Posted on 07/03/2004 1:40:36 AM PDT by familyop
CLOQUET, Minn. -- Reaching out to rural voters who overwhelmingly backed George W. Bush four years ago, John Kerry kicked off a holiday weekend bus tour through three Midwestern states Friday by asking residents here to help "bring an end to the Bush administration and march forward."
Kerry lashed out at Republicans who have accused him of offering unfairly grim assessments of the economy, seizing on Friday's announcement from the Labor Department that the economy had added 112,000 jobs in June, far fewer than economists had predicted.
"They say this is the best we can do," Kerry said, repeating a phrase he says almost daily. "Don't tell us that losing 13,000 dairy farms in Minnesota is the best that we can do. We have the best family farms in America, but we're denying those family farms the chance to be the best," he continued.
In Cloquet, Kerry was greeted by a thousands of supporters who packed the town square in front of the red-brick Chief movie theater.
"Back in Washington, people's idea of unwinding is just taking off their jacket," said Kerry. "Here, you get a chance to talk to folks. You get a chance to listen to what's really happening in America."
Police stopped traffic at every intersection along the 30-mile route, and highway overpasses were draped with banners welcoming Kerry.
"An event like this only comes once in a lifetime," said Connie Drive, 32, whose 2-year-old daughter, Isabelle, waved an American flag.
Kerry tailored his standard criticisms of Bush's handling of the war in Iraq to his audience, listing the names of three local soldiers who had been killed in the war in recent months, including one from Cloquet.
"The war has hit us hard," said retired barber Gale Panger, 71. He said he was a lifelong resident of Cloquet and couldn't remember another presidential candidate getting any closer than Duluth.
Recent polls have shown Bush leading Kerry among rural voters, though some have shown that gap closing.
John-Jaquestrap Effin S.O.B Teresa Winthrop Simoes-Ferreira Al Qerry-Heinz III says he's even going to "eat barbecue". How quaint. But, he wants his man servant to bring along his best linen napkins to clean his fingers.
He is trying to sell BS to people who know cow pastures, and flipflops are inappropriate footwear... When pigs fly. He'll only get the city vote, if that.
Waterford Ashworth Napkins - (color) Ruby - just for the barbecue! There's nothing more real than Kerry out with the folks in Cloquet soppin' up those ribs.
The Post will put a left slant on its columns, too. ...have to watch the words in their pages. The Wash. Times is generally more conservative than the Post.
President Bush is very likely to win the Election, but we will have to work, at times, to maintain the lead.
LOL! ...good characterization.
He ventured where no Democrat dared to go before. I doubt it will sway many minds though.
LOL.
They shouldn't let the people in cities (over 1,000,000 people) vote. Landslide for Bush. ;)
"J'ai le monde, y'all!"
Amen to both.
The city vote, or as I say, the 'urban vote' (aka minorities) is exactly why Hildabeast and the rest of her Marxist ilk want to do away with the Electoral College. They know they can always fudge the urban vote numbers in their favor if need be. But that pesky thing called the U.S. Constitution keeps getting in the way of all their grand plans.
And if you ever hear a Republican calling for the elimination of the EC, you'll know the next Civil War is imminent.
The perfect scarecrow.
Maybe at this BBQ, he can talk about his pro-abortion stand including partial birth abortion? He can give a class to these rural American families how partial birth abortion is done. They'll love him!!!
Hey, here in Alabama he will recieve very little of either one.
Yup, and while he's at it, he can explain to them why he doesn't want our Constitution amended to protect marriages and families. That ought to make for some interesting dinner conversation.
"a holiday weekend bus tour"
JFK: Where did you park your leased 757 which says "President" (not "...for President") on it?
Maybe at this BBQ, he can talk about his pro-abortion stand including partial birth abortion? He can give a class to these rural American families how partial birth abortion is done. They'll love him!!!
"Jeeves, where in the h*&* is my Grey Poupon?!?!?! You know I cannot eat anything without it, you stupid b*&^$%#!!!!"
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