2008
Relentless
The mistakes from the McCain campaign keep on coming…
McCain supporter Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, seemed to veer off message for a moment on the McGraw Milhaven show on KTRS radio in St Louis, when she made the case that Sarah Palin may be qualified to run America — but certainly not to run her old company.“Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?” the host asked Fiorina.
“No, I don’t,” she replied.
Fiorina tried for the save by saying later that none of the candidates, McCain included, has the experience to run a major corporation. Which only added ammunition to the Obama campaign’s relentless pounding of the message that McCain isn’t the right man to run an economy in crisis:
If John McCain’s top economic advisor doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should.
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I was an HP employee under Carly Fiorina, she doesn't know how to run a large corporation either. She does know how to run them into the ground, however.
Posted by DENVEROPOLIS | September 16, 2008 11:47 AMDidn't HP lose half its value under Carly Fiorina's "leadership"?
Posted by Just Sayin' | September 16, 2008 11:50 AMThe running a large company metaphor is actually a very interesting point.
Certainly not with that budget! Certainly not with that many subordinates/employees! Certainly not with that much room for error!
Yet compare it to the biggest company/employer in the world, the United States of America, and nobody could argue that Palin is qualified to run that operation.
Very thought provoking
Posted by Non | September 16, 2008 11:52 AM1 and 2 beat me to the point: Fiorina doesn't know how to run a large corporation either. Neither does Meg Whitman, Chief Fraudster at Ebay, McCain's other top corporate adviser.
Posted by Fnarf | September 16, 2008 12:08 PM@1. Agreed. She was a marketing guru, certainly not CEO material. But, hey, if she wants to tell people that McCain’s not capable of running a corporation, I’m all ears.
Posted by Julie in Chicago | September 16, 2008 12:08 PMYou've all forgotten that we live in Backwards World, where only the dumbest survive.
Hell, Psychogeezer could appear on national TV and blubber "I soweetoddid," and he'd be a hero.
McCain's poll numbers to shoot upwards in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Posted by Original Andrew | September 16, 2008 12:19 PM@6 wins Slog for the day
Posted by Just Sayin' | September 16, 2008 12:21 PM"later", meaning "in the very next sentence".
Self-serving self-deception, Eli.
Posted by RonK, Seattle | September 16, 2008 1:22 PMcan't find the original link to this story, but it seemed relevant:
>>John McCain and Sarah Palin both came out today to condemn CEOs who get golden parachutes. Here's McCain:
"We will stop multimillion dollar payouts to CEO’s who have broken the public trust."
And here's Palin:
"We're going to reform the way Wall Street does business and stop multimillion-dollar payouts and golden parachutes to CEOs who break the public trust."
Seems to me McCain could put that campaign promise into effect right away. One of his top advisors, Carly Fiorina, laid off 20,000 HP workers, oversaw huge losses, and engaged in corporate spying. Sure sounds like she "broke the public trust" to me. And for her troubles, HP gave her $21.4 million in severance pay, plus another $21.1 million in stock options and other benefits.
Over $42 million for--as John McCain describes it--breaking the public trust.
Call John McCain's campaign at (703) 418-2008 and demand that McCain stand by his promise to stop this practice. Ask him to demand this his campaign advisor, Carly Fiorina, give back her loot to HP's stockholders.
Posted by Meinert | September 16, 2008 1:23 PMbut fiorina's got electrolytes!
Posted by max solomon | September 16, 2008 1:57 PMFirst she whines about the Palin SNL sketch being sexist, and she follows it up with this. Fiorina's on a roll today.
Posted by keshmeshi | September 16, 2008 2:12 PMFor someone running on the hope and change platfrom his supporters are a bunch of fucking cranks.
Posted by Bellevue Ave | September 16, 2008 2:38 PM@9:
Sooooo, does that mean McSame/Pailin' are actually in favor of MORE GOVERNMENT REGULATION?
Um, isn't that a complete 180-shift from their so-called "conservative platform"?
Posted by COMTE | September 16, 2008 2:45 PMMy bad @ 8 ... caught an edited (composite) version.
Still, a silly stab at gaffing Fiorina or diminishing. Nobody wants pols playing CEO, and only Perotistas and worse want CEO's playing POTUS.
Palin's "D" in undergrad macroeconomics is more to the point.
Posted by RonK, Seattle | September 16, 2008 6:41 PMWe won't have Carly to kick around, anymore...
McCain's campaign is going to "disappear" her
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/16/fiorinas-comment-called-biden-like/
Posted by Just Sayin' | September 16, 2008 9:22 PMComments Closed
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