WARREN, Ohio (CNN) – Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned John McCain Victory chair, said Tuesday that Sarah Palin isn’t qualified to run her old company.
Appearing on a KTRS Radio show in St. Louis, Fiorina was asked by the host, “Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?”
“No, I don’t,” Fiorina answered. “But that’s not what she’s running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things."
"I would just remind you that it is Barack Obama who is running for president," she continued. "John McCain who is running for president.”
Fiorina contended that while Palin may not be up the task of running a multi-billion dollar IT company, she does have more relevant governing experience than Obama.
“I find it quite stunning actually that the Barack Obama campaign is questioning Sarah Palin's experience,” Fiorina said. “She’s got more executive experience than he does and she is the vice presidential nominee, Barack Obama is the presidential nominee.”
UPDATE: Asked about the comment during an MSNBC interview, Fiorina replied: “Well, I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation, I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation, I don't think Joe Biden could run a major corporation.
"But, on the other hand, a major corporation is not the same as being the president or the vice president of the United States. It is a fallacy to suggest that the country is like a company. So, of course, to run a business, you have to have a lifetime of experience in business, but that's not what Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama are doing."
The response was immediately circulated by Obama's campaign:
Listen: Obama spokesman Bill Burton on Fiorina's comment
“If John McCain’s top economic advisor doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis?" said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor. "Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should."
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Duh. Neither was Fiorina.
Why is HP laying off employees? I'm sure the previous CEO has some knowledge about that.
Here we go again. A rep. talking out of both sides of the mouth.
So she can't run a company but she can run the country? Hmmmmmmmm.
And as long as we're talking HP and excessive CEO compensation is a hot topic, why does the Mccain campaign keep trotting out this failed CEO that ran HP into the ground with the Compaq merger and then got $41M when the Board kicked her out? Carly is the poster child of executive greed and mismanagement.
Good Lord!!
Am I the only one that got a headache trying to understand her statements?!
I forgot, it's the Republicans, I'm not supposed to understand.
Now we know why she's no long with HP. Perkins got it right!
oh i can't wait to see people run with this one...isn't this lady a republican. I don't know how long it takes for these folks to recognize the media will take THE MOST NEGATIVE line in your comment and make it the headline...way to go CNN....once again you go for the attention grabber...instead of focusing on the real intention of her comment which is to say, she doesn't need to be qualified to run a Fortune 500 company since it's a different set of skills entirely.
Stupid is as stupid says. If Paylin is not capable of running a company, why would this idiot support her running for VP?
Not qualified to run a Fortune 500 company, but qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Trying to figure out this kind of logic would cause one's head to explode, so don't even bother.
A Republican speaking the truth? Wow, who would have thought it? I guess abuse of political power and corruption at every scale of local politics is not the same as abuse of CEO power and corruption at the private sector.
que in Warren Buffet or any number of Obama admirers supports who would be ecstatic to have him run one of their Fortune 500 companies if free ( GOD willing he’ll be busty rung a country!) .
And the point of this is what? She isnt qualified to do my job either, please come write an article up on me. Please report real news or dont report any.
Palin has more experience than Obama? What planet is Fiorina living on?
Clearly, Carly also was not qualified to run HP - she ran it right into the ground!
Fiorina.....now that is sexism for ya!
Bush was a governor also! Enough said.
Fiorina not qualified to speak about qualifications.
Sooner or later, truth will come out. One lipstick to another.
We knew that. Now it is Official.
Obama – this should be your ad. Go for it.
This is the woman who called Tina Fey sexist.
The cast of The View is also sexist.
Since a majority of American women polled say they are voting for Obama and the Democratic ticket, I guess a majority of American women are sexist as well.
Wait, so if you're not qualified to run a multi-billion IT company, you are qualified to preside in a chief role over the multi-trillion dollar economy? Anyone else see the misstep in logic here?
Uh huh... so she's qualified to run a country... but not a company...
So if she's not running to run a company... how is her executive experience relevant when the job of VP much more resembles the job of senate?
the press quested you for one........secondly.......what is the BUSH DOCTRINE......lol.......
Carly is a crook.
Palin and 'executive experience' do not qualify in the same sentence. The point is Fiorini, you just admitted that your VP choice is not qualified to lead the USA should Mccain become incapacitated for any reason. Ok, since you put one foot in mouth, you try to pull it out by saying Obama does not have the executive experience, yet he does have one major, major item that neither Repub has that makes a whole lot of sense, a Harvard Law degree and the capacity has a community organizer to get down and understand the REAL people not the imaginary workforce Mccain FORGOT yesterday!
Fiorna – Open Mouth Insert Foot --Whoops, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
She's not fit enough to run a company, but she's fit enough to run a national economy, foreign policy and health care system at the same time. Does it get any more ridiculous than what's been going on with the McCain campaign for the past couple of weeks?
You know you're unqualified when Carly Fiorina calls you out. I mean......even I think I'm capable of running a company like HP into the ground like Fiorina did.
If she can't run a company, how could she run a nation?
Palin isn't ready. Palin is dangerous for America.
Once again CNN is in the tank for Obama and this proves it once again. The headline is taken out of context. Obama certainly couldn't run a company either let alone be president!
Hahahah Carly..she cant run a multi billion dollar company but she can run multi trillion dollar country? Did you leave your brain at home, Carly?
The earmarks, the Blackberry, now this? Seriously, is there a drug problem in the McCain camp? Their behavior is erratic, paranoid, they're in an alternate reality. Aren't those symptoms of various illicit substances?
What a joke of an article. The headline shows like Palin is the inexperienced one, but actually the article says that Obama is the one without experience. Great spin CNN!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh for corn sake. She can't run HP, but she can run the COUNTRY?
Talk about flip-flops! These republicans got to kept far away from office for a few years until they get the heads full of some brains. This is so pathetic. I just heard that McCain raised 5 million dollars in Miami, Florida. Well I live in Miami and we are going through really hard times down hear and I can't understand why these people continue to fall blind for the republicans. They come down here and promise these people that they will not lift the embargo and that the democrates are too liberals, linking this comment to democrates are communist or socialits. Wake up Miami, we are in really big trouble. Many are loosing their jobs and homes and kids are education is very weak.
I just watched as both candidates laid out their economic plans at lunch hour evnets:
McCain) shook his fists, talked about reducing CEO salaries (which the Pres has no control over and he knows it!) and spoke for about 10 minutes.
Obama) spoke for an hour about economic policy, and only economic policy! Lots of new ideas, specific agendas. Specific plans to implement and reminded us that he warned the Feds repeatedly about the mortgage meltdown but was shouted down.
NO CONTEST
Palin is a distraction and a time bomb waiting to explode. The truth is coming out and all the McCainnites are liars.
Being a Governor does not necessarily make you qualified to be VP of the United States especially when you have no experience in foreign policy and have no clue what the Bush Doctrine is. Say what you will about Barack Obama, but atleast he has some experience in foreign policy – he is a member of both the Foreign Policy committee and the Homeland Security Committee and Joe Biden has immense foreign policy experience across the board.
WOW!! Seriously...not qualified to run HP, but qualified to be VP!!!!! If she has sooo much "executive" experiance, then she should be more than qualified to run HP, this just proves that she is not ready for this job. Fiorina won't even hire her to run HP with all that so called "experiance" that she has, but think she could run this country..I just don"t get..really I do not....
"executive experience" McCain has the same amount as Obama, get over it.
And Carly couldn't run HP either, hence she was fired!
Unbelievable.
Fiorina would trust Palin with the Presidencyof the United States, but not wtih her own company? We need to send these Republican fools packing! I beg the light blue states, the red states, the pink states and the yellow states to come to your senses and save us from the Republicans!
i think obama could run just about any company in the US with his IQ. instead he prefers to use his gifts in the service of his country, for the future of his children and ours. that's what i call sacrifice and patriotism.
The title header is a little bit deceiving isn't it CNN?
Although, readers from both sides will read it and find it's really a slam against nobamas lack of experience.
