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."
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."
Just like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie!
Did Kerry tell them how much he likes cheese--French Cheese?
Clinton never inhaled but Kerry never exhaled.
Im surprised someone didnt holler
"Hey Kerry that is "udder" nonsense!!
Roll that beautiful bean footage!
Exactly!
"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.
He's obviously forgotten that farmers know manure when they smell (hear)it..
Would this have been in France?
.... a secret plan to draft all MTV viewers into the Army.
AND we're going to see him sweat Thursday night because they won't turn the thermostat lower than 70 as he had requested.
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.
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....
"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.
Check Post #7
This must have been when he was visiting the Forbes' French estate.
Oh yeah. That was the big one!
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.
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