"Hey mama, I'm gonna get me a huntin' license!" "Ooooh! I love it when you talk like a commoner, John!
Let's go home and copulate, shall we?!"
Posted on 10/17/2004 5:11:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
XENIA, Ohio — Sen. John hunted for votes yesterday in the nook and crannies of the Buckeye State, telling crowds in farm country and jobstrapped southern Ohio that President Bush is deceiving them about the economy and the Iraq war.
Joking that he will be in Ohio so often before Nov. 2 that "I’m about to have my mail forwarded here," Kerry beseeched voters to believe their eyes, and not Bush, when assessing whether they are better off now than four years ago.
"George Bush has a very simple strategy when it comes to reality: Ignore it, deny it and then try to hide it," Kerry told a rowdy crowd of 2,700 in the Xenia High School gymnasium.
As the campaign rushed toward Election Day with an ever more negative tone, Kerry opened a new front in his attack, blaming the Bush administration for the flu-vaccine shortage, saying it ignored three warnings of an impending flu crisis from government agencies and health experts dating to 2001.
"Because of their failure to act, we’ve got a shortage of 48 million flu vaccines in America," Kerry charged.
Bush campaign spokesman Kevin Madden called Kerry’s charge "incredibly hypocritical" and said Kerry voted against a bill last year that would have encouraged more vaccine production.
Speaking last night to 8,000 people on 89-year-old Maggie West’s farm enveloped by autumn-colored hills near Wakefield in Pike County, Kerry renewed his criticism of Bush’s handling of the Iraq war, pledging: "I’ll make America safe, and I’ll get those troops home from Iraq with honor and success."
Kerry, clad in the barn jacket he wore last winter in Iowa en route to winning the caucuses, sought to connect with socially conservative Ohioans on a bus tour through areas Bush carried in 2000, making several "impromptu" stops thick with symbolism.
At the Garringer Family Pumpkin Patch 20 miles east of Xenia, Kerry bought pumpkins and gourds from Larry Garringer, a supportive Democrat, and his wife, Mick, an undecided Republican, to show he intends to battle for swing voters.
To illustrate his faith to voters guided by religion, the senator went to Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Chillicothe and took communion, a rite at least one bishop has said he would deny to Kerry because of his support for abortion rights.
In Buchanan, a tiny Pike County village, Kerry stopped at the Village Grocery and asked owners Paul and Debra McKnight, "Can I get me a hunting license here?"
He plunked down $140 in cash for a nonresident Ohio hunting license so he can go duck hunting in the Mahoning Valley when he returns to the state Thursday. At the Wakefield rally, Kerry was given a 12-gauge shotgun and told the crowd he would "balance the rights and responsibilities" of gun owners.
The four-county route and events were calculated to tamp down Bush’s strength in conservative areas where many voters, political observers say, are motivated by "the three Gs" — God, guns and gays.
While Democrat Al Gore rolled up a comfortable margin in Ohio’s big six urban counties in 2000, Bush swamped him almost everywhere else, winning 72 of the 88 counties and capturing 55 percent of the vote in Ohio’s 82 small- to medium-size counties.
"We’re definitely going through areas where we feel we can outperform the Gore numbers of four years ago," said Mike McCurry, a senior campaign adviser, contending that "the breadth and scope of our ground operation" will make Kerry more competitive in Ohio’s GOP areas.
"We have to try to keep (Bush’s) numbers down," he said.
McCurry said Ohio’s dismal economy, including 237,400 jobs lost in the past four years, makes rural Ohio a "target of opportunity" for Kerry.
In an interview with Ohio reporters aboard his campaign bus, Kerry sought to align himself with moderate-to-conservative voters, refuting Bush’s incessant claims that he is an outof-touch liberal.
"I am not a liberal," Kerry said. "I’m a moderate, thoughtful, practical person who looks for solutions."
Madden, Bush’s campaign spokesman, referred to a 1991 St. Louis Post-Dispatch story in which Kerry said, "I am a liberal and proud of it."
In a yard across the street from Xenia High School, Kerry saw a huge sign with the message: "Vote the Bible! Take a stand for morality."
In the interview, Kerry said Bush "talks about values, but he doesn’t live values in his public policy." There is no morality in cutting 500,000 children from after-school programs and 390,000 from Medicaid health coverage "so wealthy people get a tax cut," Kerry said.
