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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:31 PM
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Poll question: Barack Obama: Baby Boomer or Gen X'er?
Choose one... btw, he was born in 1961.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:34 PM
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1. '61 seems a bit late for WWII parents. nt
Edited on Fri May-23-08 02:34 PM by Deep13
MY parents are boomers and I was born in '67.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:35 PM
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2. Other: He's a Joneser
Edited on Fri May-23-08 02:36 PM by SteppingRazor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones


I like the idea of splitting generations by decade instead of two decades. People on the far ends of a two-decade span seem to have precious little in common.

Thus, if we break it down by decade, it would go something like:
1945-55: Baby Boomer
1955-65: Jones
1965-75: X
1975-85: Y
1985-95: Millennials or whatever they're callin' 'em
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:38 PM
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5. I've never understood the "Jones" generation thing...
Does it refer to those who grew up watching Barnaby Jones? :shrug:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:44 PM
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11. Jonathan Pontell is an idiot, and I do not recognize that term.
We are "Space Babies" :D --> The 1st era of space exploration, transistorized electronics/computers, and rock and roll, which ends in the early 1970s. ;)
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:45 PM
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12. You just want to be called a Space Baby.
:P
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:53 PM
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19. Cuz I was THERE, man!
:D
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:53 PM
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20. You still are!
:crazy:



;)
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:55 PM
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23. True dat!
:D
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:46 PM
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14. "Space Babies" is cool, man!
I like it! :D

:thumbsup:
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End Of The Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:36 PM
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3. He's a late bloomer.... er,...
late boomer.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:36 PM
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4. According to the U.S. Census, Obama's a baby boomer, and not a
Edited on Fri May-23-08 02:39 PM by Benhurst
particularly young one at that.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006105.html

But according to the faithful, he is anything they want to project upon him.
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mikiturner Donating Member (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:41 PM
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6. Huh?
Baby Boomer is generally thought of being between 1946-1964. Obama is on the tail end of that for sure.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:49 PM
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15. Many here have argued he is GenX.
:shrug: And I used to think the Repubs were the ones who weren't reality based. And if he is elected, I'll bet the corporate press will go on and on about "the torch being passed" to a new generation. They were. after all, the ones who brought us the millennium in 2000, one year early. You'd think some of them would have read or seen 2001 and made the connection.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:41 PM
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7. He's both - that's why the coalition is reaching CRITICAL MASS!
Edited on Fri May-23-08 02:42 PM by polichick
(Technically he's a boomer of course.)
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:42 PM
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8. I personally think he's an alien from the Crab Nebula.
But I'm still voting for him. :P
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:43 PM
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10. LOL
Is he one of the Crab People?

Is that why he's so Metrosexual? ;)
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:42 PM
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9. Technically Baby Boomer, but culturally Gen Xer
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:51 PM
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17. I like to think of myself as culturally Gen Founding Fathers; but
in reality I'm not quite that old. He's a baby boomer.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:54 PM
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22. I was born in '66, so I never really felt an affinity with either label.
I was a few years older than the kids in "Reality Bites," for example.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:45 PM
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13. My birthday is just 2 days before Obama's and I have always thought of myself as a 'boomer'.
Late in the boomer cycle but still a boomer. He would be one too.
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liberaldem4ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:52 PM
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18. I'm a year younger than Obama
I've been told I was on the very end of the "boomer" era. It kind of makes me feel old(er). My kids are always telling me I'm old. They suck. :thumbsdown:
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:25 PM
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38. When Obama wins in Nov, the POTUS will be younger than me for the first time in my life.
...even if he is only 2 days younger. THAT is making me feel old.
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Connie_Corleone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:50 PM
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16. I'll make him an honorary member of Generation X.
He's more like us. Stephanie Miller is another honorary member.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:54 PM
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21. I'm at the very tail end of the Boomers and he's 8 years younger.
No way he's a Boomer.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:59 PM
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25. And just what dates do you use for baby boomers?
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006105.html

A generation starting in 1945 and ending when?

Maybe to facilitate the Obama Spin, the baby boomers should be renamed The Shortest Generation.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:00 PM
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27. LOL! I was born in the mid fifties.
When did we stop, anyway? I thought Boomers went to 1960 or so? Wasn't Obama just born last week? :)
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:04 PM
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29. LOL! But if he was born just last week,
Edited on Fri May-23-08 03:06 PM by Benhurst
then he really would be a BABY boomer!

:rofl:
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 08:49 PM
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44. Technically it is anyone born the year after 1944 and before 1964. The dates are marked .........
as those born between WWII and JFK's assassination.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:56 PM
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24. Generation Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
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apocalypsehow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 02:59 PM
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26. And #3. Good: looks like we've got that out of the way early today. n/t.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:03 PM
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28. Boomer pretending to be an Xer.......
Which, of course, he must, since he thinks that Boomers need to get over themselves and that their day is over.....everyone's day except HIS, apparently.

In four years from now, he'll probably by a Gen Yer.......
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:09 PM
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30. He said that Boomers need to get over themselves?
I'd like to see this. :P
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:13 PM
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32. A simple google will bring up more on this than you probably
care to read.

For starters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21broder.html
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:17 PM
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34. In-teh-res-ting. n/t
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 04:12 PM
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41. Yes, my distrust of him pretty much dates from the day I read that article
There were a few other reference too, but he really does make it sound as if anyone from the Baby Boom or before (except him) is clip-clopping their way to the glue factory. I'm a couple of years older than he is, and I don't exactly feel washed up and over the hill yet.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 05:22 PM
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43. He? Did Barack Obama write that article?
Because it looks to me like someone is putting words and opinions in the guy's mouth.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:10 PM
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31. It's a known fact that Obama's
father was an alien.

I saw a Star Trek episode years ago where they went to a planet were people started off old and grew young.

Maybe that explains Obama's transformation into a GenXer.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:21 PM
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35. Bingo! n/t
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 05:21 PM
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42. So where did Barack Obama HIMSELF say, quote, "boomers need to get over themselves"?
I see where the New York Times essentially put those words in his mouth, but for all we know, that's another example of an article written by and for Baby Boomers who think it's all about them.

Yes, please. Let's have the actual quote where Barack Obama said "baby boomers need to get over themselves".

Please.
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pop goes the weasel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:13 PM
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33. Boomer only by official designation
I'm also from the tail end of the baby boom, and it is absolutely stupid to think that we have anything in common generationally with the generation that was already in high school and college when we were born. And if Obama's a Gen X-er, well, that would put him in the same generation as my daughter.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:23 PM
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36. Ironically, what could be more typically "baby boomerish" than
Edited on Fri May-23-08 03:40 PM by Benhurst
acting and pretending to be younger than you are?

We may be just months away now from the president standing at the top of the grand staircase in the White House and proclaiming, "All right, Mr. DiMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 08:55 PM
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45. The baby boomer motto's are as follows ...........
30 is the new 20, 40 is the new 30, 50 is the new 40, 60, is the new 50 ..... and I shall let you guess what the new motto will be shortly, but to give you a hint it begins with 70 is the ......
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:24 PM
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37. Check it out- he's got BOTH covered.


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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 03:36 PM
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39. I'm kicking this so we can concentrate on the lighter side of things.
Thanks!
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 04:06 PM
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40. You have to go by birthday: 1961. That makes him a Boomer.
Baby Boom: 1946-1964 (or 1965). So, he's Barack Oboomer!
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 08:56 PM
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46. baby boomers idealistic? you mean like Hillary?
:wtf:

on second thought. :hide:
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 05:39 PM
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47. I'm kicking this again. It's far more entertaining. n/t
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