Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterTime's Person of the Year: Barack Obama
Published 12/17/2008 by CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney at CNN Political Ticker
Time's person of the year is Barack Obama.
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.
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