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Friday, March 28, 2008
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Baby Booming
by Rich Galen
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Who won Tuesday's presidential debate?


I spoke on Wednesday afternoon to a meeting of business people who have products and services designed for Baby Boomers. Baby Boomers, for those of you born sometime after the end of the Eisenhower Administration, are people born in the midst of the post-World War II exuberance.

As I was born nine months TO THE DAY after my dad got off the troop ship in New York, I can tell you that I am at the outer edge of baby boomers.

To prove the point, I was reading the agenda of the meeting and saw a breakout session titled: "Partnering for Success."

Fine. Except - and this is true - I thought the agenda read: Pandering for Success," and wondered why I had not been invited to speak to that group.

As it happened I was scheduled to speak about politics and I wanted to make the point that nearly everything everyone says is absolutely guaranteed is going to happen - doesn't.

Just to test my own theory (which I generally do not do because once I have settled upon a theory the last thing I want to know is: "Is this correct?") I went back six months to look at what the polling was telling us back then.

First of all, back in the dark days of the Fall of 2007, there were some 19 candidates on both sides in the running.

Six months ago, according to national polls, Hillary R. (!) Clinton was leading on the Democratic side with 53% of the vote in September of 2007. On the Republican side the leader with 34% of the GOP vote was Rudy Giuliani.

But wait! There's more!

The second place runners on each side were Barack H. (!) Obama with 20% for the Dems and Fred Thompson with 22% for the Republicans.

It gets spookier.

The third place holders on each side were John Edwards (13%) and John McCain (15%). Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. He currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Mar 29, 2008 - 1:16 AM EST
Subject: I never knew Mr. Gallen
to brag like a dog!

In paragraph 16 he CLAIMS to have fixed the shower.

So where was his WIFE when he did this job? Did he send her out to dinner...or maybe shopping for a new pair of shoes?



I have to give the man a 5. Yes, I am glad he got something done during that poll season. You have to hand it to him. He's a keeper.
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Reply # 2
Date: Mar 28, 2008 - 2:15 PM EST
Wandering Minds
I think this is two different columns spliced together. Commonplace for us Boomers, sad to say!

I agree that whatever the concensus is about what will happen next, betting against it is pretty much a sure thing. That is, the more people clamour that something is, or is about to, take place, the less likely it is that particular thing will in fact happen.

I have copies of Forbes Magazine's ten-year predictions for the decades of the '70s, '80s and '90s. If you live near a big city library and it's a rainy day, read any one or all of these and you will soon find yourself chuckling and wishing you had a red pen to scribble rude refutations in the margins.

I have a book titled "2088" which purports from the far distant past of 1988 to tell us what life will be like in 100 years. Several of the things they tout are already old hat (e.g. telecommuting). However, two things stand out that prove predictions are useless, especially about the future. First, they assume that having a sun tan is a good thing. Second, they assume that every form of transportation must accomodate people who smoke.
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