Obama named Time’s Person of the Year
The Associated Press
-posted Dec 19, 2012 9:34 AM ET – last
updated: Dec 19, 2012 10:49 AM
The Person of the Year award is given out
by time magazine to a “person or thing that has most influenced the culture and
the news during the past pear for good or for ill”. This has been given out to
a number of people in the past, including Ben Bernanke (The Federal Reserve
chairman, Bono, Predident George W. Bush, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder and
CEO), Mala Yousafzai (Pakistani teenager shot in the head for advocating girls’
education), Mohamed Morsi (Egyptian president), FabiolaGainnati (Italian
physicist), and Time Cook (Apple CEO).
Now the honour is given to the current US
President, Barack Obama who is, according to time editor Rick Stengel, “both the
symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America”. The new America he
is referring to is the one currently in the “midst of historic cultural and
demographic changes”. When Obama had an interview with Time, he stated that his
re-election “may have been more satisfying a win that 2008”.
I understand that the re-election is a very
satisfying win because of the pace of change and the economic situation. I
think its good that Obama was not seen entirely as the cause for this slow pace
and that his hopes are still carried in others hearts. I really hope that laws
are put in place about guns and that the change he has been looking for shows
itself in some major ways soon. The
person of the year award is given to someone who affected the nation, regardless
if it was in a good or bad way, and I think that Obama has helped America in a
good way and will continue to do so while he’s in office, hopefully just more
swiftly.
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