I would take a different tack in my nomination of boomer leaders. Since the
early 80s, the US economy has been through an amazing transformation from
"stable" factory/union-based manufacturing to technology-based innovation.
A couple of key boomers come to mind as transformational: Steve Jobs and
Bill Gates, both born the same year smack in the middle of the boomer
generation. These guys were both bright, driven, and (in different ways)
innovative. While the politicians were allowing our educational system to
decline (example, Prop 13 in California) and our national debt to fester and
metastasize, these guys were creating jobs and facilitating many related
spin-off companies.
Of course you could say that Gates giving away billions of dollars is
another form of boomer self-indulgence, and that the sometimes-quirky Jobs
sitting cross-legged and meditating was another form of boomer strangeness,
but both guys played a big role in transformed our economic system without
burdening our children with debt. I would probably include Larry Ellison
and Michael Dell also, but they are too old and young respectively.
These guys are not saints and they have sometimes used strong-arm tactics,
but they have led us to an new way of living.
Chris
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Ernie :
Well, I know who David would nominate for the honor, PJ O'Rourke.
For myself, no one name stands out. I am thankful for Justice Roberts at
the Supreme Court, but as a leader of the boomer generation ? Not really.
I like to listen to Cokie Roberts and, in another sense, Dolly Parton,
but in terms of a best leader ?
If I was forced to make some kind of choice, maybe Brian Lamb of C-Span,
but he was born in 1941 and the way the boomer cohort is usually defined
he isn't part of it. There have been other definitions, some put the
start-up date
as anyone who was a child in the 1940s, maybe born pre-war, and in that case
Lamb would qualify. Not as a leader in the usual sense but as a "good
example"
for others.
Billy
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Who would you say is the best (not merely most successful a la Clinton)
leader of the Boomer generation?
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On Nov 19, 2011, at 12:43, [email protected] wrote:
> Trouble is that the picture is painted with such a broad brush
> that is misrepresents the boomers at least as much as it
> offers fair evaluations.
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