Barack Obama is TIME's Person of the Year 2008
In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who
are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States. Time magazine's
18 December, 2008
For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year.
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