Time Magazine Managing Richard Stengel unveiled President Obama as the Magazine's Person of the Year Today. He said it was remarkable that the president won two terms with over 50 percent of the popular vote as a Democrat. He also said that Obama took office in an economic crisis, and credited him with creating a new political "alignment like Ronald Reagan did forty years ago."
He will take the oath on Jan. 20 as the first Democrat in more than 75 years to get a majority of the popular vote twice. Only five other Presidents have done that in all of U.S. history.Time magazined announced eight finalists for 2012's Person of the Year on Tuesday. The finalists include: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for her crusade for better girls’ education; Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi; Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, Apple CEO Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and the three scientists who discovered the Higgs Boson particle.
There are many reasons for this, but the biggest by far are the nation’s changing demographics and Obama’s unique ability to capitalize on them. When his name is on the ballot, the next America — a younger, more diverse America — turns out at the polls.
This comes a week after Time readers selected North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an online poll as their choice for the Person of the Year. According to the magine Kander was chosen "because of his remarkable ability to capture the mood of a moment":
We chose Kander because of his remarkable ability to capture the mood of a moment. He has photographed some of the most iconic people of our time — from Sir Paul McCartney and Brad Pitt to Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, who is also featured in this issue. The two Obama portraits appearing in the issue are the first formal portraits of the President since his re-election.[HuffigntonPost]
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