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

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

[Smartass]

Geees. Teh, heh, I was hoping it was true.

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoops ! Looks like the PC parade doesn't like this pic w/my caption. My bad, I guess.

[sgtbono2002]

This is the photo I have been waiting for, I wondered when it would appear LMAO.

[kaehurowing]

LOL

An NRA gun safety No-No!

But what would liberals know about the NRA other than that they are a bunch of right wing wackos?

[kaehurowing]

"During the discussion of agricultural issues, the senator said he lived on a farm when he was very young. . . ."


Was this farm in Switzerland or France?

[NormsRevenge]

lol... great! Thanks!

I'm looking for an American Gothic ala Kerry .. bib overalls,, weed stalk in mouth (of her)

[ErnBatavia]

I like that! And I like your friend, and please pass on my regards!

All the best for Independence Day...let our flags fly high! (Something that probably doesn't happen a whole lot on Beacon Hill)

[TomGuy]

Hey, Jacquestrap! You and the horse cow you rode in on!

[F.J. Mitchell]

Kerry's just like the rest of us ordinary guys,who happen to be married to billionaire heiresses.

[ErnBatavia]

I like the "I wear these Levis all the time in Boston, really" rumpled looked to his jeans....must be a bitch for his valet to give them that lived-in look.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Well for Pete's sake, do NOT tell GRAMPS that little ditty!!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

Looks like that farmer is aiming at a vulture instead of a clay pigeon.

[F.J. Mitchell]

She looks more like Marjorie Maine's part in Maw & Paw Kettle.

[proudpapa]

"And we actually have farmers in Massachusetts that vote republican too."

Of course in Massachusetts those hard working farmers are outnumbered by the gays,unions, Kennedy's and welfare recipients.

[tgslTakoma]

Ah-HA!

I found a link to the first version of the Reuters story here; and it is different...

The last three paragraphs of that earlier article read as follows:

"Let me tell you something," Kerry said during the discussion of agricultural issues. "In fact I lived on a farm when I was 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."

A campaign aide said (my comment: the campaign aide's statement is probably in response to skeptical media types who had never heard that little gem from Kerry before, and questioned its basis in fact) that when Kerry's parents were abroad, he often spent vacations from his Swiss boarding school at his aunt and uncle's farm in northeastern Massachusetts.

"When I was twelve 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.

[F.J. Mitchell]

He's probably playing "Brother John" badly.

[bray]

Yaaaaaaawn kept looking back cause he was driving the same manure spreader he's driving now. Must think those dairy farmers fell off the turnip truck last night??? Inheritance taxes that Yaaaawn Tax & Kerry wants to keep is why they lost their farms, not the huge Farm subsidy GW passed.

Pray for W and Our Incredible Troops

[Brad’s Gramma]

drive it around the fields and plow.

LIAR!!!!!!

[Mo1]

"When I was twelve years old, my passion was being allowed to go out and sit on the John Deere and drive it around the fields and plow

I can't figure out if he's trying to sound like Al Gore or Bill Clinton

WHAT A LOSER

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! Okay, my lips are sealed.