It’s Their Fault

I’d probably work a bit longer on it, but you’ll get the gist…
I’d love to see Katie Couric analyze this one.

Tonight you will be hearing about our candidate’s many strengths, our party’s vision for America, and our plan to win this election. You’ll also be hearing some attacks: on the failure of the incumbent [...]

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I really like the Biden pick. Though it certainly has its political advantages, it primarily shows me that Obama is a politician who has truly overcome Boomer-style politics. Beyond all the meaningless media speculation and campaigning about “what this pick means” and “symbolizes” in terms of getting Obama elected, what matter to [...]

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I just had this terrifying vision…
It would be the height of Boomer style politics.  Totally irrelevant to any kind of policy/ideological coherence, purely ambition driven, the height of cynicism, a disaster to the United States in nearly every way.
…and they would win by a gigantic margin.
The thought that such a grossly cynical ticket would overrun [...]

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From Wiki:

Bennett Brauer was played by Chris Farley. In each appearance, Brauer provided commentary for Kevin Nealon’s Weekend Update, vividly describing his poor hygiene, his lack of social grace, and his anger towards the viewers for preferring other photogenic commentators to him. Brauer would make regular use of finger quotes to emphasize every point he [...]

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Post-Boomer election? McCain doesn’t want that. Michael Scherer discusses the Boomer politics exemplified in McCain’s new ad in Swampland, and Andrew Sullivan has reactions.
Scherer:
In some ways, this is a predictable theme. Every presidential election since Vietnam has, in some ways, been a retread of the 1960s culture war.
[McCain's] new ad tries [...]

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The Boomers’ carelessness with oil is well documented, and now one of the silent generation is speaking up about it: oil man and college football booster T. Boone Pickens. In what he says will be the biggest special issue campaign ever, Pickens will be promoting his wind-energy plan throughout the campaign. (Who [...]

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A great post from from the Daily Kos:
Perhaps…what I find most infuriating about pieces that call out Millenials for their perceived inaction [is] that there is no corresponding chastisement of the Baby Boomers or the millions of other Americans who also have the ability to engage in “real world” activism.
The post goes on to explain [...]

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In keeping with yesterdays post about service jobs needing to become more visible… today Barack Obama spoke in Colorado Springs about careers in public service, and how the U.S. needs to expand options for those willing to serve. From the Colorado Independent:
Obama called for an expansion of the AmeriCorps program by 250,000 people, [...]

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Dennis Prager today has an pretty annoying column in which he says that youth supported movements are often naive and narcissistic (based on just two examples from the same time period), and uses that observation to proclaim that he therefore distrusts Obama. While his leap from distrusting historical youth movements to distrusting Obama’s [...]

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It is ironic that, in a presidential election year with both racial and gender firsts, age will likely end up being the most important dividing line in the electorate. The Times looks at this phenomenon today, with a focus not on the generational dividing lines that I’ve concentrated on, but more on the general [...]

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