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The Dean campaign is driving a story today about a supposed gaffe by Sen. John Kerry eight years ago. The terrible, awful, horrible, vicious, cruel, mean thing that Kerry said was that we ought to eliminate the U.S. Department of Agriculture or at least reduce it to three-fourths of its size.

Dean's people and members of the media who don't understand Iowa, including at least one local reporter imported for elsewhere, believe this is a bombshell revelation. This startling new information means Kerry hates farmers and is insensitive to Midwesterners in general and Iowans in particular and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.