Reply #13: Even fierce advocate trashes Boomers

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THE time has come, Senator Barack Obama says, for the baby boomers to get over themselves.

In taking the first steps toward a presidential candidacy last week, Mr. Obama, who was born in 1961 and considers himself a member of the post-boomer generation, said Americans hungered for “a different kind of politics,” one that moved beyond the tired ideological battles of the 1960s.

To make his point, Mr. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois in his first term in the Senate, announced the formation of his presidential exploratory committee in a video streamed on his Web site. He is tieless and relaxed and oh so cool.

Mr. Obama calculates that Americans of all ages are sick of the feuding boomers and ready to turn to the generation that came of age after Vietnam, after the campus culture wars between freaks and straights, and after young people had given up on what überboomer Hillary Rodham Clinton (who made her own announcement on the Web yesterday) called in a 1969 commencement address a search for “a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living....”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21broder.html


So here we are. Trying to deal with a president that feels that the civil rights movement, the movement that stopped a war and changed the way gender rights are parsed in this country is simply "the tired ideological battles of the 1960s."

My oh my. We have been sold down the proverbial river. On a what to do now level, let's organize, we still have the numbers, eh? We could form that elusive third party. We might even have enough grassroots members to raise significant money one dollar at a time, something that fierce advocate to every advantage of in 2008.

I am afraid we will soon have to fight for everything in this "democracy."



Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!



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