[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.

[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.

[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...

[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".

[swampfox98]

"When I was a kid, this kid from the East, I had an aunt and uncle who owned a dairy farm," Kerry told a town hall meeting on Saturday in Independence, midway through a 546-mile July 4 weekend road trip across America's heartland to win over rural voters.

In other words, Kerry brings some of his Aunt's cow excrement to his campaign.

[I still care]

Kerry has an "F" rating from the NRA. When I heard that, I said within the next few months look for a photo op of Kerry skeet shooting.

The gun vote will lose Kerry the flyover states for sure, so he has to start now to mislead the sheeple.

I am amazed at how people are falling for his, "Look at me, see, I'm not a liberal" act.

[mtbopfuyn]

At the Gunslick Trap Club in Holmen, 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.

Idiot. Gun clubs are for rich wimps who target practice not for hunting meat for the table. The only thing he bags are wealthy wives. I can see his SS guys laughing their heads off.

[TomGuy]

"I've been out here a lot over 20 years plus," he told about 150 invited guests at the Dejno family farm, where he toured the aromatic calving shed and milking center.

150 invited guests? Bused in from where?

the aromatic calving shed and milking center? This whole story of Kerry down on the farm is kind of 'aromatic' itself.

[catpuppy]

It brought tears to my eyes as it resembled Al Gore's similar attempt at establishing his credentials with farmers: "Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I've hoed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!"

[kenth]

"And we actually have farms in Massachusetts."

Just in case you ignorant cheesehead hicks didn't know that.

[JOE6PAK]

Maw and Paw Kerry down on the farm

[ngc6656]

From the article:

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee... vowed to fight for family farmers by banning unfair trade practices and fully implementing country-of-origin labeling so Americans "know where the products they buy are coming from."

I wonder what is the country of origin of the tomatoes that go into Heinz ketchup?