy will be extremely influential but I understand why based on history, you would dismiss France entirely.

This guy is different though.

And he has a hot wife.

He does have a hot wife, but i doubt that he will be that significant.

But he does have a hot wife


/Subby

strangely absent from the list...

Osama beat out the dali lama by a beard-hair.

libbynomore2: I think Sarkozy will be extremely influential but I understand why based on history, you would dismiss France entirely.

This guy is different though.

And he has a hot wife.

The French have been doing their own thing in recent history, which may not be a bad thing. Interestingly though that the German and Japanese leaders don't figure higher having larger economies under their control compared to France, I suspect that what sets Sarkozy apart is his willingness to get involved in foreign affairs and pulling other European leaders along for the ride.

/If only that ride was his wife

46: The Dalai Lama
47: Oprah Winfrey

LOL.

yem_tex: #29 is my boss. Weird....

You report directly to Jamie Dimon?

Putin should have been higher up on the list

Really? I thought number 19 was the weirdest one. I didn't know that old guy who sings about beaches and margaritas and cheeseburgers would have so much influence. Even more than the Pope!

#26 scares me

List is bogus, I should be on there.

This list is incomplete without the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothchilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tets up.

Where the hell was this guy on that list?

steevmit: Sarkozy apart is his willingness to get involved in foreign affairs

Germany is dragging its ass. Angela Merkel runs the 3rd or 4th largest economy in the world -- the ranking should reflect that, not farking France. If they don't get their shiat together, it's not going to be good. Merkel seems to think it's 1982.

Life_Leeching_Cubicle:
strangely absent from the list...

He's the new leader of the underworld.
He kicked satan to the curb...

David Rockefeller didn't make the cut.

People who made the list don't know what they are talking about.

Thread over.

30-31 Friends of Barack

*snert*

Rootbzzr: This list is incomplete without the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothchilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tets up.

You left out the Free Masons.

Tho The Colonel can still inflict violent diarrhea from beyond the grave -- that's power ladies and gentleman.