Clinton: Bush is bad for economy

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, seeking to boost Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s support among women, argued on Tuesday that another term for President Bush would leave a stagnant economy.

The New York lawmaker told a gathering of businesswomen that they were being squeezed by the rising costs of expenses such as health care and dwindling access to federal assistance or contracts.
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Clinton said women have a greater stake in the economy, since they are typically the ones who do much of the consumer purchasing that drives the economy.

“If you check where we’re headed economically, it is not a rosy picture for small businesses or anyone else,” she said. “Incomes are down, but the cost of everything else is going up.”
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Kevin Madden, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, said, “It’s as if Senator Clinton is calling plays from John Kerry’s economic pessimism playbook. That type of negative rhetoric is always the result of an absence of new ideas and strong leadership.”

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