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-Election 2012
AARP to Obama: Don't mention us again
2012-10-05
President Obama invoked AARP to defend his health care law last night, prompting the influential group to release a statement telling him not to do that again.

"While we respect the rights of each campaign to make its case to voters, AARP has never consented to the use of its name by any candidate or political campaign," the group posted in a statement. "AARP is a nonpartisan organization and we do not endorse political candidates nor coordinate with any candidate or political party."

Obama can perhaps be forgiven for thinking he could mention AARP given how they coordinated with him to pass Obamacare, which is a golden goose for the organization.

"Thanks to its cuts to Medicare Advantage, Obamacare is expected to expand the number of seniors buying "medigap" supplemental insurance plans," The Washington Examiner explained in an editorial. "AARP controls 34 percent of the market for such plans. According to a 2011 House Ways and Means Committee report, AARP stands to make between $55 million and $166 million from Obamacare in 2014 alone."
Posted by:Fred

#14  Hey, I used to belong to AARP until I got wise to the fact they didn't really care about the interests of senior citizens. I think it might have been their Obamacare lobbying that did it. I realized they are leftards. Getting along just fine without them.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-10-05 17:05  

#13  9.98
I'm stealing that line Joe.
Posted by: Shipman   2012-10-05 16:03  

#12  AARP is Big Bird for old people. They likes their gummermint gravy...
Posted by: regular joe   2012-10-05 13:27  

#11  There are Alternatives and
choices in place of AARP.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-10-05 12:28  

#10  I'm surprised that Romney didn't respond to O by saying, sure AARP endorsed your plan, they set to make billions in insurance profits.
Posted by: jack salami   2012-10-05 11:57  

#9  The union for people who don't work anymore got what it wanted, now under da bus wit cha.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2012-10-05 10:17  

#8  I look at Krupps. Didn't matter to them if it was the Kaiser or the the Fuhrer. From their perspective, politics was irrelevant and government, who ever controlled it, was simply means to an end.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-10-05 10:13  

#7  (lying greedy lib hypocrites)

Actually, greedy crony capitalists


P2K that is a distinction without a difference. There's a reason that Benito's corporatism devolved from his communist beliefs and is indistinguishable from crony capitalism.
Posted by: AlanC   2012-10-05 09:25  

#6  (lying greedy lib hypocrites)

Actually, greedy crony capitalists who have created AARP as a front organization to push their insurance schemes of which Obamacare is now to be a major money maker.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-10-05 09:09  

#5  The leadership of AARP is well removed from their followers. So the question is can the followers dump the leadership or do they need to dump the entire group?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-10-05 08:30  

#4  AARP (lying greedy lib hypocrites) helped write Obamacare and would've gotten rich off it. They can see which way the wind is blowing
Posted by: Frank G   2012-10-05 08:19  

#3  Au contraire. Radio adss here have the AARP endorsing Obama, the lying weasels.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2012-10-05 07:29  

#2  Last para, "follow the money".
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-10-05 06:01  

#1  The Amazing Assembly of Retarded Progressives is afraid folks will begin to realize how far left they really are.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-10-05 05:47  

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