Barack Obama is NOT a Baby Boomer
Hillary Clinton is a Baby Boomer. So are Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and George W. Bush.
Isn't it odd, however, that when many people speak of an Obama Presidency, they constantly refer to a "new generation" of leadership? But if he is a Baby Boomer, then how could that be?
Born in 1961, he obviously is not Generation X either. So a piece of the puzzle is missing. What are we not being told?
Barack Obama is part of a generation that was "dropped off the radar screen" of public attention some 50 years ago. They are now re-emerging as a force, as they begin to see their role taking shape in American society. They are maturing, embracing their mission, and - equally important - are starting to recognize themselves as a distinct generation.
We're talking about the "Sixties Kids", also known as the "Children of the Dream", or the Ambassador Generation.
Witnesses to the cultural revolutions of the sixties, but not old enough to participate, their very existence became
an uncomfortable reality for many when the country shifted politically to the right in the seventies.
They were very nearly wiped out by two plagues, one of them man-made, that struck with a fury in the eighties.
They have been overlooked to the point of invisibility, and in spite of that, have changed the world profoundly already.
They were raised on the priciples of fairness, justice, and equal opportunity, as opposed to the subsequent "greed is good" philosophy that has allowed so many to be left behind as simply "collateral damage".
And now they sense they are needed as never before. With one foot in the old school, and one foot in the new, they are
positioned as no one else to bring creative, elegant solutions to the table for many of the challenges the world faces.
Barack Obama's political rise is the bugle call to a hidden generation - and not a moment too soon.
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