Bush, Kerry spar over qualifications, Iraq progress
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed yesterday about whether conditions are improving in Iraq as the president continued to question his opponent&#39;s ability to lead.
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With the spotlight on his candidacy, John Kerry improved public perception of his character and qualifications but failed to shake-up the presidential race. Now, the focus shifts to President Bush &#151; and all his hurdles to re-election.
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President George W. Bush, seeking a second term, and Democratic challenger John Kerry, have been sparring energetically over Iraq, but both men are keenly aware of the US economy looming large as a major campaign issue in the November 2 election.
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President Bush accused Democrat John Kerry of new contradictions and ridiculed his call for a summit on Iraq on Friday as he sought to rebound from a debate that many Americans thought Kerry won.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry sharpened their attacks over Iraq and the war against terror on Friday, neither willing to give ground after a debate that Republican strategists conceded wasn't the commander in chief's finest moment of the campaign.
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry differed sharply on Iraq, jobs and taxes in their second debate on Friday, with Kerry questioning Bush's judgment and the president accusing Kerry of crumbling under political pressure.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, fresh from a campaign revamp and slipping in the polls, tried to focus on the economy on Monday but instead offered new criticism of the Iraq war, while President Bush touted his tax reform.
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President Bush and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry sparred over Iraq Monday as they campaigned in states where the race for the White House is extremely close.
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Bush and Kerry returned to the campaign trail Friday and resumed the intense dispute over the Iraq war and homeland security that dominated the first presidential debate Thursday night.
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Bee Washington Bureau. CORAL GABLES, Fla. - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed repeatedly Thursday evening in a series of sharp exchanges on foreign policy that revealed starkly different
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President Bush and Democratic  challenger Sen. John Kerry traded sharp accusations on national  security, taxes and jobs on Tuesday, with Kerry questioning  Bush's credibility and fitness to be commander in chief.
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Sept. 7, 2004 - Hitting President Bush on the issues of jobs and the war in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging.
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ST. LOUIS  - President Bush accused Sen. John  Kerry on Friday of being too inconsistent to lead the country  but Kerry shot back that the president was using that line of  attack to shift attention from his deceptions on Iraq.
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The US presidential candidates did some late cramming for their high-stakes televised debate, with George W. Bush seeking to lock in his lead in the polls and challenger John Kerry hoping to stage a comeback.
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ELYRIA, Ohio - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, their animosity stirred by a contentious second debate, lit into each other over Iraq, jobs and debate performance on Saturday in critical battleground states...
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry locked horns with George W. Bush in a tense televised debate tonight, accusing him of making a &quot;colossal error of judgment&quot; by invading Iraq while the president responded that his opponent was unfit to lead.
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Democrat John Kerry launched his sharpest assault yet on Monday on President Bush's "arrogance and outright incompetence" in Iraq, but Bush defended the U.S.-led invasion and accused his rival for the White House of contradicting himself again.