Does it blow your mind that America still hasn't had a Gen X president?

[Obama24]

Obama is X’er

Gen X doesn't start until 1964 by all qualified definition. He is either a late stage Boomer, or if you agree with the idea of Generation Jones (1954-1964), a Joneser

[All Along The Watchtower]

Biden will also be the last president who’s birthday was closer to the civil war than to today.

Barack Obama was born just a few weeks prior to the halfway point between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Election Day 2008 in the US.

The equivalent halfway point that November re: Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s DOB was in December 1876–as in, during the infamous US presidential election of 1876.

[Obama24]

Biden will also be the last president who’s birthday was closer to the civil war than to today.

Barack Obama was born just a few weeks prior to the halfway point between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Election Day 2008 in the US.

The equivalent halfway point that November re: Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s DOB was in December 1876–as in, during the infamous US presidential election of 1876.

Not entirely on topic, so do figure, but I find it interesting that three of the Boomer Presidents besides Obama were born within 2 months of each other in 1946.

Trump was born June 14th, 1946

Bush was born July 6th, 1946

Clinton was born August 19th, 1946

There is only 66 days in total between the three.

[Del Tachi]

Obama is X’er

Gen X doesn't start until 1964 by all qualified definition. He is either a late stage Boomer, or if you agree with the idea of Generation Jones (1954-1964), a Joneser

It's a little known fact that people are actually born continously, so the idea of discrete "generations" is a bit hooky.

Obama occupies a unique generational setting among U.S. presidents in that all the other ones, in the past three decades, have been born in a 4-year period corresponding to the very beginning of the "baby boom" era.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden (along with nominees Gore, Kerry, Romney and Hillary) share the generational experience of '50s childhood with Vietnam-era coming of age.  It suggests there's something still relevant or long-lived about this era for our contemporary politics.

[Obama24]

Obama is X’er

Gen X doesn't start until 1964 by all qualified definition. He is either a late stage Boomer, or if you agree with the idea of Generation Jones (1954-1964), a Joneser

It's a little known fact that people are actually born continously, so the idea of discrete "generations" is a bit hooky.

Obama occupies a unique generational setting among U.S. presidents in that all the other ones, in the past three decades, have been born in a 4-year period corresponding to the very beginning of the "baby boom" era.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden (along with nominees Gore, Kerry, Romney and Hillary) share the generational experience of '50s childhood with Vietnam-era coming of age.  It suggests there's something still relevant or long-lived about this era for our contemporary politics.

Obama was 8 when we landed on the Moon, 13 when Nixon resigned, and 14 when Vietnam fell. Old enough to remember seeing all three events live on TV. Whereas someone born in 1964 or after would be unlikely to remember either, especially the moon landing. He might not have been draft age, but the Vietnam War existing would still be within his generational memory. That he was cognizant enough to have even a dim memory of all three transformative events in our society says he is in the same long generation as the Boomers, to me, just of a lesser tier.

[All Along The Watchtower]

And of course, Obama comes from a “rootless cosmopolitan” Indo-Pacific #exotic   background that has little in common with REAL AmeriKKKana, so he’s even more of an outlier in that sense.

[Jerry]

It staying that way is a major redeeming trait of the country

Ageist thinking. But what else is there to expect from a user named bobs.

[world.execute(me)]

Biden will also be the last president who’s birthday was closer to the civil war than to today.

Biden is 82. 82 years prior to when he was born, the civil war hadn't even started yet (1942 - 82 = 1860). Lincoln wasn't even officially in office yet exactly 82 years before his birth.

Are you agreeing with him or attempting to argue against him?

[Del Tachi]

Obama is X’er

Gen X doesn't start until 1964 by all qualified definition. He is either a late stage Boomer, or if you agree with the idea of Generation Jones (1954-1964), a Joneser

It's a little known fact that people are actually born continously, so the idea of discrete "generations" is a bit hooky.

Obama occupies a unique generational setting among U.S. presidents in that all the other ones, in the past three decades, have been born in a 4-year period corresponding to the very beginning of the "baby boom" era.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden (along with nominees Gore, Kerry, Romney and Hillary) share the generational experience of '50s childhood with Vietnam-era coming of age.  It suggests there's something still relevant or long-lived about this era for our contemporary politics.

Obama was 8 when we landed on the Moon, 13 when Nixon resigned, and 14 when Vietnam fell. Old enough to remember seeing all three events live on TV. Whereas someone born in 1964 or after would be unlikely to remember either, especially the moon landing. He might not have been draft age, but the Vietnam War existing would still be within his generational memory. That he was cognizant enough to have even a dim memory of all three transformative events in our society says he is in the same long generation as the Boomers, to me, just of a lesser tier.

Being six (and living in Indonesia!) during the Summer of Love is a very different generational experience than being college-aged/mid-20s at the same time.  That Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden all share the later experience is significant.