"We ought to be grateful that we have kids like that in America who understand freedom, privacy

[KurtNYC]

and liberty."

Home Depot co-founder says "I'd throw a party for him! I'd congratulate him. I'd say 'thank you for helping to protect America's privacy rights. That's what I'd do for him."

[RC]

1. I'm going to go spend some money at Home Depot today in celebration!

This guy is absolutely correct.

[KurtNYC]

2. You can bring your dog too.

(since Home Depot permits dogs)

[RC]

4. I've never seen any dogs in there.

[KurtNYC]

5. Home Depot is dog friendly

It may be because many contractors have dogs and it is better to bring them in than to leave them in a hot truck/car. Also, dog owners tend to be home owners, their core customer, since few apartments permit dogs these days.

[bunnies]

3. Shocking.

The Home Depot Man Who Wants to Demolish Obama

Wall Street titan Ken Langone, who cofounded the main street box store, is heavily invested in Obama's defeat this fall.

—By Andy Kroll
| March/April 2012 Issue
130

Robert Caplin/Bloomberg/Getty Images

On November 1, more than 100 wealthy political donors, including former New York Stock Exchange CEO Dick Grasso, streamed into the luxurious Conrad Suite at the Waldorf-Astoria on Manhattan's Park Avenue for a lunchtime fundraiser. The event was a smashing success, raising six figures for Mitt Romney—three times what had been expected. Save for the candidate himself, no one could have been more pleased than Ken Langone, the legendary investment banker who had organized the fundraiser and who, armed with a fat Rolodex and the pugnacity of a by-the-bootstraps billionaire, wants nothing more than to defeat Barack Obama in 2012.
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The 76-year-old Home Depot cofounder looks how you'd imagine a self-proclaimed "fat cat" might: tall, broad-shouldered, and jowly, with a crown of white hair and a penchant for crisp collars. Langone, who dug ditches as a young man, is a legend in corporate America, and his vast network of business titans could prove crucial to Romney if he faces the cash-flush Obama political machine. (At the start of this year, Obama had raised $88 million to Romney's $32 million.) "You'd be hard-pressed to find a major CEO that wouldn't take his call," says his friend Anthony Carbonetti, a former bundler for Rudy Giuliani. "Everyone takes his call—because they want to know what he has to say."

more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/ken-langone-home-depot-romney-donations

[avaistheone1]

6. So what?

He's correct on the freedom and privacy issue.

[bunnies]

7. And Im sure he'd be saying the same thing if Romney were Prez, right?

Gimme a break.

[avaistheone1]

9. I really don't care. We are in the here and now.

He is correct whether he is doing it for partisan purposes, or whether he truly believes those sentiments.

[bunnies]

10. A stopped clock should not be hung on the wall.

Even if its right twice a day. Or are there more of this guys RW 1%er views you agree with?

[avaistheone1]

11. I have no idea. What views are you concerned about?

[HappyMe]

8. He is part of Yum! Brand Restaurants too, I think.

Taco Bell, KFC...

I think I read be tried to buy the NYSE.

[bunnies]

12. lol

Oh boo. Big-business, RW, Anti-Obama, 1%ers need DU love too!