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To: LindyBill who wrote (37446)	4/2/2004 2:18:38 AM
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Times on the Trail POLITICAL POINTS \| 4.1 4:47 PM There's Saying and Then There's Saying By CARL HULSE John Kerry is trying to turn administration comments on the economic benefits of moving jobs overseas into a weapon against President Bush, but a new television ad on the issue may leave Mr. Bush wondering just when he said what the commercial has him saying. The spot, focusing on what Democrats believe is a weak point for Mr. Bush, opens with the line that "George Bush says sending jobs overseas makes sense for America." That is quite a sound bite coming from a president who has been traveling recently to protect his economic record and commiserate with Americans out of work. As it turns out, according to Mr. Kerry's campaign, Mr. Bush did not exactly express that thought publicly himself but the idea was included in an economic report signed by the president. Hence the ad attributes it to Mr. Bush, which is obviously more of an attention grabber than ascribing it to Gregory Mankiw, the economist who prepared the White House economic review that received Mr. Bush's signature. "American workers deserve to know the truth about how the Bush administration feels about the loss of American jobs to countries overseas," said Stephanie Cutter, a spokeswoman for Mr. Kerry. The Bush administration has argued that its tax policies are stimulating economic growth that will create new American jobs to replace those being lost. And they say that Mr. Kerry's economic approach will thwart economic gains. But even Republicans say that the February report by Mr. Mankiw — and recent similar statements by Treasury Secretary John Snow — are causing them to grit their teeth because voters worried about jobs are not concerned with the intricacies of trade and how shifting some employment can be good for the overall economy. Mr. Kerry's ad, his second on job loss, is intended to capitalize on that uneasiness about the economic future. Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company