I Can’t Stand the Irony!
By Steve_in_KC on January 21, 2009 at 3:00 PM in Current Affairs, Humor, Media, Media Bias, William Ayers
(Bumped up from Saturday, just because it’s so damn funny, not to mention SPOT ON! Way to go, Steve!)
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Editorial note: The opinions expressed here are only my own, no matter how many millions of people agree with me. And when I use italics below, that’s me being sarcastic (I know, hard to believe). All quotations of others are in block quotes.
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Saturday morning, I woke up, stumbled to the table with bleary eyes, and sat down, as usual, to read the morning paper (Kansas City Star, of course). The big headlines were local, but below the fold on Page One I see this headline:
Divisive boomers,
make way for Obama
“Millenials” say they’re
ready to move beyond
presidencies defined by
grudges, partisanship.
I rubbed my eyes and read it again, just to be sure I wasn’t still dreaming. I slugged down some caffeine and read the story, written by “David Goldstein, The Star’s Washington correspondent,” whatever the hell that means.
My guess would be that he’s an intern, senior year of college, probably making his first trip to Washington to cover The Beatification of Saint Barky. They probably gave him $50 per diem, bought his tickets and sent him off by Greyhound.
Anyway, so the gist of it is that “baby boomers” are divisive, partisan, and bellicose.
Oh yeah!? Well, ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk yyyyyyyyooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!
And just who is divisive? The way I see it, the Obama faction divided the Democratic Party in half, overwhelming it with the worst divisiveness since the Civil Rights Act caused all the Dixie-Crats to turn into Republicans.
I looked at the Star’s messy website to see if this article is there on the online version, but I couldn’t find it, so if someone else can, I’d be glad to update this story with the link if you’ll post it.
[Update: here's the link, thanks to reader "leslie," with a gentlemanly bow in the correct direction!]
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/985896.html
So here’s some of the gibber-jabber this David Goldstein wrote and somehow managed to get seven inches of front page space before the bulk was carried over to Page A4:
When President John F. Kennedy said the torch had been passed to a new generation in the 1960s, the baby boomers who were beginning to grow up then figured it was their time.
They spent most of the decade noisily trying to do just that in ways that have split the culture ever since.
Nearly half a century later, after voters under age 30 backed him in record numbers, Barack Obama will “pass the torch” to another new generation: the children of the boomers, most of them born after1980, known as “millenials.”
They, like the president-elect, have little patience for the simmering feuds and nasty partisanship of their elders.
So say goodbye to the ’60s, Mom and Dad. No one cares about Woodstock or the time you got maced at the 1969 March on Washington.
Oh, man! Hold me back! I want to turn him over my knee and give him a spanking in public.
So the kids under 30, born after 1980, think they have a better understanding of how the world really works than Mom and Dad, huh? These kids were born with a silver spoon in some part of their face, just a few years ago, as I recall.
They have no idea about WWII except that it was all done in shades of gray. They only know Dick Nixon as a funny Halloween mask. They think Bill Clinton was an old man when he took office because of his “white” hair.
The only thing they ever knew about politics before 9/11 was that BJs weren’t sex but they were somehow illegal cause the old president got busted for it.
After 9/11, they made the logical jump that nothing bad like the twin towers ever happened before Bush came along, so it must be his fault. They don’t know his father was also President George Bush, just that the name seemed familiar.
They get their news from The Daily Show, they are proud of this fact, and believe every word is true.
And this is who is now in charge? I don’t think so!
Let’s check out some more of this imbecile’s blather:
Young folks also might welcome the notion that President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both born in 1946, could be all the boomers will get. Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. [edit out some garbage] To the millenials, Viet Nam, civil rights and other moments that defined their parents’ salad days are about as relevant as Pearl Harbor and the “Remember the Maine” battle cry.
“We’re the generation of 9/11, of Hurricane Katrina, of the Iraq War,” said Stephanie Young [Ha! Wouldn't you know!], a spokeswoman for Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan political action group that encourages young people to participate in elections. “We’ve had our things that define us… Obama is definitely new generation.”
Count Gen Xers in too. They’re the wave that followed the boomers and in which Obama, who’s technically a boomer, feels that he belongs.
OK, stop right there! Like Obama, talking out of both sides of his mouth, this mealy-mouth whippersnapper wants to have it both ways with Obama. He’s “technically” a boomer, being born in 1961, but he’s really not a boomer, he’s of their generation, not mine!
Let’s see, I was 10 years old in ‘61 and the oldest of four kids. I was born near the beginning of the boomer generation, but was still a kid when he was a kid. I know I wasn’t having kids back then, so I think he’s of my generation. The age of a little brother maybe, but not of my kids.
But the boomers seem to be something dispicable to this guy and his generation, so I can see why they think Obama can’t possibly be a boomer!
But wait, let’s hear some more of this punk’s wisdom:
A lot of Gen Xers and millenials preferred Obama to boomer Hillary Clinton because he seemed more tuned to what’s happening now. Clinton, who was born in 1947, made her campaign announcement on the Web. However, Obama, who was born in 1961, was on the Web too, making greater use of Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, and text-messaging campaign updates to his supporters’ cell phones.
“What he did was really speak to young people in a language that they understood,” Young said.
Oh, great. Now I have this image of the comic strip Zits, with teenage Jeremy sprawled on the sofa with his laptop, cell phone, and Ipod. So tuned in. So clueless. The leaders of tomorrow, who think Obama is part of their generation because he uses the Internet. Duh!
How are those math skills, kids? Let’s try it again. Maybe if I text it to you, excuse me, 2 U, you might be able to grasp the concept. “Brn 1961=boomr.” Or more likely “bumr” to save that vital keystroke!
I mean, like, Hillary was totally old enough to be his mother, you know! And like, the whole Web thing is what makes a great leader to us, cause like it’s our time now and the boomers are like, you know, so old school. Our generation doesn’t believe in war. I mean, like, all this fighting is so stupid. We should bring all the soldiers home, you know, so they can, like, fix the roads’n’stuff. Do something useful instead of dropping bombs on innocent people.
I’ve got to throw in one more moronic quote from this bozo:
In the past 16 years, as America has had back-to-back boomer presidencies, the culture wars grew nastier, interest group politics turned more strident, and partisanship trumped all else.
Even this year, Republicans dredged up the ’60s one more time. They tried to paint Obama as a closet revolutionary by linking him to William Ayers, a Chicago neighbor and a former member of the Weather Underground, a ’60s radical group.
Bummer, weary voters finally said. Time to move on.
Like, Dad, why don’t you hurry up and die so I can have the BMW and the insurance money?
Jeezus, where to start? This guy actually believes that during the 90s and 00s, the culture wars were nastier than the 1960s? WTF?
And interest groups turned more strident? Oh come on! You mean, like, for the first time ever!?
And partisanship trumped all else? These kids have never seen a nasty political campaign! So that Iraq War vote thing… nobody should have been partisan about that, you say? In that case, no doubt Obama would have voted for it. Chew on that.
And oh! Those evil Republicans! How dare they question the One about associating with people who endorsed the violent overthrow of the United State government?
What is their trip!? Ayers was just a neighbor! Their kids went to school together! Where have you been? And what’s so bad about being radical? I thought “radical” means cool, like “bad” means good. Who cares if these two shared ideas? How is that your business?
We need to get past those Nasty Nineties and chill out with the big O in the New Millenium!
Time to move on, Mom. Step aside, Dad. Let one of our people take over! We’ll show you how it’s done! We’ll end the wars, inflate our tires to stop using oil, tax the rich (people making more than us) to pay for everyone else’s bills, and never bicker with anyone anymore.
And if any of you asshole PUMAs don’t like it, we’ll kick your divisive asses!
