World's Most Powerful

Forbes Magazine has released its list of the World's Most Powerful People:

1) Barack Obama - United States President
2) Hu Jintao - President People's Republic of China
3) Vladimir Putin - Prime Minister Russia
4) Ben Bernanke - Chairman Federal Reserve
5) Sergey Brin and Larry Page - Google Founders
6) Carlos Slim - CEO Telmex
7) Rupert Murdoch - Chairman News Corp
8) Michael Duke - CEO Wal-Mart
9) Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud - King Saudi Arabia
10 ) Bill Gates - Microsoft Founder & Former CEO

My Thoughts:

- Carlos Slim is a relatively unknown person to most Americans even though he is the 3rd richest man in the world and basically runs the the entire telecommunications industry in Mexico

- At first glance I thought the Google founders were too high on this list, upon further review, they might not be high enough.

- Will the President of China eclipse the President of the United States on this power list in my lifetime? I have to think that the odds are higher than one might think.