Three Generations

Upon arriving at the Pepsi Center for the first day of the DNC, amid all of the spectacle of the event and against the backdrop of awe that such an occasion evokes, it occurred to me that three generations of Sallos had just entered the building. My dad, Jerry Sallo - officially the Vice President of the Board of Directors of Boulder Weekly, Inc. - and my daughter, Julia Sallo - who has accepted the title and the responsibilities associated with her title, Heiress, are the generations before and after me that comprise the "Sallo Sandwich" representing Boulder Weekly.

The significance of this is found within the many changes that have occurred in our country from the post-depression and pre-WWII 1930s, when my dad grew up, to the troubled times in which my daughter has come of age. Between the three of us, we have seen Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower (when I entered the picture), Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the first (when Julia was born), Clinton, and Bush the second. This wide spectrum of leadership spans 78 years, during which the United States of America has been the world's hero, the world's villain, and everything in between.

Now we are at the precipice of new leadership, and despite the wide gaps between us in age, experience and lifestyle, the three generations of the Sallo family are firmly in agreement that Barack Obama should be the next president of the United States. All three of us will be reporting from the Pepsi Center over the course of the coming week, and hope to provide a triumvirate of opinion on this momentous event.
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