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.
Well, yeh, Carly, nor is she running for CEO of a company. Sheesh.
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO was thrown OUT because she was INCOMPETENT!
She was hired as a white, token female. I'm not kidding you. Ask me no questions on that. They let her loose and she screwed up the company and finally forced to step down. She, Carly Fiorina, has PROVEN beyond any doubt that she couldn't do it herself. If her STUPID statement alone about Sarah doesn't prove it - LOOK at HER, Carly, Fiornia's track record fo FAILURE.
“Fiorina was president of Hewlett-Packard until her high-profile ousting in 2006 after the company’s unfavorable performance.”
She knows all about running companies into the ground. McCain really needs better friends.
Carleton “Carly” Sneed Fiorina[1] (born Cara Carleton Sneed on September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman. As vice-president at AT&T in 1996, she directed the strategy and orchestrated the initial public offering (IPO) of Lucent, the most successful IPO in U.S. history up to that point in time. In 1998, Fortune magazine listed her as #1 “most powerful woman in business.”[2] The next year, Fiorina switched to the technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and became its chief executive officer. In 2000, she also became HP’s chairman of the board. With the support of the Board of Directors, she led HP into a controversial merger with rival Compaq in 2002.
During her tenure, the market halved HP’s value and the company incurred heavy job losses.[3] When Fiorina was asked by the Board of Directors to step down in 2005, the company stated that Fiorina had put in place “a plan that has given HP the capabilities to compete and win” and that HP “look[ed] forward to accelerating execution of the company's strategy”. [4]
They were KIND to her. Halving the companies values is not a WINNING strategy.
Here some details on her:
Carleton “Carly” Sneed Fiorina[1] (born Cara Carleton Sneed on September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman. As vice-president at AT&T in 1996, she directed the strategy and orchestrated the initial public offering (IPO) of Lucent, the most successful IPO in U.S. history up to that point in time. In 1998, Fortune magazine listed her as #1 “most powerful woman in business.”[2] The next year, Fiorina switched to the technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and became its chief executive officer. In 2000, she also became HP’s chairman of the board. With the support of the Board of Directors, she led HP into a controversial merger with rival Compaq in 2002.
During her tenure, the market halved HP’s value and the company incurred heavy job losses.[3] When Fiorina was asked by the Board of Directors to step down in 2005, the company stated that Fiorina had put in place “a plan that has given HP the capabilities to compete and win” and that HP “look[ed] forward to accelerating execution of the company’s strategy”. [4]
They werer KIND to her. Halving the companies values is not a WINNING strategy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina
More here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/09/scitech/pcanswer/main672809.shtml
Carly proved again, foot in mouth how STUPID she truly is.
Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe Biden, Barack Obama
Only one has been *proven* incapable of running a Corporation.
That one person is Carly.
Will someone please give her a one-way ticket to the dumpster.
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McCain adviser Fiorina: Palin not ready to run a corporation
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Funny, that seems to have been the opinion of many at Hewlett-Packard.
Even the HP exec that recruited her.
As detailed in a nice history (admittedly by a former “old school”
HP employee and loyalist to Bill Hewlett and David Packard).
Bill & Dave:
How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company
by Michael S. Malone
http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Dave-Hewlett-Packard-Greatest/dp/B000VPKFRM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221624323&sr=1-1
Here is the original question that began this idiotic back & forth:
Fiorina was asked about Palin by a host of the McGraw-Hill Show on St. Louis KTRS Radio:
Do you think she has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?”
Please note: the question did not involve “a” company, but “a major company, like Hewlett Packard.”
I believe you can thank Michael Shear at the WaPo for the distortion. He made a conscious decision to make it sound as if Fiorina doubted Palin’s ability to manage the local dry cleaning co. as opposed to a multinational corporation with a Board of Driectors & millions of invested shareholders.
But leave it to CNN to broadcast it.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/16/fiorina_palin_lacks_experience.html
Foxnews showed the entire segment. She never said McCain or Palin couldn’;t run a buisness she di say that about Obama and Biden. This was severely editied into a lie courtesy of the Obama campaign!
As a Governor, she does run a corporation - a public corporation with a budget of $11 billion and 15,000 employees.
What's that old saw about "It takes a thief...." ?
and Governor Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, can’t run New Jersey
"No, I don't," Fiorina answered. "But that's not what she's running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things."
Good Lord! When you actually read what Fiorina says it makes sense. McCain & Palin are not running for the CEO position at H-P. The CNN headline is totally misleading....
What, she's not ready to focus solely on short-term profits at the expense of long-term stability, personal golden parachutes worth hundreds of million in cash and stocks, and will never take responsibility when the whole house of cards comes crashing down...leaving the taxpayers with the bill?
What’s it called when a person in politics accidentally tells the truth???
And NBC did the same thing by leaving out how Fiorina dissed the libs as well.
The federal government is NOT a major company. You can get fired from a company is you are useless or incompetent but in D.C. you are literally protected by Federal law despite your incompetence or uselessness. It very little like a business which is why Carly Fiorina made the mistake of telling the truth on TV.
the sad truth is that most politicians AREN’T as well qualified as most senior executives—and I have no particular love for business executives, either.
What a f*cked up, deceptive title.
She would know plenty about not being prepared to run a corporation. She was a horrible failure at HP before getting a lovely golden parachute to reward her for her poor performance on her way out the door.