Bush sharpens jabs against Kerry ahead of debates
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President George W. Bush sharpened his jabs against Democratic challenger John Kerry, who has called for an end to the nasty advertising war that he said was scaring off voters only days before the rivals' first televised debate.
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President Bush on Monday mocked his Democratic rival John Kerry for shifting his positions on Iraq so many times he could "debate himself" in this week's face-off between the two candidates.
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President George W. Bush stepped up his attacks on Democratic nominee John Kerry, seeking to offset damaging news about missing explosives in Iraq and the loss of jobs in some battleground states.
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Two days after scoring points in his debate with President George W. Bush, Democrat John Kerry was under major Republican assault for his defense policies, but balking at mounting a counter-attack.
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Washington -- Sen. John Kerry is condemning President Bush with sharper language and more pointed attacks as the campaign heads into its final six weeks, hoping to turn the 2004 election back into a referendum on the incumbent.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  - President Bush on  Tuesday hammered away at Democrat John Kerry as a tax-and-spend  liberal and said his decision to invade Iraq was the toughest  he had made, as he prepared for his third debate with the  Massachusetts senator.
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President Bush sought momentum on Saturday from his second debate with Democratic Sen. John Kerry by attacking Kerry for saying he has a consistent position on Iraq and would not raise middle-class taxes.
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As the first debate on Thursday nears, Bush and Kerry seek to knock each other off kilter.
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Their first debate less than a week away, President Bush and Democrat John Kerry kept their public schedules clear on Saturday and began to focus on their prime-time showdown.
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President George W. Bush sharpened his jabs against Democratic challenger John Kerry, who has called for an end to the nasty advertising war that he said was scaring off voters three days before the rivals' first televised debate.
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Sen. John Kerry, under pressure from Democratic leaders to draw sharper contrasts between himself and George W. Bush, launched a series of blistering attacks
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WAUSAU, Wis. Oct. 7, 2004 - President Bush took a sharp jab at his Democratic opponent on Thursday, saying John Kerry and not the White House was misleading the country about the war in Iraq.
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President Bush slammed Democratic  rival John Kerry on Tuesday for shifting his views on Iraq out  of political expediency, and Kerry fired back that Bush was  using "distortions" to hide a deteriorating situation there.
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George W. Bush and election rival John Kerry hammered away at each other's credibility ahead of their final debate while Democrats were outraged about a new anti-Kerry documentary.
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President Bush taunted Democratic rival John Kerry and tested debate lines before friendly audiences in Colorado and Arizona on Tuesday while Kerry crammed in private for Wednesday night's final faceoff of the campaign.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio  - President Bush said on Monday  his Democratic rival John Kerry had shifted his positions on  Iraq so many times he could "debate himself" at the prime-time  face-off between the two candidates in three days.
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President Bush, ratcheting up a fight with Congress over Iraq, accused Democrats on Friday of conducting a political debate on the war while delaying action on money to upgrade equipment and give troops a pay raise.