Kerry Tries to Counter Impact of Criticism
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WASHINGTON - Attacks on John Kerry's war record may be beginning to have an impact, polls suggest, amid raised voices and new TV ads on a subject at least temporarily dominating debate in the close presidential race.    Democrats are laboring to deflect the questioning of Kerry's record with fresh ads touting his fitness for national command, even as the White House mocks the Massachusetts senator as "losing his cool" over claims he lied to win military medals in Vietnam...
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Democratic Senator John Kerry's White House bid has become more combative, more open to reporters and delivered a more focused message recently which observers have attributed to the influence of former Bill Clinton administration staffers.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday lashed back at charges that he exaggerated his Vietnam war record, accusing President George W. Bush of using an anti-Kerry group to level the claims because &quot;he wants them to do his dirty work.&quot; ...
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Democrat John Kerry turned up his criticism of President Bush's leadership in Iraq on Monday, accusing him of "colossal failures of judgment" that have turned the country into a haven for terrorists and made America more vulnerable.
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Senator John Kerry goes toward the election with a base that is built more on opposition to George W. Bush than loyalty to his own candidacy.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to "stand up and stop" what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam.
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to "stand up and stop" what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam...
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Democrat John Kerry says running for the White House has involved an intrusiveness &quot;beyond description,&quot; with personal attacks on his character that he accuses the media of treating as entertainment.
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Sen. John Kerry is working, but not too hard, to keep Washington state in the Democratic column.
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FOR months on the campaign trail, US Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry has criticised President George W. Bush for running advertisements assailing the senator&#39;s record.
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Former US president Bill Clinton has warned John Kerry he must sharpen his criticism of President George Bush&#39;s record to reinvigorate his candidacy if he hopes to win the election in November.
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Sen. John Kerry is challenging President Bush to immediately begin taking steps to stop increasing violence in Iraq as he tries to offer a persuasive alternative to Bush&#39;s
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NEW YORK -- Senator John F. Kerry yesterday sharply escalated his criticism of President Bush on Iraq, accusing him of &#39;&#39;stubborn incompetence&quot; and warning that if Bush is reelected, &#39;&#39;he will repeat, somewhere else, the same reckless mistakes that have
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Los Angeles Times - After making his service in Vietnam the centerpiece of his presidential bid, Sen. John F. Kerry now finds himself defending his role as a protester of the war &#8212; the chapter of his biography that first gained him prominence but which he has discussed infrequently this year.
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Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, during his narrowly unsuccessful bid as the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, excoriated President Bush for his handling of the war in Iraq, and has only stepped up the volume of his criticisms in the years since.
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Sen. John Kerry on Monday lambasted as &quot;pathetic&quot; scaremongering, Republican criticism of his comments during last Thursday&#39;s debate in which he said the president&#39;s decision
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Democratic candidate John Kerry on  Tuesday sought the upper hand in his battle over character and  leadership with President Bush, by questioning his Republican  rival's honesty on issues from health care to Iraq.