I've been wondering... Does BHO belong to the tail end of the Boomers or to the leading edge of Generation X ?

__________________
.




"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

Well heres an answer. So I guess it's official.. X-ers are in the game



Generation X Factor
Nov. 23, 2007
(The Nation) This column was written by Lakshmi Chaudhry.


"Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more -- and it is time for our generation to answer that call," declared Barack Obama, uttering the word "generation" no fewer than thirteen times in his speech announcing his intention to run for president. There is no mistaking his campaign theme: it's time for the old to move over and make way for the new.

Obama's book The Audacity of Hope makes it clear just whom he's calling old: "In the back-and-forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004, I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation -- a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago -- played out on the national stage," writes Obama. It's a theme he's returned to with increasing frequency lately. "There's no doubt that we represent the kind of change Senator Clinton can't deliver on. And part of it's generational," Obama told Fox News in early November. "Senator Clinton and others have been fighting some of the same fights since the '60s. It makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done."

For Obama, who is 46, and his followers, boomer politics clearly have to go. What is less obvious is whom Obama represents. He often speaks to the Millennials, recently telling cheering college kids in South Carolina, "It's your generation's turn." But rarely mentioned is Obama's own generation, i.e., Generation X, the Lost Generation, whose name has been virtually erased from the national conversation.

"We hear plenty about people in their teens and twenties, and even more about people in their fifties, but the stodgy old species known as the thirtysomething has been shuttled off, like Molly Ringwald herself, to some sort of Camp Limbo for demographic lepers," fumes Details editor at large Jeff Gordinier in his upcoming book, X Saves the World. A recent Chicago Tribune article on Obama's message of generational change focuses exclusively on 18- to 30-year-olds, discussing every other living generation in passing but with nary a mention of his own peers.

The irony is that X-ers -- a sociocultural label typically used to describe those born between 1961 and 1976 -- have become invisible at a time when they are changing the face of politics. As Jerome Armstrong, founder of MyDD.com and best known as the Blogfather of the progressive netroots, says, "It's people drawn from Generation X -- the people who have gotten involved in politics this decade -- who have brought about the whole new movement of progressive Democrats."

A 1990 Time magazine cover story described the then-twentysomething generation variously as "lazy," "passive" and possessing "only a hazy sense of their own identity." As the decade rolled along, the same kids would soon be dubbed "conservative." But many of the X-ers were less lost than lost in translation, their rejection of politics-as-usual mistaken for apathy, their questioning of liberal credo interpreted as "backlash" politics, their anxiety about economic security condemned as materialism and their reluctance to be identified either by labels or with larger institutions dismissed as a lack of commitment.

cont..
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3528584.shtml
------------------------------------------




I must agree with BHO, I too am sick and tired of the Boomer psychodrama and all their emotional bagage.

__________________
.




"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

Boomers suck. The most I would ever do for a selfish boomer is record their slow death and post it on Youtube

__________________
"I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy."
-Sen. John McCain 09/22/2008

Oh please. Gen X just reflects their soulless consumerism- and whines about it, while continuing to support it.
The generation after Gen X (whatever they're called) embraces it completely and gets angsty about other crap (like not being able to have a new cell phone every other week).

I'm on the cusp of Gen X and the one after... I embrace soulless consumerism because I can whine about it.

__________________
That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

And I do not need to know.

I'm a boomer, and IMO what sets apart the boomer generation from the one that came after is the Viet Nam war. I turned 18 when the draft finally ended, and had I been a year older, I would have played Russian Roulette with my birthday. The war, and especially its effect on the psyches of those who were potential draftees, had a profound effect on the generation, and so those who turned of age in the years after had different issues than those who were turning of age during.

__________________
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening......... but this wasn't it. -- Marx

Actually, Obama is in the same category as me. He's a tweener. We're neither X'ers nor boomers. And, we have very little in common with either. We're more conservative than the boomers. We're more hard-working than the slackers...I mean Gen Xers. We grew up with the threat of the cold war looming over our heads, so we are more pragmatic. We float between those who've already attained old age, and the younger millenials. We're odd ducks.

Tweener parents are the ones you'll see AT THE SHOWS at Warped, versus sitting in the parents' chillout tent with the boomer parents who can't handle punk.

__________________
I'll get nicer when you get smarter.

We are sooo doomed. The tiny number of Gen-Xers can never support all those retiring boomers (ie the biggest generation of Americans EVER).. our only hope now is to grind up those crazy old people into food and fuel.



edit, ohwait, nevermind. Back on message: Hope! Change! X-Gen to the rescue!

__________________
.




"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

They call us gen. Y, spelled WHY

__________________
"I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy."
-Sen. John McCain 09/22/2008

That's a big part of it.
But there's more.
Due to sheer numbers and being the sign of hope after two world wars made Boomers the center of attention for pretty much their ENTIRE LIVES.
Every age they live in, you'll notice most of pop culture, advertising, and political issues follows them. They were the start of advertising toward kids, and thus the first generation fed with consumerism from birth.

Generation X was kind of the hangover from it.

__________________
That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

And I do not need to know.

bah. I'm only two years younger than you. You an X-er, Catz. Admit it! Join the DarkSide... The Lost Boys err, The Lost Generation.

I mean really now, aren't you just about sick and tired of the boomers by now? nam this, korea that, blahblahblah.

__________________
.




"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts