Bush, Kerry trade accusations on trail
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The presidential candidates ventured into bitterly contested territory Saturday, trading barbs over national security, the economy and health care.
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President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry disagreed vigorously last night as they tossed out plenty of numbers, and both demonstrated a talent for relying on facts and assertions of questionable origin.
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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."
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Democratic nominee John F. Kerry accused President Bush of evading responsibility, and Bush said Kerry was making unsubstantiated charges.
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President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry veered away from campaign combat over Iraq and terror yesterday, trading insults on health care, medical liability and stem cell research during stops in crucial swing states.
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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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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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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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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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After six months of firing long-distance spitballs at one another across battleground state lines, President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts finally go at it face to face this week.
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Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday sought the upper hand in his battle over character and leadership with President Bush, by questioning his Republican rival's honesty on issues from health care to Iraq.
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Democratic  candidate John Kerry and President George W Bush spar over the Iraq war as the campaign heats up.
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Kerry and Bush play a game of "who's more rugged?"
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US presidential campaign tensions hit a new peak when Democratic contender John Kerry accused his Republican rival President George W. Bush of using a front group to discredit his Vietnam war record.
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US President George W Bush and his White House rival John Kerry have been racing from one Midwestern battleground state to another as election day looms.
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In the closing hours of their bitter campaign, President Bush and challenger Sen. John Kerry charged through the critical battlegrounds of Florida and Ohio on Sunday, going from hushed church services to raucous
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President George W. Bush, on a campaign swing here, charged his democratic rival John Kerry was indecisive in his stand on the Iraq war.