In The Blogs
- ‹ previous
- 2563 of 2747
- next ›
Tough Day at the Office
TOUGH DAY AT THE OFFICE....First she gets fired from HP, now Carly Fiorina has been fired from the McCain campaign. Maybe the Fed should hire her to run AIG next?
Discuss the latest from Mother Jones with other readers in Comments Central.
TOUGH DAY AT THE OFFICE....First she gets fired from HP, now Carly Fiorina has been fired from the McCain campaign. Maybe the Fed should hire her to run AIG next?
My favorite part of today's CarlyGram? was the admission that being an elected official and being a CEO are different skillsets. How many times have I heard a gooper going on about how they ought to run the government like a business? Guess Carly doesn't agree.
My favorite part of today's CarlyGram? was the admission that being an elected official and being a CEO are different skillsets. How many times have I heard a gooper going on about how they ought to run the government like a business? Guess Carly doesn't agree.
Sarah Palin obviously isn't qualified to get fired by the McCain campaign.
She'll just be reassigned, like Phil Gramm.
Not fired, Kevin -- it's just a market correction.
They'll "fire" her just like Phil Gramm was "fired." They need her, and her image (and she's all about image, as her tenure at HPQ demonstrated), as a competent, high-powered woman who is on top of the issues. Palin can't pull that off now, and probably won't be able to (her image is already damaged in this regard) until it's way too late to matter for this election. Palin and Fiorina exist in the McCain campaign to appeal to different demographics, and I don't see another Republican who can go out there and be an upscale professional woman. Unless they have someone hiding on their bench, Fiorina will be back, and soon.
Price of honesty about McCain and Palin being unqualified to run anything, let alone a small company.
That said, WTF is Carly talking about? Running a company, evan a large one, is peanuts compared to running a country the size of the US. If you take risks and lose as a CEO, the worst case is loss of marketshare and some jobs to competitors, so it is largely a zero sum game for the larger economy. If you take risks running a country and make bad, irresponsible bets, a lot of folks can get killed in unnecessary wars.
If conservatives think running the US of A is a piece of cake compared to running a mediocre company, they don't deserve to be anywhere close to the white house. And it shows in the caliber of people they nominate to run the country.
She looks like an eighties-era member of the cast of CATS. Oh, and Kevin, you are a sexist!
Maybe moral bankruptcy will qualify the McCain campaign for a Fed bailout.
I called it. I knew she wouldn't be too valuable after that idiotic statement.
Gramme might have insulted the voters, but Fiorina insulted the boss and the vice-boss.
My favorite part of today's CarlyGram was the admission that being an elected official and being a CEO are different skillsets. How many times have I heard a gooper going on about how they ought to run the government like a business? Guess Carly doesn't agree.
http://www.freewebs.com/checkforyourself/
I loved Steve Suh's comment about Carly Fiorina on Cogitamus:
"Look, if anyone knows what it means to be unqualified to run a company, it's Carly Fiorina. Very few people, and I'm including the crooks who intentionally ran our economy into the ground in order to get rich, know as much as Carly Fiorina about not being able to run a company. She could start a university where she's the only faculty and offer Ph.D's on how to unsuccessfully be a CEO. Any book she writes that deals with an inability to effectively run a company should become an immediate best-seller."
I don't know why anyone would respect Carly Fiorina's opinion on executive leadership. She definitely is a graduate of the Bush school of management.
clearly, conservatives do think that running the country (governance) is easy. There is nothing to it. At least, there has been no real effort in almost eight years. That is why the financial sector is in the shape it is today. The conservative government simply looked the other way when little to no lending standards were applied on a wide scale basis. And then these loans were sold and re-sold at discounted prices.
The profits reaped before the melt-down were exactly what Gramm was after when he wrote the legislation to dismantle the Glass-Steagall Act. Would it surprise anyone to know that there have been a handful of people who have profited mightily from this?
Free markets = Free for the taking if you have the right contacts.
...and Carly is a case study in failure. How appropriate that she is the poster-girl for McCain's Upscale Professional Female-type People.
She ran HP into the ground, until it became clear that the only way HP was going to survive was to dump her ass.
Where has she worked since then? Oh, she got a golden parachute so she doesn't have to, but that doesn't mean that she wouldn't have taken another position somewhere if she wasn't financial poison.
No. Carly is a has-been. Good for her that she in now independently wealthy, but seriously: she ain't got game no more.
Carly = proof of the Peter Principle.
On a scale of least helpful member of campaign team. I'd rate Fiorina as a 6. Holy Joe gets a 10. Gore a 0.
Like Carly was competent to run a corporation.
My friends, I tapped that.
the whole thing is a joke
Wow. Even when the media is reporting that a McCain staffer is fired for making bonehead comments and screwed up - they label it as "Biden-like". I marvel at the media balance.
The Biden remark was the part of the story that most interested me. In any and all circumstances, the McCain campaign is prepared to pitch some sh*t. And, of course, our media dutifully reports the snark, right up at the top of the story, as if that were the point.