Posted on 07/04/2004 5:22:42 PM PDT by FairOpinion
''Let me tell you something: When I was a kid, this 'kid from the East' had an aunt and uncle who had a dairy farm, and one of my greatest joys in life -- in fact, I lived on a farm as a young kid. My parents, when we lived in Massachusetts, we lived on a farm, and I learned my first cuss word sitting on a tractor with the guy who was driving it," Kerry said as he stood, wearing jeans and new Timberland hiking boots, in the tractor shed at the Dejno family farm in this community, which was founded on Independence Day in 1876.
''When I was 12 years old, my passion was being allowed to go out and sit on the John Deere and drive it around the field and plow, and I learned, as a kid, what it was like to look in back of me and see those furrows, and see that pattern, and feel a sense of accomplishment, and end up dusty and dirty and tired but feeling great, looking back at that field that you plowed."
Afterward, a spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, said Kerry was referring to two farm experiences, one when he and his parents lived on a farm in Millis, Mass., and later when he frequented a dairy farm straddling the Ipswich/Hamilton border that was owned by his aunt and uncle. The first farm was where Kerry rode a tractor with a hand who worked the family's property. At the dairy farm, he tilled the land himself.
At the time, Kerry's parents lived in Europe and he attended boarding school in Switzerland, but he returned to Massachusetts on vacations, Cutter said.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
John Kerry: A 'cheap' aristocrat
The Democratic presidential candidate grew up in a world of elite private schools and vacations on a French estate, something most Americans could only dream about. His parents, a U.S. diplomat and a homemaker, turned to a wealthy, childless great-aunt, Clara Winthrop, to help pay the bills.
John Kerry, born in Denver in 1943, lived in Groton and Millis, Mass., before the family moved to Washington when he was 7. He spent part of his youth in Swiss and New England boarding schools thanks to his aunt’s largess.
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And from another one:
'I'm a Good Closer'
Kerry's father, Richard, was a career State Department employee, an austere, somewhat disillusioned figure who never, to his regret, made ambassador.
Kerry's childhood seems rather lonely. As a little boy, he was moved from place to place before attending a "very strict" school in Switzerland, where he was one of only three English-speaking boys. Kerry learned, at an early age, to depend on himself.
At St. Paul's, a posh prep school in New Hampshire, Kerry was not popular. On the hockey team, he was called "Keep-the-Puck Kerry" because he didn't like to pass to his teammates as he skated toward the goal. Barging into pickup games on the school's frozen ponds, he was known for stealing the puck from younger boys and shooting it into the woods.
And, how does this qualifies him to be President?
Chances are good that, if you have to dress up in jeans and hiking boots, talk about how you lived on a farm, and talk about cussing, in order to be seen as the "common man," you aren't a "common man."
Great post.
BUMP!
Did he learn to milk cats? Like Gaylord Focker?
Interesting. I didn't know he ever lived on a farm. I wonder if this is a lie too? Depends on one's definition of what the word "farm" means?
He was born a poor black child...
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Doesn't this sound just like Bubba, blathering about being a kid when all of those black churches were burned in Arkansas?
Senator Kerry continues to prove he can fill the "honey wagon" with his stories.
Must be where he got so good at shovelling bullshit...
"Kerry lived his first year in Groton and his next five in another Massachusetts town, Millis. But by the time he was 7, the family had moved to Washington. "
When Kerry was 11, his father was appointed legal adviser to James B. Conant, head of the US High Commission for Germany, which later became the US mission to the country. Kerry was sent for the next two years to boarding schools in Switzerland, joining his family in West Berlin only on vacations. By the time Kerry turned 13, his parents decided that they would stay in Europe, and that -- in what Kerry calls a ``Victorian'' process -- their son would return to New England for his education
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OK -- so just exactly when did he drive a tractor? He claimed he did, when he was 12 -- in the US, "on a farm".
How stupid do you have to be to listen to Kerry say this stuff and actually believe him?
At the time, Kerry's parents lived in Europe and he attended boarding school in Switzerland, but he returned to Massachusetts on vacations, Cutter said..... John Kerry, born in Denver in 1943, lived in Groton and Millis, Mass., before the family moved to Washington when he was 7. He spent part of his youth in Swiss and New England boarding schools thanks to his aunt’s largess.
''I cannot tell you how overwhelming it is for me to come here and see you, with this sunset, looking to the west, and looking into you, and sensing the power of this four months that's ahead of us," Kerry told the crowd.
Well, barf.
I'm just wondering if that farm hand is who taught him the F-word.
Read the excerpts from other articles in my post # 1 & 11.
I guess he "lived on a farm in the US", while going to a boarding school in Switzerland -- he could be in two places at once.
Remember this Gore classic?
"Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I hoed it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it."
Well, being a Dim, and I do mean DIM, means that one must be ruled by the emotion, rather than the intellect.
Kerry grew up on a farm about like algore did, harvesting the balcony of the penthouse of the Fairfax hotel.
That was before it became evil, for killing his sister. /sarcasm
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