Presidential "Skipping" of Silents/Gen X

[Eric the Green]

(03-25-2019, 09:59 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(03-23-2019, 08:50 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Obama is a young, idealistic cool dude, and he broke ground by being the first black president.

Is he that idealistic? He is probably less idealistic than Bush (an Apollonian prophet) or Clinton (a Dionysian prophet). I agree with the following diagnosis:

https://www.thegenxfiles.com/2009/03/30/...nt-page-1/

Obama, as a Generation X’er, does not seem to have the same righteousness of our previous two presidents. Although he is certainly has a direction for the country, it seems to be based much more on pragmatic goals (both short and long-term) rather than an ideal state that we should try to achieve. He is willing to compromise ideals to try to attain practical ends.

Though on this photo he does look like a boomer!

I don't see that Bill Clinton was any less pragmatic than Obama. By any measure, Obama's program was more visionary and less compromising than Clinton's, who made deals with the devil of the kind that even Obama did not do. As for Bush, his ideal was to start wars to spread democracy around the world. Was than an "ideal society?" No, he offered no ideals at all; just wars, and the spreading of business-as-usual for his own country around the world.