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Barack Obama: America's first geek president

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MaryAnn Johanson
 on January 12, 2009 10:55 PM | | comments (3)

Not only is Barack Obama America's first Generation X president, he's our first geek president. Not that the two don't often go hand in hand. Says the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON - Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.

Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief.

"How great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a nerd in chief," Quesada said. "It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We're all thrilled with that."

Can we expect Obama to add a mutant superhero to his cabinet? Or perhaps he could make Bruce Wayne the Secretary of Kicking Ass?

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by Bill Mason on January 13, 2009 12:24 AM
I think Bruce Wayne is "dead" now, or something. Not that I ever get what DC Comics is doing.
by Tonio Kruger on January 13, 2009 10:32 AM
Actually Obama was born in 1961, which technically makes him a Baby Boomer. Not that I care that much. I owe my life to a friend whom you'd consider to be a Baby Boomer and anyway, the older I get, the more obvious it seems that generational differences are just another way to divide the public and prevent them from taking effective political action. Your generational mileage may vary, of course. But there's too many important reasons to either admire or not admire someone without bringing birth-years into it. And almost everyone who does not die young eventually becomes a member of someone else's older generation.
by MaryAnn JohansonAuthor Profile Page on January 13, 2009 11:21 AM
All correct. But by most measures that take into account generational attitudes -- like the work of Strauss and Howe -- 1961 was the first birth year of Gen X.

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