[Jim Robinson]

Been farming long?

[Silly]

He's smart enough to accomplish it.

After Giuliani lost his first bid for New York City mayor, he boned up on city government, big time. He worked hard at it and by the end knew it inside and out. He stated he would work hard to earn the privilege to me mayor, and he did.

[BigSkyFreeper]

"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.

Sounds like he "knows" enough to be honest about how much he knows about farming and it's importance than most people give him credit for.

[EternalVigilance]

There once was a Yankee named Rooty
Couldn't tell a pig's snout from patootie
But he's wantin' your vote
So he'll check out your goat
Like a new staffer who had a nice bootie

[leadpenny]

We don't hire a farmer, we hire a president.

Although, Carter did know peanuts.

[panaxanax]

Rudy to his staff: "Youz guys go find out as much as you can about animals and shrubs and like that uh, uh...vegetation stuff and report back to me quick"

Julie-Annie.....what a boob.

[Dallas59]

Like Gore becoming a "climatologist"?

[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."

[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.

[sergeantdave]

Does Rudy know how to shovel BS?

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

[toddlintown]

Rudy...The Urban Farmer. WHY NOT? He's already an expert on multiple marriages.

[srmorton]

IM0, Rudy's answer was exactly correct. I'd rather have a candidate admit that he needs to learn more about a topic than pretend to be an expert like Obama is trying to do. I am a community college instructor and from time to time a student will ask a question to which I do not know the answer. It is always better to say that you don't know but that you will find out for them instead of trying to "fake it".

[srmorton]

IM0, Rudy's answer was exactly correct. I'd rather have a candidate admit that he needs to learn more about a topic than pretend to be an expert like Obama is trying to do. I am a community college instructor and from time to time a student will ask a question to which I do not know the answer. It is always better to say that you don't know but that you will find out for them instead of trying to "fake it".

[JB in Whitefish]

You'd think a guy who's gotten this far in politics would be sufficiently skilled in the art of spreading manure ALREADY...!!!!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I lived right on the other side of the mountains from Fresno, near the Salinas Valley... most of the "big ag" people there give tons of campaign cash to leftists. They hire contractors to plant and harvest, contractors who use lots of illegals. (This gives the "big ag" producers plausible deniability on hiring illegals.)

The "big ag" folks lobby local and state government to provide tax payer subsidized housing (some even push for rent control) for their low paid, uninsured farm workers who are also bankrupting county hospitals and flooding emergency rooms in others. They also get worker's compensation and disability, food stamps, etc., etc., ad nausea... The tourism industry is also no different...

Anyone who claims they are "fiscal conservatives" because they have cattle futures on Wall Street need to have the point of this sword put to them. New York city is no different with the welfare goodies doled out... hell, they still have rent control!

[mmanager]

Rudy told the farmers that he did realize that his position on guns might be a problem. "I realize the deer are going to be ravaging your crops". One farmer said "without guns how do we regulate the herd?" Rudy stated that if elected he will supply all farmers/ranchers with "Hillary Licks". Unlike salt licks (which is irresistible to deer) Hillary Licks will sterilize the deer population. Problem solved. /s - maybe a little bit.

[Ben Ficklin]

Based on what happened to Reagan's attempt to reform ag subsidies with his Payment in Kind program, it is generally accepted that any prez should stay out of Congress' way on this issue.