Posted on 10/05/2008 6:21:45 AM PDT by vietvet67
belated ping to #74
belated ping to #75
“I also told him it was no accident that our two candidates for president are a pre-Boomer and a post-Boomer. “
Obama and Governor Palin are both baby boomers. Make sure that you let your son know that.
“Baby Boomers vs Elite baby Boomers are different because...you fill in the blank.”
FROM THE ARTICLE (which it might help you to read and possibly comprehend):
“The elite of this generation, graduates of the finest schools, cosmopolitan in taste and sensibility, and left-liberal in political and cultural allegiance — have always been counted the smartest people in the room (just ask them).
“Now these new Masters of the Universe have made a shambles of the US and world financial system ...”
It hardly describes “Joe Six-Pack,” also an icon of the Baby Boomer generation.
“I am hopeful that there were enough baby boomers that didn’t smoke pot and wear love beads who can salvage something to pass on to the next generation.”
Well, it is too late for the 10s of thousands of boomers (some still fighting) that have given their lives for our country to do anything, but the almost 10 million baby boomer veterans may try to help a little if it is OK.
I’m sure that many boomers will vote for fellow baby boomer Governor Palin.
The oldest of boomers were able to vote for the first time in the 72 election, they voted for Nixon over McGovern 52% to 46%, in 1980 Reagan won decidedly and by 1984 when all boomers were old enough to vote, Reagan won in a landslide.
Trace the worst destruction of America and it’s institutions, and you will see that the worst took place from the mid 30s to the mid 70s. Things actually started slowly moving to the right as the boomers got old enough to start participating in adult activities, such as government.
A long way around just to write about liberals, who are about the same, no matter what generation. You’ve been dazzled by the author’s not so adroit use of the lexicon.
There are thousands of small rural towns across America who have millions of people of my generation who are just as hard working as anyone.
Of course there is no way to know it unless you lived it, because the media has perpetuated the myth that we were all just a bunch of draft-dodging, pot smoking, flower children.
We were not. We were just as dismayed by the flaming radicals of our generation as we are by the crap on TV today.
There are radicals today that are much more dangerous than the ones in my day, Obama is an example-so smooth talking, sounding so reasonable, being promoted by the media. Is the current generation all a bunch of left wing radicals? How could someone like this even be nominated?
It is wrong to blame a whole generation for the actions of radicals. People of my generation volunteered or were drafted to serve in Vietnam. Most of them went. They came back to be more mistreated than any other generation of military heroes. Yet they still love their country-remember the swift boat veterans? They were not the exception-they were the rule.
“The Boomer Elite’s tired liberal nostrums are continually falsified by reality but, more and more embittered by the refusal of the world to conform to their dictates, they double down, trying to impose more lefty palliatives upon us, measures sure to be flatly unconstitutional, un-American, and disastrously counterproductive all at once.
This is a blindly and viciously destructive cohort.
They have degraded our common culture, warped our constitution to suit their purposes, and stand ready to subvert our very nationhood to the pipe dream of the Euro-left.
Now they have brought our economy to the brink.”
Amen.
Contrary to myth, WWII was fought by draftees and Vietnam was fought by volunteers.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LIY/is_/ai_98829319?tag=artBody;col1
The draft and historical amnesia
VFW Magazine, March, 2003
“No 20th century war could have been waged, much less won, without draftees. During WWI, 72% of servicemen were drafted—50% of the men in France’s trenches were conscripted.
In WWII, 66% of all U.S. forces were drafted. Of the 10.5 million Army personnel, a whopping 93% were draftees. A poll taken in 1941 showed that just more than half of Americans would be willingly drafted for overseas service.
From 1946 to 1973, 5,077,185 men were drafted. During the Korean War era, 30% of total troops were drafted. In December 1950, 82% of the Army in Korea was made up of regulars. Exactly two years later, the ratio was 37% regular to 63% draftee in the war zone.
During the Vietnam era, 1,728,344 men were drafted. Of the forces who actually served in Vietnam, 648,500 (25%) were draftees. Draftees (17,725) accounted for 30.4% of combat deaths in Vietnam.”
As I said, people of my generation were either drafted or volunteered. I assigned no % to either group. My point was that many people of my generation served and were not draft-dodgers, as some people seem to think.
I’m flummoxed...baby boomers aren’t exclusively liberal or immoral or economically dysfunctional.
It so happens I’m a “boomer” but barely. Anyone born between 46-64.
Non-sensical to target “boomers” for our problems, stick to the real issue: liberals.
Remember, more boomers served in the military than ever carried signs.
Ummmm the baby-boomers are the first generation to not only be self-sufficient but also the “sandwich generation” taking care of Mom and Pop AND our sniveling spoiled offspring! (AND all too often THEIR kids too!)
Boomers tend to be split in their partisan alignments. Gen X is the most GOP leaning of the recent generations. However, the Gen Y crowd is turning into the most Dem leaning crowd since the New Deal crowd.
“As I said, people of my generation were either drafted or volunteered. I assigned no % to either group. My point was that many people of my generation served and were not draft-dodgers, as some people seem to think.”
I know, I should have said something to agree with your post before I just threw my post up, I did understand and agree with you though.
Gen Ys are (with notable exceptions) the most annoying generation currently with us. Skilled in Powerpoint, but with an overwheening sense of entitlement and condescension that has not been earned yet.
I don’t think most people have a clue who baby boomers even ARE!
Technically Obama’s a baby boomer.
Come to think of it so is SARAH PALIN!
EACH generation has its ups and downs, blaming all the liberal ills on a single generation is just plain stupid.
“Boomers” in this article is nothing but another senseless divisive generational warfare LIBERAL idea!
Sheesh, you’d think we have enough with class envy, racial strife and now generational idiocy TOO!?
ME get a life!?
GOOD GRIEF!
Enough with failed liberalism already!
OK. In that case, Thanks.
“Boomers tend to be split in their partisan alignments. Gen X is the most GOP leaning of the recent generations. However, the Gen Y crowd is turning into the most Dem leaning crowd since the New Deal crowd.”
These numbers from June don’t break down by the generation titles but here they are.
http://www.cookpolitical.com/node/2283
“Combing through cross-tabulations of three months of Cook Political Report/RT Strategies polls, taken April 17-20, May 29-31, and June 12-15 and involving a total of 2,484 registered voters (margin of error +/-2 percent), the overall trial heat showed Obama ahead by 2 points, 44 percent to 42 percent. But focusing exclusively on the 1,832 whites in the sample revealed something interesting, even allowing for the fact that Lyndon Johnson in 1964 was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win even a plurality of the white vote.
Obama trailed McCain by 9 points among both 18-to-34-year-old white voters and those 65 and older. He lagged by 10 points among 35-to-49-year-old whites. But among those 50 to 64, Obama is losing by a whopping 18 points, 51 percent to 33 percent.”
WOW...I’m beginning to see alot of liberalism infest this place more and more bit by bit each and every day!
Yes those are all race examples.
How about class envy?
Rich vs. poor?
Male vs. female?
sexual preference?
You truly don’t think we have ENOUGH liberalism?
And now you want to FURTHER embrace divisiveness with GENERATIONAL envy too?
UNREAL!
To assert everyone that was born after the greatest generation as “spolied” is not only idiotic, but it ignores the ridiculously spoiled in the generations AFTER us boomers!
We grew up with no cell phones, NO PAGERS (if you can even recall what those were), no remotes, no microwaves, no PC’s and forget video games...I remember what a giant deal PONG was!
I mean if you people truly want to go down this stupid road, we’ll be forced to remind you Sarah Palin’s a boomer and your gals are Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton! ;)
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