Genius or biased reporting? = )
McCain/Palin 08
Major Reason for America’s Financial Crisis:
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 deregulated the financial system by opening up competition among banks, securities and insurance companies and allowed commercial and investment banks to merge.
John McCain voted for this bill along with the entire Republican Senate. The Senate Democrats objected against it. Phil Gramm introduced this bill and was John McCain’s top economic advisor before he was forced to resign but still gives McCain economic advice to this day.
John McCain has a direct responsibility in the financial crisis we are in today along with the banking lobbyists he is employing in his campaign. McCain has supported the very philosophy and mentality that has caused the economy we are facing today. Is that what you want? Look it up, McCain has truly support DEREGULATION throughout his career and now all of a sudden he is FOR it. Give me a break.
this says all that anyone should need to say. Let's hope this is the end of the hockey mom...
Talk about flip-flops! These republicans got to be kept far away from office for a few years until they get the heads full of some brains. This is so pathetic. I just heard that McCain raised 5 million dollars in Miami, Florida. Well I live in Miami and we are going through really hard times down here and I can't understand why these people continue to fall blind for the republicans. They come down here and promise these people that they will not lift the embargo and that the democrates are too liberals, linking this comment to democrates are communist or socialits. Wake up Miami, we are in really big trouble. Many are loosing their jobs and homes and kids are education is very weak.
Headline seems a little deceptive. Fiorina said Palin wasn't qualified to run *Hewlett Packard,* but had more executive experience than Obama – thus better qualified to run a government. By leaving out a modifier, the headline made it a general statement, thus making Fiorina's statement a slur that was clearly not intended.
well, isn't running the United States of America kind of like running the biggest company in the world? if she cant handle HP how can she handle the USA???
obama/biden '08!!!!!!!!
Umm, excuse me!!! But, the county IS a corporation!!!!
Obama/Biden '08
I don't think the Obama campaign is going after Palin's inexperience. The media is doing that enough so there's no need to beat a dead horse. I think the campaign is focused on highlighting the differences between McSame and Obama as it relates to foreign policy, education, economy, etc. I think the Obama campaign realized that Palin and McCain will stick their own feet in their mouth eventually as it relates to her inexperience. It's more amuzing to me how the GOP is trying to defend her inexperience. Executive experience my hiney.
The Palin effect is disappearing as expected- Now that we're getting a better idea of who she really is and for what she really stands for!!!
National Gallup Polls:
Barack Obama 45% 45% John McCain
Fiorina is full of double talk. She's afraid of RNC backlash
Wow, another admission by their own campaign that she is a joke basically!! I love it!!
Thanks for telling us what we already know. This woman is sexist.
Ain't about abortion. If one doesn't believe that it's an option, don't do it. It's the economy, stupid! Otherwise, how you gonna pay for that kid your daughter brings into the world at 15 years old?
The question is irrelevant since Palin is not running to be CEO. If the Democrats feel the question is relevant, they have a big problem since the person at the top of their ticket has no executive experience at all.
LOL!! She can't run a printer company but she can be a heartbeat from the presidency. All idiots.
Everyone knows she cant run anything except McCain. Wasilla was in surplus before Palin, when she left office they were in record deficit. Familiar? Yes Bush. No real idea of what to do. Sold the Alaska airfore one for a 35% loss. What an economic acheivement.
Uh, wasn't Carly herself fired from HP for incompetence?
Um...and John McCain has HOW much executive experience?
Fiorina ran a company into the ground. I guess she should know?
She can't run a company, but she is going to shake her booty all the way to Washington...... Scary??? Right???
Be Smart vote Obama!!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta love this "executive" experience Palin has. A few years as governor of a state that has twenty + hours of darkness over a quarter of the year. Please...
ONE NATION
Dear News Media,
Since Mrs. Palin refuses to talk to you and and answer questions from the the American People, why do we do one thing; STOP COVERING HER. She does not deserve the news coverage she gets. I'm tired of hearing about this person who refuses to be transparent and insist on running a transparent government. She reminds me so much of our current president and vice president who are not at all open and truthful with the American people. We cannot have this anymore. No talk, no truth, no coverage. The other three candidates talk to the media all the time; what's her problem?
Who care what Carly Fiorina thinks she is only interested to see a feamal vice president, wheather the candidate has what is takes or not as long as she is a female. Some one need to tell this idiot Palin is not Hillary Clinton.
ok..she states that "Barack Obama is running for President...John McCain is running for President" but then she compares Palin to Barack...now I find that quite stunning...how about comparing her to Biden since he is running for the same office????
No wonder why they booted her from HP....
how dare you Carly? That's sexist. She's not good enough to run your company but she's good enough to the VP for the greatest country in the world, the country that has 2000 other companies bigger than yours? These people continue to lie to themselves!
If she is not qualified to run a company than she is not qualified to run the country.
Hey Carly!........Get your foot out of your mouth!......If she can't run your old company, how is she going to be "second" in command and help run this country?.....Don't throw this back on Barack, because this comment came out of YOUR MOUTH!!.....CNN Please post....Thanks!
WHAT?!?! Carly, are you saying she isnt qualified to run a company?? I think thats sexist. You are sooo sexist Carly. Sheesh, someone needs to stop giving this woman a microphone. Or maybe its ok because she will keep putting her foot in her mouth....but I am sure she would find some way to call this comment sexist....
Too Funny!!! Fiorina is in no position to talk about experience- all she knows how to do is run a business into the GROUND!
She is the epitamy of the Republican Female- all these words coming out but not SAYING ANYTHING....and a SNOB!!
What a disgrace to educated strong women everywhere!
Well next to Palin that is....
But she did get one thing right- Palin doesn't have what it takes to run a corporation= SOOOOO she wouldnt have what it takes to run the entire COUNTRY- there is a lightbulb moment for ya!
Sorry but Palin does NOT have more experience than Obama in Politics... PERIOD. Its proven she abuses her power, its proven she lies, its proven she cannot handle anything including foreign relations.
Sure she is running for VP.. but the odds of McCain dying within 4 years is VERY HIGH... and for Palin to take office would be worse than McCain in Office!!!
Hmmmm......wouldn't "executive experience" have just a tad to do with running a large corporation? They're always talking about how she ran a city and now runs a state. Umph, umph, umph....
I find it stunning that out of one side of her mouth Fiorina admits that Mooseburger couldn't run a major corporation, and then out of the other side she is shocked– shocked!– that anyone would question Mooseburger's qualifications to potentially run the entire nation.
Oh, the arrows of unintentional irony wound deeply!
Palin has some executive experience and a undergraduate degree in journalism from University of Idaho. Would you hire her for any complex job?
Palin also has more executive experience than McCain, but you don't see him taking second chair to her.
and quite frankly, its not only that she's not qualified to be VP or President, it's that she's ignorant.
Carly Fiorina is great. She helps the dems more than McCain! Thanks Carly, keep talking!
Good to see people tell the truth ....even if it hurts
Palin = supported bridge to nowhere
Plain = sold AK-gov. plane to GOP insider, not on ebay
Palin = interested in taking away some books
Palin =does not believe in made made global warming.
Palin = Queen of pork – hired a lobbyiest to get more PORK
Palin =under investigation for abuse of power
Palin = Far right extremist.
If, God forbid, something should happent to McCain, Sarah Palin will be President!
:shudders:
But I thought she had all that executive experience that supposedly, accordingto her and the McCain campaign, made her much mroe qualified to run the oval office than Obama- So she's not qualified to run Hewlett-Packard but she is to run the most important office in this country- What kind of sense does that make!!!!
This woman is clearly watching her words in fear of Palin coming after her to!!!
According to the Board of Directors, even Carly Fiorina wasn't qualified to run Hewlett-Packard.
I'll never buy from Hewlett-Packard again.
Didn't Fiorina get fired from HP so how can she even comment on who can run a company or not.
Carly Fiorina is right because there is less accountability required by the government versus private corporations. Otherwise, Fiorina should still have her job as CEO.
First Rove and now Fiorina – Starting to see the truth!!
If you can't run a corporation, then you can't run a country. LOL!
