Barack Obama: A Baby Boomer At Heart

I recommend a recent write-up on Barack Obama by Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of The Australian. Sheridan writes: “He (Obama) is technically a member of generation X, born just too late to be a baby boomer. Yet his consciousness is quintessentially that of the baby boomer.

“The best guide to who Obama is politically comes not from the millions of hagiographic and densely uncritical words penned by adoring media across the world but from Obama’s autobiographies and his legislative record as an Illinois state senator.

“It is no criticism of Obama that he has not been to war. But his confected existential angst is similar to Hillary Clinton’s fictional landing in Bosnia under imaginary sniper fire. It is the device, brilliantly executed by Obama, very clumsily by Hillary, of a politician desperate to self-dramatise.

“Oddly, it is the very cynicism and skill of this exercise that suggests to me Obama could yet make an effective president.” More here…

The illustration above is from an old NYT article…also worth reading…