Posted on 03/21/2009 12:23:34 PM PDT by FourPeas
By AP Wire Services Published: 3/21/2009 2:27 AM Last Modified: 3/21/2009 2:27 AM
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The AARP has long been seen as the domain of the aged. But its new CEO says the group's central issue of health-care reform makes it an advocate for every age group.
"This is an issue about the American dream," said Barry Rand, who will take over the 40-million-member AARP on April 6. "We either reinforce the American dream for all, or we redefine it."
The more-inclusive approach being championed by Rand gained momentum under outgoing CEO Bill Novelli, whose "Divided We Fail" campaign brought together organizations ranging from labor unions to religious groups to fight for affordable health care for all ages, not just AARP's 50-and-older membership.
Rand — the AARP's first black leader — also sees the group's goal of increasing prosperity for all as an extension of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"They're all about the American dream and were we or they going to be included in the American dream, and we have the same issues now," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...
More redefinition in the works. Notice he later admits universal health care is becoming the new front on the civil rights movement.
Doesnt the AARP lean left politically?
Doesnt the AARP lean left politically?
Yes ma’am.
Mo money for them?
They don't lean. They fully embrace the Left
Yes, but they claim, like most leftist organizations to be “nonpartisan.” Of course, the media also describes them as such.
So far left that they are off the edge of the real world.
Any senior citizen that supports this organization is actually committing financial and personal health suicide as the Obama plan will eventually deny care to the elderly because "they are too old' and there will not be enough time for them to live to justify the expense. Their taxes are going up and their IRA's are going down along with the value of the few dollars they have salted away in the coffee can in their back yard.
From my experience, AARP is made up of seniors who think their means are modest regardless of whether they really are. Therefore AARP could easily embrace taxing those Eevil rich people to give us all Affortable (read universal) Health Care.
I though it could be called APE.. AARP is so left winged it also supports illegal immigration.. when prop 187 was being voted on in california it was against it... I sent a letter then to get out of it and requesting my money back... they will not help any body financially by joining them..
Well this was bound to happen in a lefty group. Total embrace of demographics it was not designed to support. The very name of AARP says it is for the elderly, unless of course we consider 20 year olds on welfare as "Retired People". I am 67 and wouldn't be a member of this marxist organization if they paid me to join!
Liberal outfit.
The AARP may regret their stance when the old folks are denied medical care because they are too old....
The AARP is for old people the way NOW is for women. Just another adjunct of the Democrat party.
Ah, but by then it will be too late. Of course, AARP will strenuously deny anything of the sort would happen.
AARP Delenda Est.
All hail the Messiah ...
I would think so. Most people on their covers are hollywood.
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