For those who missed it, here is the official AARP response (taken from the AARP Web site) to President Obama's outright lie during this week's town hall meeting on health care reform; a meeting, by the way, in case you didn't see it, that was nothing short of a orchestrated campaign speech and nothing close to the true town hall style meeting it was supposed to be.  President Obama clearly told his audience the AARP fully supported and was backing his health care reform plan. 

 

Whoa!  Is it just me or do liberals insist on ignoring obvious truths, lest they actually learn something different from what they already believe?  Brings me back to Clinton:  "I did not have s_x with that woman!"  He told all of us that on national television.  And yet, once we knew the truth, the liberals still loved him.  It didn't matter that he lied to all of us.  Oh, that's okay...he's cool, right?  Wrong.  Same thing here. 

As it was said, you can fool some of the people all of the time (hmm, Obama voters, perhaps?), and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 11, 2009

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AARP Media Relations, 202-434-2560

AARP Reacts to President’s Health Care Town Hall

WASHINGTON – AARP Chief Operating Officer Tom Nelson issued this statement following remarks by the President at a town hall event in New Hampshire on health care reform.

“AARP has been working with Democrats and Republicans to fix our broken health care system.

“While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.

“AARP supports specific measures that would help older Americans and their families – including bipartisan proposals to create a new follow-up care benefit in Medicare that would help prevent hospital re-admissions, as well as to address the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap known as the ‘doughnut hole.’ We also support the need for lawmakers and the Administration to act this year to fix what doesn’t work in the health care system.

“We share the President’s commitment to act this year, and our members appreciate his insistence that any final reform package will not reduce Medicare benefits for the millions of people that literally depend on that program as a lifeline.

“We look forward to working with leaders of both parties, including the President, to build a final package we could endorse that addresses the concerns of the 50-plus population and brings quality, affordable health care choices to every American.”

For more information about AARP’s Health Action Now campaign, please visit www.healthactionnow.org.