"Precisely because Obama is not a baby boomer, he carries none of that generation's scars. Most Americans (including most boomers) are weary of living in the past and reprising the 1960s every four years.
"Yet culture war politics is relatively mild compared with the far right appeals that are emerging this year. It is as if McCain's loyalists overshot the '60s and went back to the '50s or even the '30s."
E.J. Dionne, Jr. in The New Republic charges John McCain's campaign with stoking the anger of his supporters.
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Yes, EJ Dionne, Obama's separating himself from the Boomers was a central part of his original announcement and message, and it does give him a unique position to move the country past sixties-fueled culture wars.
Relevantly, his actual post-Boomer generation has gained attention through this. As numerous experts have pointed out, Obama is a member of Generation Jones–born 1954 to 1965, between the Boomers and Xers.
Here is a very relevant new video on exactly this topic: it has a ton of top pundits (e.g. Clarence Page, David Brooks, Karen Tumulty, Howard Wolfson, Michael Barone, Dick Morris, etc.) discussing the fact that Obama is a Joneser, and the surprisingly large role of GenJones in this election, the video is 5 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ta_Du5K0jk
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