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.
LIAR!!!!!!
I can't figure out if he's trying to sound like Al Gore or Bill Clinton
WHAT A LOSER
What bloviating. I wish he'd go back to the farm and leave us alone, lol !