Kerry slams Bush as puppet of US gun lobby
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, seeking to cut George W. Bush's edge on security issues, branded him a puppet of the powerful US gun lobby who allowed a decade-old ban on assault weapons to lapse.
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MADISON, Wis.  - To the National Rifle  Association, John Kerry brings to mind a pink-bowed poodle --  and for the powerful gun lobby, calling someone a lapdog that  "don't hunt" is not a compliment.
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US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and President George W. Bush traded accusations and criticism on Friday, with Kerry accusing the Bush administration of cronyism
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry has leveled strong criticism against President Bush over North Korea and homeland security.
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President Bush on Saturday ridiculed what he called the "Kerry doctrine" as a dangerous outsourcing of America's security, seeking to poke a hole in Sen. John Kerry's debate performance with what advisers see as his rival's biggest miscue.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry stepped up a fierce campaign fight over U.S. security on Friday, with Kerry accusing Bush of irresponsible leadership for taking "his eye off the ball" in the war on terror by invading Iraq.
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President Bush criticized Democratic challenger John Kerry on Monday for suggesting that the anti-terror battle should reduce terrorists to &quot;a nuisance&quot; from the current full-time crisis.
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Washington -- Sen. John Kerry charged Friday that President Bush was helping terrorists and caving in to the National Rifle Association by not pushing to extend the 10-year-old federal assault weapons ban that expires at 12:01 am Monday.
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Democratic Senator John Kerry accused President George W. Bush of using a front group to do the "dirty work" of attacking his Vietnam War record.
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President Bush returned Democrat John Kerry's fire on a missing Iraqi weapons cache Wednesday, accusing his rival of rushing to judgment before all the facts were known and "denigrating the commanders" leading U.S. forces.
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John Kerry is criticizing President Bush for letting a decade-long ban on assault weapons expire while unveiling his own &#36;5 billion plan to fight crime.
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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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Presidential nominee John Kerry and other Democrats are organizing a new line of attack against President Bush, accusing him of stacking the federal government with friends and donors who are gutting regulations on U.S. corporations.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry sought to make President Bush pay a political price Monday for the expiration of a partial assault weapons ban, but other Democrats reacted warily on an issue that has hurt the party in recent elections...
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Democratic candidate John Kerry  accused President Bush on Friday of neglecting the fight  against terrorism by going to war in Iraq and said his  Republican rival had left America less safe.
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President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry dueled over health care and the expired assault weapons ban on Monday, with Bush slamming Kerry for backing a costly "government takeover" of health care that would lead to higher taxes.
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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.