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."
I have 4 kids, do I fall into a "family Farmer"?
Deep poo-poo.
LOL
There are a lot of fishermen in Wisconsin - they better put on their waders.
Secret plans are the "Goodwin's Law" of politics. It's over.
Doesn't W also have a secret plan for social security, and several other things, according to John F(*cking) Kerry?
And IIRC, Kerry has a whole bunch of secret plans, for Iraq, the economy etc, which he won't elaborate until after he's elected?
Delusion, dementia and paranoia are a few of the first signs of (((:::Botox Poisoning:::)))
Yikes, Rush is talking about this same thing as I'm finishing typing.
But voters should be very wary of changing to a HORSE'S ASS at any time.
Do taller horses swim better than shorter ones?
Don't forget that Kerry said Bush had a "secret plan" with Saudi Arabia to keep oil prices LOW...of course, oil prices went UP.
"I have a great sense of the land," Kerry said. "I really do."
This guy keeps trying to show that he is a "man of the people" with lame Al Gore like stories of how "when I was young, I regularly mingled with the lesser classes and did peasant work"
Except that he takes statements which may sound OK when someone else says them about you, but he says them about himself and they ring as flat as a Texas Armadillo on a Dallas freeway during rushhour.
I remember when I was a kid, you used to see Catholic priests engage briefly in sports activities or similar things at public functions, but you knew that they were not expected to be good at it, they were just supposed to get into the spirit of the thing, and when they sort of screwed it up, nobody felt that they were faking, or demeaning themselves, and you wanted to give them an A for effort.
Then again, once in a while the father would hit one out of the park. Still, no one was fooled into thinking that the holy man was a jock, or farmer, in disguise.
Kerry wants people to BELIEVE that he actually did all these things, just like an ordinary Joe.
It's all so phony, and his lack of understanding of how phony it looks says volumes about his judgment, and his grip on reality.
Kerry's a show horse and Bush is a work horse.
there's a "Bush secret plan" to ... get the Saudis to lower gasoline prices in the weeks leading up to the election.
And so Team Kerry has now intentionally reminded them of that feat, huh? Bright guys, these Kerryoids.
Not exactly national-headlines stuff, but a promising move away from further socialist tendencies.
I pay nearly $2.00 for a half-gallon of skim milk.
Not so long ago, I paid about $1.40 for a half-gallon of skim milk.
When I hear John Kerry say how he fought for the Dairy Compact, what I really hear is him telling me that he helped to raise the price I pay for milk.
I wonder how some of his core-voters (like poor people in inner cities) would react if they knew that Kerry fights to keep the retail price of milk high.
"and there was nothing better than a fresh and frosty milkshake after a long day of milking those bulls..."
He calls himself "A tall Horse", I call him a horse's a**
Check Post #7.
Kerry used visit his uncle in France and I suppose get in the way of the town people hired to work the Forbes' farm/estate.
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