Kerry hammers Bush on Bin Laden

DEMOCRATIC challenger John Kerry hammered George W Bush over Osama bin Laden and then turned on the US President over domestic issues, criticising cuts in after-school programmes, health care coverage and jobs lost in the past four years.

Making his fifth consecutive Sunday appearance at a mostly black church, this day in hotly contested Ohio, the Democratic presidential nominee quoted the Bible and criticised his White House rival without naming him.

“There is a standard by which we have to live,” Mr Kerry said. “Coming to church on Sundays and talking about faith and professing faith isn’t the whole deal.”