Posted on 05/07/2007 1:30:44 PM PDT by keepitreal
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When I was growing up, the neighborhoods I lived in were surrounded by farm fields, and every harvest season we had a lot of the migrants who come up from Mexico, through Texas, following the harvest, all the way up through Illinois and Michigan, Mrs. Rodham Clinton has told the spellbound.
Of course millions of people across the country have no idea where Park Ridge is located. They dont realize it is, was and forever will be an appendage of OHare International Airport, attached to Chicago like your nose is to your face.
Mrs. Rodham Clinton has been telling the Big Woods of Park Ridge story since 1996 when she told an audience: Those of you who did not grow up around Chicago in the 1950s and can only imagine flying into OHare where everything looks developed, might find it hard to believe how many farm workers we would have.
Maybe she mistakenly figured that the American Farm Bureau, headquartered in Park Ridge for decades, was actually a day labor purveyor of hired hands. Or that the State Farm insurance agency office in town was really a government welfare office for migrant workers.
Regardless, if tonights Chicago speech holds true to form, Mrs. Rodham Clinton will describe how she used to help migrant farm families in Park Ridge. The children would go to school with us, she has said many times, and every Saturday morning my church group, wed go out and baby-sit the younger children, so that the older children could join their families in the fields.
She is correct that in Cook County in the 30s and 40s farmers purchased most of the available land in the county and began raising crops and livestock. There is just one problem. It was the 1830s and 40s...
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I don’t think that word means what you think it does.
plus..she was herding the family goats!!!...If your gonna lie..tell a big one!..
He would have called it a LIE, but he wanted to stay alive.
What u said!!!!!...but I’m just a bar-room country-junkie-farmer-father-guitar-picking-son -of-a-gun!...But what the hell do I know?...(key of *G*...and we can fake it from there!)
I guess that's why the balls are black & white...........
My dear friend,
In a country where 49.99% of the people allegedly voted for John Kerry, and Al Gore, "reality," is not a valid concept. A good candidate creates her own "reality."
It is a tribute to our system that Hillary, the child of a black, Jewish sharecropper family from Oak Park IL, could climb Mt. Everest with her namesake, attend Wellesley, marry the Governor of Arkansas, become First Lady, then a Senatrix, and now become a contender for President of The US!
Oy vey! Pass the chitlins and turn up Oprah.
BTW, I have not heard Hillary speaking Spanish, I would have thought that during those harsh years in the fields and vineyards, organizing with Cesar Chavez, she would have picked up at least a smattering of America's other language. ¿Ilaria, mi amor, que pasó?
So where was it, Mrs. Clinton, that you saw Elvis last week?
BTW, I have not heard Hillary speaking Spanish, I would have thought that during those harsh years in the fields and vineyards, organizing with Cesar Chavez, she would have picked up at least a smattering of America’s other language. ¿Ilaria, mi amor, que pasó?
She is the first bilingual candidate - only she speaks southern.
“up from Mexico, through Texas, following the harvest, all the way up through Illinois and Michigan,”
Someone told me that the harvest generally moves from North to south as the weather cools. True, farmers?
As you doubtless recall, the first time this is tried at home can be quite dangerous to the inexperienced.
Is there any Federal Funding available for this vital service?
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