Giuliani tells farmers he will be ag expert by end of campaign

High Plains Midwesr Ag Journal ^ | Fen 24, 2007

[Jim Robinson]

TULARE, Calif. (AP)--It didn't take a soil scientist to detect that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on unfamiliar turf Feb. 13 at the 40th World Ag Expo.

Dressed in a black suit, sweater vest and penny loafers, Giuliani joked about his lack of agricultural know-how at the farm equipment show where even the crowned and glittery Dairy Princess wore jeans and boots. But he vowed to be well-versed on the subject by the end of his campaign for president.

"This is not an area where I claim to be an expert, but I do understand how agriculture is critical to our nation," said Giuliani.

The farm show is an annual event in the San Joaquin Valley. Inventors, salesmen and farmers from around the globe flock to the fair to peddle mammoth harvesting machines, crop insurance and other products to an estimated 100,000 visitors.

So it was a natural stop for Giuliani as he makes his way across the country reaching out to a cross-section of voters.

~snip~

Though clearly out of his urban element, Giuliani sought to reassure growers he had their interests in mind.

"The American farmer is the most innovative in the world," he said. "You feed us. You take care of us. Each of us kind of helps the other."

[Jim Robinson]

Work hard and study in school. Otherwise you might end up in Vietnam, er, Iraq.

[Lurker]

Personally I'd rather he become an expert on the US Constitution.

He seems to sorely lack any real knowledge of that document and it's far more important for a President to understand that than how to grow corn.

L

[Jim Robinson]

He's a government lawyer. Government lawyers know the constitution inside and out. Why, they even know more about it than the men who wrote it. They can twist it, turn it, make poetry and mince meat out of it. Even read between the lines and see what mere mortals can't see. They are government's high priests.

[knarf]

[Lurker]

They can twist it, turn it, make poetry and mince meat out of it.

Just don't be standing next to them when their penumbras begin to eminate.

L

[Quix]

Just don't be standing next to them when their penumbras begin to eminate.
= = =

LOL.

Never saw it put THAT way before!

. . . though . . . I could easily applaud all California's critters . . . penumbras eminating all over

HARXIST GRITCH Shrillery.

[knarf]

[Dallas59]

Like Gore becoming a "climatologist"?

[Lurker]

I could easily applaud all California's critters . . . penumbras eminating all over...

I've heard that it's a significant source of greenhouse gasses, too. Does this mean we can blame global climate change (or whatever they're calling it now) on the Founding Fathers as well?

L

[azhenfud]

"Green Acres is the place to be
Hard living is the life for me
Land spreading out so far and wide
Voting Rudy is GOP suicide."

[azhenfud]

Rudy, "Well yeah, I've done growed a bumper crop of cow exhaust and don't got the first cow and I'm spreadin' it better'n a John Deere doo-doo flinger."

[Uriah_lost]

The thing that most Rudy fans overlook is the visceral and even unconscious distaste that most of "flyover country" has for New York and New Yorkers. I remember, after 9/11, wondering how long it would take for everybody to go back to the old ways and stop feeling sorry for NYC.
I think that, perhaps unintentionally, the terrorists picked the perfect target with the WTC. It was huge and impossible to ignore, highly symbolic to most non-Americans but to most of us in the rest of the country it only feels marginally like part of us.
I'm a bit embarrassed to have written this as it may offend some but I don't think that most outside of NYC would find the ideas too outrageous. We just don't want to say it out loud because it feels kind of "icky" to admit to such feelings, even if well buried.

[mkjessup]

Well, Rudy's already an expert on shoveling fertilizer around, why not? LOL

[elli1]

Giuliani tells farmers he will be ag expert by end of campaign

No such claim anywhere in the body of the article. Maybe, by the end of the campaign, the headline writer will have boned up on Ethics.

[Jhensy]

Oh yeah, those farmers will be jumping right to those agricultural experts Hillary and Obama, for sure.

Next.

[mkjessup]

The thing that most Rudy fans overlook is the visceral and even unconscious distaste that most of "flyover country" has for New York and New Yorkers. I remember, after 9/11, wondering how long it would take for everybody to go back to the old ways and stop feeling sorry for NYC. I think that, perhaps unintentionally, the terrorists picked the perfect target with the WTC. It was huge and impossible to ignore, highly symbolic to most non-Americans but to most of us in the rest of the country it only feels marginally like part of us. I'm a bit embarrassed to have written this as it may offend some but I don't think that most outside of NYC would find the ideas too outrageous. We just don't want to say it out loud because it feels kind of "icky" to admit to such feelings, even if well buried.

I commend you for your honesty.

Having said that, the attacks of 9/11 were an attack on every American no matter where we live, 3000+ of our fellow citizens were murdered by Islamofascists for no reason except that they were 'there', designated victims of an insane ideology with even more insane 'leaders'. Our objective should be to kill each and every last one of them, if it takes us the next 100 years to do so. Until the scourge of extreme Islam is wiped from the face of the Earth, there will be NO peace for humanity.

But even I must confess, that in the wake of 9/11, it seems like New York has been the big maw in devouring any and every penny of federal funding that can be found in the United States Treasury, I truly believe that if President Bush had just given the keys to the federal printing presses to New York, that the shrieking would have only increased with a chorus of 'WHY don't they print FASTER?!?!??!?!?'

Memo to New York State:

There ARE 49 other States in this Union, ok?

[azhenfud]

"But he vowed to be well-versed on the subject by the end of his campaign for president."

Third full sentence from the top, begins with a "B".

[sergeantdave]

Does Rudy know how to shovel BS?

If a farmer runs over a jumping kangaroo rat, whose side would he take?

[gitmo]

He's smart enough to accomplish it.

Absolutely. By the end of the primaries, he'll be out there milkin the chickens and slappin the hogs with the best of them.