He's only ten years older than I am. It's... kinda weird to see someone who feels like he's near my age on his way to the Oval Office. Presidents were always older than me, usually these wrinkly old farts in their sixties. Old men born in the forties. My parent's generation at the absolute youngest, when Clinton took office.
But Barack is shaped by a lot of the same things I was. I can imagine him blowing off classes in college to feed his addiction to Missile Command or some other early video game.
Given that McCain is in the set of people who're proud to not know how to use those new-fangled computer machines, this was definitely a generational turnover of an election.
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Date: 2008-11-07 05:50 pm (UTC)But Barack is shaped by a lot of the same things I was. I can imagine him blowing off classes in college to feed his addiction to Missile Command or some other early video game.
Given that McCain is in the set of people who're proud to not know how to use those new-fangled computer machines, this was definitely a generational turnover of an election.