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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 05:54 PM
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Romney in shouting match with crowd at Iowa fair
(Des Moines, Iowa) Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney faced a rowdy crowd at the Iowa State Fair Thursday, with people interrupting his answers to chant “Wall Street greed” and him snapping “corporations are people, my friend.”
One questioner asked the GOP presidential candidate what he would do to strengthen Social Security. The voter didn’t like Romney’s pledge not to raise taxes, and interrupted him.

Romney pointed angrily at the crowd and told them to give him a chance to answer. After a minutes-long exchange with Romney and the crowd shouting over each other, Romney said, “If you want to speak, you can. But it’s my turn.”

Some members in the crowd urged Romney to tax wealthy individuals and corporations to ensure solvency for entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 06:17 PM
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1. Those words will haunt him, if repeated often enough
....corporations are people, my friend.

Use it freely.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 06:19 PM
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2. Fuck you Mitt, I hope a corporation comes along and takes all your
Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 06:19 PM by Rex
assets and leave you in a dumpster somewhere...if only there was justice in the world.
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 06:20 PM
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3. That calls for some well-dressed "people" at his next public appearance:
Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 06:44 PM by IDemo
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 06:39 PM
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4. Time for the Billionaires for Bush to rebrand themselves
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7wo7rees Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 07:05 PM
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5. Once in office, he can get us a new flag.
So our troops will remember who they're really dying for.

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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 07:06 PM
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6. I wonder if he thinks corporations have souls that need to be saved.
Somebody should ask him that.
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sfpcjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 07:46 PM
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7. Hey Mittens, the tax code IS A LOOPHOLE made by corporate raiders like you.
That's why they are paying the lowest tax burdon since the 50s after 2 unpaid for wars, and unpaid for Medicare D, and unfunded mandates of No Child Left Behind.
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