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Article: 'Let Them Eat Cake' Economics: Bush is a regular guy who doesn't care a whole lot about regular people. The first is a political asset. The second is his greatest vulnerability.(Column)
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- Newsweek
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- July 28, 2003
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Byline: Jonathan Alter
When Al Gore exaggerated the details of his dog's prescriptions, it helped cost him the presidency. The very same people who eviscerated him for it are now saying, hey, cut President Bush some slack--he wasn't lying about Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions, only exaggerating. This flap won't hurt Bush in 2004, except to undermine his credibility on other issues.
So when, for instance, he says "this nation has got a deficit because we have been through a war," people might begin to wonder whether he is telling the truth. They might wonder if the 13 percent state-college tuition hike in Maryland or the $1 billion state-tax increase ...