Boomers ....... who can you think of to embody the most negative personage of your generation?

[Stinky The Clown]

I posted a separate thread asking for the most positive person. This one is for the brigands and scoundrels and shit heads.

If you answer, please provide a general indication of your age. I'm in my early 60s.

edit to clarify: The person must be a Boomer him/herself.

[Ikonoklast]

1. Bush The Lesser.

He exhibits every negative trait lauded by many of my generation, so much so he is almost a parody.

Early 50's.

[rurallib]

19. I don't think it is even a contest - Bush is the boomer bust!

[Ikonoklast]

44. Yep. Child of privelege...check.

Wastrel youth...check.
Legacy at elite eastern school...check.
Ran away from military service obligations...check.
Drunk and drug-addled...check.
Never had an actual job, ever...check.
Daddy fixed all his fuck-ups...check.
Was a failure at every venture...check.


I could go on for a while, but we all know this asshole wouldn't be believed if he was a figure in a novel, yet his actual life reads like some sort of evil Forrest Gump of the Boomers.

[Neecy]

2. 49 and Nixon

[MADem]

7. Nixon wasn't a boomer, though he was a shithead. NT

[texastoast]

3. Dick Cheney and Karl Rove

Could't pick just one. Over 50.

[dflprincess]

11. Cheney's not a boomer he was born in 1941

I'd go with DimSon.

[carlyhippy]

4. define boomers......1964 a boomer?

I am on the fringe of boomer I think....If so, I am going to say Charles Manson is the most negative personage of the generation....

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I'm not going to be picky, but yeah .... 64 birth year is generally accepted as the end of the era.

[Cresent City Kid]

37. Close call

I was born December 31st, 1964.

GW Bush may not be the worst scoundrel of his generation, but he sure as hell enabled the worst of them during his reign.

[misanthrope]

46. I've always found that classification dubious...

...I was born in '64 yet my parents' generation was the one that fought Vietnam, invented "hippies" and partied into the '70s.

The major engagement of my generation was Desert Storm. My sentiments, predilections, perspectives and tastes are far more in line with Gen X than Boomers.

[Control-Z]

53. So are mine.

I guess we're supposed to fall in line and base our observations on things we were told, not things we've experienced or remember. I've never felt like a boomer. More like a lost generation that came after.

[Tabasco_Dave]

62. The generational classifications are rigid bullshit

My mom was born in 1941 so she was not officially a boomer but she was a flower child, smoked pot and listened to the beatles. I've noticed that the decade you where born in is a better indicator of who you are culturally instead of some generational chart. The baby boomers who where born in the 40's have nothing in common with the 50's and 60's born boomers. I was born in 67 so I'm generation x but i have a lot more in common with 60's born boomers than 70's born gen xers.

[Stinky The Clown]

68. Not true, really ......

I was born in the 40s, my wife, my brother, and her sisters, were born in the 50s. We have much more in common than not. That said, I identify my youth and formative years more with the 50s, them with the 60s.

There are no rigid *realities* about this, your assertion about "rigid bullshit" notwithstanding.

[dflprincess]

8. Manson was not a boomer

he was born before WWII started.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Thank you.

Wasn't he born in 1939 or something? He was much older than the kids who followed him.

[dflprincess]

32. I checked Wikipedia

they say 1934. He's even older than I thought.

[carlyhippy]

ok then....I say W......

Carly

[MADem]

16. George W. Bush, I agree--hands down. He really screwed the country up. nt

[wuvuj]

55. Manson is who they wanted you to hate?

...instead of those who got the war started and all who did the killing over there.

Actually...the Manson thing was the end of the 60's for all intents and purposes...then there was Reagan?

[Samantha]

65. He was the FIRST person I thought of

When his crimes became well known, I think that was the first time I realized there truly were evil people in the world.

Sam

[CoffeeCat]

5. Rush Limbaugh (nt)

[DURHAM D]

9. George Bush Sr.,, Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney

all evil.


Robert McNamara - profoundly stupid.

Ronald Reagan - totally incompetent.

60s


I didn't realize you wanted a list of persons of boomer age only. I thought you wanted boomers to comment on what we have known in a life time.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. None of these people are boomers.

[DURHAM D]

23. oh really

[madrchsod]

10. .........george bush........

i went to high school with losers like him.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. W

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Shrub and Cheney. Rove ain't a walk in the park either.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Ooops. Just checked Cheney isn't considered a boomer as he was born(?) in 1941.

[Neecy]

36. But if this is supposed to be

the most negative person of MY generation, does it matter when the person was born?

Isn't it all supposed to be about ME?

Sticking w/Nixon.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

41. According to Stinky's rule, it has to be a boomer. :(

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. sadly, this is easier than the positive one

and a name everyone here will know and recognize: George W. Bush.

[MADem]

20. My precise thought. NT

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. I'm your age,

and it has to be Fuckface.

Although Rod McKuen comes close.

No, wait. He's too old.

OK, Fuckface....................

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

24. Yes, when the final tally...

Of wastes of Oxygen, Skin and Gravity are made, Fuckington W. Face will, most certainly win the prize. Forsooth, he was, at the very core of his being, pointless.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. A small disagreement -

he was not pointless, although that vapid emptiness that defines him certainly would be seen as not having a point. Or substance. Or anything.

But, he had a point.

Alas, he had a a point.