So, let me ask you folks here at No Quarter and other PUMA or not-for-Obama blogs and websites: haven’t you noticed how non-divisive, non-strident, non-partisan, and non-sensical Obama’s followers have been this last year?
I know I have!
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i don’t mean to hijack the thread but there has been no thread specifically for this so i will bring it up here.
this is about the exclusion of the rev. gene robinson’s invocation during yesterady’s “we are one” concert. even if they didn’t show it on hbo or any other media or even talked about it we, gay people and their allies are absolutely outraged! and i think any decent person with a sense of fairness should be too!
here is the invocation that someone shot with their cell phone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWAnitUCw4
please write to hbo, to obama’s inauguration committee, to other media and express your outrage if you do not agree with how gay people have been treated.
can someone more eloquent than me (rev. amy, ani?) write a special post devoted to this??
thanks!
Here is a good version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWAnitUCw4
Steve in KC — “Punk wisdom,” indeed! Excellent analysis! Yes, the irony is astounding. The most divisive president supported by the most divisive generation is wagging it’s fingers at the Boomers for being divisive. GWB divided this country along strict Red and Blue lines, but Obama has managed to also pit one generation against another. BTW, didn’t the Right wing hate Boomers too? (The ironies abound!)
Thanx trixta! I rarely end up yelling out loud while reading the headlines in my morning fog, but I couldn’t help myself this time!
I was glad to hear Gene Robinson had been invited; I didn’t imagine they’d make him invisible. That’s infuriating. I’m glad you let us know.
it’s already starting…
HBO is blaming the Obama inauguration committee for the hiding of the invocation by Bishop Robinson
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_Gay_bishop_kicks_off_inaugural_0119.html
Not even pResident yet, screwing the GLBT community (again)…
Anybody who is surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention. GLBT community (generally speaking) sold out Hillary…and for what? Well, the snub of Bishop Robinson is only the beginning of the shell game. And if you really don’t like it? Write to Tammy Baldwin, openly lesbian representative from Wisconsin who supports BO.
Everyone LGBT I knew (besides one nitwit) voted for Hillary. Someone here posted a while back that 20% of the community ended up voting for McCain– which is well over the number of dems who voted McCain. I believe Hillary garned the majority of the LGBT vote in the primaries.
The two Gay Men I know voted for Bambi and we don’t talk anymore
The one Lesbian I know voted for Hillary
Somehow it just made sense then but not now.
This kid is like so many of my students in college. There’s no explaining that things–important things–happened before they were born. This is the direct result of the Nickelodeonization of America–Kids Rule! God help us…..
Move beyond partisanship my ass. David Goldstein is a FAAAARRRRRR Left Seattle blogger and sometime radio host. He has a website “horsesassdotorg.” I think he’s in his mid-30’s or so.
Right, this guy is kind of dense, not too bright.
But not every younger person, or person his age, is stupid, possessing a blogger’s narcissistic, specious intellect.
He also thinks the partisanship only came along with the boomer presidents. Guess he totally missed the Reagan years.
Looks like I got the wrong David Goldstein.
Here is the link to the story:
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/985896.html
‘Millennials’ ready to get away from politics of boomer presidencies
David Goldstein writes for The Kansas City Star, the Wichita Eagle and The Olathe (Kan.) News. He has worked for The Star as a Washington correspondent since 1995. Before that, he was a reporter and political editor in Kansas City. He’s a graduate of The George Washington University.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com./178
Thank you, leslie! I’m at work, so I can’t access my edit tools to update the article at the top, but I did use this link to go to the Star page and add a comment, including a link back to this page!
As a Gen Xer who supported Hillary, I am insulted this twit lumped my age group in with the his.
The hatred of baby boomers is in itself nasty and divisive. And it is .wide spread We keep hearing all about the “greatest generation” with no mention that they were the ones that got us mired in Vietnam and got thousands of boomers killed and maimed. No one trashes them. Not to mention the vast majority of baby boomers never participated in things like Woodstock. Heck, most never even went to college.
As for divisiveness over the past 16 years, that has been coming from the right. Clinton made serious efforts to govern in a bipartisan manner and appointed Republicans to his government. In fact one of his biggest mistakes was to choose Louie Freeh to head the FBI, a position Freeh used to investigate and trash Clinton in order to suck up to the right wing crazies. His bipartisan moves were slammed as triangulating, while Obama is praised for being bipartisan.
Conservatives like to portray all liberal baby boomers as Bill Ayers wanna be’s, which is completely ridiculous, but has worked well for them. But I suspect the real motive is to pave the way for drastically reducing our Social Security and destroying the whole system. Conservatives constantly talk about how we boomers are going to ruin the country, neglecting to mention that we have been overpaying into the system since the early 80’s to help pay our own way. In effect they are saying the government is going to default on the Treasury bonds those overpayments have been invested in.
These kids need to have someone point out that the pilot of the US Air plane that went into the Hudson last week was a baby boomer. Those people survived because he had YEARS of experience under his belt. Being young is not always what is needed.
I’m just so saddened because this should have been Hillary’s moment. The great shyster Obambi’s propoganda machine is disgusting and contemptible. If the Supreme Court doesn’t have the guts to throw Obambi out because he was born in Kenya and has been lying about it ever since, then I’m confident his true sleazy stripes will appear as his administration (gag!) rolls along. Just general venting.
This should be Hillary’s moment, but American’s had to prove that we are no longer a racist country. So they went and elected a first generation AA who spent the first 18 years of his life in either Indonesia or an elite prep school in Hawaii. He does not share the same history as 99.9% of other AA’s in the US. Americans have been hoodwinked and bamboozled.
The rather ironic thing is that, to a majority of African-Americans (those whose parents and grandparents were all born IN the United States, and most of whom have at least one relative who was a slave) will laugh at the idea that the son of a Black Jamaican father and a white American mother (or any child of a Caribbean Black and American White relationship) would dare identify himself as an “African-American”. There’s no doubt there IS a racial sympathy among AAs for their Black Caribbean brethren (witness the tirades against the US gov’t when comparing the plight of Haitian and Dominican refugees versus Cuban refugees–of course, aside from political explanations, the fact that most of the Cubans tended to be somewhat “less dark-complected”) but most AAs don’t see the Caribbeans as being “African-Americans”.
Now, it is true that Obama is perhaps “African-American” by a STRICT definition of the phrase (his father was from Africa; his mother was from America), he doesn’t REALLY share the same sense of history or community–that is, until he moved to Chicago. (I still don’t quite get WHY he felt this need to move to Chicago. Maybe the man should’ve watched some episodes of “Good Times”. Or perhaps, he did, and decided to emulate the character of Alderman Fred Davis, especially if Obama saw the episode, “The Politicians”. A young up-and-coming idealistic firebrand decides to run against the old-school, corrupt Davis, only to lose after running a clean, fair and above-board campaign; one point, he and Davis are in the Evans’ apartment and Davis challenges him to a game of “the dozens”, but the youngster wants to keep the discourse on the issues. At the end of the episode, he realizes that was part of his mistake–that he wasn’t connecting with the people, spending too much time talking “at” them, rather than “to” them.)
L: Your comment reminded me that when I took Children’s Literature in college we were taught that the adults are always the villains and they have to be inept or stupid. The kids always figure out how to save some situation that the block-headed adults couldn’t save.
Guess it’s produced this generation of blockheaded youth. We’ve got three in our family, and yes, they think they are the best and brightest and everyone can go hang.
The inmates want to take over the asylum ? Ha, they don`t even know the address. They are the most spoiled, whiny, uninformed bunch of free loaders to ever come down the pike.
LOL, they don’t even know the address…I second that.
To piggy-back on HARP’s statement, Obama’s campaign and his election and all of this inauguration bullshit is the logical culmination of the “self-esteem” philosophy run rampant in our schools the last twenty years or so. The opposite of the “self-esteem” philosophy is self-respect – that is work hard, and the struggle that ultimately leads to real achievement. Today’s young people know knothing about that.
