By Howard Schneider
Longshot steamrolls into the White House, erasing racial barriers
in the process, rejuvenating America's image, and bringing
campaign organization into the Internet age.
Is there any surprise that President-elect Barack Obama is Time
magazine's Person of the Year for 2008? As the magazine says in
its main essay on the incoming commander-in chief, "He hit the
American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered
decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the
social pecking order."
The runners-up may have offered good sport. Like Obama overhauled
American politics, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. rewrote
the rules of American capitalism over the last year. And just like
Obama broke through a long unassailable barrier, Alaska Gov. and
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin pushed the
political envelope for women.
But overlook Obama for the likes of French President Nicolas
Sarkozy? Nah...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/12/17/obama_person_of_the_year.html?hpid=topnews
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