Am I the only one here

[whometense]

who finds this rather arrogant?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21broder.html?ex=1327035600&en=b1368edf6827a3a9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[wisteria]

1. Yeah, and it turns off a whole very large generation of the voting

public, people who do vote and will continue to vote for some time. Bad move I say.

[ginnyinWI]

2. excuse me, Barak, but you ARE a Boomer!

He considers himself post-boomer? The last birth year for the baby boomers is 1964. I know this because my youngest brother was born that year--and yes, my parents are WWII generation--my dad in the Army stationed in Japan during the post-war period. Humph.

[karynnj]

3. I heard him say that on a talk show - and it not only seems arrogant

but dumb to say it, much less more than once. He just called the biggest Demographic bulge - in essence - annoying and over the hill. The youngest end of that buldge are in their 40s. Being told you are old, when you haven't accepted it is not a way to win hearts and minds. Not to mention what about our parents?

[beachmom]

4. As a member of Gen X, I can tell you that I grew up admiring a lot

of what was done in the '60s, especially the civil rights, anti-war, and women's movements. But the baby boomer generation was always a divided one -- and I don't care for the Bush faction who sat on the sidelines doing nothing, only naysaying, and then building a whole conservative movement based out of "we're against the '60s". Sorry, where would we be without all that great music?

But, sometimes we Gen Xers feel completely pushed aside because we're so small in number in comparison. So I suppose Obama is tapping into that frustration. If you recall Bill Maher did say how annoyed he was in '04 with all the Vietnam talk -- when are they just going to shut up about it, he asked. But with Iraq, all the same mistakes were repeated so it looks like the Gen Xers quite simply are going to have to engage in these age old discussions because they simply have not been resolved. Only then, will America truly heal the wounds of the last war and the present war. Wishing away the problem, as Obama is suggesting, will NOT make it go away.

[Mass]

5. From the article

“Where you were on these issues really told people who you were,” said Chris Lehane, a former Clinton White House official who is now a political consultant in California. “But 2008 will represent a hinge moment in generational politics, not just because of the prominence of a post-boomer candidate but because this will be the first cycle when a whole new range of issues as big, if not bigger, than the big issues that defined the boomers will be front and center: Iraq, the war on terror, global warming, energy, technology and globalization.”

It seems to me that baby-boomers or even pre-boomers like Kerry, Gore, or even Biden and Clinton, have already largely weighted on these issues. It also seems that these issues were largely front and center of the previous cycle.

[_dynamicdems]

6. I kinda had a suspicion Obama was a horse's ass.

This confirms it.