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bobabode 08-07-2015 08:57 PM
Carly Fiorina
 
Ms. Parker at the Post pens a clunker about Fiorina. :(

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...y.html?hpid=z3

donquixote99 08-08-2015 12:33 AM
There's nothing like the crowd at the main event to make a well-spoken Republican woman look good--to another Republican woman, at least.

merrylander 08-08-2015 11:41 AM
As head of HP she trashed 30,000 jobs. Make her President and what will it be 300,000 or 3,000,000?

donquixote99 08-08-2015 12:09 PM
Oh. THAT Cathy Fiorina.

And they say Hillary has baggage.

Rajoo 08-08-2015 12:28 PM
HP merged with Compaq (call it acquired)in 2001 to become an $87 Billion company. Today HP has a market cap of $54.5 Billion. How is that for ruining one of the most innovative and respected companies in Technology? She was forced out in 2005 for a $21 Million buyout. :mad:

bobabode 08-08-2015 01:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BeamOn (Post 280607)
HP merged with Compaq (call it acquired)in 2001 to become an $87 Billion company. Today HP has a market cap of $54.5 Billion. How is that for ruining one of the most innovative and respected companies in Technology? She was forced out in 2005 for a $21 Million buyout. :mad:
That's a lot of red ink. ;)

I understand that Fiorina got another $21 million in stock options and retirement on top of the $21 million buy out. IIRC Lucent Technologies was another casualty of Carly's. :(

CarlV 08-08-2015 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by merrylander (Post 280600)
As head of HP she trashed 30,000 jobs. Make her President and what will it be 300,000 or 3,000,000?
She was just warming up for Meg to come in and do more layoffs and restructuring of a company that is without any real product support anymore.


Carl

bobabode 08-08-2015 03:19 PM
Demon Sheep Advert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww-WBx9ASI0 :D

Rajoo 08-08-2015 05:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 280615)
That's a lot of red ink. ;)

I understand that Fiorina got another $21 million in stock options and retirement on top of the $21 million buy out. IIRC Lucent Technologies was another casualty of Carly's. :(
Don't know about the additional $21 Mils, will try and dig it up. Right on the Lucent tenure, Frim Wiki:
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In 1997, she was appointed chair of Lucent's consumer communications joint venture with Philips, Philips Consumer Communications.[29] It was dissolved a year later after garnering only a 2% market share in mobile phones and losing $500 million on a revenue of $2.5 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina

sheltiedave 08-09-2015 11:59 AM
It is amazing that someone can get weeks of good pr and become a hot trend off a few sound bites, or dropping a couple witty remarks in a showcase.

However, if you fail to drive a company adequately, or cannot be both a stellar manager and not stick your foot completely down your throat, we really don't need you as president.

Boreas 08-09-2015 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by sheltiedave (Post 280660)
It is amazing that someone can get weeks of good pr and become a hot trend off a few sound bites, or dropping a couple witty remarks in a showcase.

However, if you fail to drive a company adequately, or cannot be both a stellar manager and not stick your foot completely down your throat, we really don't need you as president.
We already had one failed businessman in the WH. We sure as hell don't need another one.

icenine 08-09-2015 04:39 PM
Her ideas are what are really make me want to hurl.

She couldn't be elected Senator and she won't be elected President. She strikes me as too negative.
To be a President you need to be optimistic. She is someone the more you know the less you like.

Not a consensus candidate. I am more worried about Kasich than anyone else.

bobabode 08-09-2015 04:56 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by icenine (Post 280668)
Her ideas are what are really make me want to hurl.

She couldn't be elected Senator and she won't be elected President. She strikes me as too negative.
To be a President you need to be optimistic. She is someone the more you know the less you like.

Not a consensus candidate. I am more worried about Kasich than anyone else.
Did you catch Kasich groveling for some Trump gold after Trump said he had contributed to a lot of those RINOs in the past?

There's a ready made SuperPAC advert against Kasich. ;)

bobabode 08-11-2015 04:11 PM
http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...mn.html#page=1

"What non-Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina -- but should" Hiltzik at the LATimes

Tom Joad 08-11-2015 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 280800)
http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...mn.html#page=1

"What non-Californians don't know about Carly Fiorina -- but should" Hiltzik at the LATimes
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She was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from mid-1999 to early 2005, a period in which the company's stock sank 49% to 60% (depending on how you count), making it one of the worst-performing high-tech firms.

