*** There is something biased in virtually every article she writes.
September 5, 2004, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 606 words
HEADLINE: Bush launches a Labor Day strike on Kerry tax proposals
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PARKERSBURG, W.Va.
BODY:
President Bush dropped in on one of the fall campaign's most contested states for the second Sunday in a row, telling cheering partisans that his economic policies are building prosperity while Democrat John Kerry "wants to tax your jobs."
...Bush contrasted Kerry's approach with his record. He cited new employment figures showing that 1.7 million jobs overall were added to the economy since last August.
"Our economic plan is working," the president said.
He did not mention that there are 900,000 fewer jobs than when he took office in January 2001, despite promises of millions being created with his tax cuts. West Virginia has shed 11,000 manufacturing jobs on Bush's watch.
August 31, 2004, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 677 words
HEADLINE: Bush gets a little off message on the war on terror, and Democrats pounce
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TAYLOR, Mich.
BODY:
For Republicans, this week was supposed to be about one thing: hailing President Bush's unbending leadership in the war on terror before a public that has grown more skeptical about his presidency. The president, however, may not have gotten the memo.
In the past several days, Bush has made a series of remarks that seem to undercut the image of him being broadcast from the Republican National Convention in New York - the decisive commander in chief securing America's safety and sure of the course on which he has set the nation.
In a flurry of interviews timed to coincide with this week's convention, Bush acknowledged a "miscalculation" about what the United States would encounter in postwar Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and said the "catastrophic success" of a swift military victory there helped produce the still-potent insurgency.
Then, in an interview shown Monday on NBC, he suggested that the war on terror could not be won.
No matter that Bush's comments reflected just the kind of nuanced, deliberative thinking that Democratic challenger John Kerry has often said he is proud to display, but which has also gotten him into political hot water. Democrats wasted no time making the most of Bush's remarks.
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