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You have to understand something, Swiss. freedumb2003 seems to not understand that we Gen-Xers are the children of the Boomers. All the Boomers failings are reflected in us, because they raised us. They didn't want to be parents, they wanted to be friends. They wanted someone that they could share their pot and their socialist radicalism with, not a child to shape and mold into a good American. But freedumb2003 wants to blame us for it all. Obama? Elected by us? We are the Baby Busters. There aren't enough of us to sway a national election. Too many Boomers were too self absorbed to embrace parenthood, or to pass on what their parents taught them. While a a possible majority of Xers voted for Obama (not sure about that. There is a big chunk of Gen-Y contained in the age grouping that we are bracketed with)there are many more Boomers numerically that voted for Zero than us. (He doesn't seem to want to admit that Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama are Boomers).

But since he was on the receiving end of the knowledge passed on by his betters, he thinks himself superior. But he wasn't all that willing to do the same to the succeeding generation, because he viewed himself superior to them. We were supposed to know everything from the womb. And if we didn't? Well, we aren't worth his time.

So we Gen-Xers have looked beyond the Booomers, realizing the self absorbed tools that they are. We looked to our grand-parents. We have more in common with them than our parents. They lived through real adversity. They didn't live through the best of times, like they made sure their children did. Yet they didn't view themselves as the best generation like the Boomers do. They considered themselves lucky.

So yeah, we Gen-Xers are a tad bitter. Our parents think we are failures at everything, no matter what we do. But our parents are too self-centered to realize that we are their progeny; that we are a reflection of them. And somehow their failings are our fault.