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Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama named TIME magazine's Person of the Year
2012-12-20
Along with such illustrious predecessors as Adolf Hitler in 1938, and Joseph Stalin in 1939 and again in 1942, and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979
President Barack Obama was named TIME's Person of the Year for 2012, citing his historic re-election last month as symbolic of the nation's changing demographics amid the backdrop of high unemployment and other challenges.

TIME editor Rick Stengel announced the choice on NBC's "Today" program on Wednesday.

"He's basically the beneficiary and the author of a kind new America - a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of," he said.

"He won re-election despite a higher unemployment rate than anybody's had to face in basically in 70 years. He's the first Democrat to actually win two consecutive terms with over 50 percent of the vote. That's something we haven't seen since Franklin Delano Roosevelt," Stengel said, citing the president who served during the Great Depression and World War Two.
Posted by:tipper

#9  Airandee wins the thread! :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2012-12-20 20:38  

#8  Time decided ths year to randomly select the reason the year from their subscriber list. Obama had a 50/50 shot.
Posted by: Airandee   2012-12-20 20:34  

#7  Ah, so THATS an assault magazine.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-12-20 16:36  

#6  "He's basically the beneficiary and the author of a kind new America - a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of, of a Media which is so far in the tank for him that it has a standing order for kneepads and doesn't even bother to wipe it's mouth off afterwards anymore."

FIFY

And like FDR he's making the economic situation even worse.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-12-20 16:20  

#5  "Person of the year"?

Sure that's not "Poison of the year"?
Posted by: Barbara   2012-12-20 13:44  

#4  About as bad as LIFE magazine and its worship of the Kennedys.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2012-12-20 13:03  

#3  I heard Time's renaming it the Barack Obama Award.
Tell ya the truth, considering the source, I thought this was his fifth in a row...
Posted by: tu3031   2012-12-20 11:42  

#2  "Person of the year?" A genderless designation. That is so PC.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-12-20 10:02  

#1  No worries Tipper! Future electronic voting as well as exit polling will be simplified by the use of serialized EBT cards.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-12-20 09:37  

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