He’s the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, the most powerful person on the planet.
But President Bush doesn’t have enough juice to make Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. For the first time in the four years Time has been compiling the list, Bush didn’t make the cut.
“We felt that he has lost much of the influence he once had,” Time’s deputy managing editor, Adi Ignatius, said Thursday. “Democrats now control both the House and Senate, and he has lost support from many of the United States’ traditional allies and even from many prominent Republicans.”
The White House did not return a call for comment. Adding insult to injury, Time included Al Gore – the man Bush defeated in the disputed 2000 presidential election. Even a fake journalist, “Borat” buffoon Sasha Baron Cohen, was deemed list-worthy.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made it, but Rudy Giuliani didn’t. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is on the list – but not Bill.
“American Idol” creator Simon Fuller is also on it. So is Osama bin Laden. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the list as well.
Time Magazine’s 100 most influential:
Leaders and Revolutionaries
King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia
Peter Akinola, archbishop, Nigeria
Mohamed Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, president, Sudan
Osama bin Laden
Michael Bloomberg, mayor, New York City
Raul Castro, acting president, Cuba
Hillary Clinton, U.S. senator from New York
Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom
Sonia Gandhi, chair, Indian National Congress Party
Hu Jintao, president, China
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Iran
Liu Qi, chief, Beijing Olympic Committee
Tzipi Livni, foreign minister, Israel
Angela Merkel, chancellor, Germany
Barack Obama, U.S. senator from Illinois
Nancy Pelosi, speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
David Petraeus, commanding general, U.S. Army
Pope Benedict XVI
Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state
John Roberts, chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor, California
Builders and Titans
Bernard Arnault, French businessman
Richard Branson, chief executive, Virgin Group Ltd.
Rhonda Byrne, author, “The Secret”
Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, founders, YouTube
Steve Cohen, hedge fund manager
Clara Furse, chief executive, London Stock Exchange
Ho Ching, chief executive, Temasek Holdings Pte.
Steve Jobs, founder and chief executive, Apple Inc.
Ken Lewis, chief executive, Bank of America Corp.
Erik Lie, finance professor, University of Iowa
Pony Ma, founder and chief executive, Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Lakshmi Mittal, chief executive, Arcelor
Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer, Nintendo Co.
Michael Moritz, investor, Sequoia Capital Ltd.
Indra Nooyi, CEO, PepsiCo Inc.
Cyril Ramaphosa, South African union leader
Philip Rosedale, founder, Second Life
Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive, Blackstone Group
Katsuaki Watanabe, chief executive, Toyota Motor Corp.
Artists and Entertainers
Cate Blanchett, actress
Sacha Baron Cohen, actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
Alber Elbaz, creative director, Lanvin
America Ferrera, actress
Tina Fey, actress and writer
Simon Fuller, creator, “American Idol”
Brian Grazer, producer
John Mayer, musician
David Mitchell, author
Kate Moss, fashion model
Yossou N’Dour, musician
Anna Netrebko, opera singer
Rosie O’Donnell, comedian and talk show host
Brad Pitt, actor
Shonda Rhimes, actress and writer
Nora Roberts, romance novelist
Rick Rubin, music producer
Martin Scorsese, director
Justin Timberlake, musician
Kara Walker, artist
Brian Williams, anchor, NBC Nightly News
Scientists and Thinkers
Paul Allen, philanthropist and co-founder, Microsoft Corp.
Chris Anderson, author, “Long Tail”
Elizabeth Blackburn, researcher, UCSF
Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, Oxford University
Frans de Waal, chimpanzee researcher
Al Gore, environmental activist and former U.S. vice president
Monty Jones, agricultural researcher
John Mather, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist
Douglas Melton, stem cell researcher, Harvard University
Steven Nissen, cardiac researcher, Cleveland Clinic
T.C. Onstatt, geoscientist, Princeton University
Svante Paabo, paleogeneticist, Max Planck Institute
Lisa Randall, string theorist, Harvard University
Klaus Schwab, founder, World Economic Forum
Kari Stefansson, genomics researcher
Alan Stern, planetary scientist, NASA
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, director, Hayden Planetarium
Craig Venter, founder, Institute for Genomic Research
Nora Volkow, director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Heroes and Pioneers
Maher Arar, rendition survivor
Wesley Autrey, New York City subway hero
Tyra Banks, talk show host and model
Warren Buffett, businessman and philanthropist
Youk Chhang, executive director, Documentation Center of Cambodia
George Clooney, actor, director and activist
Tony Dungy, coach, Indianapolis Colts
Elizabeth Edwards, cancer activist
Drew Gilpin Faust, newly appointed president, Harvard University
Roger Federer, tennis star
Michael J. Fox, actor and stem-cell advocate
Timothy Gittins, decorated U.S. soldier
Thiery Henry, French soccer star
Garry Kasparov, Russian chessmaster
Amr Khaled, Egyptian televangelist
Judith McKay, anti-tobacco activist, World Health Organization
Chien-ming Wang, pitcher, New York Yankees
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and philanthropist
Zeng Jinyan, Chinese blogger
