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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJon Huntsman: 'Of course corporations are not people. Who would say such an outlandish thing?'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/06/1052134/-Jon-Huntsman:-Of-course-corporations-are-not-people-Who-would-say-such-an-outlandish-thing?via=blog_1At a friendly, very un-Santorum-esque Q&A at the College Convention, a student got another bite at the Occupy apple. Glenn Kaplan couldn't get Huntsman on the record about whether corporations were legally people. The student did.
"Of course corporations are not people," joked Huntman. "Who would say such an outlandish thing!"
Mitt Romney, that's who
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Jon Huntsman: 'Of course corporations are not people. Who would say such an outlandish thing?' (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Jan 2012
OP
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)1. delicious
yummy goodness
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)2. the one semi-sane candidate in the race and newest poll still shows him getting ony 8%
in NH
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)4. Shows you how far down the toilet ---
the modern GOP have swirled.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)3. Huntsman's positions on almost everything are rightwing loon.
Just because he manages to say one or two un-loon-ful things every now and then does not get him a get out of the bin free card.
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)5. LOL..of course not. I am alternating Santorum and Romney today
hehe
PETRUS
(3,678 posts)6. Glad somebody else has noticed that.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)9. That's his problem: Almost is not good enough in today's GOP.
To get the seal of approval in that party, you have to have extreme right-wing positions on EVERYTHING, or you'll be called a RINO or a liberal.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)7. More importantly, the USSC says so. That Huntsman doesn't know or
understand this, seeing as how it's such a big deal in the news of late, boggles the mind.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)8. No doubt the Republicans are going to try to get the populace to
believe that the DEMOCRATS and LIBERALS were the ones who "Frankenstein" corporations into attaining "people status" ...
What with today's "liberally-biased media" ...