Kenji Jasper, BET.com
- Whether it’s here at BET.com or somewhere else on the Web, editors spend the last month of each year trying to paint a picture of what the year was all about for their readers or viewers.
For the most part, 2008 has been Barack Obama’s year, a year that brought the kind of change most people never dreamed would happen in their lifetimes. But one Unlikely magazine feels the real victor this year has been Hillary Clinton.
KING Magazine, theHip Hop-flavored, self-proclaimed “Illest Magazine Ever,” has voted former Democratic front-runner and soon to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton as its “Person of the Year”, over Barack Obama and a number of other hopefuls.
Citing a variety of factors, from Hillary pressing the minority community to go out and vote early on, her health care proposals, her leadership as a woman and her ability to hold her own in the political battle of her life, KING, a magazine with a huge African American and hip hop-oriented readership, feels that Hilary was the hardest working person in politics this year. Are they right? Are they wrong? More importantly, how could they have come to this conclusion in the middle of the 24/7 “Obama Watch” we’ve all been living through since November?
