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Palin Could Run America, but Not Hewlett Packard?

Sep 16, 2008

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Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, now an adviser to John McCain, says Sarah Palin lacks the experience to run Hewlett Packard. Michael D. Shear writes for The Trail:

Fiorina made the comments on the McGraw-Hill Show on St. Louis KTRS Radio, a statement that was first reported by Huffington Post.

During the final minute of the interview, the host asked: “Do you think she has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?”

“No, I don’t,” responded Fiorina. “But you know what? That’s not what she’s running for.”

There’s also a “McCain invented the Blackberry” story going around. This clearly is an attempt to get even for the phony “Al Gore invented the Internet” story the Right pushed awhile back.

Greg Sargent has the text of a speech Obama gave today. Really good. The economic crisis has suppressed the stupid “lipstick on a pig” distractions, for a time, anyway.

Update: McCain, Obama or Biden couldn’t run Hewlett Packard, either, Fiorina says. And Fiorina’s bio says she couldn’t run it, either. Must be a tough job.

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10 Comments

zhak • Sep 16, 2008 @4:53 pm

Oh, she ran it all right — straight into the ground.
moonbat • Sep 16, 2008 @6:14 pm

A little OT – relates more to the earlier thread about our economic meltdown. Someone took (I think) the German film “The Downfall” – which is an end-of-the-Third Reich kind of film, and edited it, added subtitles, and voila, created an interesting look at our own meltdown, called The Spiral, as seen through the lens of the end of the German Reich, skillfully portrayed by actors playing Nazis. Enjoy.
moonbat • Sep 16, 2008 @6:22 pm

Carly Fiorina seems to have the reverse Midas touch – everything she touches these days turns to crap.
joanr16 • Sep 16, 2008 @6:38 pm

Fiorina’s bio says she couldn’t run [HP], either.

I was gonna say…. I mean, that’s the lipstick calling Porky pink, ain’t it?

We probably shouldn’t blame Ms. Fiorina if she thinks being POTUS is a breeze. After all, the current occupant of the White House makes the gig look so… effortless.

As for the Blackberry thing, it really did originate within the McCain campaign. This was a hell of a day for those poor guys, one brushfire after another. Fun to watch from a safe distance, though.
Craig • Sep 16, 2008 @7:05 pm

I wonder how many phone calls Fiorina got before she changed her story.
Donna Q • Sep 16, 2008 @8:15 pm

For the life of me, I cannot understand why McCain wants Carly Fiorina to say anything whatsoever in connection with his campaign. His judgment is hopelessly impaired. I mean, is he going to give this incompetent, blathering corporate hack a cabinet position or something?
ohollern • Sep 16, 2008 @8:33 pm

Hewlet Packard is getting ready to cut 24,600 jobs.
joanr16 • Sep 16, 2008 @10:30 pm

Heads up:

The Fed just bailed out AIG for $85 billion.

That’s billion with a “B,” people.

Meanwhile, I gotta get back to watching this 90-minute report on ABC… on UFOs. [snark]
maha • Sep 16, 2008 @11:23 pm

joan — Maybe the space aliens would take over AIG.
s • Sep 17, 2008 @7:32 am

Maybe Palin’s lawyers can handle anything she can’t. Yahoo news bits says more than this but here is some of the alarming news

“JUNEAU, Alaska – GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska’s governor to John McCain’s political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit any embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.

Republican efforts include dispatching a former top U.S. terrorism prosecutor from New York, Ed O’Callaghan, to assist Palin’s personal lawyer working to derail or delay a pending ethics investigation in Alaska. The probe, known as “Troopergate,” is examining whether the governor abused her power by trying to remove her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.”

Imagine! This from the straight talk express!
Guess they can’t answer all of those questions that will make them look bad.