Obama In Ohio: ‘Corporations Aren’t People. People Are People.’

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President Obama began speaking at a campaign rally at the Value City Arena-Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, shortly after 1 p.m. ET on Saturday. The run-up to the rally included an number of video pieces that emphasized the importance of organizing and the successes from the 2008 Obama campaign’s grassroots field work that became the hallmark of his effort. 

“We are going to win this thing the old fashioned way: door by door, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood,” Obama said, adding later some contrasts between himself and his likely Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

“Gov. Romney has much to be proud of. He’s run a large financial firm and a state. But I think he’s taken the wrong lessons from those experiences. He sincerely believes that if CEOs and wealthy investors make money, the rest of us will automatically prosper as well,” Obama said, citing Romney’s support for traditional Republican ideas policies like tax cuts that they say will spur growth. He also hit Romney on one of his gaffes along the campaign trail, when the former governor told a hostile crowd in Iowa, “Corporations are people, my friend.”

“I don’t care how many times you try to explain it — Corporations aren’t people. People are people,” Obama said, getting huge applause from the crowd.

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