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I'd give you a witty riposte,

Desidero — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:53:43 +0000

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I'd give you a witty riposte, but my organs are fighting over whether I hit the bathroom or make a sandwich. To be so conflicted without a good polling machine.

Desidero: You said, "I don't

wwstaebler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:21:31 +0000

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Desidero:
You said, "I don't have a generation. I have a sub-segmented market niche that includes age, gender, ethnicity, education, geographical location, religion, entertainment preferences and smoking/drinking habits."
Fantastic -- by revealing your belief in demographics as the most relevant form of identification, we finally know who you are in real life. And who among us would have suspected that you are Marc Penn?

How about when someone proves

Desidero — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:31:55 +0000

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How about when someone proves him/herself extremely competent to take over the keys, whatever age, that that is the qualifying quality? I don't weed out bands according to how old they are, I don't recall ever thinking "Oh, Clinton, yea, he's closer to my age" or "yuck, Bob Dole, he's so old...", I've interviewed people from 18 to 72 for positions without being fazed by age.

Some people can stay relevant for decades, others have a shelf-life of a few months. I don't have a generation. I have a sub-segmented market niche that includes age, gender, ethnicity, education, geographical location, religion, entertainment preferences and smoking/drinking habits. I don't identify with an age group, I identify with my peculiar opinion and preferences. Anyone from 5 to 95 can join me and as long as they know to laugh at my jokes and nod their heads yes to my ideas, they can be part of my cohort and get my vote. I'm just looking to be catered to by my politicians, not to identify with them.

I know. There aren't very

Alex39 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:04:27 +0000

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I know. There aren't very many of them. Especially since blondes aren't my type.

Just look what you get when you search for "attractive GOP" on Google images. It's not hopeful.

http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=attractive%20GOP&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

With attractive GOP

barefooted — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:50:47 +0000

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With attractive GOP operatives?

No, you didn't miss a post.

Alex39 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:36:40 +0000

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No, you didn't miss a post. I just have an active fantasy life.

I am Obama's age, within less

barefooted — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:10:55 +0000

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I am Obama's age, within less than a year. My birthday is six days after his. Yet I'm not sure those my age are the ones who matter most in this election. Note that I say "in this election." The very young, new voters are the ones I find exciting. And the ones that can begin to enact the change we all desire. However, the rest of us, all of us, need to be prepared to sustain the hard work.

OK -- that would be "to whom

wwstaebler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:56:20 +0000

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OK -- that would be "to whom do you refer.." Way too many typos and errors, so it's time for me to rest my case, or lose it. Carry on. And thanks for joining me.

"....attractive GOP

wwstaebler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:52:52 +0000

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"....attractive GOP operatives posing as Obama volunteers." Do whom do you refer, Alex? Did I miss a blood-racing post today?

Can we count on them to be

wwstaebler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:49:01 +0000

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Can we count on them to be all that, Barefooted? I don't know. Perhaps those are unrealistic expectations as a package. But if the alternative is to leave things in the hands of people like me -- when I have, this year, begun to misplace my keys, then the keys to the kingdom belong in the hands of those whose focus and self-confidence has not yet been shaken. Which is not to say that they may not err on the side of cocksure hubris... the perfect age, in fact, seems to be Obama's age, on the cusp between Boomer and GenX.(I realize that W. was only 52 when he took office, but he may as well have been 35-40, as he suffers from arrested development. Correction, with apologies to that age group, of which Jason is one: W. may as well have been 19 or 20, as the frat boy never died. only know that I, as one Boomer among many, have started misplacing my keys