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Article: Dan K. THOMASSON /cat:K/pri:R/sld:E/por:4/for:5/slu:BC-THOMASSON(SH) nu--a bc-thomasson(sh) A campaign with real values Scripps Howard News Service COLUMN By DAN K. THOMASSON Scripps Howard News Service Let's see a presidential
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- July 16, 2004
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THE byword of the 2004 presidential election suddenly seems to be
"values." Webster's defines the word as "the ideals, customs,
institutions of a society toward which the people of the group have
an effective regard."
Values may be positive, as in education, or negative, as in crime,
which pretty much means that everyone has some variety.
Both candidates are now claiming proprietorship over the good kind
as they see them, and both claim theirs are shared by most Americans.
Both are probably right given the fact that the only real difference
is how they would go about instituting them -- values, that is.
It is safe to say that both men support education and health care
and peace (despite ...