Is It Time To Grow Up?

Wow. Just getting into Andrew Sullivan's cover story in the Atlantic this week about "Why Obama Matters."

The entire article is about getting past the Baby Boomer generation's cold civil war between those who served and those who didn't in Vietnam. Our internal politics, he argues, have been hamstrung by this issue since the 1960s culture wars and reignited when the Baby Boomers came to power in the Bill Clinton era. Our entire political culture - to this day - is shaped by it. And the Hilary Clinton-Rudy Guiliani race anticipated by big media will be the latest manifestation of it.

Obama, he argues, offers a truce.

I'm only halfway through, but it offers something more to my generation: A wake up call to adulthood. I commented on this blog awhile back about seeing Obama on Jon Stewart and thinking, "Gee, he looks and walks like my friend," as opposed to seeing Hilary or Rudy or GW or Al Gore who feel like my parents. Obama is my generation even if technically, he's on the very end of the Boomer generation.

One of these days, it will be time to pass the torch from the Boomer's to their children. The question is: when? Should Obama somehow surge it would be an indication this transition is coming sooner rather than later. Are we ready?