Obama Hits Generational Divide: Baby-Boomer Clinton Can't Unite The Country

Washington Times:

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama attacked his chief rival as out of step with the times and too locked in 1960s social and cultural battles to deal with new challenges that require a different and perhaps younger perspective.

"I think there is no doubt that we represent the kind of change that Senator Clinton can't deliver on, and part of it is generational," Mr. Obama told Fox News yesterday about the difference between himself and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. "I mean, Senator Clinton and others, they've been fighting some of the same fights since the '60s, and it makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done."

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Comments

[MRb1000]

Obama is right the Clinton cannot bring the country together! We are going to here fighting about sweet nothing for another four years. For what?

[starrianna]

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OBAMA'S BITCHY SLAP AGAINST HILLARY OF THE DAY
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______________________________(fill in the blank)

What will Obama say tomorrow?
How high will it rank on the Bitch-O-Meter?
Will Obama break a nail with those claws?

[Rand]

While I'm an Edwards supporter, I've always though highly of Obama

No longer: Any politician who isn't bright enough to know not to say something which can be viewed as insulting to the LARGEST AGE DEMOGRAPHIC IN HUMAN HISTORY, isn't bright enough to be president!

[talkstocoyotes]

Of course, there might be a pattern here -- Obama cozies up to an anti-gay nutcase, disses Baby Boomers, now let me see....

Oh yeah -- he's going for the Self-Hating Neurotic voting bloc.

[talkstocoyotes]

Okey-dokey, one more reason to not vote for Obama -- he thinks I'm too old.

Don't worry, your Worship, I'll be sure not to contaminate your generational purity in the primaries or otherwise.

[OckhamsElectricRazor]

Well, I guess he thinks he can LOSE the nomination WITHOUT the help of the Boomers. This is an obvious sign that Obama is in the last desparate throes of his compaign. What a uniter!

[pleeezzze]

Obama...I hate to remind you but ...Baby Boomers ...are ALSO a part of this country !!
You sound just like what you are, INEXPERIENCED !!!!!

[Independent voter]

This arrogant, inexperienced young punk just lost my vote.

Who the f*ck does this wunderkind wannabe think he is. He stands on the shoulders of the giants who went before him and shouts "look at me everybody - I'm so tall".

Those battles of the sixties were such a waste of time. Civil rights, abortion rights, unjust wars, aid for children, minimum wage etc.

Wake up l'enfant terrible. The politics of exclusion and division are over. You need boomers much more than boomer need you.

[TruEngineHearing]

So BO thinks we're irrelevant. Okay, I'll support someone else. How's that workin' out for you?

[StillAmused]

"Senator Clinton and others, they've been fighting some of the same fights since the '60s..."

... like those tedious civil rights and equal opportunity thingies that set the stage for a young Black man to run a serious campaign for President.

Yup. What we need is more of the updated "What, Me Worry?" self-involvement of the current generation, virtually SILENT on Iraq... but really big on I-Phones, MySpace and Britney.

Ingratitude is always so unseemly.

[KenoshaMarge]

Many of us old farts remember this kind of talk from the sixties. That's when older people were regarded as an enemy. Senator Obama is too smart not to know that pissing off old farts isn't smart because they are the one demographic that really does bother to vote. What was the point of insulting a whole generation? Or has poor Senator Obama been misquoted again? Why does someone this smart have his foot in his mouth so often?

[starrianna]

GREAT (?) MINDS THINK ALIKE:
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"This is so irritating."
-- BARACK OBAMA, questioned about his lack of patriotism/respect

"This is so irritating."
-- GEORGE BUSH, questioned about his first ever veto override

"This is so irritating."
-- OPRAH WINFREY, informed that her matron was molesting all her "children"

"This is so irritating."
-- MARIE ANTOINETTE, informed that she would not be able to have 100yr old champagne that night

"This is so irritating."
-- BARBRA STREISAND, informed that her microphone was painted white, not ivory

"This is so irritating."
-- CONDOLEEZZA RICE, informed that her favorite $1,849 Italian pumps were not available in a size 9

"This is so irritating."
-- COURTNEY LOVE, informed that her daily shipment of 1 kilo of coke was stalled offshore

[meese]

Obama's point has always been that the battle for the presidency has been dominated by the issue framing from the 60s and 70s, and naturally, those involved in that political fight have been the baby boomers. This is a denouncement of politicians that perpetuate this rhetoric, not of older Americans.

We don't need yet another election about Vietnam service (Kerry's service credentials vs. Bush's non service credentials) - something over 40 years ago now. The GOP and Sen. Clinton are already gearing up for it: after she pushed through some pork to spend millions on a Woodstock museum run by a friend of hers, the GOP counterattacked talking about Hillary and hippies.

Obama's point is that we need to move on and solve today's problem with a new framing and new way of looking at things. He wasn't around for the battles of the 60s and 70s and doesn't need to care about them: we've moved far beyond them as a nation and it's time for our politics to catch up.

[Centauri]

What next Mr OBama?

No Voting right for people above 55 because they are still fighing their 60's demons.

I guess Mr Obama would have no problem with it.

[prettypony]

Obama is starting to look desparate, and that certainly doesn't help one look Presidential.