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Kerry drops support for dairy compact (Kerry's childhood: "lived on a farm" "explained")
Boston Globe ^ | July 4, 2004 | Glen Johnson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: childhood; kerry; ketchup; moo
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To: 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!


21 posted on 07/04/2004 5:39:12 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Morgan's Raider

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."


22 posted on 07/04/2004 5:39:28 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: EllaMinnow

How can anyone be inspired by this drivel? It sounds like the crap found in romance novels.


23 posted on 07/04/2004 5:39:35 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: FairOpinion

"... and he attended boarding school in Switzerland ..."

Was it Swiss?

Yeah... the Swissest


24 posted on 07/04/2004 5:40:58 PM PDT by Mr. K (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,this is like liberal logic,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø))
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To: FairOpinion
"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..."

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?

25 posted on 07/04/2004 5:41:29 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: FairOpinion

"''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."

26 posted on 07/04/2004 5:41:47 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: Paul Atreides
How can anyone be inspired by this drivel? It sounds like the crap found in romance novels

He is speaking to Democrats, ya know.

27 posted on 07/04/2004 5:42:22 PM PDT by Mark (Treason doth never prosper, for if it prosper, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
does anyone know if he was in Vietnam?

He was. He has the Band-Aid, and the burned villages, to prove it.

28 posted on 07/04/2004 5:43:02 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: Mr Rogers

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.


29 posted on 07/04/2004 5:43:11 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: TN4Liberty

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.


30 posted on 07/04/2004 5:43:55 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Paul Atreides

Bingo! You are exactly right! Purple prose interspersed with pedestrian language....cheap romance novels.


31 posted on 07/04/2004 5:45:09 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: FairOpinion

Oh, Maaann!! Next, we'll hear that he helped build the run-down shack he was born in.


32 posted on 07/04/2004 5:45:20 PM PDT by Maria S ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, 6/28/04)
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To: plain talk
Why check for accuracy? We live in the age of Michael Moore and his Palme'd Whore. Accuracy is what you make of it, provided that you hate the right people.
33 posted on 07/04/2004 5:46:04 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: Paul Atreides

"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.



34 posted on 07/04/2004 5:47:07 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux ("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
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To: FairOpinion

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.


35 posted on 07/04/2004 5:47:07 PM PDT by King Prout (Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
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To: FairOpinion; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; devolve; Happy2BMe



36 posted on 07/04/2004 5:47:26 PM PDT by Smartass ( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió.)
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To: plain talk
Aide: Watch out of the cow pie, Senator.

Kerry; Cows bake pies?

37 posted on 07/04/2004 5:47:57 PM PDT by Don Munn
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To: Flash Bazbeaux
You know how desperate he must be if he will:

(a) Even deign to acknowledge the NASCAR rabble;

(b) Be photographed holding a shotgun.

38 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:08 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: FairOpinion

Kerry spent almost as much time on the farm, making him an expert on all things farm related, as he did in Viet Nam.


39 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:40 PM PDT by TomGuy (After 30 years in the Senate, all Kerry has to run on is 4 months of service in Viet Nam.)
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To: King Prout

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.


40 posted on 07/04/2004 5:50:51 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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