These are the children who had parents who always made their children the center of attention. These young kids consistently feel that they are good at math when tests show they do not stack up; but they feel good about that!!! As long as they feel good all is A-OK.
They are over-indulged narcissists. These are the children who watched Survivor and American Idol and believe that is real life.
Political movements that are lead by young people have almost always ended badly. Whether it be Hitler’s youth movement, Stalin’s devoted young followers, even of Chairman Mao’s young communists. It is no accident that many of the Mid-East suicide bombers are young men and women.
This generation feels entitled to what ever they want. And they believe they are morally superior because they supported a black man for President and that before them no one ever helped black people. The Underground Railroad never existed. The Civil Rights movement never took place. Only they are not racist, because they do not know history.
It is a strange and dangerous precedent when adults listen to and take their voting cues from their children.
For a more fully realized and excellent discussion of this phenomena, I have linked to an excellent article from the Jerusalem Post, on-lime version.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204473064711&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
LOL…excellent post. So true, so true. We’ve got a bunch of punk thugs w tattoos and nose piercings that can’t even count change back at McDonald’s, think a college degree makes them smarter than everyone else and wouldn’t know what being polite or working hard was if it slapped them on their selfish, pampered ass.
Old people are whiners.
Sometimes, old people are whiners, yes. But then, they’ve earned the right. Young people are whiners, too. They just whine about old people not giving them something they haven’t yet earned.
I laugh at the so called millenials when they tout their superiority. I tell them that maybe Obama IS the best thing that’s ever happened to THEM. When the youth corps and the mandatory service crap starts they’ll be the first to be drafted. It usually brings them to a sobering moment of reality.
For a kicker I like to remind them that is was boomers who extended the work of the greatest generation to devise the computers and cell phones and all the other electronic gadgets they can’t live without.
Add in a little dig on their crappy music and how all the real affectionados love the boomer music and older (hat tip to Old Grumpy ‘Guy) and that if they want to hear music they need to listen to musicians whose parents actually made them take music lessons.
For the final touch I add that it is always easy to judge an era you didn’t live in. They will never be able to have the experiences us boomers and greatests did. They are WANNABES at best when it comes to civil rights, women’s lib, changing a culture, inventing anything, medical advances, entertainment, and anything else I can think of at the moment.
The coup de gras is too say there’s simply too few of them - we boomers just didn’t want that many and they will never rule because with the way the medical world is going we boomers will rock on forever!!!!
Amen my friend. I love it too when my co-workers talk about how their kids know more about computers. They may be able to push the buttons, but they don’t know what’s behind them!
….who’ve EARNED the right to whine.
Young people by comparison are whiners with virtually NO rights to whine.
In the beginning there was The Messiah Obama. Obama said “Let there be no partisanship”. He waved his Hand and it was so and it was good.
Then Obama said “No longer let us be divided”. And so his followers proceeded to terrorize older folks and vilify women. These two groups went silent. And it was good.
Thus begins the book of Obama. He, yeah he, who is a Boomer but is young and good.
Be sure to read the passages about the evils of Boomerdom. Much wisdom is contained there.*
*Satire for the satire impaired.
That was good Candy.
Why thank you.
Well done, Candymarl. Perfect. Sums it up nicely.
We are so irrelevant,
So old and in the way.
Obama is so young, so cool, so intelligent, so wise.
It’s time for us expired folk to stop occupying space.
What a wonderful New World this will be.
Well, I say, stand back, let these up’n'comers take the reins then. We’ll see what sort of world they can make of it. It’s their future that is about to implode in on them, though they’re so full of themselves they can’t see it.
The 60s and 70s, 80s and 90s are so passé, you see? We’re the new generation and we are taking charge, just so long as good old Mom and Dad let us move back in because we can’t get a job with our college degree, and by the way, can we borrow a $100 to get to the inauguration of our new Messiah?
Ha. Ahh, nope to both of those requests, but if you want to take charge, have at it. Let’s see if you can lead your brave new world.
I’m not one to hold on to the past. But, I’m not one to protect youth from the excesses of their own arrogance, either. The best teacher in life is Natural Consequences of Your Actions. It has a sort of a humbling effect.
That is right on the money…wrongdoing brings pain
They think they’re so smart and think it’s so easy….have at it.
If the millenials are such miracle workers why is it they didn’t demand to know the truth about Obama?
This will be a hard lesson in giving your faith to one who would screw you over. But, it’s their lesson to learn.
I just hope the country will survive. Actually, I think it will.
But Obama staffed his administration with ex Clinton hands.
Only his PR crew, or his media communications team, seem full of these retreads.
And the retreads have no sense of self-irony, whatsoever, I’ve never seen people, kids or not, with less instinct, less self, and other, perception.
Absolutely humourless about themselves, and the world.
And I call that weak.
Heh. That’s a good point. If Obama is so kewl and the boomers so passé, then why’d Obie set up an entire administration of boomer Clintonites? Those “millenials” had better wake up and smell their Mom’s morning coffee.
The big difference in the pathetic Obama youth, and those of the 60’s? Well, for starters I have never seen so many MEAN SPIRITED little creeps in my life. I mean, teenagers wearing “Palin is a C**t” t-shirts. That’s not what the message of the 60’s was. This whole campaign has engendered nothing BUT hate, division between sexes, races and parties, etc. None of that was what the 60’s were about. I am ashamed of the youth in this culture. Yes, they think they are going to lay on the couch all day, go out to the mailbox at noon and get their check from Uncle Obama, and blog away about what a groovy guy he is. Lord help us all.
History repeating itself. E.g. The Celestine Promise and ‘Our generation will put it right’ (Land of Confusion by Genesis if remember well) spring to mind. For some reason Democratic Presidents seem to have a tendency to bring out generational conflicts (JFK is great because he looked tan on tv iso nasty old Nixon, Carter brought ‘Change’, Clinton brought ‘time for a change’, now PEBO brings ‘Change’ iso ‘mean old man McCain’ - yet Robert Byrd was somehow revered). The big rub with our democracies is that the elecorate expects to be governed by reason yet always seems to vote on emotional grounds.
Obama Bought The Presidency
But being clueless works, doesn’t it? After all, if they forget the past, the 60s, they won’t remember why Ayers et al are a problem. It’s the rest of us who lived through that or any aspect of the Cold War, etc. that are the problem.
As for divisiveness, I’ve noticed among my relationships that my opposition to the big zero has brought me closer to everyone since they hated him from the start. What a surprise for me.
I suppose they will ignore the fact that a surprising number of “Boomers” are on his team.
I am thinking of taking a sick day tomorrow as I am sick of hearing how historic and transcendent a day it will be and how clueless people are that a non-citizen used fraud at the caucuses to become president.
I do believe that our educational system is a shambles because it is very easy to get a degree in education and be an educated idiot. Children still go to school for the same amount of time each day and for each school year that I did, yet the information to be learned has grown. It is also apparent that civics and history are afterthoughts in the educational system. And this computer and television generation does not read. Being technologically savvy means that you are technologically savvy, nothing more.
Revisionist historians are in high demand among the Bill Ayers taught scholars. They just don’t seem to be able to comprehend, much less appreciate, what made this nation great to begin with.
This is what “extended adolescence” has produced, a large chunk of “young adults,” who have a sense of entitlement without any historical perspective. This so-called “article” is absolute drivel but it’s not atypical of what’s posing as “journalism” these days.
What I found just as depressing were boomer parents following the lead of their grown or half-grown children. I was aghast at the number of people who willingly admitted voting for Obama “because their children wanted them to.” Even Caroline Kennedy [another boomer] said her children influenced her decision to support Obama. Just another nail in her political coffin, as far as I’m concerned.
