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he promised a thousand times costs would go down
he failed
he promised a lot of things, like unemployment would cap at 8% if he got his stimulus, he'd cut the deficit in half in 4 years, we'd like obamacare once we got to know it, he'd be post partisan and post racial, close gitmo and end rendition and detention, talk to the leaders of iran and improve america's image abroad, try ksm in a civil court in manhattan, prosecute the waterboarders at the cia, renegotiate chinese currency, win global warming accords, end dadt (his own doj is arguing against gay rights in the districts on 2 separate matters, dadt and gay marriage), bring the israelis and palestinians together (what happened to hillary's hi profile peace talks last month?), reform immigration comprehensively (instead he sues AZ), avoid lobbyists (he's the top recipient of aig money), put legislation on line (instead nancy says we gotta pass stuff to know what's in it), be transparent (his fed instructed aig to keep secrets from the sec, he signed the infamous secret deal with phrma, he's fighting foia requests for records detailing exactly who was bailed out and how much)...
yeah, he promised lots of things
and he means well---LOL!
everyone outside the fringe recognizes he's incompetent, it's cuz he just doesn't get it, he's so outta touch, so tone deaf
as for aarp---when i was young we were all told that the most powerful special interest lobby in the usa was aipac, the american israel public affairs committee
in my middle years i always felt it was aarp (tho the nra has always been a major player)
well, aarp has just destroyed itself over this obamacare
AARP loses members over health care stance - USATODAY.com
we all of that age watched it happen, it was very ugly
aarp is the new now, they've made themselves irrelevent
AARP reminds me of the usefulness of unions. They're all about maintaining themselves rather then educating seniors about the best way to live a retirement. Lobbying at the national teat is what they've become.