Person of the Year 2008 – TIME

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.

[…] It is here that we find Barack Obama one soul-freezingly cold December day, mentally unpacking the crate of crushing problems — some old, some new, all ugly — that he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States. Most of his hours inside the presidential-transition office are spent in this bland and bare-bones room. You would think the President-elect — a guy who draws 100,000 people to a speech in St. Louis, Mo., who raises three-quarters of a billion dollars, who is facing the toughest first year since Franklin Roosevelt’s — might merit a leather chair. Maybe a credenza? A hutch?

No es sorpresa que Time haya nombrado a Obama como la persona del año. Pues se mandó durante las primarias y las elecciones. El trabajo monumental que lo espera es para inspirar o dar miedo. Creo que Obama tiene el temperamento y la cordura para enfrentar este gran reto que le hace la historia.

¡Felicidades al presidente electo Barack!

El mejor elogio que le puedan dar de ahora en adelante será el de ‘uno de los mejores presidentes de la historia’. Y esto, sí que habrá que ponerlo en todas las revistas habidas y por haber.