Is Clinton Distaste Intergenerational?



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Like the Shakespearean Histories, Kurt Andersen thinks that alot of the Clinton distaste that saturates the media mob presently is essentially intergenerational. We tend to agree as all the negative adjectives we'd use to describe the both of them could easily be used to describe our feelings of Boomers in general. From NYMag:

"When Bill Clinton was first elected, baby-boomers had just become an absolute majority of working journalists, and among some of them simmered an envy-cum-distrust of the first baby-boomer commander-in-chief. Somebody our age is president? Then, over the course of Bill Clinton’s (bungled, distasteful) presidency and Hillary Clinton’s (bungled, distasteful) campaign for the presidency, the couple have separately and together become incarnations of the most unattractive attributes of their generation’s elite—blind ambition cloaked in do-good self-righteousness, a sense of entitlement, high-handed snobbiness (“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies”), hedonism (Monica et al.), narcissism. As a poster couple for people of a certain age and demographic, they have become a bit of an embarrassment."

So true. And, come to think of it, why did Bill Clinton use the one saccharine, aggressively inoffensive Fleetwood Mac song for the 1992 campaign (Why not "The Chain"?). More here.