Introducing: The Age of Obama

1.  After 8 years of President Bush, whose folksiness and privilege inspired reality TV's "clique-navigating competitions," McNamara believes Obama is making it "hip to be grown up again.”...Now, Obama represents a “shift away from the insulated individual toward the cooperative community, away from competitive consumerism toward political idealism."
   Mary McNamara writes in the Los Angeles Times 
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