Bush condemns 'defeatist' Kerry
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US President George W Bush launches his most scathing attack yet on challenger John Kerry.
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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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NEWARK, Ohio - In a scathing attack, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry accused Republicans of hiding President Bush's "record of failure" behind insults and promised a new direction for the country under a Kerry-Edwards administration.    Kerry, speaking to a midnight rally as Bush closed the GOP convention in New York with his acceptance speech, said the president was "unfit to lead this nation" because of the war in Iraq and his record on jobs, health care and energy prices...
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CLEVELAND - President Bush offered a sharp if familiar critique of his rivals on Wednesday, picking up where Dick Cheney left off in the vice presidential debate while defending the war in Iraq and their economic policies. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards responded by calling the president "completely out of touch with reality."   Bush assailed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry as he usually does in campaign appearances, accusing the Massachusetts senator of wavering in his support of the war on terrorism, favoring scores of tax increases, and sending mixed signals to allies and enemies...
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President Bush said on Thursday John Kerry lacked the conviction to lead during a war and called him "the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time," mocking his Democratic rival's criticism of the Iraq war.
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President Bush, going on the attack after a slip in the polls, said on Wednesday Democratic rival John Kerry's "mind-set of September 10th" would paralyze the United States and weaken its ability to respond to threats.
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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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SUNRISE, 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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WASHINGTON - President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry traded biting accusations over the war in Iraq on Monday as early Florida voting produced scattered complaints that stirred memories of the state's chaotic 2000 recount.    On a day of strikingly personal campaign rhetoric, Bush said his Democratic challenger stands for "protest and defeatism" in Iraq...
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President Bush chided Sen. John Kerry and fellow Democrats on Monday for asserting that Republicans will undermine Social Security, calling the strategy
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JANESVILLE, Wisconsin, Sept 24  - US President George W. Bush accused Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry of turning his back on Iraq by doubting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawis&#39; upbeat forecasts for his country.
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President George W Bush says his re-election by the American people vindicates his policy on Iraq.
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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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Democratic nominee John Kerry accused President George W. Bush of leaving America more vulnerable to terror and alone on Iraq, branding him stubborn, in denial and a failed leader.
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US presidential candidate John Kerry attacks the president for 'colossal failures' over the war.
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Democrat John Kerry turned up his  criticism of President Bush's leadership in Iraq on Monday,  accusing him of "colossal failures of judgment" that have  turned the country into a haven for terrorists and made America  more vulnerable.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry accused President George W. Bush of failing to tell Americans the truth about the war in Iraq.