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Kerry says Bush would hurt milk producers - Calls himself "tall horse"
Houston Chronicle ^ | September 27, 2004 | AP

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."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: dairy; debate; election; kerry; milk; wisconsin
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To: Rutles4Ever

This isn't too, important, but it did remind me of a short verse. that seems to fit Kerry:

"It might do you well to remember that two of the horses shoes hold up a horse's ass. Ironically enough, that same rule applies to some men."


81 posted on 09/27/2004 11:44:07 AM PDT by Seniram US (Quote of the Day: Smile You're An American)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Kerry said he would fill milk bottles at his uncle's dairy farm as a young boy.

Just like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie!

82 posted on 09/27/2004 11:44:13 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Did Kerry tell them how much he likes cheese--French Cheese?


83 posted on 09/27/2004 11:44:24 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Chummy
It seems Kerry inhaled a few too many * ahem * youthful indiscretions. His paranoia is astounding.

Clinton never inhaled but Kerry never exhaled.

84 posted on 09/27/2004 11:44:42 AM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: All

Im surprised someone didnt holler
"Hey Kerry that is "udder" nonsense!!


85 posted on 09/27/2004 11:44:57 AM PDT by ArmyBratCutie ("Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:soap, ballot, jury, ammo in this order!")
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To: gitmo
Just as long as he doesn't give out the secret family recipe!

Roll that beautiful bean footage!

86 posted on 09/27/2004 11:45:13 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Separation of CHURCH & State, not GOD & State, Demwit! JFKerry: AWOL since April 1969)
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To: bootless

Exactly!


87 posted on 09/27/2004 11:46:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

"President Bush had a secret plan that would hurt milk producers after the election."

President Bush has a secret plan for this. President Bush has a secret plan for that.

Conspiracies abound.

This bozo has to be the most deranged, paranoid boob on the planet.


88 posted on 09/27/2004 11:47:57 AM PDT by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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To: Prime Choice

He's obviously forgotten that farmers know manure when they smell (hear)it..


89 posted on 09/27/2004 11:48:16 AM PDT by pnz1
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Kerry says Bush would hurt milk producers - Calls himself "tall horse" LOL! Thanks CR, this got me fired up this morning. :^)

He has nothing left. Now relying on the symbolism of physical stature and an associated weak metaphor to garner votes. He's not a "tall horse" he's a:

"big doofus"
"major anus"
"massive fraud"
"grandiose poser"
"colossal traitor"
"minor gigolo"

Let's see him create some metaphors for those.


90 posted on 09/27/2004 11:48:37 AM PDT by LiberalBassTurds ('Beheading' - Target marketing technique for sociopath recruitment.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Kerry said he would fill milk bottles at his uncle's dairy farm as a young boy.

Would this have been in France?

91 posted on 09/27/2004 11:49:10 AM PDT by RJL
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To: gitmo

.... a secret plan to draft all MTV viewers into the Army.


92 posted on 09/27/2004 11:49:12 AM PDT by AB AB AB (Dan Rather: "I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.")
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To: LiberalBassTurds
He has nothing left.

AND we're going to see him sweat Thursday night because they won't turn the thermostat lower than 70 as he had requested.

93 posted on 09/27/2004 11:50:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: RJL

Kerry said he would fill milk bottles at his uncle's dairy farm as a young boy.

Would this have been in France?

Yes. See post #7.


94 posted on 09/27/2004 11:51:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Kerry told the town hall that voters shouldn't be wary of changing horses midstream

Since one horse's ass per horse-rider combo is enough, I'll stick with GWB & the horse he rode in on: One tall-in-the-saddle, straight-shootin' rider; one horse, with one tail, covering one....

95 posted on 09/27/2004 11:52:24 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
FACT CHECK--FACT CHECK--FACT CHECK
NOW I MAY NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TYPEWRITERS OR WORD PROCESSER FONTS, BUT I DO KNOW DAIRY FARMS. Farmers do not fill milk bottles at the farm !Grade A milk is, and was pipelined into stainless steel tanks and trucked to the nearby dairy co-op or other milk plants where it's processed under sterile conditions! There is a possibility that his "uncle" had a grade C dairy, where the old timers placed the milk into milk cans and trucked to the co-op where is was made into cheese. But farmers just don't bottle their own milk--never! Does he expect us to believe that he held the bottle under the cow and filled it? Good grief!!
96 posted on 09/27/2004 11:52:56 AM PDT by hexpoppy
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To: All

"May I also suggest that we need a taller horse?" he said. "You can get through deeper waters that way."

Your cohort Hanoi Jane could help you come up with a better line than that.


97 posted on 09/27/2004 11:53:54 AM PDT by Gucho
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To: hexpoppy

Check Post #7

This must have been when he was visiting the Forbes' French estate.


98 posted on 09/27/2004 11:56:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Impeach the Boy; Boss_Jim_Gettys

Oh yeah. That was the big one!


99 posted on 09/27/2004 11:56:54 AM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I just posted on another thread that yesterday on his Sunday show Chris Matthews was surprised the Bush team didn't want a riser. Immediately I figured that the Kerry team would mock such a thing and here we go, the classless jerk has to bring it up anyway.

What a small man he really is.


100 posted on 09/27/2004 11:59:14 AM PDT by cyncooper (Have I mentioned lately that I despise the media?)
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