GENERATION OBAMA FIRST TIME VOTERS ARE GLOBAL, DIVERSE, COLORBLIND AND LOVE BARACK (Gen-Y alert)

New York Post ^ | August 10, 2008 | JOHN ZOGBY

[Publius804]

GENERATION OBAMA

FIRST-TIME VOTERS ARE GLOBAL, DIVERSE, COLORBLIND - AND LOVE BARACK

By JOHN ZOGBY

Are the kids all right? Not if you listen to some of our leading social commentators. To hear people like Juliet Schor and William Bennett tell it, today's youth have been virtually brainwashed by marketers, advertisers, and a mushy-headed professoriate. But if your measure of "all right" is a group that is not just tolerant of but welcomes diversity, if it is young adults who march in lockstep with no political ideology, who in the majority are willing to think through the subtleties of some of the hottest hot-button issues of the time, if the measure is 18-to-29 years olds who take their cues globally, not just locally, then, yes, the kids are doing just fine.

[Boagenes]

In other words, Gen-Y are morons.

[Carling]

Let this newer, dumber generation have him for four years, if they don’t figure out their mistake in four years, like we did with Carter, they deserve their brave, new, totally screwed world.

The problem with this is that "Gen Xers" like me now have young children who will have to deal with the mess that the coming wave of socialism will bring with it. Plus, I still have to provide for them, and the economic slowdown that will come with this "clean energy" boondoggle frightens me as much as any future actions by our enemies.

[underground]

Please explain to me your generation's fascination with PBR when there are so many better beers on the market. I'm really curious.

Its kind of cool to be cheap. All the good bubbles popped before we had established careers and investment capital, now the bad bubbles like debt & commodities are inflating.

If you think PBR is cheap, you won't believe what I paid on my car insurance!

[Sig Sauer P220]

Naive comes to mind.

[Poincare]

Probably half the white people voting for him are doing so because of some perverse white guilt feeling or deluding themselves into....

More like 6 to 7 percent and they always vote Dim anyway.

The danger is that BHO will energize a segment of the pop that usually doesn't vote. Our hope is that the observed phenomenon of a genY'er hearing Obama, getting excited, and then hearing him again and being bored will be widespread enough. Some people will realize in a second hearing that Obama's words are vapid.

[Brett66]

Global, doesn’t that mean they blame America first for all of the world’s problems?

Yeah, that would be an Obama voter.

[dmanLA]

This generation has been taught not to discriminate between right and wrong. That’s how tolerant they are....

[TheThinker]

Why would anyone elect a president who uses aliases when traveling to foreign countries? Why would anyone elect a president that hides from his name?

[Trailerpark Badass]

who in the majority are willing to think through the subtleties of some of the hottest hot-button issues of the time,

LOL, "willing," sure, but "able?"

[Toki]

Some people will realize in a second hearing that Obama's words are vapid.
I did on the first time. My speech teacher played us for him. I was getting so ticked off (or some other type of annoyance feeling, or maybe ADHD was kicking in... I really don't remember clearly) that I had to feign being sleepy not to walk out of the room. But he was padering to college students, and I just thought, he's an idiot! And I know a lot of kids at my school have not fallen under the spell of Obama (even liberals ones, they know he's a puppet).
But I do have to admit the first time I saw him, I did think he looked good (but that was two three years ago, when CNN started pimping him). I was 17 the first time and knew nothing.

[Oratam]

Its kind of cool to be cheap. All the good bubbles popped before we had established careers and investment capital, now the bad bubbles like debt & commodities are inflating.

I thought it was another 'ironic' statement by your generation that I was too old to appreciate. So, it's really just about money. I'm relieved . . . but I'm keeping an eye on you and your cohort.

Oh, don't worry. There's always another bubble waiting in the wings.

[Oratam]

I should add please don’t regard bubbles as missed investment opportunities. Please, please, please do yourself a favor and think for the long haul. Read up on value investing and other solid, time-tested investment strategies. It’s investing, not gambling.

[pallis]

I have kids ranging in age from 24 down to eight, and six grandkids, and I worry about the world they are going to live in all the time. Still, the slow boiling of the liberal pot will be worse in the long run than getting hit on the head with it by a leftist messiah like Obama. All I can do is teach my kids to think; get educated; work hard, and learn how to love and respect other people, no matter what kind of world they inherit.

[underground]

I should add please don’t regard bubbles as missed investment opportunities. Please, please, please do yourself a favor and think for the long haul.

[underground]

My 10-year outlook is pretty pessimistic, but I see a "once in a lifetime" buying opportunity after that.

Bubbles are definitely on my mind...