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 ...
Drudge has this much:
Kerry Says He Believes Life Starts at Conception: 'I oppose abortion, personally. I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception'...
The only way he made it home was because of the fact that daddy had an heiress sitting on the doorstep.
...get tail-whipped and kicked by a cow, and STILL have to get the hell back up and milk her?
I heard that as well........and had to clean both my monitor and keyboard........
The person on Fox saying it didn't believe it anymore than we do!
I wonder how many cows Kerry has done pregnancy checks on?
Seriously:
I'd like to see Flipper wearing an armpit-length plastic glove, covered in (and partly filled with) bloody cowflop.
THEN I might *begin* to believe Flipper knows a little bit about farming.
Pray for W and Our Shining City
Quote: "The person on Fox saying it didn't believe it anymore than we do!"
I thought that too!!! How dare he now say he holds conservative values. What did they just hit him on the head while he was sleeping last night!!!! I hope the media calls him on this. The more I hear him talk, the more I don't trust him. He will say anything to get elected!
I know a lady, who is an otherwise nice person, who is for the Dims. From what little I have heard her speak, her support is based completely on emotion.
I once overheard an old fart in a restaurant telling his dining companion that the GOP was the party of homosexuality.
A lady I know voted for Bubba and Howlgore solely on the basis that she thought they were "cute."
There are some hardcore socialists and America-haters among the constituency, but there are also union goons, "daddy-and-momma-were-dims," morons, and people who just cannot look at life realistically in the Dim party. And, I have run into my fair share of them who are obsessed with making more and more money. They are stingy tightwads who are generally unpleasant people.
I'm ready for the Oath of Office, now.
"I'm just wondering if that farm hand is who taught him the F-word."
Yeah, that's when he got his middle initial.
I used to bale hay in my aunt's field, can I be President now? KEwl!
I don't disagree with you: Dims, by and large, do suck.
Kerry holds conservative values as much as espouse socialistic ideals..........
maybe that's the way EmCee FlipFlop meant it, yo?
List says Kerry top Senate liberal
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040227-111241-3716r.htm
Sen. John Kerry was the "No. 1 Senate liberal in 2003," according to new rankings by the National Journal.
The publication rated all 100 senators' votes on 32 economic issues, 15 social policy issues and 15 foreign policy issues, and found the Massachusetts senator and presidential hopeful more liberal than any of his colleagues.
The magazine noted that Mr. Kerry had the most liberal record three other times in his 20 years in Congress: in 1986, 1988 and 1990.
By contrast in 2003, fellow Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was the 11th most liberal senator, according to the rankings by the weekly, which covers Washington government and Congress.
I know. I just had to throw that in! ;-)
When I was a kid my family used to visit the Texas coast every year, and I used to get in the surf. If Kerry is a farmer I must be a fish.
the ones that really get to me are those who are otherwise decent, worthy people who have been so deeply conditioned by the Leftist Machine that when any of their Talking Point Sacred Cows is mentioned: their brains shut down, their personalities change, their capacity to learn ends.
It is as if they have drank so much of the kool-aid that there is now a "turn off the person" switch mounted in their brains, hearts, and souls.
these ones get to me.
The make me weep in helpless pity.
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