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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America cannot afford another four years of lost jobs, slow growth and creeping poverty, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said at a rally Saturday, seizing upon two government reports he claims show the failures of the president's economic policies.
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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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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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Sept. 7, 2004 - Hitting President Bush on the issues of jobs and the war in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging.
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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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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed yesterday about whether conditions are improving in Iraq as the president continued to question his opponent&#39;s ability to lead.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry seized yesterday on new criticism of Iraq policy by the former US administrator there, to bolster his case that President Bush has mismanaged the war.
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PARKERSBURG, W.Va.  - 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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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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XENIA, Ohio  - Democratic Sen. John Kerry attacked  the economic record of President Bush on Saturday and the  Senator from Massachusetts was later endorsed by the New York  Times.
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The Kerry campaign accused the Bush administration on Friday of delaying a government report that could show the number of starving Americans rose last year.
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Senator John Kerry lashed out at the Bush administration today over tax policy, jobs, the economy and health care.
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President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry traded sharp accusations on national security, taxes and jobs on
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economic record and Kerry launching a fierce counter-attack on Republicans who &quot;can&#39;t tell the truth.&quot;. &quot;Our economy is growing and it&#39;s getting stronger,&quot; Bush said.
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President Bush has been saying that the US economy has ''turned the corner.&quot; Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry, in the wake of this month's poor jobs report, quipped that it was more like a U-turn.
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ST. LOUIS Oct. 8, 2004 - A lackluster unemployment report, troubling terrorism developments and fresh questions about President Bush&#39;s rationale for invading Iraq frame the second face-to-face encounter Friday night between Bush and John Kerry.