Finally, a good choice, after several years of crap. However, the fact that the runners-up were Al Gore and JK Rowling (!?) indicates this may have just been dumb luck.
Good article, too.
Putin scares the hell out of me. There’s something kind of cold and inhuman, almost robotic, about him.
Again?
Well, you know, what has he done for me lately?
Always a bridesmaid.
Other runners up were Hu Jintao and David Petraeus.
So the runner-up was Hu?
Yes
I’m asking you his name
Hu
The runner-up
Hu is the runner-up
What are you asking me for?
I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Hu is the runner-up.
I’m asking YOU. What’s the name of the runner-up?
I already told you, What’s the name of…
Didn’t I see a picture of him reading a Time magazine where he was last years person of the year too?
You’ve got to be Putin me on…
<makes quick exit>
Why exit? You’ve got us all Rowling in the aisles!
He may have enough control of the media over there to have won it last year.
“Seriously,” the winner last year was “You.” So in that sense I guess Putin has indeed won it two years in a row.
Whooosh.
What was the joke?
You already said it.
Speaking on behalf of You, meaning Me (my picture was in this silver box on the cover and everything!) I relinquish my throne with grace, hesitating only slightly because frankly the dude scares me.
In Russia, Man is Time’s Putin of the Year.
Hey look everyone, it’s Yoda Smirnoff! 
Ah, that Pooty-Poot. What will he think of next?
Damn. I was so hoping to repeat.
I hope this’ll motivate more people to learn more about this guy. The evidence against him is mounting: Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser; A Russian Diary by Anna Politkovskaya [published posthumously], etc.