Fiorina: Princess Yep Yep lacks the experience to run H.P., but that's not what she's running for

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Fiorina: Palin Doesn't Have Experience To Run A Major Company

September 16, 2008 12:25 PM

Carly Fiorina, a key surrogate for John McCain on economic issues, said on Tuesday that Sarah Palin does not have the experience needed to run a major company like the one that Fiorina formerly headed.

"Do you think Sarah Palin has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?" asked the host.

"No, I don't," responded Fiorina. "But you know what? That's not what she's running for."

Appearing on the McGraw Milhaven Show on St. Louis KTRS Radio, Fiorina went on to stress that the Alaska Republican had more executive experience than anyone else on the ticket, specifically Barack Obama.

"I find it quite stunning actually that the Barack Obama campaign is questioning Sarah Palin's experience," she said. "She has more executive experience than he does and she is the vice presidential nominee and he is the presidential nominee."

But the admission that Palin wasn't prepared to run the very business that Fiorina once headed is a gaffe that could come back to haunt the McCain campaign. Certainly, when critics mainly argue that Palin lacks the gravitas to step in for McCain at a moment's notice, and when the economy is the major topic on the campaign trail, it is easy to see how Fiorina's comment could make its way into an Obama or DNC attack ad.

UPDATE: Fiorina went on MSNBC to defend her comments and decides to double down, arguing that John McCain, Barack Obama, and Joseph Biden couldn't run Hewlett Packard either. The Obama campaign, seeking to compound the fallout of her earlier statement, highlights just the portion where she talks about McCain.

"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? 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," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.

LATE UPDATE: Here is the full clip of Fiorina on MSNBC: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/fiorina-palin-couldnt-do_n_126827.html

[NewJeffCT]

1. Princess Yep Yep?

that's a new one to me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. To the best of my knowledge, I invented that one

In one of her first interviews, Palin was asked if she was "ready."

She replied "Yep! Yep! I'm ready," and the rest is history.

:patriot:

[Pennie109]

3. I don't think Fiorina did a good job in running HP, did she?

Wasn't she run out of HP?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Run out, universally despised, and the recipient of a fat-assed golden parachute.

For some reason, she's been able to worm her snout into an "advisor" position with MCCain, but she's not exactly the most well-loved failure on the planet.

[SuperTrouper]

6. And now she is going to be despised by the McManiacs for

her diarrhea of the mouth today

[avaistheone1]

7. Precisely.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina, one of the most powerful women in corporate America, is leaving the troubled computer maker after being forced out by the company's board. Shares of HP (Research) jumped 6.9 percent in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday on the news. But at one point, the stock was up as much as 10.5 percent. "The stock is up a bit on the fact that nobody liked Carly's leadership all that much," said Robert Cihra, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners. "The Street had lost all faith in her and the market's hope is that anyone will be better." Fiorina, the only female CEO at a company in the Dow Jones industrial average, had been with HP since 1999. But the company's controversial deal to buy Compaq in the spring of 2002 -- after a bruising proxy fight led by one of the Hewlett family heirs -- has not produced the shareholder returns or profits she had promised. "While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision," Fiorina said in a statement released by the company.

http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15515

[PBS Poll-435]

5. This is ironic/funny/sad on so many levels.

Hurricane Carly was a DISASTER at HP.

[lamp_shade]

8. She (Fiorina) looks like Agnes Moorehead with a face lift.

[progdonkey]

9. wasn't Obama's job as a "community organizer" also being a CEO...

of a small corporation? I don't mean "isn't it like that?" but whether it technically was a corporation (I seem to remember reading that somewhere).

Yes, none of them are running to be CEOs--they're running for a far more important job. The worst that can happen when you're a CEO is that your company goes under and your employees have to find new work (provided the government doesn't nationalize the loss and make it the taxpayers burden--ahem, FannieFred).

The worst that can happen when you're president is nuclear annihilation of the entire planet and the few survivors have to fight the zombies in the barren wasteland of post-apocalyptic Alaska (or so Palin believes).

[ladywnch]

10. so, let me get this straight. I just want to make sure I understand everything.

None of the candidates is qualified to run a multi-million dollar company but Palin is qualified to run a multi-hundred billion economy including the largest military budget on the planet.?????? Oh, I get it. That particle accelerator that people thought didn't do anything when they turned it on has actually pushed us into bizzaro world!!!! It all makes sense now.