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Remember when presidential campaigns used to be about the issues?
By Jason Leopold
Online Journal Assistant Editor
September 18, 2004—Somewhere in between the furor surrounding those National Guard memos that purportedly show how George W. Bush shirked his military duties some 30 years ago lies the meat of this ferocious, mud slinging presidential campaign; the policies the candidates are promoting that will shape the lives for a majority of Americans over the next four years.
Pundits on both sides of the political spectrum have pontificated, for the most part, that Democratic nominee John Kerry and incumbent George W. Bush are virtually one in the same when it comes to issues such as foreign policy and homeland security and as such Bush is the better candidate because he's already got the experience running the country. But a closer look at Bush and Kerry's campaign platforms shows that there's a striking difference between the two candidates, particularly on issues that affect the working-class................
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