Basic story on Bush's speech. It was a good story and used pretty fair quotes, but the added view from the Obama campaign seemed unnecasary.

Typical New York Times long story. It was interesting, but too long to hold attention.

Everything seemed to be going well until this quote was thrown in, "We even grew vegetables," said Martin, who has sweet potatoes in his front yard. "They make a good ground cover and they don't take much water." I don't think that this is relevant to the story.

There a lot of statistics used in this piece. This strenghtens the piece. Great sources and use of numbers, that it covered the issue in a very infromed way.