The battle cry of the 60s was: never trust anyone over 30. It was dumb then [and I admit, I said it when I was a teenager]. And it’s just as dumb now.
We’d be wise to put away childish things. Botox and fake euphoria won’t make us younger, anymore than dreaming Barack Obama’s election will make the world perfect.
My fear is that the higher the pedestal, the greater the fall. Wait for the “Great Disappointment.” It’s coming to a theater near you.
Steve, you may have stumbled out of bed, but you hit the ground running!
I loved your post! Good read!
Thank you very much, Sassy! Your comment brought a smile to my face!
That rag isn’t fit for the bottom of a canary cage.
The Star advertised a county fair with a big ole pic of John Wayne Gacy dressed as a clown.
The editor’s wife had a nasty divorce before marrying the boss.
Now she gets to say idiotic crap all of the time as a “syndicated” writer.
She won’t disclose where else she is paid to have her ramblings printed and some tiny town in AL is the only other place The Star was able to note at one time.
Instead of putting Goldstein’s garbage on the editorial page along with the Editor’s wife’s neverendingObamalovefest,
it’s front page news for The Star.
The Star has NO ethics.
There have been massive layoffs at The Star.
The message is clear at that rag: Get on the Obama Express or Get a New Job.
I just LOVE your name!!
Thanks for adding your thoughts. It’s not much of a paper, that’s true. But I need local news, so I’m stuck with it.
That rag isn’t fit for the bottom of a canary cage.
It advertised a county fair with a big ole pic of John Wayne Gacy dressed as a clown.
The editor’s wife had a nasty divorce before marrying the boss.
Now she gets to say idiotic crap all of the time as a “syndicated” writer. She won’t disclose where else she is paid to have her ramblings printed and some tiny town in AL is the only other place The Star was able to note at one time.
Instead of putting Goldstein’s garbage on the editorial page along with the Editor’s wife’s neverendingObamalovefest, it’s front page news for The Star.
The Star has NO ethics.
The message is clear at that rag: Get on the Obama Express or Get a New Job.
Larry and Moderators - Let me know if I can post an Email just sent to the NBC Today Show, and copied to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s site Re: their commentary, that was just plain wrong, especially relating to the Clinton-Gore Inaugural in ‘93. I believe it may particulary relevent to this diary. Not exactly how I planned to spend my MLK, Jr. Holiday, but like to think he would appreciate setting the record straight, too.
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Today Show Producers, Doris Kerns-Goodwin,
You just stated in one half-hour segment (9 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.) that in other Presidential Inaugurals, the “stars”, or glitterati, were not available to the public. You claimed the Obama Inaugural was the first, or unique to do this by having the concert at the Lincoln Memorial, open to the public. That is simply not true. I’m astonished this claim would be made, and by such a celebrated historian as Mrs. Kearns-Goodwin.
You showed a photo, presumably with President-elect Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson with a woman celebrity (?) at an indoor event in 1993 (? – you did not ID with a caption), while your voice-over claimed in previous Inaugurations those were indoor events, not open to the public.
Both the interviewer and Mrs. Kearns-Godwin are old enough to recall sixteen (16) years ago, when then President-elect Bill Clinton and Vice-President-elect Al Gore came to town by bus, up through Virginia, over the bridge to the Lincoln Memorial for an outdoor concert AT the Lincoln Memorial. It was called “America’s Reunion” on the Mall. (I still have the T-shirt, memorabilia, etc.) There were Jumbotron TVs set up down at the Lincoln Memorial for thousands (+100K) to view in 1993, just like planned for this year. The numbers back then would qualify as “throngs”, just like you characterized this year; I know this because it was hard to reach the actual Lincoln Memorial site with all the people packed in. In fact, there may have been more people on the Mall in 1993 compared with yesterday, owing not just to warmer weather, but the following.
During the “America’s Reunion” event in 1993, in contrast to this year, there were numerous tents and venues set up for entertainment up and down the length of the Mall, with hundreds of thousands of people milling about during those days before the Clinton-Gore inauguration. It was free, and open to the public. In other words, the “stars” WERE accessible to the public. You claimed that had not been the case before, and particularly insinuated as much by posting on-screen the photo of President-Elect Clinton at an indoor event with Michael Jackson & company. Actually, there was much more real entertainment on the Mall throughout the day in 1993 (e.g., live musical performances) – not just “stars” or actors showing up to do readings in 2009 at the Memorial. I recall a great variety and diversity of people and performers, or different colors, musical styles , etc. sixteen years ago as well. In other words, the variety of entertainment was just as representative as has been claimed for this year’s event, perhaps more so. Depends on the commentator, or judge of diversity for America at any given time.
E.g., Depending on how you want to judge “diversity” and “representative” or America – if you hate the Blue Grass Music they had back 16 years ago, and deem it irrelevant, or not “Hip” for this “scene”, then I guess it’s one category that you would scoff and guffaw at, or discount entirely. I also saw Folk Music at “America’s Reunion”, as I was thrilled to squeeze into the packed tent to see Peter, Paul and Mary. You may likewise dismiss Peter, Paul and Mary as a bunch of old, fuddy-duddy Folkies! But if you didn’t know, or appreciate the fact that P, P & M played at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington in August 1963, before Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech, then I submit your history education, and appreciation or their musical contribution through their participation in numerous Civil Rights movement events and marches, is sorely lacking. FYI - Other Folk Musicians did time in jail, arrested right along with other Civil Rights marchers, for protesting – many marching right alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or in other places, with other less famous leaders of the movement. (E.g., Ask Judy Collins about singing with Fannie Lou Hammer in Alabama in a 1964 after a march for voting rights, in jail.)
Your NBC Today Show segment this a.m. left the impression that the only Inaugural events for Clinton-Gore in ’93 were indoor, for the paying elite, and the only acts were Michael Jackson with Fleetwood Mac (if the photo you flashed included Stevie Nicks). That was simply not true, in terms of events, or performers.
Re: Events Outdoor Pre-Inaugural Events Open to the Public in 1993 - Again, I will attest this was the case because I was there 16 years ago, and participated, as a citizen. Check with the National Park Service if you want real facts, and real data on both events (1993 “America’s Reunion” and yesterday’s event at the Lincoln Memorial). Otherwise, it seems I have a much better memory of the previous Inaugurations than the NBC Today Show interviewer, producers (who put up the photo or Clinton), and guest historian, Mrs. Kearns-Goodwin. Just curious: was your interviewer and Mrs. Kearns-Goodwin also in Washington, D. C. sixteen years ago for that Inaugural? I’d be willing to bet at least your historian was there, providing commentary.
Please correct this error in your presentation today, or ASAP, and don’t keep repeating the falsehood.
Regards,
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P.S. - I’m exceedingly disappointed that you would seek to discredit former President Clinton, and perhaps others, to promote our current President-Elect. To do it with a falsehood compounds the disappointment. It’s totally unnecessary for your interviewer and guest historian to re-write and omit history the way you did this morning, and dissuades people from wanting to view your network for Inaugural coverage. Ratings matter, right?
Thank you.
Bill Clinton was inclusive, an intellectual, this fact reflected in his choices, his staff, his FINGERPRINT, original.
Obama is faux intellectualism, (and even that, he does’t do so well) same with his crew of xeroxed peeps.
No taste, no class, no sign of originality, simple repetition of what the Madison Ave/Cupertino brand meisters think for them, vulgar simplicity unaware its true circumstance, its true STATUS.
But we knew this.
Not too good when the world community sees him as dumb and vulgar.
Jan,
Thank you for reading. Feel like I was doing a public service, and the Clintons (even Gore) a service to set the record straight.
Believe you have some incisive insights about Obama, too. Even Noam Chomsky, the academic sociologist (?) (the one Hugo Chavez quotes) says Obama is an example of an “Image” sold to us.