It was to do evil. To do harm. To make damage, to lay waste, to kill, to maim, to ruin.

He did it. All of it.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Stinky The Clown]

31. Rod McKuen? ? ? ? ? ?

Hahahahaha

I'm rolling on the floor here.

He's such a non blip I hadn't thought of him since I divided shit with my ex wife and she got the Rod McKuen albums!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

40. Bingo!

Do you know how hard I had to think to retrieve that name from SO long ago, and yes, my ex-husband got the Rod McKuen books AND albums?

That one was for you, amico mio. I knew you'd get it..................

[rwheeler31]

21. Ray gun worst

Carter best Times were different.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Neither was a boomer

Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh

:puke:

[rwheeler31]

43. Dam my parents told me I ended the war. Dec 45

[Mari333]

22. so so many , but Bush is no 1.

Im 58.

[timeforpeace]

26. Osama bin Laden

[Name removed]

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[indie_voter]

33. GWB

FWIW, the boomers' designation might end in '64, but 58-64 had a different experience than the Woodstock generation(I say this as a tail end boomer, I was born in '64 ).

That said, I think George W. Bush personified the worst of the boomers. And I think Clinton tried to be the best even if it didn't work out that way.

Obama, mho, like many of us of his age, grew up in the shadow of these boomers. I feel he is taking their best intentions and is trying to live up to what the boomers dreamed this country could be.

He doesn't always succeed, but I think he's doing the best he can with the cards dealt.

[IADEMO2004]

34. Pol Pot should make any top ten world list

or just US citizens

[Tangerine LaBamba]

35. Do you know

what "Boomer" means?

[Cirque du So-What]

38. Chimpolini

Hands down.

I'm in my mid-50s.

[nini]

39. Rush Limbaugh & Bill O'Reilly

They encompass enough slime for millions of people.

[givemebackmycountry]

42. Too drunk to post

But, fuck it.

I still hate Ronald Wilson Reagan.
I know he ain't a boomer, but I am.

Stink will forgive me.
He's my favorite clown.

[Hekate]

45. That evil git Baby Caligula, i.e. Bush the Lesser. I am 61--very much a Boomer, as is W. nt

[babylonsister]

51. Yes, the man who knew too little and made our lives hell. nt

[question everything]

47. Ann Coulter!

Glenn Beck (barely) Bill O'Reilly, Dan Quayle

[DKRC]

48. G'Duh of course

Rove right behind him to make sure he doesn't run off the tracks too far while he's still useful.:puke:

Sorry, forgot to state my age ~ 47.

[johnaries]

49. That's a Boomer themselves? No contest: GWB.

Born in '57, myself.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. I hate it that W was born the same year as I was.

He is without a doubt the most destructive boomer EVER.

[OutNow]

52. Ralph Reed

I watch that little prick smile and flash his eyes and I see Adolph Hitler.

[Hestia]

54. Tom Delay is a boomer isn't he? He just oozes evil pesticides

[TexasObserver]

56. George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Anita Bryant

[Raine]

57. Rush Limpballs nt

[ThomWV]

58. The most persuasive person on your generaltion comes from the one before

Stalin, hands down the most evil man in the history of the world.

[tomg]

59. For me, it is a terribly tough question.

If you are asking who is the worst - as in evil - person of our generation, I would have to say Rove (lots of reasons). Bush was stupid, venal, incompetent, self-righteous, unaware and arrogant. O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and the rest of that crew are the most opportunistic, self-serving and bullying.
As I said in another thread, our demographic has more than its fair share of complete assholes.

But the biggest disappointment and the one who embodied both some of the best and the least admirable aspects of our time is Bill Clinton. He had ability, intelligence, and idealism. He also embodied some our less worthwhile traits (lack of self-restraint and letting the personal screw up the political). Finally, like so many of us, he did what was easy, obviously not bad but easy, and he wanted to be liked more than he wanted to be a great leader. He knew what was right, sometimes tried to do it, but more often triangulated. Actually, when I see Clinton, I see the overall failure of my generation as a whole (self obviously included) writ large.

[northernlights]

60. the holy trinity of Darth, Dubya and Turd Blossom.

mid-50s here.

[old mark]

61. Newt Gingrich - scum in human form. We have had a huge number of people

who were boomers, and we have had our share of interesting and yes, even good people, balanced by the largest crop of shits till now. I nominate Neut for king of the dung pile of worst of the boomers. He is totally without conscience, fixated solely on his own advancement and enrichment, and has little or no concept of other people as real human beings. He set the model for GOP politicians - and sadly some Democrats as well - in behavior and attitude for boomers as well as those coming after.

Newt Gingrich is real trash.

markO8) O8)

[End Of The Road]

66. Newt is not a Boomer, thank God. Born 1943. nt

[old mark]

69. I was born in 47 - he just missed by 2 years.....

Well, I'll have to find someone else - no lack of candidates, unfortunately.

markO8)

[End Of The Road]

63. He may not be the worst, but he was a complete embarrassment

Dan Quayle.

[pecwae]

64. I've recced your thread, but

wonder why you'd think anyone is interested in the opinions of the most selfish, shameful, useless generation ever produced in this nation? According to some, probably many, here we Boomers brought nothing but pestilence, despair and death to the nation, the world, the universe. These same posters would be much relieved to see us mass suicide to relieve the drain on resources that we evidently represent.

[H2O Man]

67. H2O Man.

Same answer as the other OP/thread.