Comments on: Which candidate could run a company?

By: tupto

tupto — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:50:21 +0000

He picks a self serving HP CEO who was booted from the company for nearly driving it to the brink as his adviser - I told you he was senile. Fiorina is nuts too, maybe McCain has an predilection towards nut bag women.
Who the hell is she to talk, she couldn’t run a big company either. What a tool. This whole campaign is becoming a mockery of the process.

By: SA

SA — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:21:12 +0000

I do not know what it is with the Republicans, they tend to call themselves what they are not and market it like they are.
Be it Fox news (fair and balanced)
Rush limbaug (Excelence in broadcasting)
Fox (Election HQ)

Only a donkey praises its own tail.

Another question baffles me, Are we American stupid? I draw reference from the fact that they elected Bush a second time and to think we will McBush for the third.

What a sorry state of affair. The thought of having a hillbilly Palin as possible VP just gives me the creeps.

Just tells me Republican have election above country. Prying on the weak/clueless women who think this is empowering. Put a women who is powerful and not any women.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:51:04 +0000

Blah blah blah - All I hear is blame blame blame. Finger pointing and no acceptance of responsibility. I am disgusted to be part of this garbage in America.
A socialist running for president who happens to be black…If you don’t vote for him you are a racist…NOPE. Just don’t like socialism. LESS GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN MY PERSONAL LIFE. THEY HAVE SCREWED IT ENOUGH!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:17:25 +0000

Neither of the candidates are qualified to run a newspaper route. So they certainly could not operate a real business. They are both POLITICIANS and therefore only know how to spend other people’s money.

They both blow so much hot air that they alone could relieve us from our energy crisis by talking into a thousand square mile wind farm.

A real businessman and a true Republican was robbed of his chances by McAmnesty and Huckaboom in South Carolina!

Mitt Romney, I will be writing in your name on my ballot.

By: SEena

SEena — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:52:36 +0000

Fiorina is an intelligent woman who has had the courage to speak her mind. She\’s right, governing a people and running a business are not the same. And, although there is a skills overlap, there is not necessarily a vision or temperament overlap.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:49:12 +0000

Neither has Ms. Fiorina what it takes to run a major corporation as she failed at the HP, and no other company has been willing to hire her. She is not in position to judge one’s executive capability because she does not have it herself.
Running a presidential campaign is a major $$$ million business, and Obama proved he can do it successfully. Let alone, he made these $$$ millions, and she lost $$$ millions.

By: bill bateman

bill bateman — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:24:28 +0000

Yah, just what I want anyway … a person running the country and our economy with the same qualifications as the Enron, AIG, WaMu, Merrill, etc, etc, etc, CEO’s

By: CF in Naples, FL

CF in Naples, FL — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:57:57 +0000

Obama is running a campaign that has millions of dollars in revenue a month, a paid staff the size of a small cap, and total workforce the size of mid-cap.

He seems to be doing OK running that!

I also found it pretty funny that the top female rep for McCain’s campaign doesn’t understand what the job of president of the U.S.A. entails…and I certainly don’t think it unreasonable or unfair that the ad edited her remark!

By: Evelyn H

Evelyn H — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:29:46 +0000

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are not going to run a corporation. They are going to run the United States government and from all that I know about Obama’s abilities and education and Joe’s experience and brashness the first thing that they will do is get Warren Buffet and Robert Rubin on board to help with the financial crisis. They will chose the very best people for all of the cabinet and advisor positions. The honesty and forth-rightness of Barack will continue right into his administration. I don’t know how we Americans are going to be able to once again trust our leaders!

By: George S.

George S. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:24:38 +0000

Why are people, particularly the journalist type who are presumably well-informed, arguing about a no-brainer like this “news”? When was the last time a major US corporation hired a well-known politician as its CEO? Not in this century! That ought to answer how the vast majority of the board members at major US corporations feel about letting politicians run their companies. Ms. Fiorina is merely expressing their sentiment, and I applaud her honesty.