McCain chastises Bush, Kerry over campaign rhetoric
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a supporter of President Bush and a friend of Sen. John Kerry, chastised the two candidates Friday for their superheated campaign rhetoric on Iraq and the war on terror.
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Republican presidential contender John McCain, a backer of the Iraq war but critic of how President Bush has waged it, said U.S. lives had been "wasted" in the conflict
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President Bush drew sporadic, startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M.  - President Bush on Thursday  sought to smooth over differences with Sen. John McCain by  promising to take legal action to stop political ads by outside  groups, including those attacking the war record of Bush's  Democratic presidential rival, John Kerry.
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Sen. John McCain argued Wednesday that Americans need to get past Vietnam, spreading blame for the bitter political debate among both presidential candidates, a federal agency and a veterans group attacking Sen.
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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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Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush of not being the leader he says he is and blamed his lack of leadership for the &quot;two wars&quot; the senator says America is embroiled in.
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FOR months on the campaign trail, US Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry has criticised President George W. Bush for running advertisements assailing the senator&#39;s record.
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Sen. John McCain challenged other Republican presidential candidates Tuesday to propose their own immigration legislation or stop criticizing the plan he's co-sponsoring.
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President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, have both bowed to requests from Arizona Senator John McCain regarding recent negative campaign ads.
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NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain swept aside his long-running differences with President Bush on Monday and urged voters to re-elect him, offering a stout defense of Bush's decision to invade Iraq as the only way to keep that country from acquiring weapons of mass destruction...
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Republican presidential  contender Mitt Romney sharply criticized John McCain on Friday,  accusing the self-styled straight-talking senator of arrogantly  exaggerating his knowledge of the U.S. economy.
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Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, once courted by Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, is emerging as a major force in the re-election campaign of President Bush, who vanquished McCain in the 2000 Republican primary.
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John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to withdraw troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Republican presidential rival who said: "That's simply wrong and it's dishonest, and he should apologize."
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Senator John McCain, a  Republican contender for the White House in 2008, chastised  Europe on Saturday for failing to supply the troops and money  to win in Afghanistan and said NATO's future was at stake.
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A leading Republican, speaking on behalf of President Bush&#39;s reelection campaign, yesterday accused Senator John F. Kerry&#39;s campaign of exploiting
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President Bush condemned Democratic  Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday for "scare tactics" on issues like  Social Security and the flu vaccine, while Kerry hammered  Bush's leadership on the economy and the war on terror.