Talking to American’s like they are grown-ups

The state of the Union speech seems to have been very popular. I didn’t get to see much of it but I get the impression that Obama is being the anti-Reagan, where Reagan empasized magical solution, like tax cuts will pay for themsleves, or the free market will magicaly take care of us; Obama is saying if we want a great country we are going to have to work at it, it isn’t going to be easy, and their are no magic solutions to the economic problems facing America.
The 2012 election will be a good indicater of how much the country has matured since Reagan.