Posted on 10/12/2004 3:46:39 PM PDT by MikeJ75
WASHINGTON President Bush won't attend the annual convention of the A-A-R-P, although he'll be in Las Vegas at the same time as the group that helped him pass last year's Medicare prescription drug law.
Laura Bush will speak to the A-A-R-P, instead. Bush will appear at a campaign rally.
John Kerry, who opposed the Medicare law, has accepted an invitation to address the meeting of 25-thousand on Thursday. The attendees represent the group's 35 (m) million members.
The A-A-R-P's backing of the controversial Medicare legislation prompted 60-thousand members to resign. Since then, the organization has campaigned for changes, such as legalizing the importation of cheaper prescription medicines from Canada.
Kerry supports that position. Bush says he's against it because of safety concerns.
Yeah...I have another 30 years until I have to worry about that...
but in this close of an election, and it has tightened up some, I think that every voter block that can be spoken too, should be....one vote can make a world of difference this year....
The AARP has been mailing me for years to join, and I WILL NOT. They are anti-gun, liberal idiots, and were I Bush, I wouldn't go speak to them either.
Who will be the first candidate to stand up and call this for what it is - Price Controls. We are hiding behind the Canadians but what we are doing to trying to get the Canadians to enforce price controls FOR us. And guess what? The drug companies will just limit the volume of sales to Canada and the Canadians will have to choose between supplying their own citizens or the greedy Americans down south. This shouldn't take long to settle itself out. Face it, the drug companies are smarter than the idiot legislators who try to control them. There isn't a single price restraint imagined that hasn't been avoided, manipulated into oblivion or replaced by one which is more profitable to the drug companies. If you don't face them head-on, we will continue to lose.
The AARP is a like a teacher's union. All their money goes to democrats.
I think I'll tell my parents and uncle to get out of the AARP.
That sounds like a good move.
Did you read the article?
Anyone 50 or over can get all the great benefits of membership in AARP for only $12.50 a year. And membership includes your spouse or partner, free!Enhanced membership numbers.
I think Mrs.Bush will do much better with the AARP than will the President. She has the gentle, positive, caring delivery that will work wonders.
Exactly. I get stuff from them all the time. I mail back their little prepaid envelopes, tho.
...and I throw their mailings in the garbage.
LOL!
That organization is politically irrational to the point of insanity. Bush owes this organizatuion which claims to represent America's geezers (including me) exactly -----nothing.
Go check out the AARP legislative forum if you enjoy debating with people over the age of 50 who think it's fun to call the President "Shrub".
AARP send me a "membership" invitation every friggin week. I rip it up unopened and drop it in the trash.
I don't know if Laura is "the perfect delegate" or not. She is intelligent and charming but IMHO, The Prez should have gone himself and faced down these people. I was not in favor of him missing the NAACP Convention. Take your fight to the enemy's camp. The Prez told Kerry: "You can run but you can't hide." We must not appear to be "hiding" from possible hostile audiences.
I dunno. Maybe I'm missing something here. If I am, please let me know.
So? And your point is? He is still their President and he should be there. We cannot let the Dims start hanging the "wimp" factor around our necks like they did Bush 41.
The funny thing about their mailings is that during the 2000 election we started getting their mailings wanting us to join....I filled out some of their forms and wrote in huge letters with a black felt pin....FU, you endorsed algore..sent it back in their prepaid envelope....I was taken off their mailing list after doing this 3 times....LOL
AARP sucks. Can't stand them. I'm 58.
My point is....I never forget...and maybe Dubya doesn't either.
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