Sharp Attacks, Vivid Talk Color Bush-Kerry Battle
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With the race tight and passions high, the battle between President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry has veered into sharp personal attacks in vivid language rarely heard in television-age campaigns.
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A newly energized President Bush [related, bio] last night clashed with Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] over taxes and Iraq as Bush sought to regain his footing and Kerry fought to hold his ground in a freewheeling second faceoff in St.
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Democrat John Kerry has taken to summarizing the presidential fight with a line that's both a dig at his opponent and an appeal to undecided voters.
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With the US election campaign in its final days, President Bush, the Republican incumbent, is stepping up his attacks on his Democratic opponent, Senator John Kerry.
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Iraq, the issue most likely to ignite fire in Thursday's debate, has become the chief symbol of differences between presidential candidates George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.
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John Kerry came to last night&#39;s debate caricatured as an indecisive windbag, but he went after President Bush with a flurry of oral punches that put Bush on the defensive.
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President George W Bush yesterday ripped into Senator John Kerry on Iraq, taking a more aggressive approach than he had in the previous night&#39;s debate as both candidates rushed back to the campaign trail to put their own
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Honing lines of attack before the first debate of the 2004 White House race, President George W. Bush said Democrat John Kerry shifts positions on Iraq so often he &quot;could spend 90 minutes debating himself.&quot;
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As Democrats and Republicans spar over attack ads in the race for the White House, Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry accused President George W. Bush's campaign of putting up a smoke screen to divert attention from important issues.
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Both Bush and Kerry scored points in a smart, rousing debate
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President Bush and John Kerry continue to skip through battleground states today, as each candidate uses increasingly strident language to attack the other with the presidential election slightly more than a week away.
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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 his Democratic Party challenger Senator John Kerry traded barbs Friday on terrorism and domestic issues. The criticisms are growing sharper with less than two weeks left in the presidential campaign.
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US President George Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry spent Sunday in the key battleground states of Ohio and Florida. Bush continued his attack on Kerry, painting his rival as untrustworthy and inconsistent
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As John Kerry struggles to overtake George W. Bush in their White House race he faces a deepening dilemma: how to press his attacks on the president without turning off voters weary of negative campaigning.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  - One speech may not a  campaign make, but John Kerry and his top advisers are pumped  up and in "a fighting mood" after the Democratic candidate's  aggressive attack on President Bush's handling of Iraq.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen.  John Kerry traded sharp accusations over Iraq and the war on  terror on Monday, with Bush condemning Kerry's "strategy of  retreat" and Kerry saying the administration's Iraq policy had  been "hijacked by ideologues."