Our new President, Barack Obama, was born in 1961. This puts him on the older end of my generation, Generation X.

A common stereotype of Gen X’ers is that we’re pessimistic and lazy, and yet Obama’s campaign message was one of hope, and as one of our country’s youngest Presidents and the first African-American elected to this office, he’s hardly a slacker.

Another stereotype is that Gen X’ers are cynical. I don’t think that’s true; we just tell it like it is. In his acceptance speech tonight, Obama talked about all the work still ahead for the country, and I appreciated his honesty. I don’t know that 4 years will be enough to fix everything, but at the least it will be a start.

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