In Xenia, Kerry hammered Bush for sugar-coating Ohio’s flagging economy, holding up the Oct. 12 front page of The (Findlay) Courier which quoted Treasury Secretary John W. Snow saying claims of job losses during Bush’s tenure were "myths."
Pointing to Michael F. Adams, recently laid off after 10 years at General Motors’ Delphi plant in Vandalia, Kerry said, "Mr. President, the people who lost jobs on your watch are not myths. They are our neighbors. They are middle-class Americans."
Kerry burnished his hunting credentials during stops in Pike County, which along with eight of the 13 other counties in Appalachia-dominated southeastern Ohio, supported Bush in 2000. Bush’s win in the region was attributed, in part, to a strong effort by the National Rifle Association to portray Gore as antigun. The NRA has targeted $20 million through Election Day in Ohio and other battleground states to do the same to Kerry.
Kerry said he is determined not to let that happen: "I believe in the Second Amendment, and I’m not going to take a back seat to anybody in protecting that right."
jhallett@dispatch.com
In other words: Inner city Kerry supporters will be allowed to possess guns for murder and mayhem. Law abiding Bush supporters will be systematically disarmed and incarcerated for defending themselves from said inner city Kerry supporters.
Heck, if they can cure paralysis, don't tell me they can't cure us all of the flu! What's the big deal?
Every time I see him holding a gun, it seems awkward, unfamiliar, just "not right".
I have handled all kinds of guns for 40 years, and the body language of Kerry with a gun just doesn't look as if he is familiar with guns or with handling them.
If I can dig it out of my files, I'll post the story.
Hildebeaste Clinton needs to come clean (Ha! Like that will happen!) over her role in running vaccine makers out of business, leading us to the current shortage. I'm still waiting for a reporter to ask Kerry about that the next time he accuses Bush of causing it.
The choir boy for Ted Kennedy is hardly a moderate folks, his voting record in the senate proves that!
I want to qualify this: northern Greene County is GOP, but Xenia is not. If Kerry is out in the farmland, he might be trolling for crossovers, but my sense is he was in Xenia.
The "get me a hunting license" thing is surreal. Is he auditioning for "The Beverly Hillbillies" or what?
Well, ya' gotz to talk down to those folks out in the country, doncha' know?
Wouldn't that be a hoot if he was busted for not having a stamp?
Considering that he could have purchased the license on-line, I expect another photo-op when he trudges to the PO for his ''dat dare duck stamp''. (But yes, it would be a hoot. I posted the info so Freeper would be reminded to keep their ears up!)
He plunked down $140 in cash for a nonresident Ohio hunting license CASH ????????? Who hauls wads of cash around anymore?
Would you take a check from this guy?
***...At one point last winter, Kerry once said he could "dumb down" his language, speak more plainly, but he thought voters would sense the phoniness and punish him for it. So he has tried to connect in other ways. At two rallies in Wisconsin on Friday night, he went for empathy as he told the story of an out-of-work Ohio father who had said he had lost his pride by relying on others to buy his daughter a dress for her first homecoming dance. Voters also enthusiastically applaud his most optimistic lines, like "let America be America again" and "hope is on the way," but his public sense of humor -- about unemployed Elvises or Bush's middle initial standing for "wrong" -- often falls flat, if laughter is the measure.....***
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/10/17/kerry_takes_steps_to_unbutton_his_emotions/
Incredibly arrogant considering that the authors of the 2nd Amendment already balanced these rights and responsibilities.
Sandra Frohman of the NRA said it best at the 2004 NRA Annaul Meeting when she said that John Kerry is the only man in America who "wears blaze orange as camaflouge".
People like Kerry, i.e., insecure charlatans, can never comprehend why this is.
If he (Kerry) makes a verbal miscue one can just imagine the state of panic he and Mama T set into.
On the other hand, the two emotionally mature and mentally sound lovebirds who now occupy
our White House would just laugh about it.
Can I get me a gun license here is such an INSULT!! So he thinks they all don;t know how to speak proper Englsh....talk abou PAAAANDERING!!! Kerry is VILE.
Read his quote in Post #73.
"Hey mama, I'm gonna get me a huntin' license!" "Ooooh! I love it when you talk like a commoner, John!
Let's go home and copulate, shall we?!"
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