George Do-Over Bush Wants Another Crack At It

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NEW YORK - An unpopular war and 1.1 million lost jobs is enough to kill a presidency, so President Bush tried Thursday night to make the election about something else: himself and his leadership style.

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Reluctant to admit mistakes, Bush copped to a few — arrogant, too blunt and grammatically challenged — and explained them away with laugh lines. But he didn't give an inch on the matters that matter most, a war in Iraq that has cost the lives of nearly 1,000 U.S. troops, and a job-loss record that rivals Herbert Hoover.

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He'll simplify the tax code (who wouldn't?) and put health centers in every poor county (why not?) , but he didn't say how. Some of the ideas were leftovers from his first term: health savings accounts and allowing workers to privatize parts their Social Security (news - web sites).

After months of courting conservatives, Bush dusted off his four-year-old "compassionate conservative" slogan and a poll-tested agenda to boot.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_bush_analysis&cid=694&ncid=2043


This is real life, George, you don't get a second chance!


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1. The sound bites from his speech last night sounded the exact same

in 2000. Nothing new with Dumbya, same old same old.