Posted on 09/16/2008 8:39:43 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned top John McCain aide, said she doesn't think Sarah Palin is qualified to run a major corporation. For that matter, Fiorina said, McCain, Obama and Biden aren't capable of that kind of job either.
Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO and McCain adviser Carly Fiorina said Sarah Palin could not run a major company.
The Republican presidential candidate has been trying to portray himself as someone who can fix the country's economic woes. But that is a far different task than running a Fortune 500 corporation, Fiorina told MSNBC Tuesday.
Democratic candidate Barack Obama's camp immediately circulated copies of her words -- which didn't exactly paint their candidate in a soft light, either.
"Well, I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation, I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation, I don't think Joe Biden could run a major corporation," Fiorina said.
"It is a fallacy to suggest that the country is like a company. So, of course, to run a business, you have to have a lifetime of experience in business, but that's not what Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe Biden or Barack Obama are doing."
Fiorina was president of Hewlett-Packard until her high-profile ousting in 2006 after the company's unfavorable performance.
"If John McCain's top economic adviser 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?" said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor. "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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Obama's camp shows stupidity sending out copies of her words because she also said that he and Biden were unqualified. The pot is attempting to call the kettle black in this situation.
Twice.
Love the misleading headline.
CNN is officially the Anti-Palin network.
After totally screwing over Lucent and HP, Carly needs to sit down and STFU!!
McCain needs to toss her ass out of his campaign. Carly is the Peter Principle personified.
How would she know? Last thing she did was run a perfectly good company into the ground, and eliminate thousands of US jobs to India.
This woman is all over the place, someone tell her she has reached the glass ceiling.
i agree.
that’s not carly’s first screw up on the mccain trail.
rush today was criticixing her too.
Misleading headline from CNN-DNC.
WHO FACT CHECKS CNN? SHAME ON YOU BASTARDS!
Why should we expect the Commie News Network to do anything less? They squandered the trust of people who used to think they were THE television news source. Tthey lost that trust by doing what they did with this article. At least they’re consistent.
As to Carly .. she really shouldn’t talk about who is, and is not qualified to run a company. She had a middling record herself at HP/Compaq, and was forced out because of it.
Seriously, I like this woman everytime I see her on tv she has been very impressive. She pretty much smoked Sen. McKaskill last sunday of THIS WEEK.
So the headline was a deliberate smear job on the part of this "reporter."
McCain needs to give Carleton the hook.
Carly Fiorina would be an expert on how not to run a corporation — having driven two of them into the ground.
Neither can Carly.
Fiorina needs to stfu.
She is using her position in McCain camp for her own grandstanding. She is a serious narcissist. Must have been real tough to lay low after she was pushed out of HP.
Fiorina is the poster girl of what McCain has been saying about problems with the economy.
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