You can cut the irony with a chainsaw.
This "Participation Award" for being a media darling is not new for Barack Obama. Remember he won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing more than being elected President of the United States.
The irony reaches a disturbing level when Time's managing editor, Richard Stengel said, "We are in the midst of historical cultural and demographic changes, and Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America,"
Wasn't Adolph Hitler the architect of a new Germany? Here is the front cover of 1938's Time Magazine with the 1938 Man of the Year on the cover:
