You also killed the ERA, elected Reagan and both Bushes, made Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell into the face of American religion, passed the Defense of Marriage Act and the Patriot Act, made torture into an accepted tool of foreign policy, dismissed AIDS as divine punishment against gays, stood idly by during the Rwandan genocide, deregulated the banks, and made such a mess out of the economy and our nation’s international standing that it’s taken the current president, a Gen-Xer, almost all of his first term just trying to stop the bleeding while baby boomers oppose him every step of the way and crow about him secretly being a Muslim, a Commie, a homosexual, or some combination of the three.
Was. Am. Will be. Born 1947.
Here’s an idea. Quit putting words in her mouth:
You’re just another idiot “Sept Join Date” agro idiot who is going to flame out here by the end of next week, if not sooner.
Ugh. Newbies. 
Well then you don’t have a golden parachute. You’re just one of the locusts stripping the field clean before I get there.
The thing is, the boomers helped make some incremental steps in the Civil Rights process, but all the giant steps were led by the Boomer’s parents and grandparents. The integration of the military, the major league sports, the schools, the elimination of Jim Crow laws and anti-miscegenation laws. The Boomers just weren’t old enough to be involved in any of that.
And, yes, the Greatest Generation, and their parents and grandparents, were also the ones responsible for all the civil wrongs perpetuated in this country in the 20th century. Still, it was that pre-Boomer generation that turned the ship around.
With Atari 2600 joysticks as our primary weapon.
And Weird Science, Revenge Of The Nerds and Risky Business are amongst the finest works the film industry has ever produced.
Also, Motley Crue.
Suck it, Greatest Generation!
Cut the Greatest Generation, they’d bleed red, white and blue. Us: teal. Yep, after us, GenX had some big shoulder pads to fill.
(Hey, I wasn’t kidding about that power ballad montage. That’s why Gulf War One only lasted four minutes: we had to complete the whole war by the time “The Warrior” by Scandal finished.)
*Shooting at the walls of Baghdad
Bang Bang
I am the Warrior
*
What the hell are you talking about? Are you drunk?
Must have misread your post. Happens more and more of late.
The Internet, in all its porny captioned cat-y goodness.
You’re welcome.
“I” and my compatriots didn’t; the right-wing Republican gonetoteabaggers among us did.
I thought that was invented by Al Gore. 
No problem. I’ve developed a dislike for kids on my lawn recently. Mostly my kids, but I’d feel the same about others.
Well if that’s the case, Barbara Walters should have never had a broadcast career at all.
that’s the problem with assigning credit or blame to “generations” - it becomes a No True Scotsman argument when someone points out the ugly truth that poeple born in an arbitrary set of years don’t have all the same politican positions as you. “Well, those aren’t really US, ya know? Not really boomers. They’re uh, teabaggers, that’s different.”
Well…without the great generation, you might have ended up speaking German, but without the boomers you might have ended not getting any. Difficult choice 
In a hundred years, guess which one is going to be viewed as emblematic of your generation?
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Obama was born in 1961, which is considered the tail end of the Boomers. Gen X is generally considered as beginning with the 1965 babies.
There is obviously no cut and dried date line, but I think you’d be hard pressed to jam Obama in with the Xers.