Bill Clinton

Bill stormed onto the scene in 1992 as the personification of the Baby Boomers. Even to this day, if there were a face to the Baby Boomers, it would be his. Dragging an optimistic bag from the Sixties behind him, he espoused such sentiments as "I feel your pain" and "usually briefs."

Finally a guy with the same experiences as the voters! He grew up poor, dodged the draft, smoked doobies and now he's running for president. What a great story! And especially the contrast he offered against Bush 41, whom we can all presume was still having night-sweats about dodging kamikaze pilots and ending up in a Japanese POW camp.

But eight years after that election, Bill was blatantly lying to the public and feeding us such garbage as: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Sixteen years later, we almost fell for it again, as the Baby Boomer voting base nearly elected Bill Part 2, aka Hillary.

But the economy boomed during his administration, so what's the problem? Put some money in my wallet and I'll look the other way on all that other shit--it's the Baby Boomer creed! After all, it worked for Bill, right? That's why they ran wild in the Sixties and that's why they sold out in the Seventies. Hazy idealism was cool when they were young and wanted to get laid. But then they coveted that 8-track player that their rich buddy had, so it was: "Hey man, can you get me a job selling mutual funds?"

In "Audacity of Hope", Barack Obama writes: “In the back and forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004, I sometimes felt as if I were watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation--a tale rooted in old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses long ago--played out on the national stage.”

Personal politics at its core. Loyalty and rivalry above ideology. Bogus culture wars taken to the extreme. And great potential squandered by the ephemeral pleasure of a blow job from a near-teenager. Bill Clinton is not "a great man." Bill Clinton is a Baby Boomer.