August 6, 2009 9:10PM 

# AARP Members Not Buying Obama Health Care Plan 

By [Doug Bandow](https://www.cato.org/people/doug-bandow) 

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[In Dallas, at least, the AARP staff found it tough going attempting to explain](http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/08/06/behold-those-scary-scary-swastika-bearing-astroturfers/) to the organization’s members why the elderly would be better off with Obama-like “reform.” These people obviously were having trouble with the line, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” And they were quite vocal in stating their concerns. But they were acting well within the American political tradition, which seems to be what has spooked advocates of a government medical takeover speaking breathlessly of “mobs” — presumably like the one in Dallas — opposing “reform.”

(H/T to Mark Tapscott of the *Washington Examiner*.)

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