here is the video link to Carly repeating it on MSNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Jr4YfSemk

Coming from the person who ran HP into the ground.

and by "run," fiorina means "run into the ground, then escape with a 20 million dollar severance package."

The McCain team likes to shoot first and then spin later. The truth? They don't need the stinking truth. Candy Crowley won't take them on.

What's that saying? If you're explaining you're losing?

I wish the Obama camp would bring up Fiorina's HP history and her $26M golden parachute, you know the kind the McCain campaign is demonizing in stump speeches lately.

I mean if she is a surrogate, she is essentially vouching for McCain/Palin so wouldn't it make sense to know who she is? I mean most surrogates are public figures/politicians, whereas Fiornia is the "former CEO of HP".

LAWMAKERS SUE TO END TROOPERGATE PROBE

Five Alaska GOP legislators filed paperwork in Anchorage Superior Court Tuesday asking a judge to stop the ongoing investigation into Palin’s firing of a public safety commissioner.

She wants to commandeer a hostile takeover of both campaigns because they are all unworthy.

It's funny. This issue has not many legs, but funny- they're pathetic.

When was the last time you witnessed such mismanagement, errors and mistake from Obama camp? Almost never. You see it every day from McLame.

Friday: Bush doctrine, what?
Monday: Fundementals of Economy STILL strong
Tuesday: The Ticket cannot run a company forget the country

I can't help but wonder, if Obama made as many gaffes as McLame, hired incompetent advisors and spokepersons, made irresponsible decisions like selecting sticklip(or lipstick) VP pick how he would fare in the polls?

I happen to agree completely with Fiorina that government is not like business.

the objectives are totally different, to start with, and you can't run a government like it was a Fortune 500 Company.

That said - she's full of shit if she thinks Obama couldn't run a Fortune 500 corporation - the hell he couldn't.

Wheels coming off. Time for the golden parachute:

From:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/parachutes-away.html

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Parachutes Away!

From ABC News:

Republican ticket mates John McCain and Sarah Palin Monday blasted corporate executives who leave their company with a "golden parachute" and pledged to "stop multimillion dollar payouts" to CEOs, seeming to forget their own top economic adviser Carly Fiorina walked away with $45 million, including a $21.4 million severance package when she was dismissed by Hewlett Packard in 2005.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/parachutes-away.html

Well, you have to admit Carly does know a thing or two about not being able to run a major corporation.

Hmmm... I am wondering why Fiorina thinks that Palin isn't qualified for the top job at HP. If living in a state next to Russia qualifies her for the nation's next-to-top job (and possibly the top job given McCain's age and health), then why doesn't being able to use a computer qualify her for HP's top job?

As I recall, Ms. Fiorina herself just narrowly avoided jail time herself with the antics she pulled on her own Board. So we should listen to her now? Give her enough rope, and she'll....

McCain did not have a major corporation to run for 5 years while he was a prisoner of war.

So you need a lifetime of experience to run a major corporation? What about Dick "the penguin" Cheney and Halliburton? He had all of zero experience and still became president of the company as if by magic.

Carley, you dis 'the penguin' and he will rise from his crypt to strike you down. Beware the bird.

Palin's big talking up point is her executive experience - saying she couldn't run a F500 company is shitting directly on what she's being championed for.

Fiorina just couldn't swallow enough pride to say "Yes, absolutely she could because she was Governor of Alaska..." either that or somethings are sacred to her, and she really doesn't respect Palin and realizes that saying Palin could run a F500 company would be diminishing her own accomplishments.

This isn't a big deal. It is a one day story at best. Clearly CF was saying that a professional politician isn't qualified to run a corporation. Neither is a professional politician qualified to repair your car. Most people will understand that she is talking about two different skill sets. This gaffe doesn't go very far.

Research 2000 now has Palin's favorable/unfavorables at +1

Probably somebody's already made the (to me, anyway) obvious point that the USofA is not a "giant corporation." To construct the skills necessary to the Presidency as analagous enough to those required of a Corporat CEO is to seriously misunderstand the nature of "government." That this feculent, failed fluff would make that mistake doesn't surprise me, thoug I do find it distressing that anyone would be confused by her bullshit,...

then there's the next, seeming obvious point: Why are we heeding Carly Fiorina? She ALSO couldn't run a "giant corporation," apparently, since the last one she tried to run ran her the fark off after she'd screwed that particular pooch past any recognition.

hey htx:
missed ya at the party Sat.
Feral's wines were amazing...

I came in to leave the line, "I don't think Fiorina could run a major corporation."

Then I got scared she'd call me a sexist.

Fiorna is qualified to run a major corporation - except for that wiretapping scandal at HP and those endless restatements of financial results at Lucent (where she was head of sales) because they kept booking revenue before it was actually revenue. That's sameness you can believe in!

There should be more scruting of the issues at Lucent, if she's going to be his face on the economy.

Guess what? New McCain ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7EbK1RREU4&

He, once again, steals a line from Obama: Enough is enough. He calls himself "The Original Maverick". And the quotes he uses to frame himself are from his speech of yesterday!. He only forgot the most important quote: "The fundamentals of the economy are strong".

Funny thing, the end of the ad said: "Experience and leadership in a time of crisis".
Sir, yesterday you said that there was no such crisis.

YOU ARE A LIAR! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH INDEED! LIAR!

A corporate ceo must be willing and able to do ANYTHING--right up to poisoning her/his own progeny (though normally they resist that expedient)-- to guard the bottom line and feed the stockholders. Their goals are purely instrumental, controlled by an ethic in which the ends justify any means to achieve them. Fairness, equity, honesty, ethical behavior: none of these matter, none are part of the intrinsic expectations inside the corporation. Only profit matters.

If by 'run' she means run it into the ground, then she is right.

Newsweek just whacked pinocchio palin

Do NOT blast video cutting off her "clarification" or use an ad with just the sentence about McCain! Do crap like that, and Obama loses the media attacking McCain/Palin on their lies. Not to mention that Obama loses the high(er) ground. (No Obama supporter should want to see that.)

I agree that this is a one day story. & the fact is that none of the candidates has much of a clue about how major corporations or the financial markets operate. I haven't heard one intelligent statement on the cause of these problems, including from my man Obam Bam. Instead, they are all demagoguing the issue and lambasting corporate and wall street greed, which largely misses the issue and the complex causes of the credit crisis. One shouldn't generally criticize what one can't understand ...

That being said, Carly Fiorina didn't have a great run at HP. Lots of controversy and conflict and poor results. So, she's probably not a whole lot better than the candidates.

Fiorina an expert?? Yup, so good HP paid her 42 million to get the hell away from them.

Oh, Sarah Earmark Queen Palin could easily run a company as well as Carly Wiretapper Fiorina did... if by that you mean run it into the ground.

Well, Ms. Fiorina should certainly be able to identify people who "can't run a corporation". After all, she practically destroyed TWO corporations in one stroke (HP and Compaq).

On the other hand, Sen. Obama has run one of the best campaigns in modern history, and I don't think people realize the scope and magnitude of his campaign organization. It's not a megacorp, but probably has more employees and volunteers than Wasilla, AK had for a population when Sarah Palin was mayor.

and now sadly Carly will disappear...damn, but tomorrow will be another good day for Senator Obama...