Good for you. Impressive. Thanks. Well done.
Thank you, Lark, for reading. I tried to be careful in getting my facts straight, and know what I experienced, and would bet that Doris Kearns Goodwin experienced, too! She must make a good bit of her income from doing commentary, and has been doing so at Inaugurations for a long time (back to 1993, I’d bet).
Nice Memories and Kuddos
It was cold but not unbearable as I settled into a tent with less than 200 others enjoying Ace Weir and Woody Harrelson entertain.
It was around 7th street and many tents with others that I now don’t recall.
These attempts to rewrite history and make Obama into an original are sickening. Just like the primaries when all he ever said was “I agree wih Hillary”
What a phony!
Animal Control,
Glad you liked it, and glad you remembered, and can attest to the event. I remember many tents, but not all of the acts, too (didn’t catch Woody). I remember it was hard to get in them because they were so full!
Agree - the re-writing is sickening, especially if they (pundits) know better, and were there, too.
“I agree with Hillary”, too.
He’s as phony as an Obama dollar bill. Who knows - he might order up his own likeness on some value of currency during his term.
Bravo. Thank you so much for writing this. Too bad they’ll just sh*t can it.
Kat5,
Thank you for reading, sharing! I’m like you - would be astonished if I hear anything, or if they’ll correct/retract the error.
FYI - My only error in recall: May have been Judy Collins and Fannie Lou Hammer were arrested together in Mississippi, not Alabama (both?). Now recall that Fannie Lou wanted the other Mississippi delegation (with blacks) to be seated at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, and a young Walter Mondale of Minnesota was called in to mediate dispute (later elected Senator). Discovered the SNCC (Student No-Violent Coordinating Committee) had the “Mississippi Freedom Riders Singers”, some interviewed by the Smithsonian. Will research more with Judy’s autobiographies.
Kat5 - Also, goes without saying, but I’ll say it: There’s a reason NBC is called, “The National Barack Channel” - or, here’s the latest: NBC’s re-write of history to make him look good, while unfairly disparaging others.
Thank you Liberty Bell for setting the record straight. I especially hope Mrs. Kearns-Goodwin corrects her history.
I worked recently until I quit “at will.” My boss was a Gen X who actually taught classes on “Generations Working Together.” I had to help edit and format some of the class notebooks. I’ll have to say that I felt insulted at the way the Boomers were discussed–as if we had to be put up with, so “this is how to do it.” The ironic thing was that there were national speakers also being invited to answer questions like, “What the Hell are we going to do when the Boomers and their uh, uh, um work ethic retire?”
I was so frustrated one day because the Gen X’ers were laughing and screaming at how darn funny they were as they were preparing for their very awesome entrance to the company Halloween department costume contest. It was so awful, I couldn’t hear the client I was talking with on the phone. I put the client on hold and told them all to “Be quiet so I can do my job.”
Later I made the mistake of comparing how I felt about having to do that to the many times I had to tell my seventh grade classes to be quiet and respectful of the other classrooms around them. (It was always hard to keep seventh graders quiet.)
Instead of getting my point, he became totally defensive. “Are you calling me a seventh grader? I don’t ever want you to call me that again.”
I have no hope for America’s ability to pull itself out of this financial crisis. The Gen X and Millenial people don’t have any real work ethic or attention span. Doing what it takes to right the situation will become too boring for them. That is why right now so many are really enjoying this multi-million dollar extravaganza while I am working today to find a place for a cat that was abandoned when its owners who lived next door to my son had to leave the house when they couldn’t make payments.
I have four cats, and two dogs. I also help my son pay vet bills for his two cats and two dogs. His house and mine are maxed out with animals. We’re feeding and watching over the cat, but I have to find somewhere else for it and I won’t feel right until I do.
I really, really do think many in my generation, (especially the Bill Ayers-type trust funders who got to play at being radical instead of studying) raised some really goofy people. (My son voted Nader, by the way, so he is not a bot at least.)
First of all, bless you for caring for the animals. I have 2 dogs and feed the wildlife such as rabbits, birds and chipmunks. I can’t take in any more pets but I donate to the SPCA and go over and help them out when I have time.
Second, I am on the tail end of the boomer generation but I can’t imagine at any age my Mom and Dad would have allowed me to act and treat people the way this new generation does. They are disrespectful, selfish and LAZY. Maybe that is how alot of kids are but that is what leaders and parents are for. Unfortunately they have none that have any sense. Manners and hard work will never be out of style. Hard work builds character hence, why they have none. I am also amazed at how lax businesses are these days on what they allow in a professional environment. People are loud, have their cell phones ringing…it’s pathetic.
Some are, but I’ve met other kids who are mannered and hard-working.
I don’t know, even when I was their age, I remember some of the adults around me saying “of 5000 people, you’re lucky if you can find one you’d chose to manage, one with the talent and intellect you’d want to mentor,” - sentiments of that sort…
I suppose it’s the same, today, so I try to remember a lot of Obama’s most offensive are simply a sub-class, not representative of ALL American youth.
Maybe it’s an extension of the whole cupertino/silicone valley/wall street/ scene as of late - faux gilded age, faux monetary wealth, bubbles everywhere, imitation talent, imitation skill, imitation intellect, illusory, poseurs playing for each other.
I’m the proud mom of two boys in their early 20’s who live amongst a sea of far left liberals (we live in a suburb north of Seattle), but they are both very independent thinkers and did not drink the kool-aid. They are both also very responsible, one is a homeowner and the other is totally debt free.
Congratulations, you’ve obviously instilled strong values into your children.
I’ve always thought “compliment your parents,” was the best praise one could receive.
I also have 2 sons who are debt free after college. One is conservative and one is a liberal. They both are cognizant that their entire generation will have to face a lot of the problems brought about by the Presidents since Reagan..the National debt and how their generation will be paying for it. They admit that their own contemporaries are buried in personal debt and they see it all around them. They have no clue how to deal with this impending disaster.
I have little hope too but it is their problem now.
I also find it fascinating that the Democratic Party kept espousing that Hillary was “a divisive character” and therefore, we should back Obama! The DNC did everything in their power with their misogyny, lies and manipulation to ensure Obama was the nominee. Obama has been more of a divisive character than any politician I have seen in my lifetime! In one fell swoop, Obama has single-handedly divided not only the Democratic Party into two distinct camps, but America into two racial camps as well. I suspect when he is found to not be “natural born” (and he will) and therefore does not qualify to be President, the racial divide will set us back decades!
I can’t stand the irony!
The Sequel:
William Kristol in an op-ed in the New York Times, “The Next War President.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/opinion/19kristol.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Mark Twain: The War Prayer
http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/making/warprayer.html
Now that’s why they call it fish wrap. So, we’re being dismissed from relevance for being divisive? How inclusive of the Millenials. I wish them a lot of luck on solving the nation’s problems when they have so little understanding of their cause.
Thanks for waking me up, Steve. You got this old fart’s ticker going. Will suicide be optional or mandatory, or are they just hoping for natural causes and no insurance?
Good stuff.
I would like for the baby-boomers to “claim” this president as one of their own in no uncertain terms. This would make it easier for we boomers to hold his feet to the fire. We can also unravel the myth of him having any special insight into the needs of millenials by virtue of his blackberry. And we can make sure the millenials and gen-x-ers underdstand he is one of us, not one of them. We also need to make sure the youn-uns understand that the presidential office is not an excuse to uphold the needs of any single (divisive special interest) group at the expense of the others.
For me, this standing on the sidelines waiting for this fraud to be unmasked is not working. It’s simply frustrating. It’s never going to happen because there are so many like this poor misguided “Washington correspondent” waiting to come to his defense. In order to beat him at his game, we have to say, “Great you’re in office. You’re one of us. Let’s get cooking on those things you promised.” I say we co-opt Obama away from them. We can even pat them on the head and tell them we are so proud of how cute they were supporting someone for president. I say we make him “Our President”(TM) and do it very quickly.
