Kufour - More influential than Bush

.... Sarkozy, Putin, Condi Rice and Pope?
President Kufuor is on the list of the 100 most influential people in the world today, as a result of an internet poll conducted by TIME magazine. Kufuor placed 41st.

Top three were Korean pop sensation Rain (pictured below), American author Stephanie Meyer and Pop singer Britney Spears. American blogger and television personality Perez Hilton was 5th, Pop singer Madonna was 6th and Hillary Clinton 7th - one place ahead of her democratic rival Barak Obama.

This is what TIME wrote on Kufuor:
Having effected the first bloodless power transfer in Ghana since independence, Kufuor has the political capital to call Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe "embarrassing" and weigh in on Kenya's political unrest. For every Kufuor in Africa, it seems there are six Mugabes. Ghana's peace and relative prosperity don't seem to be having a steady domino effect on its neighbors.

George Bush, president of the world’s only remaining superpower, the United States, did not make the top 100. He placed 185th

Other significant world leaders fell behind Kufuor: French President Nikolay Sarkozy (placed 59), Russian President Vladimir Putin (68), Chinese President Hu, Iranian president Ahmadinajad (104) and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. US Republican presidential presumptive nominee John McCain (58), Condoleezza Rice, Pope Benedict XVI (87) and US FED Chairman Ben Bernanke were all beaten by the Ghanaian president...read

.... Sarkozy, Putin, Condi Rice and Pope?
President Kufuor is on the list of the 100 most influential people in the world today, as a result of an internet poll conducted by TIME magazine. Kufuor placed 41st.

Top three were Korean pop sensation Rain (pictured below), American author Stephanie Meyer and Pop singer Britney Spears. American blogger and television personality Perez Hilton was 5th, Pop singer Madonna was 6th and Hillary Clinton 7th - one place ahead of her democratic rival Barak Obama.

This is what TIME wrote on Kufuor:
Having effected the first bloodless power transfer in Ghana since independence, Kufuor has the political capital to call Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe "embarrassing" and weigh in on Kenya's political unrest. For every Kufuor in Africa, it seems there are six Mugabes. Ghana's peace and relative prosperity don't seem to be having a steady domino effect on its neighbors.

George Bush, president of the world’s only remaining superpower, the United States, did not make the top 100. He placed 185th

Other significant world leaders fell behind Kufuor: French President Nikolay Sarkozy (placed 59), Russian President Vladimir Putin (68), Chinese President Hu, Iranian president Ahmadinajad (104) and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. US Republican presidential presumptive nominee John McCain (58), Condoleezza Rice, Pope Benedict XVI (87) and US FED Chairman Ben Bernanke were all beaten by the Ghanaian president...read