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   Dr Gordon X to Christopher Helms   
   Re: Swift Boat says REAL AARP is liberal   
   27 Feb 05 06:43:34   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.barbra.streisand, alt.fan.j-garofalo, alt.fan.julia-roberts   
   XPost: alt.politics.democrats   
   From: here@home.com   
      
   "Christopher Helms"  wrote in   
   news:DsWTd.284852$w62.80668@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.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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   Another off topic wanker!!!!   
      
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