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.
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"You mean I'm going to stay this color?!"
(Steve Martin in, "The Jerk").
LOL!
I didn't see this yet. Thanks for posting.
He's the first black alleged Democrat candidate for President.
I thought Clinton was the first black President.
He probably didn't realize that it was the dung field he was plowing. They told him those blobs were apples (road) that they wanted to plow under. The air he smelled was "fresh" country air. He was so invigorated that he insisted on plowing. In other words, he was a jerky little kid who was a pain in the butt and the farm hands had to be laughing like hell.
Pulling dry teat.
How about pulling ticks off your kids? I also had to shoot a rabid racoon this weekend (staggering around in my front yard in the middle of the day) - I love country living sometimes!
(John was born in 1943). You do the math.
This guy is a "give the audience what they want AND A LIAR). Very Clintonesque!!
Kerry is quite possibly the biggest poser to come down the pike in a long time.
America is not ready to elect a metrosexual gigolo faux war hero who absolutely cannot connect with the average American.
That's where I've seen him before!!! He delivered phone books down my street a few years ago!!!!
Damage control! Calling damage control! The a$$ opened his mouth again and spread more BS.
You can here it! You can't go to a farm with patent leather shoes Johnny. We'll get you a pair of real boots if you'll shut up. Then we'll send you off to your aunt and you can romp in the sh**. Yup, the first bad word!!
Damn, I misread the Timberland boot thing. He has new boots at this event not when he was 12. Twenty lashes to me!!
Too funny. The true article title should be: "Farmer John shovels sh** in farm country".
Pick oranges in Florida?
Stroke a baby seal in Alaska?
Pan for Gold in California?
Work in a silver mine in Nevada. Shake hands with the guards at the Mexican border?
Fish for shrimp in Louisianna?
And last but not least...visit the First black ex-president in NY.
Really, this guy is tooooo deep for me.
Green Acres, we are there!
Now granted it was only for three days, but it's just as long as you spent 'living on a farm', you phony putz.
1 - It was my wifes Uncles tobacco farm in Ontario Canada, we went there prior to being married for a 'vacation' with her parents)
2 - I think it was a 'combine'? It was a big frickin thing for harvesting tobacco.
John Kerry - born in a log cabin that he built with his own hands.
Well, I grew up on a farm. REALLY! I picked cotton with my bare hands when I was 6 years old therefore I'm qualified to be president.
Any REAL farmer who hears Kerry talking about "passion" and plowing in the same sentence has GOT to be snickering.
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