Time Magazine's Poll

Time's fiftieth annual poll of its readers, as to the most influential world personality, appeared in this week's issue. In 2nd place was a South Korean singer, and in 158th place was the president of the United States. No matter what your opinion of President Bush may be, he is still president of the United States, the most powerful nation in the world.

I must admit to being surprised, but not shocked. Powerful, or advanced nations, tend to have little interest in those they consider less powerful or advanced, although I do think they tend to have more respect for their leaders. The results, however, show us something else, the interests of the voters. The interest of a great majority of the voters, is with popular entertainers, not politicians or religious figures, especially when we see that the maker of Nintendo video games garnered almost 2 million votes.

The worrying thing for me is that it is, I expect, from a similar body of voters will come the next president of the United States.