Person Of The Year 2008-Barack Obama

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Obama At Occidental College 1980,Photo By Lisa Jack Time Magazine

Well good people we saw it coming. Barack Obama being declared by Time Magazine as the 2008 person of the year. This accolade goes out the man who transformeed a simple sentence,combination of words like"yes we can",to a mantra,a rallying call for change.A man intent on not only changing the U.S.A ,where he is the interim C.E.O pending confirmation on January 20th to be POTUS 44th, but also keen on changing the world.

Time Cover December 2008.

He held an exhaustive interview with the Time Magazine reporter and the reports was titled ,Six Degrees Of Barack Obama, where he spoke about and elucidated his vision for America and for the world here are some notable excerpts and insights into the mind of America's 44th President

"It is not clear that the economy's bottomed out,"

Obama sits down on one of the mesh chairs and launches into a spoken tour of his world of woes. It's a mind-boggling journey, although he shows no signs of being boggled — unless you count the increasingly prevalent salt in his salt-and-pepper hair. By now we are all accustomed to that Obi-Wan Kenobi calm, though we may never entirely understand it. In a soothing monotone, he highlights the scariest hairpin turns on his itinerary, the ones that combine difficulty with danger plus a jolt of existential risk.

"It is not clear that the economy's bottomed out," he begins, understatedly. (The morning newspaper trumpets the worst unemployment spike in more than 30 years.) "And so even if we take a whole host of the right steps in terms of the economy, two years from now it may not have fully recovered." That worries him. Also Afghanistan: "We're going to have to make a series of not just military but also diplomatic moves that fully enlist Pakistan as an ally in that region, that lessen tensions between India and Pakistan, and then get everybody focused on rooting out militancy in a terrain, a territory, that is very tough — and in an enormous country that is one of the poorest and least developed in the world. So that, I think, is going to be a very tough situation.

"And then the third thing that keeps me up at night is the issue of nuclear proliferation," Obama continues, sailing on through the horribles. "And then the final thing, just to round out my Happy List, is climate change. All the indicators are that this is happening faster than even the most pessimistic scientists were anticipating a couple of years ago."

Well we can only wish our man the best of luck as he attempts to bring change to the world, and if you ask me if he can pull it off?, my answer offcourse is Yes He Can.

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