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NEWARK, Ohio -- Angry words and sharp disagreements... as Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush... anything to get re-elected,... -snip- Bush warned... would raise taxes... "I'm running against a fellow who has promised over $2 trillion in new spending so far,... ... Bush ... "I support marriage and family, which are the foundations of our society." ...cited the August gain of 144,000 jobs as evidence ... "Because we acted, our economy is growing again," he said. -snip- But a newly combative Kerry questioned the Republicans' truthfulness...convention--where the senator was called "unfit" to serve as commander in chief--as filled with "distortion,"...

Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. "You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it's the old Hitler business -- if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it," he said.

NEWARK, Ohio -- Angry words and sharp disagreements about the economy and Iraq marked the first full day of the fall election season as Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush on Friday of saying anything to get re-elected, while the president warned that his opponent would raise taxes to pay for all of his promises. Bush was trying to capitalize on the just-ended Republican National Convention with visits to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Iowa--states he narrowly lost in 2000. Kerry, on the other hand, concentrated his efforts with a bus trip through Ohio, a state that went to Bush in the...