Time magazine has named the re-elected President Obama its "Person of the Year" for 2012.
Time magazine has named the re-elected President Obama its "Person of the Year" for 2012.
"For
finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into
opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more
perfect union, Barack Obama is TIME's 2012 Person of the Year," writes
editor Richard Stengel.
The runners-up: Pakistan women's rights
activist Malala Yousafzai (who was seriously wounded in an attack by the
Taliban), Apple CEO Tim Cook, Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi, and Higgs
boson physicist Fabiola Gianotti
In a profile of Obama that includes an interview with the president, Time's Michael Scherer writes"
"In
mid-December, as Obama settles into one of the Oval Office's
reupholstered chairs -- brown leather instead of Bush's blue and gold
candy stripes -- the validation of Election Day still hovers around him,
suggesting that his second four years in office may turn out to be
quite different from his first.
"Beyond the Oval Office,
overwhelming challenges remain: deadlocked fiscal-cliff talks; a Federal
Reserve that predicts years of high unemployment; and more unrest in
places like Athens, Cairo and Damascus. But the President seems unbound
and gives inklings of an ambition he has kept in check ever since he
arrived at the White House to find a nation in crisis.
"He leans
back, tea at his side, legs crossed, to explain what he thinks just
happened. 'It was easy to think that maybe 2008 was the anomaly,' he
says. 'And I think 2012 was an indication that, no, this is not an
anomaly. We've gone through a very difficult time. The American people
have rightly been frustrated at the pace of change, and the economy is
still struggling, and this President we elected is imperfect. And yet
despite all that, this is who we want to be.'
"He smiles. 'That's a good thing.'"
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