Tall Horse
Posted on 09/27/2004 11:17:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
SPRING GREEN, Wis. -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told voters in America's Dairyland today that President Bush had a secret plan that would hurt milk producers after the election.
Kerry tried to convince voters in this rural community, where he is practicing for Thursday's debate, that he would look out for dairy farms here even though he hadn't always in the past.
In the 1990s, Kerry supported the Northeast Dairy Compact, a regional pricing program that propped up prices for Northeastern dairy farmers over objections of their Midwestern counterparts.
"We've had a difference between the Midwest and the Northeast," Kerry said. "I'm going to be very upfront with you about it.
"As a senator representing Massachusetts, I fought for the dairy compact and fought to have our dairy farmers get help," he said. "I'm running for president of the United States now and I intend to represent all the farmers of America."
Kerry said Bush is opposing an effort to extend the Milk Income Loss Contract that helps dairy farmers when milk prices drop and is set to expire in October 2005. He said the Bush administration would wait until after the election to act so voters in swing dairy states wouldn't turn against him.
Kerry said if he is elected president, he will make sure the program is extended.
Kerry said he would fill milk bottles at his uncle's dairy farm as a young boy.
"I have a great sense of the land," Kerry said. "I really do. I'm tired of small family farmers getting squeezed."
The town hall meeting at Spring Green Junior High School is Kerry's only scheduled public event during four days of debate preparations at the House on the Rock Resort. The resort gives Kerry plenty of seclusion to get ready for his first face-off with Bush and also a chance to boost his profile in a state where Bush holds a slight advantage in recent polls and that Democrat Al Gore won by just 6,000 votes in 2000.
Since then, Kerry said, Bush has created only 200 jobs in a state that has lost 67,000 manufacturing jobs on his watch.
"Are you telling me seriously that people in Wisconsin are going to return to the presidency a man who promised jobs and lost them?" Kerry asked. "I think the good commonsense, fiscally responsible, conservative citizens of Wisconsin know that it's our responsibility to pay our bills and not dump them on our kids and on future generations."
Kerry told the town hall that voters shouldn't be wary of changing horses midstream when the horse is drowning. Kerry also poked fun at reports that the Bush campaign insisted that the debate podiums be set relatively far apart so Kerry's five-inch height advantage won't be so apparent.
"May I also suggest that we need a taller horse?" he said. "You can get through deeper waters that way."
Just because you have a horse face does not mean you are a horse, John.
There have to be a lot of Freepers out there in Wisconsin - please do whatever you can to defuse this bold faced lie in your state -
John Kerry's name in Indian = Two Horses F&^%ing
So .... how many "Secret Plans" does this make? I know Bush has a secret plan to reinstitute the draft, and there's this secret plan (Maybe it's the same secret plan, and Bush is planning on drafting cows?)
Honest injun, CW, this guy is just plain unhinged.
Oh pleeeeeease let the debates include at least one JF'nK accusation that Bush has a secret plan.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
"CIA mans hat he got in Cambodia one Christmas"
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
I cant BELIEVE no one is making him explain this ... its hysterical and a good one to dog him on!!
I have never seen one other word on the SPCA article I read about the same time all this was being said.. that Kerry said he had a dog on his boat, and they hit a mine, the dog flipped overboard they thought, but then lo and behold it had landed on ANOTHER BOAT and they brought it back to them days later.. it was a COMPLETE LIE and not one person has dinged him on that HAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHA
Boy...I'm going be doing some serious dancin' when this jackass gives his concession speech on Nov. 2!
KERRY: "May I also suggest that we need a taller horse?" he said. "You can get through deeper waters that way."
Kerry never ceases to amaze me with his blah blah lame talk.
LOL! Haagen Dazs Rum Raisin ice cream coming outta my nose! Yew that's cold!
And these farmers and families have had low interest rates and tax breaks and that has helped a lot!
Considering that PETA is decidedly in Kerry's camp, I find this claim to be more than a bit incredible. If anything, Kerry's election would harm the dairy and livestock trade more than anything else.
Kerry a tall horse? That explains the long face!
Maybe they're stepping him down from his medication so he won't lick his lips constantly during the debates. (Only half joking)
Do people in Wisconsin believe Kerry's accusations and promises? I know that I'm cynical about anything Kerry says, but I wonder if others believe him?
NO...Wisconsin people do not believe Kerrys accusations...he lost them at Lambert Field....they are just laughing at him right now.....
Walking Eagle. So full of crap he can't get off the ground.
Secret plan, huh? Just another copout by blaming Pres. Bush. Yo Ketchupman, aren't you just a little tired of victimizing the naive about your high tax plan? I know I am.
Well, my mother always calls Kerry "horseface" so it does seem to suit him well. B-)
KERRY: "May I also suggest that we need a taller horse?"
Tell that to Goliath Kerry.
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