You know....there was a time that, though I disagreed with him, I was able to take Senator Kerry seriously.
The Democrat Party is a menace to rational thought.
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."
What a small man Kerry is.
You know....there was a time that, though I disagreed with him, I was able to take Senator Kerry seriously.
The Democrat Party is a menace to rational thought.
he can't be that tall - they don't pile it that high!
far as I am concerned they couldve let that tall buzzard looking goof stand right beside President Bush... being a tall humped over loser, doesnt make you the "bigger" man..
This sounds so much like Hillary's rooting for the Yankees as a kid (which was a well kept secret to everyone before then).
You mean he's five inches taller and he still short-hopped the ceremonial first pitch -- throwing from the grass in front of the mound where a little girl might stand to throw the pitch -- at the Red Sox game???!! Bush threw his ceremonial pitches from the mound (where the real men throw) and nailed beautiful curves for strikes.
French Town Quietly Cheers On a Son: Kerry ***ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France — Imagine the scene here a year from now if this genteel village enters U.S. history.
On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir.
Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde — a former candidate for the French presidency — Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis.
Speaking fluent French, Kerry greets crowds filling narrow lanes and a town plaza festooned with flags of both nations. Kerry announces that he has chosen this community of 2,000, a cherished refuge of his globe-trotting family since 1923, to symbolize the rapprochement of the United States and France — indeed, Europe — after years of transatlantic tension.
With less than three months to go before the election, relatives and friends of the family who remember Kerry from periodic youthful visits are rooting for him.
..........The Forbes estate became a local institution. James Forbes and his wife, Margaret Winthrop — a descendant of the first governor of Massachusetts — employed people from St. Briac to keep the vast grounds, tend the stables and cars, and help a family that grew to 11 children.
"I remember Madame Forbes: I would see her walking her dogs, two boxers, all the time," said Rene Desriac, 74, who owned a grocery and a clothing store in the cozy downtown for decades. "She was tall, imposing, elegant. John Kerry looks a lot like her side of the family."....***
maybe with 50 inch podiums, Kerry will have to hunch over to get to the microphone, looking more like Lurch to the viewing public
He probably thought he was talking to an Indian group (another campaign worker's error) and that calling himself "a tall horse" would really work with the Indians from the Lambert plains.
Bush has all these secret plans. I thought this campaign had sunk as low as it could go but it just keeps going down further. The Democrats are parnoid and pathetic. If this is the advice he is getting from Carville and Begala I would fire them immediately.
How many "Bush secret plans" has Kerry told us about now?
There's a "Bush secret plan" to supress black votes,
there's a "Bush secret plan" to hurt dairy farms,
there's a "Bush secret plan" to invade other Arab nations,
there's a "Bush secret plan" to ...
It takes alot of milk to make up that much CHEESE!.......
The Botox got to his brain. WTF... What Seceret Plan? If it's secret, then how does he know what it is? The only secret we know of is his Form 180 not being signed and submitted.
This could be bad.
I've seen on TV how cows are leaving the frozen wastes of Dairyland, slugging south thru the blizzard, and migrating to sunny California where the cheese they yield becomes much happier.
There's a Bush Secret Plan to wipe out J-Fink's campain in November.....
Where did you hide it?
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?
And this is the best he's got? Scaring old folks and dairy farmers, but no solid plans for running the country. Shame!
Tell me, John...if it's secret, how do you know about it???
The Botox got to his brain. WTF... What Seceret Plan? If it's secret, then how does he know what it is? CORRECTION>>>---> The only secret we know of is his <*KERRY's*>Form 180 not being signed and submitted.
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