Posted on 07/04/2004 5:22:42 PM PDT by FairOpinion
As much as I dislike Kerry, I also feel sorry for how he was raised.
Frankly, his parents were a couple of real @sses to treat a child like that - it qualifies as child abuse in my book.
And I suspect any kid so raised has probably become a man unfit to hold any leadership position. But his childhood must have sucked big time!
Kerry lived in Washington DC, from age 7 to age 11, when his parents took him with them to Europe, where he spent two years from age 11 to 13 in Swiss boarding schools and vacations with his parents in W. Berlin.
And Kerry says:
"''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."
How can anyone be inspired by this drivel? It sounds like the crap found in romance novels.
"... and he attended boarding school in Switzerland ..."
Was it Swiss?
Yeah... the Swissest
John Kerry is insulting these people. Does he really think they're so stupid as to buy this load of crap??? What an obnoxious jerk.
BTW, does anyone know if he was in Vietnam?
"''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."
He is speaking to Democrats, ya know.
He was. He has the Band-Aid, and the burned villages, to prove it.
He had one of those "poor rich kid" childhoods, and became a warped adult.
Now he is trying to "reinvent" himself with those ludicrous stories.
And where is our great investigative media, why aren't they digging up and printing the truth? It hardly took me any time at all. They surely could do a lot better, instead of letting all his lies pass.
Can you imagine, if Bush said anything, that was even a slight stretch, the media would be all over it.
Yes, I remember it and that style of white lie came back to haunt Gore and he was ridiculed by some at least. Same will happen to Kerry if the press goes to the trouble of checking any of these items and then asking his campaign or Kerry himself about them.
Bingo! You are exactly right! Purple prose interspersed with pedestrian language....cheap romance novels.
Oh, Maaann!! Next, we'll hear that he helped build the run-down shack he was born in.
"Chances are good that, if you have to dress up in jeans and hiking boots, talk about how you lived on a farm, and talk about cussing, in order to be seen as the "common man," you aren't a "common man.""
Absolutely. And notice how the tractor was conveniently a John Deere, which even West Side Manhattanites know means "farm equipment". I have ridden on two tractors in my life, one in Massachusetts when I was a kid and we used to get two or three of us on it at one time, riding through my friend's cornfield [which we did all the time, despite their parents warning that the insurance did not cover it] the second time a few years ago, up in Oregon. Both of the tractors were Fords - a '56 and a '41.
Kerry is so out of it, that he is incapable of cluing into the transparent phoniness of his stories. In other words, he can't even fake it. He is not reaching out to the common man at all, but instead is reaching out to some yuppie notion of what a common man is.
ARRRRGH!
it's like, every time Kerry flaps his yap, a new parallel universe (with a very brief half-life) spings into being.
it makes my head hurt.
Kerry; Cows bake pies?
(a) Even deign to acknowledge the NASCAR rabble;
(b) Be photographed holding a shotgun.
Kerry spent almost as much time on the farm, making him an expert on all things farm related, as he did in Viet Nam.
I'll never forget Bubba, opening his second-choice Harlem office (which he rarely visits), and standing at the podium, before a live news crew, making up on the spot how he walked the streets of Harlem upon returning from Oxford University.
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