{"id":16054,"date":"2012-10-04T21:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2012-10-04T21:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:12:41","slug":"aarp-tries-to-get-distance-from-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16054\/aarp-tries-to-get-distance-from-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"AARP Tries to Get Distance from Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/aarp-to-obama-dont-mention-us-again\/article\/2509844#.UG4wwq7hKSp\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Gehrke<\/a> of the Washington Examiner flagged a disingenuous statement from the AARP after President Barack Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1601-barack-obama-bubble-boy \" target=\"_blank\">disastrous debate performance<\/a> last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama invoked AARP to defend his health care law last night, prompting the influential group to release a statement telling him not to do that again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we respect the rights of each campaign to make its case to voters, AARP has never consented to the use of its name by any candidate or political campaign,\u201d the group <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aarp.org\/2012\/10\/04\/aarps-statement-on-the-denver-presidential-debate\/\">posted in a statement<\/a>. \u201cAARP is a nonpartisan organization and we do not endorse political candidates nor coordinate with any candidate or political party.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement is disingenuous because, as I argued in a recent column,<a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1590-aarps-28-billion-medigap-windfall-from-obamacare-hurts-seniors- \" target=\"_blank\"> AARP stands to gain $2.8 billion if ObamaCare is implemented<\/a>; an event foreshadowed in an email from a top AARP executive to the White House in 2009 that said, \u201cwe will try to keep a little space between us\u201d on health care because AARP\u2019s \u201cpolling shows we are more influential when we are seen as independent, so we want to reinforce that positioning\u2026The larger issue is how best to serve the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AARP already made its choice.\u00a0 If it wants its money, the group must support its patron, no matter how unpopular he is becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner flagged a disingenuous statement from the AARP after President Barack Obama\u2019s disastrous debate performance last night: President Obama invoked AARP to defend his health care law last night, prompting the influential group to release a statement telling him not to do that again. \u201cWhile we respect the rights of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,143,1972,3308,35],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-aarp","tag-barack-obama","tag-debate","tag-health","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16059,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/16059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}