Reply #109: In his book. He attacked the boomers [View All]

[Breeze54]

Many boomers (of which he is one) were pissed off at that and his rhetoric.
Surely you knew that. That's when a lot of the "splitting' of the party began
during the primaries and that's why it was such a fiasco in GD-P during that
time and some still lingers. The comment you made about not understanding
why some in this thread immediately saw an attack on older voters astounded
me. Of course it was older voters being singled out. They DID vote in 2006!
They are older now since that election. He wasn't talking about 'the youth'.
They showed up in small numbers, as we've already discussed. 25% in 2006. :(

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/08/obama-hits-generational-d_n_71729.html

"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."

- Barack Obama -

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21broder.html?ref=weekinreview

“In the back and forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004,” he writes,
“I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation — a tale rooted
in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago — played out on
the national stage.”

- Barack Obama -

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That didn't go over big at all and the attacks against Baby Boomers on DU escalated.

Also wasn't a very smart move by him, as the Boomers are the largest voting block.

So, when the guy in the OP made the comment, many here that are Boomers took offense.

It was the older voters that voted and at least we DID show up to vote!