Bill Clinton: A friend of the American farmer
The people of the Midwest are up in arms.
Literally.
They are tired of seeing their way of life ruined by modernization and NAFTA.
They are taking their fight to the streets.
"Six degrees of separation," said farmer Ed Brown of Salisbury, Ind. "Shit, man only one degree of separation from a small-time hog farmer like me and the man in the White House."
President Clinton was unavailable for comment. He was vacationing in Big Sur, Calif., with his daughter Chelsea and a few of her Stanford classmates.
Rain on the scarecrow.
Blood on the plow.
You get the picture.
Hokie Carmichael doesn't go to VPI. He goes to Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. But he's not a musician. He's a down-home, Ernie Pyle-imitating cub reporter. He likes barbecue, biscuits, cornbread, ribs, peach cobbler, grits, hush puppies and iced tea, not necessarily in that order.
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