http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=7&u=/latimests/20041016/ts_latimes/bushkerrybothemployfeartogetthejobdoneBy Matea Gold and Nick Anderson Times Staff Writers
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — With the campaign for president reaching the closing-argument stage, Republicans called Sen. John F. Kerry (news, bio, voting record) the most liberal candidate for president in history, while Kerry said President Bush (news - web sites)'s inept prosecution of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) had left the "great potential" for a military draft.
The attempt by both sides Friday to suggest that the other would put the country on risky ground seemed to fulfill what both sides had predicted: a harsh conclusion to an extremely close race.
Those messages promised to get plenty of airplay in the final 17 days of the campaign, as new finance reports indicated that independent groups could end up spending as much as $250 million by Nov. 2.
Kerry criticized Bush's military planning and raised the specter of a draft in an interview published Friday by the Des Moines Register.