Time names Bush ‘Person of the Year’

US President George W.Bush’s bold, uncompromising leadership and his clear-cut election victory made him Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2004, its managing editor said on Sunday.

Time chose Bush ‘‘for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years,’’ Jim Kelly wrote in the magazine.

Bush was also Time’s choice to appear on the cover in 2000 after winning the presidential election despite losing the popular vote. ‘‘Obviously many supporters of the President will be pleased, many people who do not support the President will probably sigh,’’ Kelly said. ‘‘But even those who may not have voted for him will acknowledge that this is one of the more influential presidents of the last 50 years.’’ —Reuters