Sunday editorials concerning fall campaign

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Teasers from NY Times and Washington Post

Sunday Editorial NY Times (The economic debate)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/opini ... n1.html?hp

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But this recovery is now nearly three years old, and employment and wages are not so much trailing business success as diverging from it. A new study of recent Commerce Department data by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities confirms that wage and salary growth has been exceptionally poor, while profits have been unusually robust.

Mr. Bush tends to attribute the unevenness of the economic recovery to the shocks that were already developing before his election (the stock market meltdown and corporate scandals) and those beyond his control (the 9/11 terrorist attacks). But this is the first time in more than 50 years that workers have for so long and so deeply failed to share in the benefits of growth.

Mr. Bush owes it to voters to look beyond the business cycle and his tax cuts and offer a way out of this economic sluggishness. Senator John Kerry would likewise do voters a favor by focusing the contest on ideas that might alter the status quo. No one is served by the current low level of the economic debate.

Sunday Editorial Washington Post (A watime campaign)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... 4Sep4.html

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Such omissions leave voters to wrestle with the questions of character the candidates seem to prefer: the sobriety and experience of Mr. Kerry vs. the modesty of his foreign policy goals; the passion of Mr. Bush for the "use of American strength to advance freedom," vs. the recklessness and incompetence that may come with it. It's not a slam-dunk choice, but if the candidates can be induced to debate the real issues before them in the coming two months, it will be easier.

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