Palin has more executive experience than McCain does too! BFD!!!
as usual, your "freedom" of the press has taken license with the story and especially the title. the title is a negative toward Palin and yet when you read the story, it actually points out that she has more experience than that Obama clown! You slant the headline to plant seeds but the story is completely opposite of it......get it right and quit trying to stir up emotions and just report the truth.....which seems to be forgotten these days............
Lies, lies and more lies Sarah Palin does not have executive experience. Being mayor of a city of 5000 people with a "Full Time" paid administrator that actually ran all the day to day business is not executive experience.
Being Governor of a state that is smaller than Charlotte, NC is not much experience either and to top it off Carley admits that she couldn't run a company like HP. Well running the country of AMERICA is much more complicated than a little company like HP and with John McGeezer stumbling daily, we need to be concerned about his longevity.
Being a US Senator is the only real job John McCain has ever had and judging by the economy he and his party have failed miserably.
No wonder you got fired from HP.
If you can call being a town mayor of 5,000 plus population enough experience to govern a country of 300 million, you've got to be the most naive person on earth.
She barely got 600 votes in that election. It's not even a hidden fact how she mismanaged funds in Wasilla.
It's not the title that counts but how good you are with the task at hand. Obama's entire campaign staff and magnitude of his campaign certainly outweigh Palin's 'government' experience.
He run a solid campaign, even out maneuvering a seasoned veteran like Hilary.
The Presidency is about management skills, about being able to make decisions based on facts, about having wisdom to stir the economy, foreign relations issues towards what's best for the country.
With Palin's record (whatever little is know so far) do you seriously believe she has the tools and capacity to do that? Heck, I'm not sure McCain has it either.
CNN please post this -
So let me get this right. Using this logic, Palin is not ready to run a multi-million dollar company, but she is ready to run a trillion dollar economy? Say, it aint so. She is just not qualified, and thats the bottome line.
Wow....that speaks volumes to me.
Fiorina is right, it is a "different set of things," a much more difficult "set of things. The safety and well being of the entire nation are at stake.
And her statement that Palin is not running for president is wrong in my book. Both VP nominees are definitely running for president. It's a well known fact that if anything happens to the president, the VP immediately has to step right into the president's shoes.
BTW...approximately 20% of our presidents have had to be replaced by the VP. That's a staggering statistic if you really stop to think about it. If you don't think someone is qualified to be president, you should most definitely NOT support them to be you vice president.
Palin who?
It's the economy stupid now
People are concerned about their jobs, the money, their houses not about a bogus/trophy/gimmick VP who barely knows what she's talking about and keeps telling the same speech and lies over and over
Do you really think this great nation deserves this ?
Come on !
Wow! She's not qualified to run a Multi Billion dollar corporation but is qualified to run a Multi Trillion dollar nation. Un Phucking believeable.
I think what she said was "sexist".
Florina - Isn't this the same lady who doesn't know the definition of "sexist"?
Wow. Talk about putting lipstick on a...
Oh, never mind.
It's the ECONOMY, STUPID!
But it is fine to put her a hearth beat away from running USA ??
So how can she run USA if she cant even run one company ??
Think about it – where has Palin spent her life? In small towns in Alaska and Idaho. Remote places. Where has Obama spent his life – Hawaii, Indonesia, Africa, California, New York City, Chicago and Washington DC, to name most of them. Has anyone seen the picture of the Wasilla City Hall next to the Illinois statehouse?
And Palin is more experienced? Say, what?????
This is the same Fiorina that ran HP into the ground. Man, this election process keeps getting better everyday.
Pretty smart question by KTRS, playing right into Fiorina's ego. In her answer, Fiorina effectively insulted both the office of the vice president as well as Palin in a single breath. Now THAT'S sexist!
Everyone on the GOP has always compare Obama with Palin including McCain..IT WAS OBAMA HAS NO EXPERINCE BEFORE PALING ...now the story has changed. McShame refuted two of his ads yesterday when he said he believed Obama didnt call Palin a pig...Someone pls ask him why did he say Obama did at first?
Oh great, since when is the fired ex-ceo of a company an expert????
If Palin isn't qualified to run a company, she certainly ISN'T qualified to be a VP or Pres. in waiting. Good grief, the government is THE largest "business" in this nation!
she's got more executive experience than John McCain also if that is the measure...that line is getting old. She has the wrong kind of experience to be president...she is clueless and hires her unqualified high school buddies and husband to the highest offices in her state, that won't work in Washington DC like it does in Podunk, Alaska
The Republican comments don't even make sense. They don't even make stupid. They are just not worth commenting on.
well then by that logic... McCain isn't qualified to run a lemonade-stand!
Lets be clear.. Obama calls the shots...
Look at his campaign.... This lady is out of her mind... HP didn't even want her at the helm any longer...
-V
Being a Govenor doesn't account for crap. Look at Bush...
“She’s got more executive experience than he does and she is the vice presidential nominee, Barack Obama is the presidential nominee.” You could insert Senator McCain's name for Senator Obama and the quote is still 'acurate' in it's context...The GOP really needs to let this critique die or continue being hypocritical.
The heading of this story is misleading. One would think that Florina is bashing Palin but, in fact, she is not. Slow day!
Now people, you need experience to run HP. The United States of America, on the other hand, none.
That's amazing – she can't run a big company, but she CAN run the country?????? Wow....
come on Carly stop fooling yourself, if a person can't run a multi-billion $ company, how then can they run a WHOLE country with trillions of dollars and the whole experience factor is now thrown out the window, by your definition she also has more executive experience than John "George "W"" McCain Bush
lol... that must means that she has nore experiance than McCain....lol
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Imma repulican 4 Obama... and that is so funny when McCain has no Execuitive experiance...lol Abraham Lincoln had none neither did alot of presidents
Obama Biden
When taken in context of presidential campaigns of the last 230 years, this campaign is so vanilla as to be boring. Americans don't know the issues and, frankly don't want to know the issues. We want to be led to the political trough by the heady scent of personality and sound-bites. Poltics fueled by hate are nothing new and, in this election, nothing particularly notable. When's the last time one side refered to the other's candidate, as John Adams was, as a hermaphrodite? This is nothing. C'mon, take off the gloves and, start making some outrageous allegations that are more in keeping with our history or rancor!
She does not think she is qualify to run a company but it is okay for her to be a heart beat away from running the biggest company of all (USA). So I wonder what they would do if they win and one week after they are in the white house something happens to McCain. There goes putting country first, it is obvious that it is putting John McCain first. He does not care about the country he only want to have the title of President even if its only for a few days, Once he is gone he does not care what he leaves behind.
See, i told you, the Republicans are turning on Palin. They can't seem to distance themselves fast enough. It's now time to save their own butts!
VOTE OBAMA FOR THE CHANGE THIS COUNTRY NEEDS!
MCCAIN CREATED THE BLACKBERRY
Ya Ya Ya Carly. You sound just like the rest of the Tucker Bounds/John McCain clones. Can't wait for the debates. We will see just how well McCain and Palin handle REAL questions. McCain and Palin will not be able to dodge questions asked during a debate. I guess they could if they want to look even worse than they do now. The Electoral College poll from CNN still shows that Obama has a strong lead over McCain. And none of these polls include the millions of young Obama voters that do not have landline phones. These polls do not include cell phones and I think that this election will change the way polls are managed forever because of the cell phone factor.
Carly Fiorina is irrevelant. The GOP keeps trying to trump her up as some sort of spokeswoman for the party. What has she done, spy on HP employees....err....what political experience does she have anyways.
It was the radio station that asked the question... not an Obama supporter.
Is the McCain campaign reprogramed every day to repeat the same lines over and over again... my gosh?
Is this some kind of reverse psycology Fiorina is trying to pull???
Help me understand Govt Palin can't run a company,but she can be second chair (VP) of the United States of America????
"Duh. Neither was Fiorina."
That was hilarious.
Wasn't Fiorini forced out of her role at HP because the board didn't like her leadership?
GOP is trying to confuse us into forgeting about-
ECONOMY!
WAR!
HEALTHCARE!
