While visiting an agriculture-laden state, the unofficial Republican nominee plans to blast Congress for farm subsidies and pledge to strengthen trade agreements around the globe if elected president.

“The biggest obstacle” to opening American farmers up to global trade is “in the Congress of the United States, in the billions of dollars in subsidies served up every five years to corporate farmers,” McCain said in remarks prepared for delivery. He will accuse Congress of doling out money in the form of subsidies to some of the “biggest and richest agribusiness corporations in America.”

McCain said in the prepared remarks that the subsidies have far-reaching effects, including distorting the price of food globally. As a result, “we hurt the world’s poorest farmers in Africa and elsewhere,” McCain said. Along with exercising the presidential veto, McCain vowed to end all agricultural tariffs and farm subsidies “not based on clear need.”

McCain also took his attacks on Barack Obama to the Illinois senator’s doorstep. “Many Democratic voters in Illinois are especially proud of their junior senator,” McCain said. “I couldn’t agree more and I promise to do everything in my power to help him finish his first term in the United States Senate.”

That last line he threw in was good. LOL ;)