-Adapted from Huffington Post
President Barack Obama has been named Time's Person of the Year.
Managing Richard Stengel unveiled the magazine's choice on Wednesday's "Today." He said it was remarkable that the president is a Democrat who won two terms with over 50 percent of the popular vote. He also credited Obama with creating a new political "alignment like Ronald Reagan did forty years ago."
"I think we'll start to see him talking from the heart about things he really cares about," Stengel predicted.
Time's Person of the Year is an annual tradition. Last year, the magazine chose "the protestor" in recognition of demonstrations all over the world, including Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and the anarchists in Greece.
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Time named the eight finalists for 2012's Person of the Year on Tuesday. They included: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for her crusade for better girls’ education; Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi; Bill and Hillary Clinton, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, Apple CEO Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and the three scientists who discovered the Higgs Boson particle.
Last week, Time readers made their choice for Person of the Year, selecting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an online poll.
