Regardless of how you personally feel about Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Fed who is being targeted by vocal activists both from the left and the right. In its article explaining why it chose Mr. Bernanke as Person of the Year, TIME magazine succinctly sums up how the economy has been saved by the efforts of the Obama administration:

“[Bernanke's] creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression…”

Its such s shame that the average layman on the street who is busy bellowing at tea-bags and telling “morans” to get a brain can’t understand the obvious fact that our economy would be in much, much worse shape if their beloved Sarah Palin was sitting in on White House meetings. At least TIME magazine gets it…