Bush Declares Kerry Can't Keep U.S. Safe
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President Bush said Friday that the choice facing voters amounts to who can keep Americans safer from terrorists and that John Kerry does not measure up. Kerry's campaign accused the president of resorting to fearmongering out of desperation as the rivals exchanged accusations across battleground states.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush cautioned on   Saturday the threat from a plot to detonate liquid explosives   on commercial flights may not have passed and denied Democratic   charges he was trying to use the crisis for political gains in   an election year.
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Democrat John Kerry on Friday called President Bush "unfit to lead this nation," less than an hour after the Republican incumbent promised Americans a victory over terrorism and a strong economy.
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John F. Kerry accused President Bush of putting American lives at risk by failing to prevent the flu vaccine shortage and as Bush again said that his Democratic opponent cannot be trusted to protect the country from terrorists.
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John Kerry said the president was "dodging" on the missing explosives; Mr. Bush labeled his opponent's attacks as "wild."
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President Bush warned Friday the United States is in "more danger of attack" because Congress failed to extend legislation on domestic wiretapping laws allowing the government without a warrant to listen in on phone calls and intercept e-mails by foreign terrorist suspects that are transmitted through this country.
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Sen. John Kerry, fighting back after President Bush accused him of having dangerous policies, said Tuesday that the Republican incumbent was resorting to a "blanket scare tactic" rather than focusing on his own important choices to keep the country safe.
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President Bush said it is &quot;up in the air&quot; whether the United States can ever be fully safe from terrorism, prompting an attack from Democrat John Kerry&#39;s campaign that Bush was sending a mixed message.
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NEW YORK - President Bush pledged "a safer world and a more hopeful America" as he accepted his party's nomination for a second term and plunged into the final two months of his re-election campaign. He promptly drew fire Friday from Democratic challenger John Kerry, who said Bush is "unfit to lead this country."   In the city that transformed his presidency three Septembers ago, Bush declared to a raucous Republican convention crowd: "We have fought the terrorists across the earth - not for pride, not for power, but because the lives of our citizens are at stake...
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign criticized President George W. Bush's handling of national security, saying the United States still has "much more" work ahead to protect itself from future terrorist attacks.
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PUEBLO, COLO. -- Democrat John Kerry sought to undercut US President George W. Bush on national security yesterday, saying he is trying to scare voters with talk of terrorism.
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President Bush condemned Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday for "scare tactics" on issues like Social Security and the flu vaccine, while Kerry hammered Bush's leadership on the economy and the war on terror.
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Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday President Bush had not done enough to protect America from another attack while the president labeled his Democrat rival's approach to preventing terrorism as "dangerous."
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One week before the presidential election, Democratic Sen. John Kerry waged a two-front war on his opponentâs security policies, arguing President George Bush has failed to adequately protect America both at home and overseas.
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On the deadliest day of the Iraq war this year, President Bush told newly empowered House Democrats there are limits to how long the United States will stay committed to the bloody conflict.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says President Bush was wrong when he suggested that victory against terrorism might be impossible, declaring that he has a plan to defeat those who threaten the United States.
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President Bush said Wednesday that Sen. John Kerry's views on national security are so misguided that the Democrat would be unable to defeat terrorism.