Original sentence: An example of the political heat that Social Security reform generates can be seen in a dispute between the American Association of Retired Persons and a conservative group for older Americans, USA Next, which cropped up around the time of the President's speech.In response, USA Next launched a campaign against AARP.The AARP had supported Bush's plan for major changes in Medicare in 2003, but it opposed his Social Security privatization initiative.The dispute between these two interest groups is merely one example among many of the debates, discussions, columns, advertisements, articles, letters, and white papers that the President's proposal, to touch the "third rail," has sparked among politicians, pundits, thinktankers, and taxpayers
Edited sentence: In response, a conservative group for older Americans, USA Next, launched a campaign against AARP.The American Association of Retired Persons had supported Bush's plan for major changes in Medicare in 2003, but it opposed his Social Security privatization initiative.The USA Next ad (at left) was based on charges that AARP was hostile to the military and supported same-sex marriage.These accusations were widely attacked in the press as lacking "any basis in reality"