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| THE PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2008 ON RRI |
| (2009-01-01) |
| Last updated: 2009-02-09 14:04 EET |
Here are some of the nominees: the governor of the National Bank of Romania Mugur Isarescu, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, former hostage and runner in the Columbian presidential race Ingrid Betancourt, the Dalai Lama, the world famous writer of the “Harry Potter” series J.K. Rowling, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Romania’s President Traian Basescu and outgoing Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu.
As 2008 was an Olympic year, many of you nominated not only Romanian Olympic champions like judoka Alina Dumitru, marathon-runner Constantina Dita-Tomescu, or woman gymnast Sandra Izbasa, but also US multiple Olympic champion, swimmer Michael Phelps. Artists and singers were also in the focus of attention and got two nominations. Your choices were two Romanian musical phenomena, 5 year singer Cleopatra Stratan and self-taught tenor Costel Busuoic, now living in Spain.
But the personality of the year 2008 on RRI comes from the political world. Almost two thirds of our respondents nominated…THE US PRESIDENT ELECT, BARACK OBAMA.
Akkilou Yacoubou of Benin explains: ”His being elected president of the US, although he is an Afro-American, has left a mark on the world. Additionally, he showed a lot of determination to get there. He turned <> into <>. He is the personality of the year, because he embodies the hope of the entire world right now”.
For Andrea Lucarini of Italy, Obama “represents renewal and peace”.
Luo Xiaofen of the People’s Republic of China writes: ”I nominate the US president elect, Barack Obama. He can bring hope to the US and luck to the whole world!”.
And Martin Rogan of Lockerbie, Scotland in Great Britain explains: ”I would be surprised if Barack Obama is not the overwhelming choice as Personality of the Year. For a black man to win the presidential nomination from a major U.S. party is epoch-making in itself but to go on and win the presidency by what, for a Democrat, is a very decisive margin, demonstrates how much the attitudes of American voters have changed in my lifetime. Obama is a remarkable figure in himself but he is also representative of what I hope is a new U.S.A. A great many hopes rest on him. (The American electorate has made history by electing Barack Obama).”
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