Barrack Obama, has been named from Time mags as Person of the Year 2008. Some people said he is too young to be a leader of superpower US and less experience but the fact is he a a winner of long battle for US president election. He became time man of the year after beat Sarah Palin who finished in second place.
Sarah Palin won second place along with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Chinese director Zhang Yimou as runners-up.
Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time said picked Obama has been constant presence and beeing in news coverage for whole year, and has been winner of president US election in “periolous” and “critical” situation in history of American.