Obama named ‘Person of the Year’ | BBC News
December 18, 2008 by The Gentleman
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$100 bucks says he wins a Nobel prize before he’s done.
Time magazine has given its annual Person of the Year award to US President-elect Barack Obama.
Mr Obama was awarded the title “for having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour,” said the US-based magazine.
It said he showed “the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off”. Read more