She IS qualified to hunt Moose and Wolves.
Obama-Biden 08
OBAMA has not run a business, city, state, county, lemonade stand, nothing, zero, zilch. OBAMA is an empty suit.
Americans have already started to realize all this guy does is read off a telemprompter. OBAMA has flipped flopped on more issues then a fish out of the water.
Example: OBAMA " I am the type of change we need, I will take the high road and not run negative adds and be a part of gutter politics."
YEAH WRIGHT
NObama
Independents for McCain/Palin
Per Sen Obama 9/16/08"
First, if you’re a financial institution that can borrow from the government, you should be subject to government oversight and supervision. When the Federal Reserve steps in as a lender of last resort, it is providing an insurance policy underwritten by the American taxpayer. In return, taxpayers have every right to expect that financial institutions with access to that credit are not taking excessive risks.
Second, we must reform requirements on all regulated financial institutions. We must strengthen capital requirements, particularly for complex financial instruments like some of the mortgage securities and other derivatives at the center of our current crisis. We must develop and rigorously manage liquidity risk. We must investigate rating agencies and potential conflicts of interest with the people they are rating. And we must establish transparency requirements that demand full disclosure by financial institutions to shareholders and counterparties. As we reform our regulatory system at home, we must address the same problems abroad so that financial institutions around the world are subject to similar rules of the road.
Third, we need to streamline our regulatory agencies. Our overlapping and competing regulatory agencies cannot oversee the large and complex institutions that dominate the financial landscape. Different institutions compete in multiple markets – Washington should not pretend otherwise. A streamlined system will provide better oversight and reduce costs.
Fourth, we need to regulate institutions for what they do, not what they are. Over the last few years, commercial banks and thrift institutions were subject to guidelines on subprime mortgages that did not apply to mortgage brokers and companies. This regulatory framework failed to protect homeowners, and made no sense for our financial system. When it comes to protecting the American people, it should make no difference what kind of institution they are dealing with.
Fifth, we must crack down on trading activity that crosses the line to market manipulation. The last six months have shown that this remains a serious problem in many markets and becomes especially problematic during moments of great financial turmoil. We cannot embrace the administration's vision of turning over the protection of investors to the industries themselves. We need regulators that actually enforce the rules instead of overlooking them. The SEC should investigate and punish market manipulation, and report its conclusions to Congress.
Sixth, we must establish a process that identifies systemic risks to the financial system like the crisis that has overtaken our economy. Too often, we end up where we are today: dealing with threats to the financial system that weren't anticipated by regulators. We need a standing financial market advisory group to meet regularly and provide advice to the President, Congress, and regulators on the state of our financial markets and the risks they face. It’s time to anticipate risks before they erupt into a full-blown crisis.
ROFL
Wow! whaah! whaaaah!!!!!!
she can't manage HP, but she can "MANAGE" the United states as a veepee!
Wow! whaah! whaaaah!!!!!! – FIORINA just stuck her BIG FOOT in her MOUTH!!!!!
The McSAME Campaign is free-falling on a self-destruct – spiralling out of control on Lying Express On A Bridge to No Where!!!!
First, it was McSame inventing the Blackberry; Now Palin Dont have the executive experience to manage HP!
At the end of the day; these two surrogate lobbyists will be OUT of Job for NOT sticking to their scripted talking points!!!!!
Wow! whaah! whaaaah!!!!!!
If McSAME invented Blackberry – very well then, he should go to CANADA and run for president there!!!!!!
BARACK THE VOTE – AMERICANS DONT LET THE SMEAR McSAME CAMPAIGN FOOL YOU!!!!!
NOT THIS TIME!!!!
Might I add that this Florina type seems to fit the Republican's flip flopping modus operandi.
Carly is honest about Palin's ability to run HP. She fails to be honest about her ability to run the country. Unless she of course thinks running the country is a lesser job than running HP. I don't think so.
Peter, your lead for this article is pretty sad and once again shows your bias. Palin not qualfied to run company..! You make it sound like Fiorina is bad mouthing Palin. Obama wouldn't be able to step in and run Microsoft any more than Palin could step in and run Hewlett-Packard. That's like a head line "Obama Kills Babies" topping an article about post-delivery abortion. But, you didn't lead with that, you lead with 'Obama's aboriton record under fire in latest independent ad', making Obama the victim once again.
The media can only fool people for so long...or at least I'd hope..It wouldn't matter if the politicians focused on the issues because you know very well that 'the issues' really isn't tabloid enough. It's the media that creates these news-bytes. I'm trying to pay attention and I still don't really know what each candidate stands for because all the media is concerned about getting out there is sensationalism.
She didn't even know what the Bush Doctrine was. I am your average Joe with family members who serve in the armed forces, who are currently stationed in Iraq & Afghanistan, and I knew what it was and can tell you I OPPOSE IT!! What about the whole I can see Russia from my porch..THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN POLOCY!!! I live next door to someone with AIDS, should I be appointed chief of the FDA? Give me a BREAK!!!
SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED.. When McCain first announced his pick, he said the only duties of the VP will to monitor his health and attend funerals for out of country diplomats. So why is she preaching about all she & McCain are going to accomplish?
Carly Fiorina took a healthy company like HP and totally decimated it. During her tenure, HP lost half of its value and incurred heavy job losses. She also said, “There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.” If Mrs. Fiorina thinks Sarah Palin is an awesome pick, then you should run far, far away given her wonderful track record. Yikes!
She is correct. There are two different skill sets required to run a major corporation and that of running a Government or being Vice President. I don't understand why this is a big deal, let alone newsworthy.
So she can't run a big Company, but she can run the world. Lol can't stop laughing and people really want to vote for this ticket lol
Please no more Fiorina. NO WAY NO MORE FIORINA.
Apparently she's not qualified to run a town of 5500 either given that she left it with over 20 million dollars of debt.
Palin is Pathetic! So is Carly who obviously didn't do such of good job running HP either.
Not qualified to run HP........hmmmmmm......but qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Go figure!!!!!
McCain/Palin......unstable and unable
As I am sure Obama would be able to run HP. Of course as President he would be better. Don´t think it´s easier to run the US than to run HP.
Once again, you can throw this shiny metal object up in the air. But we're not going to allow you to change the subject.
John McCain does not know anything about the economy, as evidenced by his statement that the "fundamentals were strong". He said that yesterday, one of the worse days of the stock market.
This man is out of touch and out of his mind if he thinks Sarah is going to change the subject.
It's the economy, stupid.
Obama/Biden 08
WOW!!!
The Republicans seem to have a monopoly on bright women – NOT!
Makes me cringe – and all the more determined to put some substance into my name – thank goodness without the "h".
Maybe because the mccaiin camp was screaming experience to high heavens forever and a day, then all of a sudden experience doesn’t matter anymore, maybe it’s the double standard that the mccain’s camp has set. McCain and Clinton had Obama justifying his experience all the way through the primaries now that the same is being do to palin “ it unfair and how dare he question her experience” I say how dare We not question it we the people have a right.
I agree with Bill from Fl
Carly is the poster child of executive greed and mismanagement.
Let's think about what the title of a company's head is: Chief Executive Officer. If Palin has so much "executive" experience, more than Obama, then why isn't she qualified to be a CEO? Surely her executive experience as mayor of a town of 6,000 and governor of a state of 600,000 gives her the necessary skills to run a company as an executive?
Oh wait, that's right, I shouldn't ask that question because circular logic works so well for the Republican Party. And it's sexist.
Ms. Palin was picked for a VP. Sen Hillary was the first woman to run for president of USA. Anybody can be picked.
CNN and the Obama campaign, in desperation, are trying to question whether Palin has experience to be VP when, to this day, nobody knows for sure who Obama is and question his own experience. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
And CNN, highlighting the sagging economy may not be an opening for the Dem, it just might make alot of people, including Obama supporters, question whether they should turn all the country's woos over to a novice by any standard.
Why on Earth is she qualified to be a heartbeat away from running the entire country, then?
