Yes, Carly Fiorina Was Fired; The real question is why wasn’t Hillary?

The American Spectator ^ | 04/24/2015 | By Neal B. Freeman

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We e still have a week to go, but it’s already clear that the Most Valuable Player of the Month will be Carly Fiorina. She wins the award because she has done what nobody else has thought to do or, more likely, had the nerve to do. She has said in a loud, clear voice that the Empress has no clothes.

Carly notes that, while the Empress Hillary went to fancy schools, ran expensive campaigns, held high political office, signed her name to multiple autobiographies, generated Kardashian levels of personal publicity and became Romney-rich while serving some never-quite-identified public interest, she hasn’t actually accomplished anything. Carly has uttered an inconvenient truth, you might say.

For performing this public service, Carly got a taste of how the Clinton oppo-team responds to even unexceptionable criticism. It returns fire disproportionately. Just this morning, I found five hit pieces on the Internet, all of them noting with the predictability of a drill team that Carly Fiorina was fired from her last corporate job. The clear implication: Carly Fiorina’s reputation as a successful businesswoman is a myth.

Perhaps this is a teachable moment.

Here’s what happened. After graduating from college, Carly got a job as a receptionist in a small real estate office. Over the next twenty years, she worked hard, learned new skills, took risks, lost sleep and finally won herself a division-level job in big-time corporate America. How often does that happen? I don’t know, but the answer is somewhere between never and not often.

But Carly wasn’t finished, not by a long shot. In her division job, and later in a corporate sales job — at ATT and its tech spinoff, Lucent — she found herself in a particularly unforgiving environment. In those kinds of jobs, you either “make your numbers”

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I didn't know Carly was on that committee.

Well, the Republican members of the committee never liked to publicize the fact that they served on the "get Nixon" committee.

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For the record, Carly Fiorina was 19 years old when Richard Nixon resigned and she had not gone to law school—I think the Rodino Committee favored lawyers. She later attended law school briefly. Her father, Joseph T. Sneed, III, now deceased, was a law school professor and briefly served as deputy attorney general under Nixon...so she would have had a conflict of interest serving on the impeachment committee.

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You know I had it explained to me by a black guy how Indians are not people of color no matter how dark their skin. I wasn’t going to argue with him. But i took note that black only means African. Everyone else is white.

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In Robert Penn Warren's novel A Place to Come to, there is a black character who successfully passes himself off as an Indian guru.

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Didn’t Obama transfer the taking of the federal census so that the White House would for the first time have control of the process and the numbers?

As I recall, Obama tried to do that -- but was unsuccessful.

Initially, Obama appointed a Republican (Judd Gregg of NH?)to the position of Secretary of Commerce -- and he refused to accept the position if the census was transferred to the White House.