A Millennial Named Bush

New York Times ^ | 7/25/2015 | Nick Kristoff

[MadIsh32]

THE time-honored way to speak of young people is with horror. They’re wild, reckless, irresponsible, narcissistic, immoral and hopeless — and always have been.

Now along comes this generation of millennials, and we have a problem. They are raised on “service projects,” apply to Teach for America in torrents and donate to charity at a higher rate (87 percent) than their elders. Basically, they’ve stabbed us older generations in the back with their idealism and altruism, robbing us of the opportunity to feel superior.

One of the exemplars of this trend, also catering to it, is Barbara Bush, 33. Yes, President George W. Bush’s daughter — the one you perhaps last heard of when she was busted for underage drinking in 2001.

That was a relief, for it indicated some youthful irresponsibility for us to cluck-cluck at: A daughter and granddaughter of presidents, and she provokes a scandal!

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But Barbara joined her father on a 2003 trip to Africa and was staggered by the human toll of AIDS in Uganda. “That inequity blew my mind,” she recalled.

[ifinnegan]

It’s sad to see Kristoff’s descent in to a rambling incoherent hack from an interesting somewhat independent-writer of a couple decades ago.

[Huntress]

I’ve always thought Kristof was a sanctimonious bore.

[Arthur McGowan]

The Saudi royal family, George Soros, and the NWO have owned the Bush family for many decades. The Bush family is every bit as evil as Hussein, and they work for the same puppet-masters.