Obama Named Time Magazine 'Person of the Year'

You probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance.There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish.To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude. You can't quite put your finger on it ...
"It's like the set of The Office," someone offers.
Bingo.
It is here that we find Barack Obama one soul-freezingly cold December day, mentally unpacking the crate of crushing problems — some old, some new, all ugly — that he is about to inherit as the 44th President of the United States.....

To read more go to:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068,00.html PS:I couldn't stomach the whole article....If you would like to read it all click on the URL above....and enjoy....(sigh.....)
As in the days of Noah....