WASHINGTON — The jaunty optimism about changing the world has given way to the sober reality of stubbornly high unemployment and economic anxiety. In his own words, President Barack Obama has "some dents and dings in the fender." Yet beneath those external differences, the question persists: How has Obama changed as a leader in the four years since he first accepted his party's nomination for president as a young man with little history in Washington? In his first two years, Obama stayed the course and pushed an agenda through a friendly Democratic Congress to stimulate the economy, regulate Wall Street and overhaul health care. Yet he's maintained much of that course even as the country...
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