Barack Obama, the First Post-Boomer President, Faces Tension Between Hope and Change

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parlenance of AL 1:32AM March 14, 2010

Time to get all dialectical on you.

We, my family and I, did not go see the the new Jim Carrey movie. Last night we spent our time watching and discussing "Valkyrie". This was a battle between Thanatos vs Eros. Death vs Life. Though the hero loses his life, his shed blood grants life once again to his people.

And that sums up this new generation that has risen to power. Not really boomers, not really X-ers. We have existed between cynicism and hedonism our entire life and sometimes sliding one way or the other. We are synthesis, if we have achieved maturity.

Okay, maybe there is reason for hope, but not because he is like me or I like him. Hope because we can be different and still come together to forge our way through the latest challenge that confronts us.

I really like being American.

Rese Smith of OR 11:41PM December 28, 2008

"Barack Obama, born in 1961, is technically a baby boomer. But his early years were straight out of generation X—abandoned by his father and, for a time, his mother; experimentation with drugs; a sense of drifting."

This says it all does it not? Obama's experence is not a baby boomer one thus he is not a baby boomer!

He was not there at that time at that age, Obama saw things through the eyes of a Gen Xer and our smart young people wisely rejected the boomer politics of world distruction.

I was born in 1963. all my life boomers told me I did not belong, I am happy this is true and that we have a President Elect I can identifiy with.

OldHeathen of CA 2:49PM December 27, 2008

He could be the brightest star in the highest heavens, except that would be divisive. No winners because then we would have to admit there are losers. No "Mr. President" because that would alienate "We the people." No "integrated" because that would define the reality of the "outsiders." No "america" because that would...

Being only two years younger than our President-Elect, I have always felt inaccurately labeled as a boomer. My objection is in the veracity of the label, not in the categorization process itself. For those who continue to promote Deconstructionism, please give it a rest. It's a game, yet another facade, trying to pretend that the elimination of labels is a path to freedom, when the agenda usually is another out of power modernist utopianism. Labels matter.

Freedom of discourse is radical. Those who try to end it by labelling it as negative have an agenda. It isn't the promotion of discernment. Mr. Barone has been helpful by assisting the nation to see that we did not elect a 60's flower power liberal. After the 70's cynicism came the 80's hedonism, and that my neighbor is the age in which Obama and I acquired our self awareness.

It is time you woke up to who you elected into the Office. Is he a narcissist, or a nihilist? Is there a third, more accurate, label? Let the discussion continue!

Rese Smith of OR 4:28AM December 27, 2008