Bush puppet of gun lobby: Kerry
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US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, seeking to cut George W. Bush&#39;s edge on security issues, has branded him a puppet of the powerful US gun lobby who allowed a decade-old ban on assault weapons to lapse.
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The National Rifle Association, a powerful US lobbying group supporting the right to own firearms, endorsed Republican George W. Bush for president in the November 2 presidential election.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.  - President Bush labeled  Sen. John Kerry on Saturday a political opportunist who is  unfit to lead amid "great threats" to America.
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President Bush and Democrat John Kerry battled over who can best make the United States safer on Sunday, the Bush camp accusing Kerry of wanting to treat terrorists like gamblers and the Kerry side saying his Republican opponent was soft on homeland security.
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Determined to use a week of troubling news for the White House to his advantage, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry drilled into President Bush last night
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Democrat John Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force Republican critics to withdraw ads challenging his military service and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks as the presidential race took a decidedly bitter turn.
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President Bush labeled Sen. John Kerry on Saturday a political opportunist who is unfit to lead amid "great threats" to America.
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The National Rifle Association mocks John Kerry's attempts to portray himself as friendly to hunting and other gun sports, putting the Democrat in its sights with a &#36;400,000-a-week television ad buy in several presidential battleground states.
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Democrat John Kerry rebuked  President Bush on Monday for letting a ban on assault weapons  expire and said his Republican rival paid for tax cuts by  taking police off the streets and slashing anti-drug programs.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry seized yesterday on new criticism of Iraq policy by the former US administrator there, to bolster his case that President Bush has mismanaged the war.
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FORT MYERS, Fla./CRAWFORD, Texas  - Democrat John  Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force  Republican critics to withdraw ads challenging his military  service and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping  coordinate the attacks as the presidential race took a  decidedly bitter turn.
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Democrat John Kerry sought to undercut President Bush on national security Saturday by charging that he was trying to scare voters with talk of terrorism. Bush portrayed his opponent as indecisive and suffering from "election amnesia" with conflicting stands on Iraq.
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John F. Kerry and his supporters are adopting President Bush's strategy of playing on the public's security concerns as voters get a heavier-than-ever dose of speeches and television ads from both candidates designed to convince them the other ticket would make the world more dangerous.
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Senator John Kerry accused the president today of caving in to the gun lobby, a charge rejected by the White House.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry blasted President Bush for caving in to the pressures of the gun lobby and allowing the federal assault-weapons ban to expire, the Associated Press reported Sept.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- Sen. John Kerry and President George W. Bush are trading shots Wednesday in regard to missing explosives in Iraq.
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DES MOINES, Iowa Sept. 9, 2004 - President Bush is playing politics with the war on terror in a &quot;shameful and irresponsible&quot; effort to scare voters into re-electing him, Democratic challenger John Kerry said Thursday.