Reply #84: Rev. Wright is a Boomer, Obama is Generation Jones

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Rev. Wright represents the old school Baby Boomer orientation which much of this country is so burnt out on. Obama is different. Relevantly, numerous major media outlets, including The New York Times, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek Magazine, have all concluded in recent weeks, that Obama is specifically part of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Xers). I recently heard a panel of generational experts on a radio program discuss this specific question for around an hour, and they overwhelmingly concluded that Obama is a GenJoneser, not a Boomer nor Xer. This isn't surprising, given that Obama was born in the middle of the GenJones birth years, and those born toward the middle of a generation tend to most personify it. As experts have shown, Barack's bio and political worldview is quintessential GenJones.