Let’s remember there are some in the millennial age group that are responsible and wouldn’t support the one if you paid them(that’s how it works ala acorn…) I amaddressing the soldiers, my son’s unit is young and not a bunch of o supporters. They don’t have it easy and know it. Realists.
“ready to move beyond presidencies defined by grudges, partisanship.”
Tell me David Goldstein, what will happen to your post grudge and partisanship generation if you don’t all agree, all march in lockstep? For example, your shiney new president can thank only a few corporate sponsors more than General Electric who I believe still owns Westinghouse. Someone mentioned that Westinghouse was going great guns in this economy and had plans for building something like 30 nuclear power plants. Pray tell, is the Millenial Generation united on the subject? Are you fer or against nuclear power? Would you prefer than General Electric get some fat contracts in Pakistan? Are y’all united for war there? Draft? Do you all agree that General Electric should pick out the next president, too? Please tell me what I must think, Dave.
For Netherlands- Obama did NOT bought his presidency, others bought it for him. If O, is the choosen one, why he has to wear the protective vest and speak on his ” most impotant historical election” thru the safety bullet glass???? If America choose him, why he is affraid and from whom he is affraid of, more ?????
Allowing oneself to be bought is the same as buying when it comes to elected office. He is hiding behind safety glass, etc., because he doesn’t trust the American people because he knows, as those who must protect him know, he does not really belong where he has gotten himself by virtue of his lying and cheating and hoodwinking so many people.
Nothing would justify the actions of someone who might try to harm him. I do not at all wish something that awful.
I just wish we were inaugurating a real leader with principles, ideals, knowledge, experience, competence–not a marketing brand.
But Obama allowed himself to be bought. He is no american and he is no patriot for doing that. Unfortunately, he set a dangerous and all too visible example for despots and extremists to believe that America is weak.
He doesn’t love this country, he’s been born and bred to weaken it. Remember whose side he will stand on when there is conflict. Remember whose philosophies he was taught by his mother and grandmother.
Let me state the following.
I was born in 1970. My parents were born in 1927 and 1937. My brother was born in 1973 and ALL of us were HUGE Hillary Clinton supporters.
I do have a bone to pick with some segments of the baby boom generation who have been nothing but nasty and vindictive towards the Clintons. Gee, Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, Sally Quinn, Randi Rhodes, NOW’s leadership, NARAL’s leadership, etc…
I never expected anything more from the Generation X’s and the Y’s then what was on display throughout the primary and general election. If any of you have seen the movie “Lions for Lambs” Robert Redford’s character as a college professor said it best when he informed one of his lazy but book bright students that he and those like him found it easy to pontificate about things outside their “comfort level” but never did anything to make change from within. They like slogans, advertisements, and getting their “serious” news from the ticker tape running at the bottom of the screen, so as not to interrupt the latest news on Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Kanye West. They want to be coddled through life yet bitch about it at the same time.
I am sick of the lot!
Good Points—good and bad in EVERY generation.
But you have to ask youreself who the Chris Matthews et al were pandering to. Yup, your little gen X and Yers and the so called millenials.
Listen Buzz…
That was precisely my point. I never expected anything better from the Generation X’ers and Y’s….and they didn’t let me down.
Baby Boomers talked a good show but in the end they were the ones who put Reagan over the top. They were the ones who shouted the Gordon Gekko “Greed is Good” mantra from the highest hills in the 1980’s. They were the ones who turned the rock arena concert into the mega-church.
You look at a micro shot of a generation and call it bad. You believe what you want to believe.
You with the 50 inch flat screens, the 400.00 baby strollers, the loaded Subaru or X-terra, the rock climbing equipment, the fantasy weddings, the overseas vacations, the two new cars and the mortgages you can’t afford on the McMansions and you ask yourself why…
You, as a generation, blame your own folly on the generation you see as the ones who provided it and implying that you were the victims of the baby boomers. Demand has been met. That’s all.
Well, sweety, at no time did the fine print ever say you had to participate in the frenzy. It has been a test of the younger generations in their ability to use common sense and guess what…you came up short.
Don’t blame a generation for what you (the X&Y generations) participated in willingly and even to the point of demanding and standing for hours in the dark and rain to get the latest Xbox or iphone.
Greed? At what level? If you have to put your latest big screen or outdoor equipment on a credit card you can’t afford, you have a greed problem. Wake up.
Buzz
you seem to be suffering from reading comprehension difficulties. My parents were Depression Era children. My father was in the navy during the last year of W.W.II and got to college and grad school on the G.I. BIll. My parents are not Baby Boomers and therefore I have never been victims at their hands.
My parents raised me better!
and the “millenials” will do just as bas or worse. sorry to burst you bubble, eurogirl.
Do you and Buzz have comprehension skill difficulties. Do you not understand that I have clearly stated time and again how vacuous the Generation X and Y’s are? I did not expect anything from either of these two generations and I was most generously rewarded.
Do not proceed then to have your way that the Baby Boomers are so much better. There are good and bad in every generation. My parents were Depression era children.
Please learn how to read and digest information before coming after me with vitriol that is most decidedly misplaced!!
It was to be expected that the Generation X’s and Y’s would throw Hillary under the bus. Explain to me the large number of Baby Boomers who did, if they are in fact so much better?
It was people my parents ages (71 and 81) that kept true to Hillary!
Your point would be that…?
You’re better?
You know more?
You are held harmless in the follies of your generation?
You “asked nothing” and therefore are a victim?
You are angry at boomers for not doing the in depth investigation on Obama before the election? Well, wasn’t that the job of the generation that wants and believes in Obama so badly they forgot all about the truth? This is a defining moment for your generation to grow up and do your own work.
You won’t have as much because the boomers ruined it all?
Your parents are saints?
You attack and then want recognition. Get your story straight. And for your information, I taught your generation all about reading comprehension, but I see we boomers failed at teaching you how to concisely express your true opinions.
Here is a concise way of expressing my viewpoint you arrogant prick.
You have given your own generation a free pass while deriding all other generations that came after.
I have clearly derided my own generation. You should be a little more rational about the follies foibles and missteps of your own generation.
I have not said that my parents are saints, but you clearly inferred that I feel that I am a victim of the boomer generation. How can I be a victim of a generation that did not raise me, feed me, nor provide me with my moral compass!
and by the way sport…..
I have never owned car!
I rent my apartment in the Capital Beltway.
I have no credit card debt
I do not own a 50-inch TV (merely a 23-inch)
I do not own scuba equipment
I have never been rock climbing
How is you lumping me into a “stereotype” of my generation anymore “outrageous” then your accusation that I am lumping all baby boomers into a “stereotype”?
Chew on that!
Ah, but you do recognize the symptoms of your generation.
So, really, this is all about you, eurogirl. You are magnificent in how you conduct yourself, according to you.
Judgement hath no place at your table, we are led to believe. Until it comes to baby boomers, thus making you just one more of your generation.
But is it really true? Judge and then defend appears to be the MO. Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme.
Do not demand what you cannot give yourself.
Hey, are there any statistics on how many gen X and Yers are actually out there giving their day of service to Oblahblah.?
While the thought is good, the source is suspect since he’s never actually done anything outside the scope of Saul Alinsky’s community
agitatororganizer.Funny coming from the
“Me” generation (Baby Boomers)
You still have not come to terms with the fact that I have time and again derided my own generation but you will not own up to those baby boomers who want to “appear” cool to the up and coming generations and therefore vilified and tried to destroy the Clinton’s while chanting Obama’s name (Caroline Kennedy Schlosberg anyone?)
