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Huntsman objects to attack ad featuring his adopted daughters from China, India

Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman says Rep. Ron Paul's supporters are out of line with a web ad that uses images of Huntsman's adopted daughters from China and India to argue that he doesn't hold American values.

 The ad posted by "NHLiberty4Paul'' includes images of Huntsman with his adopted daughters and calls him ``the Manchurian candidate.'' Huntsman on Friday called the ad "stupid'' and said he objects to suggesting that there is something sinister in his decision to adopt.

Paul's New Hampshire spokeswoman says she doesn't know who posted the ad and called it utterly distasteful.

One adopted daughter was abandoned at a market at two months of age. The other was left to die on a roadside in India the day she was born.

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