He can't even afford a radio ad...or a call bank.
Hell, his campaign team probably won't even get paid.
Whether right or wrong, it makes no difference: Devore needed $50mil 3 weeks ago. Instead, Fiorina got the endorsement of Palin and DeVore got the boot.
With Precious’s ringwraiths out in droves pretending along with Precious that Carly is a conservative, how can you go wrong? Go Carly, right?
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I’ll end by telling a story.
There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.
It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.
Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.
While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.
Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.
And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population–that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions.
This kind of enlightened leadership — leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage — led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.
-——Carly Fiorina, Sept 26, 2001
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/minnesota01.html
Carly Fiorina
We must remake our businesses to be far more active corporate citizens–creators not only of shareowner value, but also of social value, in ways that are systemic, and sustainable.
It becomes our job to use a profit engine to raise the capabilities, extend the hopes, and extinguish despair across the globe.
We have a chance and an imperative to improve the choices, and economic condition, and sphere of opportunity for billions more people here at home–and around the globe. It’s a greater mandate–one that our customers increasingly demand of us, one that is deserved by every country in which we do business and one, I’d argue must be undertaken because it can be undertaken.
This is a mandate that started as a quiet whisper more than a decade ago and more recently could be heard more loudly in Seattle and Prague and Genoa, in the voices of protestors who declare that global companies have not lived up to their responsibilities.
What is important here is not to take sides in the globalization debate, but to look at the problem, and work toward a real solution.
Carly Fiorina