Yes, we all need to remember that it is John McCain vs. Obama in this election. But, Obama's V.P. choice actually brings something to the ticket beyond just helping to get a few votes. Palin was chosen merely to get votes with absolutely no regard for the well being of the country.
Maybe Obama lacks some experience, but he makes up for it in judgment, careful decision making, and reason. We have no record of Palin's judgment beyond some one-liners that aren't true in the first place.
Fiorina's argument against Obama also implies that even McCain is unfit to run the nation since he doesn't have any "executive" experience either.
It appears this woman talks first and thinks later. I'm surprised she's got the gut to talk about other people's qualifications running things when she did such a poor job running Hewlett-Packard that she was fired for poor performance.
OBAMA no record and empty suit.
Obama can talk a great game and then follows up with no action....
This guy is a joke around the world.. The world is laughing at this wanna be rock star.....
Go McCain
CNN, come on! This is useless info. here! Your headline for this article is such a red herring!
The way this country is running and going to be running if McCain/Palin win, I'm withdrawing all my money from my bank, cashing out my 401k and putting it under my mattress.
After over half a century since the discovery of computer, the Republican nominee, John McCain, still don't know how to use a computer. The question is: where's the brain in the head?
Or should this be a case of the dullest brain ruling the mightiest nation in the world?
The further down we go, the further other countries like China laugh at us.
Be wise, Americans!!!
What is with these people with this "Executive Experience" that they claim Sarah Palin has?, and the notion that she has MORE experience than Obama get real, and get a life.
Palin is not qualified to "run" her mouth!
Did somebody go off message..LOL.
Fiorina wants to change the subject of a very bad day for John McCain. It's Tuesday and we will still be talking about John's statement right into the debates. He is not going to throw distraction balloons in our faces.
Obama/Biden 08
Oh my god... This lady needs to keep putting her foot in her own mouth.
She cannot run your old company but can ran the USA. Wow.
I can know longer try to make since of the comments others make in regards to their candidate. It is best to shut up.
If Palin can't run one company with the limited restrictions it would have how then is it she is qualified to run an entire country or even be one heart beat away from that seat. She has not experience in immigration, foreign affairs, economics, interstate infrastructure, health care or international trade. What experience are they talking about being elected mayor with none of the above problems, but having a surplus when she took office and leaving office with a $20 million dollar deficit. Get real, the republican machine only wants your vote and put a women there for all the stupid ones that will vote for her because she has the same body parts.
It's not executive experience that matters, it's what you've done with it. After all, GWBush had executive experience, too. Get my drift?
Right now, I'd like to see a part of Palin's executive experience... the part she is avoiding... trooper-gate. If her current handling of that experience is any indication... I don't want her anywhere near the vice presidency. It seem like she's already acting like the current corrupt administration. Yeah, she's a quick learner alright.
It is because of people like Fiorina, that wall street and the job market is bleeding. Compare her contribution to pay ratio with that of so many HP employees. Please talk issues not stupidity anymore.
Oh give it up Fiorina. Palin has only been a governor for two years. Look at Bush he was a governor and look what happen!
Palin's not qualified to be v.p. nor president of the U.S. either. She's supposed to be the answer for Hillary Clinton not being chosen as Obama's v.p. pick. 59% of white women now feel they have a reason to vote; nevermind that many of these women don't share Palin's ideology; I guess that just doesn't matter so long as there is a white woman on somebody's ticket. As far as executive experience, has anyone really studied Alaska? Palin's great state of Alaska has one of the highest umemployment rates; has one of the highest high school drop out rates; one of the highest teen pregancy rates; has one of the highest rates of people strung out on crystal meth – the list goes on. So much for her so-called executive experience. Obama can definitely run a multi-billion dollar IT company with or without Palin's so-called "executive" experience. Give me a break!
Sorry Carly...If America were run more like an efficient business the economy would not be in the tank.
What exactly is it that you think the Chief Executive does?
in reality, running America's complex financial matrix is actually MORE complicated than running HP.
Fiorina,
the question came from the host you were talking to, not the Obama campaign.
you are the one out there pushing the legitimacy of McCains false ads
and why is CNN pushing the 527 add on abortion so hard?
didn't McCain & Obama denounce 527s
I find it amusing that the woman that has such low moral standards that she felt it OK to spy on her own board members and employees is given ANY credability as a spokesperson for ANYONE.
Carly Fiorina could not run HP and neither can Palin. Neither has the skill, temperament or understanding of domestic and world affairs to effectively govern ANYTHING. The Republican ticket has no clue of the circumstances experienced day to day by the average American working/family person and has no place in setting the agenda for America's future, be it on legislative, moral or any other grounds.
You are right Fiorina, she is not campaining to run a major multi-billion company. She is campaining to run a multi-trillion country. SO tell me, if she is not ready to run a company, how can you dismiss her qualifications to run a country. Running a company is nothing compared to running a country and you said she is not ready to do the former. Regarding Barack Obama's experience I would like to remind you that 18 million voters decided that his judgement was a lot more important in this election than his experience. And if you compare Baracks judgement to that of McCain and Sarah combined the decision is easy.
In a previous article moments ago, McCain is said to have told folks that he created the Blackberry. Well , If anyone wants to check, just google blackberry.
Does that mean that McCain was involved with the $612 Million dollar lawsuit with the Canadian firm Reasearch In Motion (RIM) and NTP in 2-9-06 ???? I understand that the DOD got involved because of all the goverment workers who use this. What role should Judge Spencer who heard the case know concerning McCain's supposed development --since RIM says it had the patent /But NTP brought the patent infringment case to court. It seems that anyone around McCain is invloved in some sort of investigation......Palin included.
Not very comforting..........on it goes.
This is hilarious. So if Fiorina dismisses Palin's abilities, is that sexism? Or is it only sexism if questions about her abilities come from the Democratic side?
Totally agree... although I am a democrat, turned independent and cannot ever vote for anyone agaist Pro Choice and Same Sex Marriage.
CNN has been so pro-Obama. Just look at the headline and then read the actual news content... hilarous!! I am amazed how news media can be so biased. CNN has lost all credibility in this election.
CEO is an Executive job – but she HAS executive experience,right? She was Mayor and Govenor- she ran them eficiently,right?
Unbelieveable?
You cant make this stuff up.
Obama 08
“She’s got more executive experience than he does and she is the vice presidential nominee"
she also has more than John Mccain, maybe they should flip sides and Palin can be the presidential nominee
I thought Carly was a very intelligent women until this comment. You mean to tell me that HP is more complex than the US Government. Cause that's exactly what she would be running if McCain were to win and GOD forbid anything happened to him. I think I just made up my mind.
But I thought you guys hated CEOs of big, big corporations? You should be glad Palin is focused on the vice presidency and not working for one of those mean, evil corporations you can't stop blogging about.
Didn't HP fire her or something?
I find the whole statement about Palin not being able to run HP completely sexist.
All Palin had going for her was her "executive experience". Now, according to a REPUBLICAN surrogate, she doesn't have enough of that to run a corporation. hmmmm!!! I guess she's not ready to be VP after all.
Wake up America.............. Get a clue. Do you really want McFossil and Palin running this country with people like Carly Fiorina and Phil Gramm as their financial advisors?
Why does Firoina continue to garner air time?
Carly, if Palin is unqualified to be a CEO, were you qualified to be VP since McCain apparently had you on his list?
She almost ran HP into the ground and now she wants to set policy to run the country further into the ground. And, stop worrying about Obama's experience. He is incredibly smart and will do quite well. Remember when you guys doubted he could do well on the world stage-and then went to Europe and the Middle East and proved you guys wrong?
But neither can McCain and Obama run HP. This question is just a trap.
Only Bush and Cheney can run big companies. They were CEOs of big companies. McCain can run the Pentagon, though.
C'mon, I wish these people would get it straight. It was never Obama who questioned her experience. It was the media. The whole thing has been distorted and blamed on Obama. But since we're on the subject Palin only has a few months of executive experience in which she used over used her authority. That doesn't amount to much experience if you ask me. COCKY WACKO!
same old carly
"that carly" who let 20,000+ hp employees go and shipped the jobs overseas.
