Obama: Americans Have Rightly Been Frustrated at Pace of Change

December 19, 2012 Magazine Covers

President Barack Obama is Time magazine’s Person of the Year! According to Editor Rick Stengel, the publication chose Obama because, “We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes, and Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America.”

Obama: Americans Have Rightly Been Frustrated at Pace of Change
Time
The President opened up to the magazine about the election, his legacy and more.

He said, “I think it was easy to think that maybe 2008 was the anomaly, and I think 2012 was an indication that, no, this is not an anomaly.”

Obama added, “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."

Despite the struggles, he has high hopes for the future and wants future generations to look back at his team as the ones who “steered this ship of state so that we once again had an economy that worked for everybody; that we had laid the foundation for broad-based prosperity; and that internationally we had created the framework for continued American leadership in the world throughout the 21st century."

The Time’s Person of the Year issue hits newsstands on Dec. 21.

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Brandt
156 days ago

Despite all odds, our President prevailed in gaining re-election. He still has an uphill battle fighting a Red House which has blocked his every move in an attempt to squash his goals of bringing the Middle Class equal pay, women’s rights, gay rights and affordable healthcare. The Bush Administration drove our economy into a swift nose dive and Obama is still the patsy. Watch conservative hands paint him in Blackface with a visual commentary of how Barack has been bamboozled at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/bamboozling-ob...

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