You would argue that the nature of my response belies that I am me-centric. Yet, here is a direct quote from your first response to my first posting:
You are not referencing in generalized terms an entire generation, you have instead used the pronoun of the second person singular; in this case, YOU meaning ME.
How could I therefore do anything but respond in the objective case of I?
Tell those sellouts like Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Susan Sarandon, Tom Hanks, Randi Rhodes, I said hi!
The boomers refuse to acknowledge that the mantra of “if it feels good, do it” laid the groundwork!!
And yet, you lump and belittle the baby boomers in much the same manner.
And “arrogant prick” is certainly helpful in making your point.
I never said anything about all baby boomers.
again here is a quote from me first posting in order to provide you with a refresher
SEE: I reference some, not all
And here is a quote from my fourth posting
SEE: there are exceptions to the rule.
And you have been nothing but nasty in your postings.
You may feel that my using the term arrogant prick belies and inability to formulate a worthwhile argument.
However, all it does speak directly to you, the individual and your overall tone.
Time and again I have referenced by disgust and exasperation with segments of my generation while referencing certain segments of the Baby Boom generation that were also willing participants in this travesty of an election cycle.
You have taken everything I have said as a personal affront and yet when I take some of your responses as a personal affront, you must belittle and stereotype ["Oh, well, that's just a Generation X'er for you"]
So you are entitled to your own personal outrage but I must bow my head and realize that everything you thrust upon my head must be born with grace and humility?
If something really shitty happened to you today, or you are just venting your frustrations about tomorrow’s farce, find another punching bag!!
correction;
an ability….not and
Me thinks you need to look in the mirror in regards to projecting your own attitude on me, eurogirl.
I am having a wonderful day!
But then who are you to judge how my day is going?
I like your use of the word “projecting”.
So very Oprah and Dr. Phil of you!
And still you don’t get it. Did you look in the mirror, yet?
Yes,
Frankly I have….
And I am very happy and content with the caliber of person that I see.
I am objectively able to take stock of my own imperfections and foibles. I am able to criticize my generation without icing over the vacuous, MTV generation parts.
Why can you not address any criticism to those segments of the Baby Boom generation that vilified and tried to destroy the Clintons? Why?
Every response you have made to one of my postings I have clearly addressed point for point.
Glad you had a very nice day yesterday. I hope it continues as it seems to suit you very well.
There are good and bad in every generation and no generation is free of sellouts and opportunists.
EG, kind of the same with the hard right — everything they accuse Obama of doing, Cheney did, too, but they refuse to admit it.
Maybe they dont’ even see it.
Either way, not a good sign when the poeple with ostensible power are so self deluded, so self unaware.
Obama is a crook, no doubt about, but so is Cheney, if you can’t admit to both, or defend one over the other, I have to wonder about you.
Buzz–good point.
Thanks, Steve, for putting it all in perspective.
The first comment I would like to make, is David Goldstein needs a passing grade in history before he lectures his “elders” on what they lived through because his new deity wouldn’t be in the presidential race if all those horrible “babyboomers” hadn’t risk their lives to bring down segregation.
And one of those “old men” he doesn’t respect was born on this day 80 years ago. In the early 60s, the decade Mr. Goldstein holds in such disdain, King was in his 30s. Soertoro/Obama has already lived 18 years longer than Dr. King and yet there is no comparison with his 39 years of accomplishments versus Soertoro/Obama’s 47 years. And the negative comments about babyboomers always overlook the young lives lost in the Civil Rights movement; insulting the memories and the families of those who died following Martin Luther King’s dream.
What did Mr. Soertoro/Obama do beside lie about Dr. King being responsible for bringing his parents together when it is documented that his Kenyan father wasn’t even in the US but on a student visa in Hawaii and his mother was no where near a civil rights march in the South. It appears that “historian” Goldstein simply followed the lie rather than investigate the lie; but then that’s how these disciples of the Obama cult resemble the Moonies cult; which makes everything they believe suspicious.
(And, if you believe the genealogists, Soertoro Obama is 1/2 white, 3/8 Arab, and 1/8 black; which wouldn’t matter except he is pushing his “African American” ancestry.)
BREAKING NEWS!
Bush Commutes Sentences for Two Former Border Patrol Agents
President Bush commutes the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/19/bush-commutes-sentences-border-patrol-agents/
As he should have.
As the mom of three boomers (two mid-way; one toward
the end), I give away my age, but do not apologize.
We came, we saw, we tried to change America’s direction as well. Does the age make the man or the man make the age? (Age as in era.) How do we impact our times? And vice versa.
It’s a conundrum as is the old debate of nature vs.
nurture in social development. So making simplistic and contrived theory is counterproductive. Not to mention a waste of time and precious natural resources. Do they not know it takes many trees to put out a newspaper edition? The least we can do is honor the time and energy it takes to make a tree.
Mr. Goldstein is just adding to the pile of waste
paper that must be recycled–if it can–or disposed of in growing refuse heaps. Massaging one’s ego at the expense of spiritual evolution seems a sad commentary on our times. Make each effort count!
This whole discussion exposing generational gaps is about a useful as attempts by power brokers to convince us they have things under control. Apparently, they know youngsters are more susceptible to BS than oldsters, thus the pitch to a kid’s instant gratification reflexes. Babies cry when they don’t get immediate attention. Adults know to wait, letting things progress in a slow, systematic way.
Good post…worth thinking about, Steve. And funny as hell.
Well put.
Thanks you guys!
O.M.G. i feel your pain, steve. hillary and the “boomer generation” are partisan and divisive, but Ozero and his minions of jack-booted thugs aren’t???!!!! and yeah, obama’s just so COOOOOL; how could he *not* be the best president since abe lincoln?? God save our banana republic.
Let’s not blame only the kids for their breathtaking ignorance. Has anyone over the age of 40 taken a good long look at what passes these days for history courses? It’s drivel, so “politically correct,” so fact-free, so unoffensive to everyone that even the black African slave marketers are often expunged. All native American Indians were saints ( those like the Senecas who practiced genocide on neighboring tribes are never mentioned), all black slaves were tortured, all white Americans were torturers and imperialists…and on and on.
Social studies (ugh) make anything that occurred before the 1950’s appear to be prehistoric. It’s the lack of history and what it means to be human that has made rock stars of punks and celebrities of those-who-have-done-nothing. No wonder America is in such a mess!
I think PC fact free history is a by-product of Affirmative Action. Oh, let’s not tell the truth because we might offend someone or their senses.
I’ve just discovered one good thing about the Obama pResidency. It’s going to be exceedingly fun to watch the so-called millenials squirm and grow up!!
The spoon feeding of a whiny generation has ceased.
Excellen observation.
Oh woa, a must be juvenille ignorant self centored and absorbed wannabe journalist.
AND THEY PRINTED THIS GARBAGE ON THE FRONT PAGE?
and of course, this obvious ignorant child that wrote this, wasn’t seeing the irony of his divisive childish speech, much like that of the holyness he was writing. I remember so well him referring to folks older than the 30’s as being “of the past” and “just part of history” and then surprised that the only folks he was getting to support him were the naive, young and ignorant. Apparently he must have been, in mind, the same, otherwise he would not have resorted to such divisive tactics-on the very voters no less.
Steve, you are good. Thanks for the post.
But this kid definitely is a “mini me” of Obama with added ignorance. And ignorant narcissist. I guess he fits in with the Hollywood and Mr. Tingle’s and Keith Obamamann. But what the heck was he drivel doing on your front page?
Yes, his articles SCREAMS hypocrisy at best.
The young man apparently doesn’t realize the Baby Boomer he’s talking of, includes the soon to be sworn in president he is referring too, huh? And that he is trying to make a big deal out of the former President Clinton being born in 1946, who became president in 1992. Does he realize 1992 is
17 years ago? What will he be saying of the old man Obama in 17 years. He will be 64.
Was this kid for real?
