From Shushing the Baby Boomers: “The time has come, Senator Barack Obama says, for the baby boomers to get over themselves. … ‘In the back and forth between Clinton and Gingrich, and in the elections of 2000 and 2004,’ he writes, ‘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.’ … But he argues that America faces new challenges that require a new political paradigm.”