Washington (CNN) -- A year ago,
President Barack Obama was under fire.
Today, he is being feted.
In just 12 months, the 51-year-old lawyer
and former U.S. senator raised by a single
mother went from a beleaguered
candidate for re-election -- his record and
signature health care law under daily
attack by Republican rivals -- to being the
first Democrat to win more than 50% of a
presidential vote twice since Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Now the nation's first African-American
president is CNN's Most Intriguing Person
of 2012, as voted on by readers of
CNN.com , five days after being named
Time's Person of the Year.
Second most intriguing: Malala Yousufzai:
The girl the Taliban wanted dead
Explaining Time's choice, Executive Editor
Richard Stengel cited Obama "for finding
and forging a new majority, for turning
weakness into opportunity and for
seeking, amid great adversity, to create a
more perfect union."
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