AARP says Obama misrepresented them, they do not endorse health care bill

AARP is trying to have it both ways. I like the things they can do for seniors on good deals with other types of insurance, cell phones, etc. but they also have a tendency to jump on board of any ship that seems to promise greater riches. Sometimes they aren't really working in the best interest of their members, and this is the case with health care. After I saw the video of AARP spokespeople being really rude to members at a meeting about the health care reform, I started to pay attention to what they are really saying. They support the bill right up to the point where they would have to come right out and say it, and then they back off and refuse a specific endorsement of it. I didn't like the attitude of those AARP meeting organizers because it was pretty much the same as the congressmen and senators holding meetings, they seemed to forget who worked for whom and were dismissive of the members. After seeing the way they behaved and now this waffling back and forth on the bill, I no longer view AARP the same way.

Obama is a fast talker and needs to be watched. I have nothing against him personally, but right now the health care issue is not a good deal at all. He is moving too fast on this issue and needs to address the issue of the ecomomy in a different view. He wants to cut costs in the health care but he is helping out the automotive industry with the cash for clunkers so the government can get their money back, but in the meantime jobs are still being lost to the common man who is trying hard to sell used cars. We are getting no where right now. But we cannot complain, we voted him in.

If you tell a lie long enough, and loudly enough, many people will think it is the truth. I think we have a liar in the White House. Either that or someone who is just plain stupid, thinking he understood the support of AARP to be there when it was not.

Am sure he has lied about alot of things about this bill ya know he is that smooth talker and he does have slick writers!

This isn't the first time Obama has put words in people's mouths. I remember the Caterpillar incident, when he said the CEO of Caterpillar said he was going to save jobs in his company, which was news to the CEO, because he refuted it not long after. As for AARP, they are a lobbyist group masquerading as a non-profit. I don't trust them any more than I trust Obama. This man has lied too many times.

AARP will endorse this bill later.This is a Far left wing group.They don't care if most of their members are against it.

AARP does support health care reform as long as it does not take anything away from the people who are already on Medicare or will be going on to Medicare. AARP has a lot of members who are in the 50 - 64 age group and many of them have pre-existing conditions and cannot get affordable health insurance on their own - that is why they are supporting health care reform. AARP is working with the different planning committees to achieve that end. AARP does NOT endorse any of the current proposed plans for health care reform at THIS time because they are still working with the planning committees to ensure Medicare does NOT suffer. That is why they are having the town meetings to try to stop rumors of "planned euthanasia" and "rationed health care" because those are things they are fighting to keep out of the different proposals and they are the things that will keep healthcare reform from taking place. What a lot of people are forgetting is that there is NO ONE health care reform BILL yet. Right now there are a lot of different proposals being tossed around that Congress and the Congressional committees are trying to put together to create an actual Health Care Reform BILL. So, how can AARP or any other group endorse something that doesn't even exist yet. So, was Obama misrepresenting their support or just anticipating it; since, they are right their lobbying like every other special interest group that has any interest in health care reform?

Don't belong, don't want to belong. They've been harassing me since I was 49 and I'd sue em if I could. Stop sending me your crap!!!!