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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Carly Fiorina's Ego Man, I love this. Carly can't admit that just about any egotistical blowhard can serve as a corporate figurehead, so she goes and trashes her boss: Carly Fiorina, the former chairman of Hewlett Packard, and a senior economics advisor to McCain was asked by a local Missouri radio: "Do you think (Palin) has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?" "No, I don't," Fiorina replied, before adding. "But you know what? That's not what she's running for." ... Asked later by the MSNBC news channel if she regretted what she had said about Palin's business acumen, Fiorina replied: "Well, I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation." Running a corporation is orders of magnitude easier than running the United States government and managing our relations with each and every other country on the globe. CEOs can get away with gladhanding, yelling at managers, and occasionally making ill-advised mergers. They are taken seriously even after they are fired. A president's daily decisions have the potential to affect millions of people, and he/she has final, unavoidable responsibility for all of them. Regardless of what she believes, Carly's every breath for the last several months has been in the service of putting John McCain in the White House. Still, she just couldn't bring herself to say that an obviously-unqualified Sarah Palin is as good as she is. Better, even. Even John McCain, king of the egotistical blowhards, doesn't pass muster. Fiorina's ego is a formidable thing. |