Interesting Items – 8/17 – A.A.R.P.
AARP. President Obama, in full campaign mode last week was traveling and speaking nationwide in support of the faltering ObamaCare legislation.
He was speaking off the cuff without the teleprompter, which gave him the opportunity to commit Truth in public. During one event, he said that the elderly ought to be supporting ObamaCare, as the AARP was fully on board. This triggered an interesting set of reactions.
Conservative commentators immediately went into “gotcha” mode, painting it as yet another non-scripted gaffe. I am not so sure it was a gaffe, as I believe that the AARP and WH have indeed reached an agreement where the AARP stays for the most part out of the debate until the legislation is passed. And given that the AARP leadership has swung hard left over the course of the last 30 years, and are full Beltway insiders, I do believe the leadership is taking the organization in a direction that the general membership does not want to go.
The general membership is strongly, vociferously, viscerally against ObamaCare. They have been lighting up the phone lines, e-mail, fax machines, and other forms of communications to AARP headquarters demanding the organization come out strongly against ObamaCare.
The AARP has been mostly silent – playing the plausible deniability game. Obama’s “gaffe” is very likely not a gaffe at all; rather it is an inadvertent expression of truth in public.
More later — AG
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- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.
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