And, of course, Fiorina would be eminently qualified to be POTUS because, just like Bush, she had secret wire tappings and surveillance on her board members.
This is the pot calling the kettle black, if you ask me.
If she's not qualified to run a company, how is she qualified to run the U.S.?
Obama supporters, don't let Fiorina or whoever she is, change the subject. They want to control the news cycle so don't let them. It's the economy, stupid. Stay focus.
Do not respond to idiots.
Obama/Biden 08
That is sooooooooo sexist!
I do remember a little thing Palin said on July 30th. How she had no idea what a VP even does. At least Obama has a VP that has the expierience we need!
Doesn't running the country take the same skills to a higher level and then some??? The US government is a much larger and more complex entity than HP.
You Ran HP Into The Ground, Shipped Many Jobs Over Seas, And Ran Off With Millions! You Have Zero Credibility!
Q.> Do you know what the difference between Palin and Biden is?
A.> A resume.
She is right about one thing. This election is between Obama and McCain. However, that means for VP it is Biden and Palin. Ask yourselves, which would you want to head a major company?
Fiorina ran HP into the GROUND!!!
HP is nothing of what it used to be thanks to her!!
And for her efforts, she got a $23,000,000 bonus check!!!! Just like all the other incompetent CEOs.
Go repubs, go fat cats!!!
Go big money lobbyists!!!
Squash us little people under your shoes!!!
????? Who are you? And who cares? Back to the issues, please...let's skip the I can't formulate a clear sentence rhetoric!
Why is Carley an "EX CEO" because her judgment was so poor the company was sinking faster than the Titanic and she wants us to listen to her opinion – I DON'T THINK SO!
Honesty Hurts!
Paul September 16th, 2008 1:26 pm ET
Duh. Neither was Fiorina.
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A point well taken. The republicklans can't run the country. McCain can't run a jet. Carly can't run IBM and Sarah...poor Sarah....can't run her family.
I think Obama should have an ad saying that McCain and Palin say they are going to end big corporate bonuses for failed CEO's and then highlight that his top economic advisor (Fiorino) received 21 million after neutering Hewlett Packard.
Of course, saying that Palin couldn't run HP is probably the only truthful thing this pathetic woman has ever said. Fiorina should know, she couldn't run HP either so she is somewhat an expert on not being qualified to be a CEO.
This coming from the woman who got 44million when HP kicked her out. And she is now a major spokesperson for McCain
Well, as a former HP shareholder I can remind you that FLORINA WAS NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN THE COMPANY EITHER. In fact, she was the most terrible thing ever happened to HP!
Vote Obama/Biden SAVE THE ECONOMY!
Latina (hrumph) – why be racist and put a label on yourself? And, yes, Palin has more experieince than NOBAMA! Even my Tom cat does!
Would everyone just admit that the VP position is very important!!!!!
The person may become President even on day 1!!!!!!!
So, yes, it is important to look at all 4 canidates!!!!!!!
Stop the stupidity please!!!!
Carly is a joke. Palin is not fit to run HP, but Carly thinks she can be a heartbeat away from the BIG RED BUTTON? The Republicans are sure shooting themselves in the foot toady and everday! Let the thunder roar, Dems are taking back the government and set it straight!
And the Republican's Buyers Remorse for Palin Caribou Barbie begins. Mark my words Americans will not be fooled this time if the FREE FALL of McCain in the Polls is any indication.Despite the so called Palin Power McCain keeps dropping in the Polls. This Election is and shall always be about the ECONOMY and OBAMA-BIDEN are the only ones capable of Leading this Country out of the current financial mess in which the GOP has put it.
Hotline/FD Tracking 09/13 – 09/15 909 RV 42 46 Obama +4
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top issue facing the country, with a vast plurality (39%) saying this. Obama continues to have
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You got that right!!! Obama is not qualified, nor experienced enough to be president of our blessed United States of America! And he thinks he's somethin' to say the Republican Vice Presidential nominee doesn't have the competencies!
We don't have much informatiom on this person who wants to be our VP. She's for the people she states yet we are not suppose to ask her questions and oh by the way the media employees are voters also.
What experience, it appears she has great abilities in delegating authority. Be for real if she were taking kids to the office either someone on her payroll was babysitting / being payed to for duties other than there job. How is she in meetings and handling official business with a child in tow.
Some of this is just plain idiotic. Issues please..
Oh yeah this from a woman who's company is about to fire almost 25,000 people great...
So, was Fiorina capable of running HP? Didn't they just have to lay off about 27,000 people?
You cannot reason with an addict. You cannot try to figure out this woman's or Palin's or any Repugnican's logic. Why? Because it would be like trying to reason with an addict or alcoholic. Their denial is so deep they believe, in their conscious mind, what they think and say is true.
About the only company 'Caribou Bartbie' is capable of running is the local tanning salon. Afterall, she DID buy, at the taxpayers expense, a tanning bed for the governors mansion In Alaska.
If I see one more person write " one heartbeat away from the presidency" I am going to vomit...get a new line PLEASE!!!
Fiorina is a piece of work! All of these CEOs (remember Home Depot) who screw up a company after a year of employment and then when they are "asked to leave" get huge multi-million dollar "severence packages". Give me a break! Just another reason to vote for Obama.
THAT JUST MIGHT BE THE ONLY THING SHE HAS EVER SAID THAT WAS TRUE...............WAIT A MIN....NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, THAT KINDA SOUNDED SEXISET....
Are you kiding me? She can't be serious how can you not be ready to run a corporation but ready to lead the free world if something should happen to John "POW" McCain.
i agree.
But isnt that what Guliani was barking at the GOP Convention, that you have to have Executive experience to be President. Now you dont need that Fiorina. You are a joke!!
Today my 8 year old son said, “Look dad, I can see the garden from here. I guess that qualifies me to be a great gardener”
This is in reference to Palin’s comment that because she can see Russia from her home, that provides her with enough foreign experience to be a heart beat away from the President
Hummmm, Not qualified to Run a Fortune 500, but qualified to potentially be the MOST POWERFUL PERSON ON THE PLANET????
More double speak and Bull--.
Bill from FL... Amen, Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain always says "...I know how to fix it and I know how to get things done." Those things are – fix Washington, fix the economy, capture Osama bin Laden, etc. Unfortunately, McCain offers no specific remedies during his appearances.
...and Carly you're being sexist saying that a "Hockey Mom" can't run HP. At least a "Hockey Mom" wouldn't have bought Compaq that drove HP into the ground nor would they have walked on HP's ethical standards. Unfortunately, your "Hockey Mom" would have with her own cronyism, vendettas and vindictiveness.
So Carly--could you explain? is a company is more important than our country? Is that your message....that any shallow wannabe can run the country, but it takes a real brain to run a company?
Or, are you saying that we should pick our country's leaders based on ....um....what? tiaras? hairdos? helicopter-animal slaughter skills...pregnant children? just curious.
Well, at least for once you told the truth. Palin is not fit to run a company -or to run our country.
John left his three kids and wife, and pretended he was a hero for years. What hero leaves three kids and his wife to have an affair with a 25 year old.
He's having a tough time now because of his stupid "fundamental statement", so watch, he'll try to change the subject and pull the POW card. Sad.
Obama/Biden is the right ticket
Barack Obama was Director of a community service organization that lifted neighborhoods out of poverty by bringing the people together to share the skills needed to achieve what they could not do individually. He taught constitutional law for 12 years so he should know something about the subject that the current Administration clearly doesn't. He was an Illinois Senator for 7 years. He has a Juris Doctorate from Harvard so he knows a little something about the law.
Gov. Palin has a degree in journalism and was mayor of a very small town, which she left in debt and with a 38% regressive tax increase. As Governor, she has collected hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks and yet brags on the campaign trail that she has turned them down.
You be the judge. Who's better qualified?
Wow she should think twice ... Obama run a campain with millions a month and did just great... Palin fake as governor to run a large state. Who I think have the most credit to run as president and vice president Obama, Biden, no doubt
I find it quite stunning that this dimwit ever ran a company.
