Reply #95: The' get over themselves" line was just a hook

[Alcibiades]

intended by the author to get you to read the article. It worked, but I hope most people don't think, as you apparently do, that Obama actually said that.

As for the substance of the charges, there is something there. I really chafe when discussing Iraq with my dad, a boomer, who quickly makes it all about his own anger at "Hanoi Jane" and his feeling that (much like some in Germany after WWI) the troops are in danger of being stabbed in the back by leftist politicos who want to cut and run, denying them the orgasm of victory.

Which brings me to another question--why is it everyone assumes Obama is only critical of the "hippies" in the boomer generation? My dad voted for George Wallace, for pete's sake. Anybody remember the so-called "silent majority?" It certainly wasn't the entire boomer generation that fought for civil rights, feminism, peace and all the rest.

Not that I'm voting for Obama anyway.