Time magazine asks who will be their person of the year as if anyone has any doubts. A better question would be: when will Barack Obama stop being Time’s person of the year? I’m thinking 2017.

Update: A bunch of readers think the above is overly bitter. All I can tell you is that I wasn’t bitter in the slightest when I wrote it. For the record, I think Obama is the obvious pick for person of the year (barring some cure for cancer or some such in the next couple months). What I objected to was Time’s cutsey schtick — which I always complain about in one form or another — suggesting that it’s really an open question who will get the PTOY honor this year.