Bush, the populists' pal.(Devil in the Details)(Brief Article)

IN A SIGN OF GROWING desperation, George W. Bush has taken to preaching from the gospel of economic populism in the waning days of his presidential campaign--at least, when he's in working-class communities. But oddly for a guy sitting on a nearly $20 million fortune, the president doesn't seem to know a lick about accounting principles.

"[John Kerry] says the tax increase is only for the rich," Bush told a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, crowd on October 6. "You've heard that kind of rhetoric before. [The] rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason: to stick ...

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