Kerry Tries to Counter Impact of Criticism
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WASHINGTON - Attacks on John Kerry's war record may be beginning to have an impact, polls suggest, amid raised voices and new TV ads on a subject at least temporarily dominating debate in the close presidential race.    Democrats are laboring to deflect the questioning of Kerry's record with fresh ads touting his fitness for national command, even as the White House mocks the Massachusetts senator as "losing his cool" over claims he lied to win military medals in Vietnam...
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Democrat John Kerry and President Bush delivered fresh criticisms Friday as they emerged from a campaign debate that, for the first time in weeks, put Bush as much on the political defensive as Kerry.
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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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WITH A month and a half to go Kerry has belatedly come out swinging at Bush, especially over the disastrous war in Iraq. But it&#39;s not clear those attacks will bring positive results.
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NEW YORK -- Senator John F. Kerry yesterday sharply escalated his criticism of President Bush on Iraq, accusing him of &#39;&#39;stubborn incompetence&quot; and warning that if Bush is reelected, &#39;&#39;he will repeat, somewhere else, the same reckless mistakes that have
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Sen. John Kerry has a simple strategy if the presidential race is in doubt on Nov. 3, the day after the election: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes.
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But in the wake of last week's debate, Kerry seems to be gaining new traction with his calls for a fresh start.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry sought to improve his appeal to women, one of the weak points in his campaign.
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NEW YORK - John Kerry issued a scathing and pointed criticism Monday of President Bush&#39;s Iraq policies, saying Bush had repeatedly misled the American public and had compiled &quot;a long litany of misjudgments with terrible consequences.
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y.  - Democratic presidential  candidate John Kerry has accused his Republican critics of  having launched their offensive against his Vietnam war record  in a bid to sabotage what he called growing voter support for  his strategy to fight the war on terror.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry launched one of his harshest broadsides against the Iraq war on Monday, sparking an angry response from President Bush, as the war overshadowed their attempts to focus on the economy.
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US presidential candidate John Kerry attacks the president for 'colossal failures' over the war.
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Sen. John Kerry launched a series of blistering attacks on President Bush yesterday, saying the W in his opponent&#39;s name stands for &quot;wrong .
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Democrat John Kerry has fallen behind President Bush this week because his campaign has had to spend time, money and energy voicing its outrage about the Swift Boat Veterans.
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John Kerry's turn in the spotlight at last week's Democratic convention did not give him much of a bounce in opinion polls, but analysts said on Monday it was a sign of the times rather than a danger sign for Kerry.
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Democrat John Kerry has mounted a furious counter-attack against George W. Bush on national security, seeking to regain momentum in their heated presidential race two weeks before polling day.
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Sen. John Kerry is challenging President Bush to immediately begin taking steps to stop increasing violence in Iraq as he tries to offer a persuasive alternative to Bush&#39;s