Time magazine included Gabrielle Giffords in its list of the 100 most influential people of 2011. President Obama, also on the list, wrote the tribute to Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot wound she suffered during the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson.
Here is what is being said by others about the list and those who appear on it:
CNN, The 1600 Report blog: TIME 100 list: Obama honors Giffords
Injured Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is among the one hundred people selected by TIME magazine for its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2011. President Barack Obama who also made that list, but well below Giffords' top 20 rank, wrote the tribute to her for the magazine.
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Time magazine: The 2011 TIME 100, Gabrielle Giffords
The violence in Tucson earlier this year was made all the more shocking by the quintessentially American scene that it shattered: folks of different backgrounds yet part of the same community gathering to share their hopes and ask questions of their elected representative. To put it simply, they came to do the daily work of democracy.
The Talk Radio News Service: Giffords Makes Time’s Top 100 List, Obama Writes Tribute
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the lawmaker who was shot outside of a Tucson grocery store earlier this year, has made Time Magazine’s list for the top 100 most influential people of 2011. As an extra honor, President Barack Obama penned her entry in the magazine.
President Barack Obama calls Rep. Gabrielle Giffords “a needed voice that cannot return soon enough” to political discourse in a tribute he wrote for Time magazine.
House Speaker John Boehner is on The List, as are House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, Rep. Michelle Bachmann and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. What list? Time magazine's 2011 list of the 100 most influential people, of course.
Arizona Daily Star, Pueblo Politics blog: Time magazine names Giffords one of 100 most influential people
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
