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In Obama, many see an end to the baby boomer era (Barf Alert!)
The Chicago Sun Times ^ | 1-11-09 | AP

Posted on 01/12/2009 9:56:37 AM PST by 444Flyer

NEW YORK-When George W. Bush lifts off in his helicopter on Inauguration Day, leaving Washington to make way for Barack Obama, he may not be the only thing disappearing on the horizon.

To a number of social analysts, historians, bloggers and ordinary Americans, Jan.20 will symbolize the passing of an entire generation: the baby boomer years.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: babyboom; babyboomer; babyboomers; fakebutaccurate; generationjones; generationreagan; genx; theend
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To: Polybius

I never understood either how ~20 years constitutes a generation. Fads change much faster than that, so a guy 18 years older than the next guy is much different.

What a stupid definition.


61 posted on 01/12/2009 12:50:45 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: weegee

Perhaps. I’m not totally optimistic, but Reagan had some kind of effect on people. Even my (stupid; no, I really mean that) Dem-based friend admitted when he was leaving that “he made it feel good to be an American, like it was OK”. (IOW, even then we were self-flagellating so much that being American was “shameful”. Such is the bottom-line problem with our society now.)

I myself an GenReagan and I was raised NOT by Hippies per the stereotype but by ‘50s-type people, who were much mature by the time I came around and were not even themselves raised by the Spock method (Baby Boomer). Mercifully I dodged that bullet.


62 posted on 01/12/2009 12:59:03 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: buckalfa

The question is not “lasting”, the question is “good or bad”.

Unfortunately, commie hippies had and will have a huge “lasting” impact. It’s just that it’s not good.


63 posted on 01/12/2009 1:07:58 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I never understood either how ~20 years constitutes a generation. Fads change much faster than that, so a guy 18 years older than the next guy is much different.

Nominally, our current society defines an "adult" at age 18. Coincident with that age, marriage (or not) and procreation create the next generation. My parents didn't start having kids until age 28. My grandparents waited until age 43. WWI delayed the opportunity. My great grandfather married at age 25...in 1865...after serving in the Union Army. He raised 19 kids from 1865 through 1887. He actually lived until 1921.

A "generation" is a mix of biology and societal expectations.

64 posted on 01/12/2009 1:10:35 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“SPOCK” and the Commie College Professors who the Greatest Generation TRUSTED their children to....also.


65 posted on 01/12/2009 1:25:14 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I’d say the current Generation of 18 to 30-year-olds are the reality TV crowd falling for 0. (In the last 20 years our culture has gone into nosedive morally.) Of course I'm generalizing but many of them haven't had the same values and standards instilled in them and they go for Obama because of his “rock star” type presentation. Irregardless of his stand on the issues. The youth culture of today is even more radical than those rebels from the Boomers in the 60’s. They are involved in things we've never seen before and are for the most part self-centered rather than others-centered which is why so many of them are uberliberals.

I have a suspicion that it was one of these types that wrote the article. The Boomers represent traditional values to them and they rebel against that and want us out of political influence because we are old fashioned and antiquated in our non-liberal beliefs according to their own standards.

One example of this is that there are younger women asking men to marry them now and there is a new trend to either combine both bride and groom's last name or come up with a completely new one to be addressed by. It's probably from years of feminism wearing away at our young women who now no longer look at it as a blessing to become part of her husband's family, but rather want to continue on in her own autonomy even though she is taking a vow to become one with her husband before God.

Yes, other Boomers like Obama etc. are also radical, but in my opinion he and the others like him weren't raised with the same standards as the majority of Boomers. They are the ones who never grew up or out of their radical hippie phase of the 60’s and early 70’s.

66 posted on 01/12/2009 2:17:47 PM PST by 444Flyer (Blame Hamas)
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To: buckalfa

But the music and fun times were the best .


67 posted on 01/12/2009 2:53:30 PM PST by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; goodnesswins; Arthur McGowan; USAF70; j-damn; xsmommy; Oztrich Boy; Myrddin

Shame on me for painting with so broad a brush.

Certainly there are great people, just as there are bad ones, in every generation.

US Casualties in WWII: 400,000+
US Casualties in Korea 36,000+
US Casualties in Vietnam 58,000+
US Casualties in Iraq 4,000+

Every one of them precious.


68 posted on 01/12/2009 7:00:19 PM PST by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: 444Flyer

But Obama should’ve been a “disco era” “Boomer”. He would’ve been 10yo around when hippies were at their zenith. He didn’t have any such phase to grow out of.


69 posted on 01/12/2009 7:09:39 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: edge10
Casualties in the Mexican Drug War (2008 ONLY) 4000+
70 posted on 01/12/2009 7:17:49 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Did they have hippies in Indonesia?


71 posted on 01/12/2009 10:17:30 PM PST by j-damn
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To: j-damn

LOL touche.

There’s so much wrong with the premises in this article it’s hard to critique it!


72 posted on 01/13/2009 6:54:16 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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