Oboomer

As a boomer (and proud of it), I take offense at the assertion by various commentators (among them Gail Collins in The New York Times) that our President-Elect is not part of the boomer generation. Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961. That means he was part of the "second cohort" of baby boomers, born between 1955 and 1964. There are 76 million Americans who make up the boomer generation, including the President-Elect. Three boomers -- Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (both born in 1946) and Barack Obama -- will have served in the White House. I am confident that two of them will be remembered for their successes in war and peace and for their pragmatic and effective centrism.