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"For the past 15 months, Carly Fiorina has given her life to John McCain. A brand-name businesswoman owing to her tumultuous tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina serves as "victory chairwoman" of the Republican National Committee and is the McCain campaign's most outspoken and energetic female surrogate. But as she strolled around a dining room in the battleground state of Ohio last week, praising "a focused, determined, intelligent, empathetic, powerful leader," she wasn't talking about the GOP nominee. She was talking about Hillary Clinton—a woman, she told the 50 women gathered to see her in a Columbus suburb, who'd been wronged. "Women in positions of authority, particularly bold women who are trying to change things, are … caricatured differently, commented upon differently and held to different standards," she said. "I watched all of this happen to Hillary Clinton." This kind of talk was candy for the crowd—and Fiorina knew it. She'd traveled to Columbus at the invitation of Women for Fair Politics, a coalition of Ohio Clinton supporters formed to protest what they see as an injustice done to Hillary by the Democratic Party."
I would not vote for her if she was the GOP nominee I am not impressed with her CEO results.
I'm not either. But at least she has some management experience in the real world. What other candidate can we say that about? Most have been government employees of one sort or another since they were in diapers.
I'm not either. But at least she has some management experience in the real world. What other candidate can we say that about? Most have been government employees of one sort or another since they were in diapers.
Yeah, she sure does - pretty much put HP in the toilet under her so-called leadership.
Anyway, private sector management is not necessarily a good prep for public life - it's a different set of constituents and you don't have the power to boss your constituents around like your employees.
"You have an amazing round of accomplishments in your life,” Brzezinski said, “but someone could say it like this you ran for Senate and lost. You worked for John McCain, you were moved off that campaign, and he lost. You had a tenure at Hewlett-Packard that a lot of people describe as extremely rocky, destroying jobs, and destroying the company’s reputation. Are you really the right person to be criticizing Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments or lack thereof?”
Fiorina accused Brzezinski of “reading Democratic talking points,” though Brzezinski responded that she was actually reading Fortune and New York Times. Rattner went so far as to remind Fiorina that she’d been fired from Hewlett-Packard after the company’s stock tanked following a merger.
Like a pro, Fiorina turned their criticisms into a soliloquy on le government grand, though she did concede that Clinton had “opened doors for women.”
"a focused, determined, intelligent, empathetic, powerful leader,"
"Women in positions of authority, particularly bold women who are trying to change things, are … caricatured differently, commented upon differently and held to different standards,"
"I watched all of this happen to Hillary Clinton."
I don't see a problem with this, everything she said is true. Sarah Palin has said the same thing about Hillary, as a matter of fact, I believe it was in '08 during one of her glass ceiling speeches. If you watch some of the women's conferences on C-span, this is what they have in common. But, that doesn't mean they agree with each other politically. They can, and do, speak about women's issues without sparring politically.
Earning a law degree, being elected as Senator, and holding the position of Secretary of State, doesn't count for a woman in your world?
Not when you get fired from a law firm, get elected in the bluest of states because of your last name and then vote to invade Iraq and perform poorly in the consolation prize of secretary of state for four years leading to one of the biggest scandals of Obama's presidency.
Not when you get fired from a law firm, get elected in the bluest of states because of your last name and then vote to invade Iraq and perform poorly in the consolation prize of secretary of state for four years leading to one of the biggest scandals of Obama's presidency.
I'll admit Clinton's worst mistake was believing Bush's lies and the GOP.
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