東區 英文 | 美國總統歐巴馬 登上TIME雜誌年度封面人物
TIME Magazine named President Obama “Person of the Year” for 2012, characterizing the president as a central player in the nation’s evolution.
“We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes,” said TIME managing editor Richard Stengel in announcing the choice on Dec. 19, “and Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America.” He was the magazine’s choice for the same title in 2008, the year of his first presidential win.
Obama became the first Democratic president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to win more than 50 percent of the vote in consecutive elections, and he accomplished that despite an unemployment rate of more than 7.5 percent.
The re-election victory showed "the Obama effect was not ephemeral anymore, no longer reducible to what had once been mocked as that 'hopey-changey stuff,'" wrote TIME's Michael Scherer in the accompanying cover story.
"It could be measured in wars stopped and started; industries saved, restructured or reregulated; tax cuts extended; debt levels inflated; terrorists killed; the health-insurance system reimagined; and gay service members who could walk in uniform with their partners. It could be seen in the new faces who waited hours to vote and in the new ways campaigns are run. America debated and decided this year: history would not record Obama’s presidency as a fluke."
The win has seemingly emboldened the president. Once criticized for being too retiring, Obama seems more unflinching in his demands of Congress; his legislative aspirations are more ambitious, encompassing immigration, climate change, gun control and prison reform; and the leader who became famous for his preternatural calm, has twice cried publicly, most recently in reaction to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“It was easy to think that maybe 2008 was the anomaly,” he told Time. “And I think 2012 was an indication that, no, this is not an anomaly. We’ve gone through a very difficult time. The American people have rightly been frustrated at the pace of change, and the economy is still struggling, and this president we elected is imperfect. And yet despite all that, this is who we want to be. That’s a good thing.”
The competition for the title was formidable. Earlier this month, TIME’s online readers selected North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un as their choice for Person of the Year. Others on the short list of candidates included: Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani women's rights activist who survived after being shot in the head and neck in an attempted execution by the Taliban; Apple CEO Tim Cook; Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi; and particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who is credited with refining the understanding of the nature of the universe.
Still, it seemed, Obama’s “transformative politics” won out.
“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.”
美國時代雜誌19日宣布該刊的2012年年度風雲人物──美國總統歐巴馬，該刊說明歐巴馬入選的理由是：在失業率高漲、人口組成改變及其他多項挑戰的背景下連任成功，極具歷史意義。
時代雜誌總編輯史丹吉爾19日在國家廣播公司電視節目「今天」中，宣布評選結果。史丹吉爾說：「歐巴馬基本上是新美國的創建者及受惠者，這種新指的是人口組成及文化，現在他就象徵新美國。」
時代雜誌封面的刊頭通常是紅色，並加紅框，這次卻罕見地以黑白封面呈現年度風雲人物，照片中的歐巴馬正在凝思，擺出如雕像般的酷樣。這期封面為何為黑白，已引起網路熱烈討論。該刊攝影師坎德解釋說：「我們為高知名度的人物拍照，最大的挑戰是不讓他們的知名度搶了風采，我要拍有意義的照片，反映他一生中的停格和他的慈悲。」
時代雜誌說：「歐巴馬在2012年打造出一個嶄新的多數族群，他把劣勢變成機會，且在逆境中創造出更理想的美國。」
史丹吉爾還說，儘管面臨70年來前所未見的高失業率，歐巴馬仍連任成功，他是1940年以來唯一一位在全美失業率高於7.5%時仍能連任成功的總統，也是第一個以50%以上得票率連贏兩屆的民主黨籍總統。時代雜誌第二次將歐巴馬選為年度風雲人物，前一次是2008年。
歐巴馬接受時代雜誌訪問時表示：「當選連任也許比第一次當選還令人滿意。我們度過艱難時期，美國人民對改變的速度感到沮喪，經濟仍不好，我們選的這位總統不完美，但儘管如此，他是我們想要的。這是件好事。」
今年時代雜誌的年度風雲人物評選過程中，在最後階段入圍的其他人選還包括：遭神學士殺手槍擊頭部的巴基斯坦14歲女學生瑪拉拉．尤沙夫賽、埃及總統穆希、美國前總統柯林頓及國務卿希拉蕊．柯林頓、雅虎執行長梅爾、蘋果公司執行長庫克、希格斯玻色子及三名發現這種粒子的科學家。
資料參考：
每日郵報
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-time-person-year-article-1.1223413
聯合報
http://udn.com/NEWS/WORLD/WOR6/7578799.shtml
AFRO新聞網
http://www.afro.com/sections/news/afro_briefs/story.htm?storyid=77040
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