MUST HAVE BEEN A MISPRINT SOMEWHERE - AT 7:44 A.M. ET:  One of Mr. Obama's main selling points of his health plan, to seniors at least, just evaporated, as The Politico notes:

The AARP spoke out Tuesday to correct President Obama's statement, in Portsmouth, N.H., suggesting that the influential ...

... advocacy group had endorsed Democratic health care reform legislation.

AP: "At the town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., Obama said, 'We have the AARP onboard because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.' He added, 'AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.'

"But Tom Nelson, AARP's chief operating officer, said, 'Indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.'"

AARP officials have appeared at White House events promoting health care reform and hosted a recent tele-town hall on health care featuring Obama.

COMMENT:  AARP apparently heard from its members, who've been accusing the senior-citizen organization of selling out its constituency.  Seniors are especially concerned about Obamacare because of the fear, justified or not, that its adoption will lead to the government rationing health care to the elderly, and even to hurrying the death of "non-productive" citizens.

You know, if they read Urgent Agenda, do you think they'd even give me an aspirin?  Half an aspirin?

August 12, 2009