'Kid from the East' Kerry Feels Farmers' Pain (LAUGH RIOT from Reuters)

Yahoo News ^ | July 3, 2004 5:45 pm | Patricia Wilson

[tgslTakoma]

The video on Fox News of Kerry saying all this stuff was even funnier. He struggled mightily to sound folksy and down home, and succeeded in bringing me to tears of laughter instead.

[tgslTakoma]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (R) grimaces after missing a clay pigeon while trap shooting, as another shooter takes his turn, at the Gunslick Trap Club in Holmen, Wisconsin July 3, 2004. Kerry shouldered a borrowed 12-gauge shotgun and picked off 17 out of 25 clay 'birds.' Afterward, he said he preferred to hunt because of the open-air experience of tracking and finding game. 'I just do what I normally do,' Kerry told reporters who asked whether an outdoorsman image was important to his campaign. 'This is stuff I've done all my life.' REUTERS/Allen Fredrickson

[Mike Darancette]

The video on Fox News of Kerry saying all this stuff was even funnier.

Did kerry mention that he was a Viet Nam and killed a guy?

[MonroeDNA]

Isn't he the guy who did 4 months in Vietnam?

[TomGuy]

Kerry couldn't tell a cow from this load of bull he's spewing.

[Brad’s Gramma]

OH MY GOSH!

LOOK AT THAT PICTURE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[tgslTakoma]

Presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., reacts after missing a clay bird while trap shooting at the Gunslick Trap Club in Holmen, Wisc. Saturday, July 3, 2004. behind him at left is U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wisc. Kerry is on a three day bus campaign trip through Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Take your finger off the trigger, knucklehead.

[EGPWS]

"I just do what I normally do," Kerry told reporters who asked whether an outdoorsman image was important to his campaign. "This is stuff I've done all my life."

Yes, I was VERY impressed with his flap jack turning....

If this is what you have done all your life, you have a heartfelt compulsion to do such, then why, oh why, do you strive to become the most powerful man on earth?

[tet68]

My father too loved to plow with a tractor, it beat
walking behind a red mule and turning a plow at the end of the row, one which could stretch for half a mile down in the lowgrounds.

John Kerry, I hope he eats enough BBQ and corn dogs to puke.
Have some more of Graanny Skeltons Rhubarb pie Senator?

[ChocChipCookie]

This is almost as funny as the article about Kerry's manservant!

[Inyokern]

"When I was a kid, this kid from the East, I had an aunt and uncle who owned a dairy farm,"

Where? Loire? Brittany?

[Fintan]

It's really touching.

Kind of like Bill Clinton remembering those black churches that were burned down during his childhood in Arkansas.

[TomGuy]

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., reacts after missing a clay bird

So, whose fault was that? The SOB Secret Service agent? The speechwriter? The sand? The wind? He will surely blame someone for his missing the clay bird.

[kristinn]

I'm surprised Reuters released that photo.

[Old Sarge]

"Okay, Okay, I'll vote in the Senate , you don't have to hold a gun to my head!"

[okie01]

"The video on Fox News of Kerry saying all this stuff was even funnier."

If the reporter quotes faithfully, it's possible to hear the stilted cadences even while reading them.

This one, in particular, was a real ROFLMAO.

I was driving down here ... and I was saying, 'Look at the power of that land.' You can just feel it, you see it. I know what you love, I know why you're here, I know what you feel about this and we've got to help,"

Can you say "artificial" and "contrived"? This guy Kerry is a one-man laugh fest...

[TomGuy]

I can't figure out why nearly every posed photo-op image of Kerry makes him look dorky, plastic, not real, fake, phony. He is not photogenic. I don't know what it is, but most of his photo-ops look eerie; he doesn't look like a real person in them.

[tgslTakoma]

John Effin' Kerry is good for laughs. I heard Carl Cameron's Fox News report earlier this afternoon while I was busy in the kitchen, and took a break a while ago to look for a story about this campaign stop.

AP had an article but they did not use the full quote from Kerry about learning to cuss on a tractor with the guy who was driving it.

Of course the guy who was driving it wasn't a Kerry relative. Just some hired help.

[aruanan]

"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 fields and plow. And I learned as a kid what it was like looking back 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'd plowed," Kerry said.

Has he ever said anything about this before?

[mombonn]

the senator said he lived on a farm when he was very young and had "learned my first cuss word sitting on a tractor

I'm sure it wasn't the "f" word he used in the Rolling Stone interview; nor should it be a badge of honor that he learned his "first cuss word".

Literate people don't need "cuss words".