Did anyone proof read this childs writings?
OY! They should stop proving us right.
Thank you, Linda! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I was hoping there would be a letter to the Editor complaining about it in today’s paper, but it the Letters section was devoted 100% to 4th graders’ letters to the new President! How cute!
Let the brainwashing begin!
This crap makes me queasy.
definiely. My husband was on the verge of tossing this weekend with O-shit’s choo choo ride.
Thank goodness he didn’t call it the Railrunner Express to DC, copying Richardsons Choo Choo which is now being sued by the ORIGINAL Railrunner in MA.
the problem is they (the millenials) will just keep on proving us right and then blame us for everything going wrong with Obama.
Every generation has harsh realities. I guess Obama will be the millenials downfall.
I am so disgusted with people I know who did this; oh the kids were so excited. Since when do you let your children tell you how to vote?
Our generation has supported those older than us and those younger than us. Now that it is time for someone else to suppport us, they want us to die and be gone. My neighbor has her 30 something year old son leeching off of her right now. He is a mushroom. And he voted for Obama because he felt he should. This guy has never worked a day in his life.
One thing I want to point out: of the five crew members on the airplane that just ended up in the Hudson River, four were over 50 (pilot 57) and the co-pilot was 49. What saved those lives were older, wiser, experienced people. Frankly, I ‘d rather have Sully as POTUS even without political experience.
The Claire McCaskill syndrome affected quite a few. Another one was the misguided notion the old hippies had that revolution was voting for Obama.
Time may prove out that those numbers are over represented. With the allegations of voter fraud and misconduct by ACORN, who knows how many actually voted for Obama.
The question will be how many will still be behind him in 2012.
A friend jokingly said that January 21st is the first day of the IMPEACH OBAMA movement. There could be a ton of truth in that.
A ton of truth and a lot of popcorn to eat whilst watching.
Nother great post, Steve.
The whole “Obama” parade is the biggest deception for many of Americans. My dilema is, why PBO choose to be A.Lincoln shadow? The today’s economical situation, he should have a modest inauguration. I’m sure, the whole world would appreciate his gesture. No, he choose to have the biggest ” circus” in our history.(Lincoln is very disappointed). I wish him all the best, because his success is our success too, even many of us didin’t vote for him, not because the color of his skin,because I think (like many others)he is not eligible to be president conform our Constitution. I pray hard for him and his family, hoping the God would watch over him and his family and he won’t end, like the one he wants to be. Why is he afraid of., 95% of the AA voted for him, plus half of the America too. I believe, Americans are peace loving Nation.
If you want to communicate to today’s young people
you’ve first got to grab and hold their attention. That’s the reason for the spectacle and theater. It’s why our new president is both politician and pop culture personality. This doesn’t necessarily mean that he lacks substance. Only that he understands young people and 21st Century media.
So does that make the “youth” of today more informed and educated? Think not.
Does it make them susceptible to advertising and chicanery? Hey, they voted for Obama . They’ll have to take up any disappointment in Obama to the Better Business Bureau.
If Obama is so media savvy, why won’t he do town hall meetings and why does he need a teleprompter to be coherent?
Obama is the perfect example of a talking head. Empty and bereft of any true knowledge, wisdom, or believable intellect.
Face it, America (s)elected a lemon.
The young are an easy target, but many Americans of my own age don’t seem to be particularly well-educated or well-informed either. They do have the benefit of longer experience, but that’s only helpful when people have learned from it. We seem to have a way of repeating our past mistakes.
For me, voting for Obama was voting for the possibility of something new and different. I didn’t like where we were headed. I thought I was seeing that place quite clearly. McCain/Palin looked like a repetition of past errors. It was a question of piling up on the rocks I could see ahead, or turning into unknown waters.
It’s way too soon for me to have an opinion about the Obama presidency. This will only be Day One.
By voting for the Anointed One, you just demonstrated you haven’t learned a thing from life, much less history. A conman is a conman, irrespective of the scale.
I think you should change your moniker to credulous. As the phrase goes, “Just sayin’”.
“Like, Dad, why don’t you hurry up and die so I can have the BMW and the insurance money?”
That line and this article are a hoot! Author David Goldstein and his peers are of the reality TV/video game generation….right, no divisive “simmering feuds and nasty partisanship” in those activities
….and no nasty, unethical, trashy, mindless blubbering on Facebook, MySpace or YouTube…..LMAO!!! All boomers should write in cursive scathing comments about David’s generation and see how long it takes them to decipher them!!
As the mother of 5 ‘millenials’ I will say that not one of them voted for BO but their voices will never be heard and isn’t it ironic that we have to remember the past when it comes to BO’s race speech and all of that horror but we “have to move forward” when it comes to his corrupt takeover of the Democratic party and his sexist treatment of Palin adn Clinton. We will never forget what happened this past year and we will not forget the totalitarian regimes that have existed in the 20th and 21st century and remind us that the “greatest good for the greatest number” is the foundation of totalitarianism and that is the crap this guy is shoveling.
“We’re the generation of 9/11, of Hurricane Katrina, of the Iraq War,” said Stephanie Young”
Wow, and here I thought we are coming through these events together because as living Americans, these tragedies affected and still affect our fellow citizens even if we weren’t physically in the actual events. Her choice of language is meant to exclude people as if their feelings and struggles are meaningless.
:::speaking from under the bus:::
One need only look at the music the “millenials” are producing - empty, completely forgettable crap. And no cool women bands like the nineties - this is the age of Obama when sexism is cool.
These poor kids have no substance and so are perfect for the fraud messiah Obama. They think they’ve really accomplished something but they just can’t say what.
Even their look is terrible - hair pulled forward with little spikey places sticking up. The males that is.
They are unfortunately the bamboozled generation - Generation Obama - Gen “O”.
Maybe if some of them wake up, they’ll be able to create some good rock and roll.
Gee whiz Steve, don’t you know that being called a racist is an accolade. Also denigrating women is the new compliment. The Obots’ have been so nice I just can’t understand why you’re not satisfied.
Thinking about it now, I think it was unfortunate that they chose Beyonce to sing Etta James’ signature song “At Last,” for the inaugural ball:
I don’t mean to denigrate Beyonce: she’s gorgeous, and she did a good job (she does play Etta James in the new flick Cadillac Records). But they could have had 70 year old Etta there singing that song. The lyrics express the fulfillment of a dream after a long period of waiting and longing. Those words would have meant so much more coming from Etta. “At Last!” They really did blow an opportunity by having the young unwrinkled beauty take the song that Etta James earned through blood, sweat, and tears: the song from the boomer generation. Having Etta James sing the song could have helped to close the generational rift the O fans seem to exemplify.
And besides, Beyonce made Michelle look just a tad less gorgeous.
THANK YOU Steve for a great Post. I only wish I could make this into an icon and hang it on a Wall in my office so everyone over 40 will have to read it! Tell it like it is….
The spoiled Obamabrats need a good spanking to get their heads straight. Wait till the bad times hit ‘em on their dainty perceptions of reality. Maybe they can start praying to Saint Obadrama. We sure as hell don’t have pity for them! They destroyed the election of Hillary and then attacked like rabid rats Gov Palin’s motherhood…Nothing’s sacred for these presumptuous, spoiled sexist rats…
Steve, great post. I am a fan.
It’s so evident that our schools are failing our kids. They are not learning history (even basic stuff) and it’s showing in their behavior and poor decision-making abillty. The longer this goes on and the older the uneducated get, the more it will affect society. And reporters and other media personalities haven’t helped - I’ve heard some make reference (gleefully) to the age of baby boomer rule being over now with Obama as president.
The U.S. Census Bureau considers a baby boomer to be someone born during the demographic birth boom between 1946 and 1964. These uneducated youngsters probably think baby boomers are all those born before the birth control pill was invented!