Bush and Kerry trade insults

President George Bush and newly-crowned Democratic standard-bearer John Kerry wasted no time blasting each other at the official start of the US general election campaign, trading identical criticisms that the other was short on accomplishments.

Campaigning again after sidelining himself during the Democratic National Convention, where Kerry accepted his party’s nomination to run against Bush in the November 2 election, the president said his rival lacked any ”signature achievements” in his nearly 20-year Senate career.