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   From: Hellmstoffer@nonuyerbuisiness.net   
      
   >Leland Milton Goldblatt , PhD. wrote in message   
   ><1109380329.957139.247960@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>...   
   >Swift Boat says REAL AARP is liberal?   
      
   >Without prejudice; Dr. Goldblatt pontificates ®:--   
      
   >The same Republicans who used to love AARP when it helped them pass the   
   >president's prescription drug plan now hate AARP because it is against   
   >the president's plan to privatize Social Security.   
      
   >The American Spectator website only a short time. But, boy, was it a   
   >doozy. It showed two photos. One was of an American soldier in combat   
   >gear with a big red X through it. The other was of a gay couple kissing   
   >as they were married; it had a big green check mark through it.   
      
      
   Gay people getting married doesn't make one damn dime for Halliburton.   
      
      
   >Below   
   >the photos was the headline: "The REAL AARP Agenda." You read that   
   >right: The ad asserted that AARP, the nonpartisan organization that   
   >represents more than 35 million older Americans, hates this country's   
   >military but loves gay marriage. Both will, of course, come as a real   
   >surprise to lots of grandmas and grandpas, and for good reason: Neither   
   >is true. Welcome to the world of Republican slimeball politics.   
      
   >Welcome, seniors, to the world of Republican slime throwing. You are   
   >about to get a small taste of what Kerry went through with those   
   >repugnant Swift Boat vets. This, alas, is how the Bush White House   
   >works: Rather than debate issues on the up and up, it depends on   
   >surrogates to go directly at an "enemy's" strength. In Kerry's case it   
   >was his distinguished war record. In the case of AARP, we're guessing   
   >it's the group's reputation as a rather stodgy but dependable and   
   >trustworthy advocate for seniors.   
      
   >Oh, and of course you can wait for the protestations that the White   
   >House had nothing to do with the anti-AARP campaign. But of course you   
   >wouldn't swallow that, would you?   
      
   >Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey sent a letter to President Bush   
   >yesterday calling the USA Next ad "incendiary" and asking him to   
   >denounce such tactics. But, of course, President Bush has nothing   
   >whatsoever to do with any of this. Right?   
      
   Yet another bulletproof post from Dr. Goldblatt.   
      
      
   It's all about channeling public money to private interests and helping   
   BushCo's friends grab and keep every single dime they can get their hands   
   on, regardless of how they got it. The rationale or cover story ("Social   
   Security is in crisis," "Iraq has WMDs," "tax cuts will stimulate the   
   economy," "frivolous lawsuits are the reason why healthcare costs so much")   
   is always secondary. Money is what George W Bush is all about and what the   
   "conservative" movement has degenerated into. That's what the Iraq invasion   
   was all about. That's why nobody on the right gives a damn about deficits.   
   Rich people give money to Republicans and rich people get tax cuts. That's   
   what Social Security "reform" is all about-channeling public money to Wall   
   Street interests. That's what tort "reform" was all about. It wasn't because   
   George W Bush gave a damn about medical or drug costs, health insurance   
   costs, malpractice insurance costs or the burden placed on the court system   
   by "frivolous" lawsuits filed by people who we injured by inept doctors.   
   Health insurance costs are not and will not be coming down and nobody   
   anywhere will ever ask George W Bush why it didn't happen after he got his   
   moronic law passed. He never gave a rats ass about health care costs or or   
   how many uninsured Americans there were. It was because major Republican   
   donors like the tobacco industry and drug companies had problems with legal   
   exposure and he was more interested in helping them than doing anything   
   about dealing with the actual reasons why they had that exposure. When it   
   was realized that a subsidiary of Halliburton had massive (we're talking   
   tens of billions of dollars here) in Asbestos-related liabilities George W   
   Bush began publicly weeping about people burdening the court system by suing   
   corporations over things like Asbestos and he vowed to do everything in his   
   power to make it as difficult as he could for individuals to sue the   
   corporations that had screwed them. It's all about money. Everything else is   
   secondary with these guys, including the well being of seniors. They don't   
   give a damn about old folks or schools or Osama bin Laden or anything else   
   that doesn't write checks to the RNC.   
      
   It is very sad that the AARP brought the horrific title of "liberal" upon   
   itself when it interfered with the Bush administrations plan to use Social   
   Security taxes to enrich their friends, but it is also encouraging that a   
   large group of generally conservative people represented by the AARP have   
   finally developed some mistrust of the lying, ignorant, greedy bastard   
   George W Bush. He is a fraud and not even a convincing fraud and now older   
   folks know what the rest of us have known for years. He pulls this crap all   
   the time.   
      
   And then he wonders why nobody believes him when he swears to god that he is   
   not planning to invade Iran.   
      
   Hating Bush. It's not just for liberals anymore.   
      
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