In New Attacks, Bush Pushes Limit On The Facts

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and RICHARD W. STEVENSON Published: October 8, 2004 ASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - From the beginning of the year, the White House has charte
By John Amato — October 8, 2004

By ADAM NAGOURNEY
and RICHARD W. STEVENSON

Published: October 8, 2004

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - From the beginning of the year, the White House has charted new ground with the sweep of its negative campaigning, starting with an $80 million wave of attack advertisements directed at Senator John Kerry that began the moment he effectively won his party's nomination last spring.

But the scathing indictment that Mr. Bush offered of Mr. Kerry over the past two days - on the eve of the second presidential debate and with polls showing the race tightening - took these attacks to a blistering new level. In the process, several analysts say, Mr. Bush pushed the limits of subjective interpretation and offered exaggerated or what some Democrats said were distorted accounts of Mr. Kerry's positions on health care, tax cuts, the Iraq war and foreign policy...read on

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