President Obama is TIME Person of the Year 2012

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  • December 19, 2012 at 10:05 am
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President Barack Obama is TIME Person of the Year 2012. This is his second time to be honored by the magazine.

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From TODAY:

President Barack Obama is TIME magazine’s iconic Person of the Year, managing editor Rick Stengel revealed Wednesday as he unveiled the 2012 cover on TODAY.

“He’s basically the beneficiary and the author of a kind of a New America, a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of,” Stengel said.

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drufyre
drufyre

Writer Stengel is demented.  O is author of a New America??    

The choice is meaningless anyway.  Winners of presidential elections are generally that years Person of the Year.  W was selected in 2000 and 2004.  Just sayin'. 

jbeee
jbeee

On the radio I heard it was because he was the first Democrat to be re-elected President in decades. My first thought was "Clinton was a Republican?"

aquayers
aquayers like.author.displayName 1 Like

@jbeee maybe it means reelected with majority. Meaning=more than 50% of the votes.

Mikhail XO
Mikhail XO moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

Good choice! Not sure I agree with their reasoning...but it's no mistake-- he deserved the honour  :)

MyTryst
MyTryst like.author.displayName 1 Like

Congratulations Mr. President! Your conviction humbles me.