Her not knowing the Bush doctrine is enough of a reason for anti-Bush voters to vote for Palin.
if i were the obama campaigne, i would not touch this. Obama has never run ANYTHING, NADA, ZIPPO, ZILCH !!!.
He is the most inexperienced candidate to ever run for president. It is rather funny that the only woman of the bunch has executive experience, and she is running for vice oresident.
Everybody is now waking up and thats why ALL the polls are moving in John and Sarah's direction. I cant wait for nov. 4th for obama to curl up in his shell.
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Not exactly a vote of confidence.
Palin's own team mate doesn't think she could run a major company but she could run the United States of America in McCain's absence?
Where's the logic there?
But what about all that "Executive Experience" the McCain Campaign has been bragging about?
About the only company Caribou Bartbie is capable of running is the local tanning salon. Afterall, she DID buy, at the taxpayers expense, a tanning bed for the governors mansion In Alaska. Go figure...
Obama is not fit to run a company. He's not even fit to run a campaign.
Carly failed as leader of HP. She just walked away with a nice pile of money for herself. I hope Carly enjoys life in the private sector. she's not going to be working for the next administration.
CNN – you have lost another viewer.
Honestly, the headline of this article is flat out bias – and you continue your campaign against Gov. Palin with this garbage.
Don't you think that an appropriate title of this story would be "Palin not qualified to run major international IT company". I would also remind you that Gov. Palin has indeed ran a company in the past.
You are more and more like MS NBC every day. Your coverage disgusts me.
Uh...
On the next episode of "Cherry Picking a Headline!"
Let Obama supporters take this and run crazy...Its clear what Carly said and she also pointed out this differance of a corporation and government...Is it just me or is anyone else ticked off that the Obama campaign has totally went back on its main promise of a new kind of politcs. Seems to me if he can not keep his first promise, how can we trust that he will keep any of them.
Apparently neither was she. She got canned after she ran HPQ into the ground. She never did anything for HPQ but cut company jobs! She should shut her mouth, go back home and roll around in the millions she earned in that multi-million dollar severance package!
She is talking out both sides of her neck and she's being sexist as well. If she calls the skit with Tina Fey sexist she needs to look at her own statement. Her statement was worse than the skit (which was pretty funny by the way).
Didn't she run HP into the ground?????? The Republicans are getting funnier by the minute.
Palin was mayor of a town of less than 7 000 people. When she was elected it was debt free. She hired a lobbyist who got 23 million dollars of earmarks for her town. When she left, the town had a debt of 22 million dollars.
Palin's " executive experience" is a dismal record of financial mismanagement!!
Funny how you wouldn’t trust her to handle a multi billion dollar company-but would trust her to speak to world leaders and to help run one of the most powerful countries in the world.. that sounds so backwards!! Obama represents most of the people I know and his experience alone as a community organizer is more relevant then a senator who pretty much supported Bush 95% of the time and a governor of a state that has more deer then people...come on people Wake up…!! Lets try to make the future better and vote Obama/McCain.
She's got more "executive experience" (and no other kind) to run the whole country, but she doesn't have enough executive experience to run a big corporation. Are you kidding me? When is this country going to wake up?
She has spoken. Palin is simply not qualified for the job. She is ill-equipped for the job.Palin should go back to Alaska, consolidate her base and prepare herself for future, but at the moment ,NO.
Okay so here it goes...my rant...this woman is saying that this inexperienced governor from alaska is not fir to run a company, but yet she believes that she is fit to run a country. she points out that palin is not the one running for president, but mccain and obama who are. Let's see...the average life expectancy of a white man is 78.3 yrs old, while this is an average, men more likely die between the ages of 70-73. John Mccain is 72 years old, so in all reality, he could kill over, and then we would be stuck with this palin lady (who has WAY lesss experience than Obama) running our country.
What's that you say? You wanna move to Candada?? Hell yeah...NO MORE REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moose-munch and bunch strike again.........
i agree with what Fiorina said, is what i meant to say.
Fiorina did you know the US is one big company.....lol....lastly your campaign could not run this country .......by my observation of the money you waste on campaign commercials already stating known facts about Obama.......Reformers my A55 .......transformers yes, so what are you gonna transform into this week Palin? That pig was pretty cool last week!.......oh a Liar this week ......great I'm sure Americans will love you for it.
Carley Fiorina(Senior McCain warrior)……She ran HP to the ground.
Phil Gramm (Senior McCain Warrior)……..Says Americans are whiners. If we were to send 5 people to jail today for the bank/mortgage meltdown, he’ll be one of them.
Sarah Palin (VP wannabe)..... Beauty queen distraction.Still reading the teleprompter from convention day. Reckless pick by McCain veeeeery Reckless! Knows NOTHING!
The McCain Lobbyist ring (7 Senior McCain warriors)……. McCain owes them big time because these folks are working day and night for him. You really think they will not be rewarded. We cannot be free of lobbyists in a McCain administration.
McCain PROFILE
PRO-LIFE …… According to him
PRO-LIES……. Yes, see his campaign ads and redefinition of economic fundamentals at his convenience
Nat. SEC……… Voted for IRAQ, Anti Time table withdrawal, Obama was first to urge surge in Afghanistan.
TEMPER…...Has bad temper which causes poor judgment and cost us blood and treasure.
Can we see Palin's tax records?
Let's face it, Carly Fiorina can't run a company either. When she left both Lucent and HP, both companies were not on the best financial footing. While at HP, she was the #1 proponent of using contractors and off-shore employees... a policy that continues today as more and more U.S. HP employees are laid off in favor of low-cost replacements. I'm not sure why everybody is so ga-ga over her history. All she does is sell off America to the lowes bidder. She tells a good story that just doesn't pan out when the details come to light.
not qualified to run a multi billion IT company and is qualified to run the US? I think we can honestly say, her words....not Obama camp. I would be ALL OVER this if I were them. But one thing for sure, I think she is RIGHT!! Palin is not ready for prime time!
If she cannot run a multibillion dollar company then how can she run a multizillioin dollar country.
OMG! Carly is right...for the FIRST TIME in her career.
Palin is unfit to run Hewlett-Packard – a company that operates in only ONE industy (hi-tech), with less than 140K staff and revenue of $104Bn?
And she's ready on DAY ONE to be POTUS???!!!!! Whatever makes her incapable of being HP CEO clearly disqualifies her to be VP.
My head is spinning!!! Please, God, h-e-l-p!!!
*CNN, please post this!!! All my posts have awaited moderation! Are U censoring me like Palin is censoring U?*
The outsourcing queen is a sexist. This is a sexist comment against Palin.
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Why is she on the bottom of the ticket with all of her executive experience. Its really sexist of the republican males that would pick an unqulified 72 year old man over a woman that has as much executive experience as she has.
Failin was a student in journalism. She is not ready to be VP of a grocery store, much less the country.
Obama/Biden 08
Too funny! She is attacking Palin! Is this sexist? Ha,ha,haaaaa
Not qualified to run a company but qualified to be second-in-command of (what I hope still is) the world's remaining superpower. I thought she had so much "executive experience...?"
I don't think she could run HPagian after she spent all this time with mcsame.
FIORINA IS PRETTY DUMB HERSELF. SHE IS QUALIFIED TO BE MCCAINS VP.
Once again somebody is not doing their homework. Whlie Palin was a beauty queen Obama was involved working with people ( community organizer the one the Republicans laughed at ). And they say she has more experience.
OMG. What on earth is with these people. She is running for PRESIDENT. Call it vice president if you like but it is PRESIDENT. SHAME on JOHN MC CAIN. However let no one be foolish enough to fall for these distractions. Just shut McCain and his crew down. CNN lok into the voter fraud being perpetrated by the Republicans and McCain in Misc. Fla. Ohio and Penn.
Sure, Gov. Palin can't run a 'multi-billion dollar IT company' but she can effectively run the most powerful country on earth should sen. McCain demised. That is because of her given executive experience as a mayor & 19 months in office as a Governor from Alaska. That's quite an interesting possibility.
