Getting Younger by the Moment (A great article...

[Writer]

for those who like debating whether Obama is a Boomer or a Gen X'er.) :P

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/fashion/11spy.html

PEAKING as someone born the same year as Barack Obama, I was very happy after Election Day to hear various political analysts and TV commentators describe him as our nation’s first Generation X president.

This could be a critically important development for all of us born in 1961. It could be the loophole we’ve been waiting for, the one that gets us out of the baby boomer generation and gives us another shot at being young.

“It’s so great to be a member of Generation X,” I said to my husband last week on my 47th birthday. He’s 51, a member in good standing of the baby boom generation.

“What are you talking about?” he asked.

“It’s so great to be a member of Generation X,” I repeated more loudly, thinking that perhaps he hadn’t heard me the first time. I smiled sweetly, as one does around the elderly.

“If you’re Gen X, then I’m Gen X,” he said.

(more at link)

[nomorenomore08]

1. He's technically a Boomer, but more of an X'er in spirit.

From his massive support among younger people, to the hip-hop tunes on his IPod, I think it's safe to say that Obama is our first Gen X president. And considering what happened with this last Boomer prez, I can only see that as a good thing.

[rvablue]

2. Can you give us the allowed four paragraphs, I don't have sign in for NYT n/t

[Writer]

3. There you go.

:)

[rvablue]

4. There's nothing there but a smiley...I wanted to read at least a portion of what you're posting.

[Greyskye]

5. I didn't have to register or log in to read it

I wonder if the NYT has changed their policy - I know I used to have to find a public registration name/password to read their articles. Did you try clicking it?

[rvablue]

9. Yeah I did and it goes to a registration page.....I thought the NYT times charged

for their online edition?

[Raine1967]

7. Go back and check the OP. eom.

[Jennicut]

6. Hmmm, is Obama a Gen Xr or a baby boomer? That is the debate.

I am a Gen Xr, at 32, born in 1975 but my parents are clearly boomers, both 61 born in 1947. Obama is somewhere in the middle. Which Generation do we put him in?

[Berry Cool]

8. Ah, not this again.

Technically people born in '61 are supposed to be Boomers, but I am one and I don't feel much like a Boomer. We are too tail-end to have gone through all the stuff the older Boomers did. Nor are we Gen X, we're too old for that. I personally like the "Generation Jones" solution--we don't fit into either category, we're kind of one all by ourselves.

And I admit, I love the thought of a president my age...especially when people talk about how YOUNG he is. :-)

[Jennicut]

11. I guess you and O are in that little generation between the two, that makes sense.

Obama is too young to be a boomer to me, he is only 47!

[Connie_Corleone]

10. People actually want to be part of my generation? Wow. LOL!!

Obama and Michelle are Honorary Gen Xers. His wife is closer to Generation X than he is.

[mwei924]

12. He's more similar to Gen. X than Baby Boomers.

His life story is very Gen. X. Very little Baby Boomer.

[OnionPatch]

13. I vote for Gen X

He's only two years younger than me, so if he can claim Gen X status, maybe I can as well. I've noticed a certain attitude against boomers around here from some. :hide: