President Obama re-election feat makes him TIME Person of the Year
US President Barack Obama was named TIME 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” Wednesday program.
“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% 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.
Obama edged out Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, for the honor, Stengel said.
Other finalists included Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and scientist Fabiola Gianotti, he added.
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How is a country superpower when it lacks the power to determine its own foreign policy in the MidEast and elsewhere ..
Such a country is not a superpower..It is a puppet state...!
It takes a citizen of a Nazi dictatorship to comment on a Zionist plot? Ha, ha, ha.
Pot and kettle?
The US should divorce itself from the “special relationship” it has with Israel and adopt a far more balanced view of the Israel - Palestine question. Without doing this it will not and cannot be seen as “ the last best hope of earth” by the population of the world.
The only FACTS about the Palestinian situation are these:
1) HAMAS are in charge (they bamboozled the Palestinians) and they want to KILL all the Israelis;
2) If the Israelis lay down their weapons HAMAS would kill them;
3) If HAMAS put down their weapons (and stopped firing rockets into Israel) there WOULD BE PEACE.
Try understanding that for a start.
We do understand that the U.S. gov seeks to support stability in the ME.
It is the poor American South that are behind Israel no questions asked. Israel is necessary for their superstitious Christian prediction for where Jesus digs himself out of the Earth again.
Did you stop for just a minute to think what would Hamas, Hizbulla Iran and others would do to israel if they only could? Look what they do to each other in Syria, Pakistan Iraq and so on. This is why Israel needs the US and many more supporters. Israel has the right to be just like you do. Your opinion incites genocide. But weren't we talking about ARA Libertad? How did Israel come into this? Of course Israel is the culprit! (What a stupidity!) last week the UNGA took 21 resolutions against Israel, and another 4 related to the rest of the world. Syria is not even mentioned in none of them. So what do you expect from such a court? Teaching the world that a commitment is just as good as you want it to be. Isn't the Libertad part of the debtor's assets? Why can't it be forfeited? The Turkish Marmara is more of a battleship then the Libertad.
The article is about Time selecting President Obama as man of the year. Emerald commented on the irony of the US subservience to Israel. Nothing to do with “ARA Libertad”. Please do try to keep up.
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