Boy, your page reloads fast for a Generation Blanker to keep up with! Actually, I've also heard us called Generation Jones or Generation Fred. From a guy pushing fifty, a few observations:

My parents are of the Silent Generation, post-Greatest Generation but pre-Boomer. They were always overshadowed by their older brothers and sisters, if not their younger sibs and children, and it appears the same will happen to Gen X, a tiny generation between the two pigs in the python.

Cheer up. It's just the circle of life. Besides, unless Grampy McSame plays as dirty as Dubya did, the next president will be a Gen Xer, cleaning up after two Boomers, each problematic for his own reason. My folks' generation will never have its own president unless McCain does win: Dukakis lost to a member of the Greatest Generation (say what you want about Poppy Bush, he was a genuine war hero).