A Great Divide

This ad brilliantly demonstrates the cultural divide between the baby boomers.

Comments

[Darryl Light]

Hey Greg,

I've outed myself as an avid Democrat who reads your blog already but there are DEEP underlying social problems that the baby boomers have not faced. I came face to face with it in John Kerry.

*waits for snickering to end*

I worked on his campaign in Iowa and let me tell you: Veterans gave Kerry his victory in Iowa and no one else. They were the margin that showed up and they not only showed up but they showed up with their kids, their families and their friends.

Why? I got this distinct feeling of an under-current that THAT election was more about redemption for what happened when they came home than anything else. An attempt to bury a very painful and embaressing past. Didn't work as the minute you poked a hole in Kerry he burst and he didn't respond to the Swift Boats, but that doesn't erase the feeling and reasons that most of these vets were active again.

I've been told we say it with the Bob Kerrey that was shortly lived and with Republican candidates as well.

It just seems to still be floating out there, a generation divided on so many many levels.

[Travis]

Greg is correct. It is the divide among the Baby Boomers that is worthy of note.

Not all of them were counter culture, protesting, drug addicted music worshippers. Some of them were fighting for our country. Some of them were studying to become the brilliant business leaders they are today. Others were raising families and living simply and humbly away from fame and fortune, yet they were sustaining this whole nation.

Too much emphasis is put on the hippies and the protestors. It is the simple, humble, hard working citizens that are responsible for what is truly heroic and worthy of our admiration.

If Hillary wants to make a monument for that era, let her honor the simple folks - and let her pay for it herself!

[rom]

I think the Woodstock Museum idea is another example of how the Clintons and their Hollywood friends 'don't get it' when it comes to what is reality.