Bush, Kerry Clash Over Latest Jobs Report
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President Bush hailed a slight decline in unemployment Friday as reason for his re-election, evidence the "economy is strong and getting stronger." Not so, said Sen. John Kerry, countering that the administration's term will end with a net loss of jobs...
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President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival for the White House, John Kerry, clashed over the Iraq war and the US economy as a new poll showed Kerry falling behind in public ratings.
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John Kerry, stepping up his attack on President Bush after bad news about the economy, said Saturday the country cannot afford another four years of lost jobs, slow growth and creeping poverty.
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President Bush, under election-year pressure on the economy, said on Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy would hinder the creation of jobs.
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Campaigning in a swing county in Iowa that he lost four years ago, President Bush criticized Sen. John Kerry on education and jobs Friday, saying the Democrat fails to understand the connection between the two.
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry on Friday seized on a Labor Department report showing the US expanded payrolls by 144,000 and lowered the unemployment level to 5.4 percent
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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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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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President Bush and Democratic rival  John Kerry traded blows over jobs and security on Friday as  they began a final two-month election sprint, with Bush touting  his economic record and Kerry launching a fierce counter-attack  on Republicans who "can't tell the truth."
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CANONSBURG, Pa./POPLAR BLUFF  - Democratic  presidential nominee John Kerry launched one of his harshest  broadsides against the Iraq war on Monday and drew an angry  response from President Bush, in a clash that overshadowed  their attempts to focus on the economy.
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A lackluster unemployment report and fresh questions about President Bush&#39;s rationale for invading Iraq frame the second face-to-face encounter Friday night between Bush and Sen. John Kerry.
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Democratic White House candidate  John Kerry on Wednesday challenged President Bush's decisions  before and after the Iraq war and linked its $200 billion cost  to economic woes in the United States.
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COLUMBUS - John Kerry&#39;s campaign in Ohio seized on yesterday&#39;s Labor Department report that said the US economy added 96,000 jobs in September, a weaker total than expected in the last employment report before the Nov. 2 election.
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Aug. 19, 2004  Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is tying together two of the country&#39;s biggest problems job losses and rising health care costs and blaming President Bush for both.
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Democrat John Kerry, behind in the polls and vowing to get tough on the campaign trail, accused President Bush yesterday of operating an &#39;excuse presidency&quot; and promised to create 10 million jobs in four years of a Kerry administration.
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OSHKOSH, Wis  - President Bush charged on Friday  that Democratic rival John Kerry fails to recognize reality on  hot-button domestic issues from jobs and education to health  care and Social Security.
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President Bush and rival John Kerry on Tuesday offered different ways to boost the sluggish job market, the president calling for legal reforms to help workers and businesses while his Democratic opponent proposed ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.    Kerry, moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging, used the latest forecast of a record budget deficit to bolster his contention that Bush is leading the country in the wrong direction...