1. Barack Obama
2. George W. Bush
3. Michael Phelps
4. Hillary Rodham Clinton
5. Vladimir Putin
6. Bono
7. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
8. Sarah Palin
9. John McCain
10. Beyonce (The R&B singer)
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
"As America mothballs the shuttle, relying on Russian rockets to get our astronauts back up to a space station we built, China is putting men into space and heading for the moon."
-- A dwindling America, as described by conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan, who also sees fit to point out that Chinese auto production has quintupled since 2001, the country now producing more cars than Germany and likely to exceed the United States in 2009.