Time Picks Obama

President-elect Barack Obama is Time's Person of the Year. Obama sounds so much better than past picks, including "You," as in everybody, and Vladamir Putin.

Putin was just a bad choice, and You was too conceptual. Obama survived a long presidential campaign and emerged as the perferred candidate of change, making Americans feel optimistic again in the wake of $4 gas and a historic financial crunch. Obama as Person of the Year makes perfect sense. Time nailed the obvious. Regardless of the man's politics, winning is winning.

If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, she could have easily been Person of the Year. John McCain or Mike Huckabee could have, too. But they had to win to do it. They didn't. Obama did. Now he gets to enjoy the spoils.