Shocker: Time Names The Messiah 'Person of the Year'

In an unexpected move, they've announced he'll be Person of the Year, Person of the Decade, Person of the Century, Person of the Millenium and Person Who Can Forever Walk on Water.

In a surprise to no one, Time magazine named President-elect Barack Obama its "Person of the Year" for 2008.

The magazine said Obama "has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago."

The runners-up for the annual award were Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson; French president Nicolas Sarkozy; Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin; and the Chinese film director, Zhang Yimou, who orchestrated the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.