tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post4694715134903476706..comments2023-12-05T04:20:37.460-06:00Comments on The Journey: Boomer Sandwich, and Barack ObamaLizard Eaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04506056116023122414noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-32475188752093126122007-11-14T20:59:00.000-06:002007-11-14T20:59:00.000-06:00The thing that galls me (a late boomer) about Obam...The thing that galls me (a late boomer) about Obama's comments is that the boomers didn't finish the job, they barely began it; and the ones who have remained most committed are not self-congratulatory and locked into old paradigms, but know full well how much remains to be done. Some of them have been wandering in the wilderness a good long time waiting for the right moment to come around again. Perhaps Obama's right that younger, more vigorous leadership might be more effective, but the fights he wants the opportunity to fight are the very same ones the generation before him never had the opportunity to finish. For a younger generation to dismiss the preceding one so scornfully, just as it seems that the new dawn they both hope for is beginning to break, is to misunderstand the nature of the real struggle. <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMve1ggjnI" REL="nofollow">The geezers were young and intense once too, and the Xers' hopes and ideals are not nearly as fresh nor their elders' as stale as they might think.</A>faustohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08858053354116695746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-74211440410626128472007-11-12T23:43:00.000-06:002007-11-12T23:43:00.000-06:00Gen-Xers are cynical, because the generation after...Gen-Xers are cynical, because the generation after the idealists is SUPPOSED to be cynical. It's the next generation that will get things done. And they aren't nearly as dismissive of the Boomers ideas as the Gen-Xers are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-87402152182308291752007-11-12T18:45:00.000-06:002007-11-12T18:45:00.000-06:00Obama is old school Chicago Regular Democratic Pol...Obama is old school Chicago Regular Democratic Politics... he's a heck of one to talk about anything new.<BR/><BR/>He's never said much about systematic police brutality in Chicago. Asked for the Feds to investigate it...he's silent about it because it hits too close to the home of his patrons.Bill Baarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095486926836836714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-6961068976979691542007-11-12T17:30:00.000-06:002007-11-12T17:30:00.000-06:00I hear a fair amount of self-congratulatory rhetor...I hear a fair amount of self-congratulatory rhetoric from people who identify as Baby Boomers. It tends to really push my buttons even as some of my good friends are the low end of baby boomers. I really don't feel like any problems have been solved whatsoever.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18040824813209082919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-28273798294507640202007-11-12T12:56:00.000-06:002007-11-12T12:56:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alex Winnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01702527454746459193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-56519573120655921462007-11-12T12:55:00.000-06:002007-11-12T12:55:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alex Winnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01702527454746459193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-30550899213050136402007-11-12T11:23:00.000-06:002007-11-12T11:23:00.000-06:00Oooh, thankee, Philo. I watched Obama on Tim Russ...Oooh, thankee, Philo. I watched Obama on Tim Russert yesterday, but hadn't heard the NPR program.Lizard Eaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506056116023122414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587459.post-65098734375967332722007-11-12T11:17:00.000-06:002007-11-12T11:17:00.000-06:00I heard a great NPR program about Obama last week ...I heard a great NPR program about Obama last week that included a great deal of discussion about the generational impasse he might break. I learned from the show that his mother is only five years older than Hillary Clinton, who was born in '47, which is one bit of data that puts him into the post-boomer generation. <BR/><BR/>The radio program was really good: <A HREF="http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/11/20071106_a_main.asp" REL="nofollow">"Obama and America"</A> (On Point, November 6).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com