Time magazine names President Barack Obama as its ‘Person of the Year'
Wed. December 19, 2012 10:33 AM by GoPride.com News Staff
President Barack Obama is the first president to endorse gay marriage
Time magazine on Wednesday named President Barack Obama as its person of the year for 2012.
"For finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union, Barack Obama is Time's 2012 Person of the Year," writes editor Richard Stengel.
The runners-up included Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager seriously wounded in an attack by the Taliban, Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.
Obama, who became the first president to endorse gay marriage, received an overwhelming majority of the gay vote in November to win a second term by defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Obama also received Time's ‘Person of the Year' in 2008, when he was President-elect.
"For finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union, Barack Obama is Time's 2012 Person of the Year," writes editor Richard Stengel.
The runners-up included Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager seriously wounded in an attack by the Taliban, Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.
Obama, who became the first president to endorse gay marriage, received an overwhelming majority of the gay vote in November to win a second term by defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Obama also received Time's ‘Person of the Year' in 2008, when he was President-elect.