Free Republic

SPRINGFIELD — Twelve hours after John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, President Bush cut loose Friday, offering ways he will deliver a better America while criticizing his opponent. Bush chose politically friendly southwest Missouri to embark on what he called his “Heart and Soul of America Tour” through four key states in the wake of the Democratic convention in Boston. Under gray skies, the president told some 10,000 supporters at a new university baseball park in Springfield that Kerry expressed good intentions but that they “do not always translate into results.” Results matter, he repeated several times, referring to...