In 2006 it was "You" as in us, in 2007, it was Vladmir Putin.
Here's what's going to be one of Time's best selling magazines. There are "long-lost" black and white college photos that are kind of cool-- republican scoundrels would've loved to have had them during the campaign because he's ---gasp ---smoking.
Time has some interesting stories such as B-Ball with Barack.
Sarah Palin was a runner up (blech), along with Nicolas Sarkozy (good one), Henry Paulson (yuck) and Zhang Yimou, who coordinated the opening ceremonies at the Olympics (eh).
Politico:
Politico:
BREAKING -- Hang onto the straps of your breakfast nooks. (Jack Carmody homage.) Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel did his Person of the Year 'reveal' on NBC's 'Today' show and it is ... Barack Obama. 'Really?!' Meredith Vieira quipped. Stengel: 'The Person of the Year was in effect INVENTED for Barack Obama. He's a transformational figure. He's done something extraordinary: He's made some promises that he's actually kept already. ... Look, we thought about possibly giving it to the American voter for ELECTING Barack Obama. The economy, for tipping the scales in his favor. But, ultimately, he is the QUINTESSENTIAL Person of the Year.'
In an interview, Obama tells Time:
--'On what 'change' means to him: 'I don't think that Americans want hubris from their next President ... [But] I do think that we received a strong mandate for change. And I know that people have said, 'Well, what does this CHANGE mean?' ... It means a government that is not ideologically driven. It means a government that is competent. It means a government, most importantly, that is focused day in, day out on the needs and struggles, the hopes and dreams of ordinary people.'
--On the economy: 'If we make some good choices, I'm confident that we can limit some of the damage in 2009. And that in 2010 we can start seeing an upward trajectory on the economy.'
Stengel writes in his Letter to Readers: 'Our cover portrait is by the street artist Shepard Fairey whose roots are in the skateboarding world and whose early poster of then Senator Obama became the great populist image of the campaign. ... We open our Person of the Year package with a dazzling array of images culled from those created by thousands of individuals from around the world and posted on the image-sharing site Flickr. Obama always said his candidacy was not about him, but 'all of you,' and now, along with Flickr, we're helping to give 'all of you' a voice.'