Amazing to me that McCain supporters, when challenged on what Palin can do, automatically compare her qualifications to those of Obama, who is running for PRESIDENT...so, to that end, Palin is not qualified to run HP, nor is she qualified to run this country...McCain is not qualified to run anything, but to run scared when he makes yet another misspeak (i.e., as in yesterday's comments about this country's fundamentally "sound" economy). We are left with one team and one ticket, of sound mind, body and principle, to run this nation.
OBAMA/BIDEN '08 & '12 YES WE CAN!!!
p.s. guess that Carly couldn't run HP either, since she stepped down. These Repubs need to have scripts to say anything!
Fiorina herself could not run her own company. She got fired...look it up. Who is she to be speaking out all the time about who's qualified to do what? She needs to find a job.
Here in North Carolina, people who are expected to vote Democrat are receiving unsolicited "absentee ballots". This is obviously another of the Republican dirty tricks to suppress voter turn-out. People will think they've voted on the bogus absentee ballot and will not actually vote.
Absentee ballots must be requested in writing from the Board of Elections. Any unsolicited ballot is not valid.
That is sexist
Carly nearly ruined HP, so her opinion here is worthless
So Palin is not qualified to run a multi-million dollar company, but is qualified to run a far, far bigger economic machine ... the US Government. Here in Palo Alto, we live with what happened to HP under Carly. Her comment is another logical absurdity ... like those she has uttered, always with that cloying and annoying smile, to try to paint Palin as somehow qualified. I compare her 'executive experience' as
mayor of a town (at the time) 1/10 the size of Palo Alto to my executive experience as mayor of Palo Alto, and let me tell, that does not qualify Palin to be Vice President of a company or of the country. Its time for American voters to get real, and vote on real qualifications rather than personality. To steal a line from Roger Ebert, this isn't 'American Idol.'
Fiorina is simply hilarious. How pathetic is she.
palin was chosen to pander to the women voters.
once women find out she is not for womens rights ie: charge rape victims for their forensic exams and dotn have the right to chose if raped or doesnt believe in birthcontrol....women will not flock to this person who calls her self a woman.
The "logic" Republicans are using to justify Palin's experience seems to be a vulnerability. They keep stressing Palin's 'executive' experience. How much has McCain himself had?
Quibbling over semantics is no way to campaign for president.
What the heck? Let me get this straight....Palin isn"t qualified to run HP, but she is qualified to run the United States? Fiorina is an idiot, like all the rest of the Republicans. Does she have a measurable IQ?
This Palin situation is ceasing to be funny, it's becoming dangerous.
VOTE OBAMA
Fiorina is a douchebag, by suggesting that Sarah can't walk in her shoes it shows she doesn't have faith in Palin at all.
Careful there, you're tripping over your own talking points. Foolish. We cannot afford another four years of this garbage.
How a leaning dem/liberal news media, makes it a head out of quotes without taking the full quotes into account. She, Fiorina, was compairing Palin to Obama for the experience. But News Media has to dostort the comments and make an anti GOP headline.
IF you take the full comment into account she is saying Palin can't run HP but She has more experience than Obama. Headline should be Obama can't run HP so how come he is going to run multi trillion Dollar economy?
As democrat we wil vote McCain/Palin or not to vote at all but Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Obama and Michelle
Hillary on 2012
This Fiorina woman is obviously impaired.
Palin's not qualified to run a hockey team.
Judging by the $27 million debt she left Wasilla straddled with, she's definitely not qualified to run a small town.
And McCain has a history of cancer and of medical problems related to his time as a POW, and there's about a 1 in 3 chance he won't make it through the next four years. So this election is VERY MUCH about how Palin would function as commander in chief.
Get a clue lady, talking about the economy is more important than talking about Sarah Failin.
It's the economy stupid, not Sarah Failin (McCain's cheerleader).
Fiorina is what is wrong with our country. She negligently ran a multi-billion dollar company into the ground and then bailed out with a golden parachute. The GOP then fight to have her consult for them. What a pack of heartless charlatans
Does anyone out there notice that the Repubs keep saying that Palin has more exec experience than Obama? This would mean that Palin also has more exec experience than McSame, right? McSame has never been a Governor or Mayor either. So if the Repubs think she is so great, why not have Palin at the top of ticket? She pulls in larger crowds than McSame anyway.
"She’s got more executive experience than he does and she is the vice presidential nominee, Barack Obama is the presidential nominee."
Ok, if we are going with this argument...she also has more experience than John McCain too! All the experience in the world doesn't necessarily mean someone makes wise decisions...am I right?
I wonder if they are leaving out another question "Do you think Obama could lead your company?" Her answer would of most definately been "NO".
Libs will twist an argument in their favor just to have something negative to say.
BTW.... since the abortion thread is locked, those who are saying a woman has the right to choose... doesn't she have a right to choose if she ha sex or not? Shouldn't that be the real choice and not whether she should have the right to choose an abortion as birth control?
Oh wait, so Carly Fiorina thinks that running Hewlett Packard is a tougher job than Vice President (or potentially President)? Is she talking backwards through her gastro-intestinal tract?
So she has 1 thing in common with Fiorina b/c she couldn't run the company either! I don't know if the McCain campaign knows this but America is the biggest corporation in the WORLD! I mean this speaks volumes for itself...can't run a company and can't run America
The McCain campaign just makes my head hurt when i read this stuff. I used to be stunned when they first started doublespeaking. Now i just shrug.
Oh SNAP!
I'll take intelligence and knowledge over executive experience any day. I'll take a Harvard Law Grad and Constitutional Law professor , civil rights lawyer,COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, state senator, and US Senator who sits on the foreign relations committee any day over a sports caster, small town mayor and almost two term governor of the 47th largest state with NO foreign policy experience any day.
Fiorina wasn't qualified to run HP either.
Funny...cause Barack never leading a major company is part of their argument against his executive skills....hahaha
The title of the article misleads what's being said. A better version would be: "Palin not qualified to run company - Obama even less"
SEXIST
And its a bold fact that democrats are responsible for the de-regulation of the credit companies in the 90's. Yet, Obama and Biden are somehow trying to link it with McCain.
If Fannie and Freddie went under investigation (why haven't they?), half of Obama's staff would be in court.
My Goodness....is she for real??? She just helped prove the point that neither McCain or Palin...can help us get out of this financial mess this country is in.....they just don't get it....it's like they live in some other world!!! At least Obama came out this morning...with a comprehensive 6 point plan to help get this country going again on the right track....all McCain wants is ANOTHER COMMISSION to study the problem...he will probably put Carly or Phil Gramm in charge and they will both concur that we the American people are just whinning again....GOD HELP US!!!
Yeah, neither was she. the GOP is absurd... but those willing to vote for them are even more questionable.
Question:
Who is this women
And why am I concerned about her statement
Our country is in a finacial crisis!!!!! We need Barack Obama as President!!!!!
Question:
Would McCain have any supporters if Barack was a white man????
You democrats are so full of hate and you republicans are so full of something else. Is there any wonder that millions cry for the need of a real third party?
This is true, under McCain's new campaign of regulating shouldn't he be regulating Fiorina on her multi-million dollar severance package? My mind is boggled...
Just like Barack Obama could not step right into a CEO job, because his experience of running things is very limited
There is virtually no Politician capable of running a major corporation. If they could they would be doing so. The proof is look at how much more money a corporate CEO makes compared to even the President.
Considering the announcement today that HP is laying off a large part of its workforce and based on it's performance during her reign there, I don't think she can run a multi-billion dollar company either.
And based on her "lack of understanding" (or was she just lying?) of the Obama tax plan – she may have the same management ability as Palin. In other words, less than zero!
The Obama camp is clueless. Keep talking about Palin's experience. Don't worry, when the average Joe and Jane hear you talk about Palin's experience, the though of Obama's experience never enters their mind.
It would be funny if it wasn't such an obvious comparison. Can't they see the wart on the end of their nose? And these are the guys you want to lead the country? They miss the most blatantly obvious things, even when they are repeatedly reminded about it?
There goes that tingle up my leg and spine again, all the way to my gag reflex.