CEO Fiorina talked a lot about "innovation" while pursuing corporate strategies displaying a striking lack of imagination. She cut HP's payroll by 10,000 employees in 2000 while surrounding her glamorous self with clouds of image and strategy consultants. She marketed overpriced knockoffs of other companies' consumer technologies and then, disastrously, doubled down on the PC business by acquiring Compaq in 2002, when the right move would have been to exit that low-margin business altogether.

The Compaq takeover led to a bruising battle with the HP board, which she utterly mismanaged, leading to her bitter ouster in 2005. Her reaction was to blame everyone else, which doesn't speak well of her capacity for introspection. She left with a severance package estimated at $40 million, which speaks very well of her negotiating skills (or her lawyers').
So in six years she ran a company into the ground and "earned" a $40 million dollar golden parachute.

And for the average working schmuck that puts in 40 years, they get $1328 a month. And that's called an "entitlement".

By the way, at $1328 a month it would take the average retired worker 2,510 years to collect $40 million.

https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/3401...retired-worker

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The average monthly Social Security retirement benefit for January 2015 is $1,328.

bobabode 08-14-2015 12:24 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...ldren/?hpid=z4

Fiorina panders to the anti-vaxxers.

Tom Joad 08-15-2015 06:34 PM
http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/carly-...=yahoo_fortune

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Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP’s founder, commented when discouraging voters from supporting Fiorina in her 2010 senatorial run, “I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.”

Ike Bana 08-15-2015 10:07 PM
The staggering debt Fiorina left when she walked out of Lucent was the foundation for Lucent's demise. And off she goes to almost sink HP. All I had to see was the Tom Perkins interview on 60 Minutes back in 2007 to know how much we all need to avoid putting Carly Fiorina in a position of authority anywhere.

bobabode 08-23-2015 03:51 PM
Watched 'Meet the Press' today. :rolleyes: Looks like Chuck Todd has a crush on Carly.

Tom Joad 08-23-2015 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 282257)
Watched 'Meet the Press' today. :rolleyes: Looks like Chuck Todd has a crush on Carly.
I've had a crush on Carly for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13oJajXx0M

Rajoo 08-23-2015 04:14 PM
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is her actual name. From Wiki,
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After leaving HP, Fiorina served on the boards of several organizations/[20] She was an adviser to Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. She won a three-person race for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in California in 2010, but lost the general election to incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer by 10 points.[21]

On May 4, 2015, Fiorina announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election.[
Not a winner IMO.

icenine 08-23-2015 04:23 PM
She reminds me of that actress that used to be in the old Maxwell House commercials in the 70s;).

Tom Joad 08-24-2015 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by icenine (Post 282262)
She reminds me of that actress that used to be in the old Maxwell House commercials in the 70s;).
This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0sonWgW9xM

Rajoo 08-24-2015 11:02 AM
A well written article for 2011. Anyone wants to trust her with your tax money?

HP's Carly Fiorina era is finally over...good riddance

http://www.cnet.com/news/hps-carly-f...good-riddance/

icenine 08-24-2015 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 282347)
I can't open it here


this one lol:D
https://www.blogher.com/files/Wicked..._Flipped_0.jpg

Tom Joad 08-24-2015 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by icenine (Post 282359)
I can't open it here
That's too bad.

I think the actress that plays the wife bears a striking resemblance to her.

bobabode 08-25-2015 04:22 PM
Carly 'splains climate change...:rolleyes:

"Katie Couric recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and the subject of climate change came up. They discussed it for over four minutes, likely marking the longest any national GOP political figure has spent talking about climate change in the past five years.
Conservatives are delighted..." Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9186313...-climate-wrong

djv8ga 09-01-2015 04:28 PM
Looks like she's in the next debate..
CNN amends GOP debate criteria - http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/politi...ent/index.html

bobabode 09-01-2015 04:33 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by djv8ga (Post 283617)
Looks like she's in the next debate..
CNN amends GOP debate criteria - http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/politi...ent/index.html
I wonder if they'll ask her about being fired from the Palin/McCain campaign?

djv8ga 09-01-2015 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 283619)
I wonder if they'll ask her about being fired from the Palin/McCain campaign?
She might welcome that question with open arms.

bobabode 09-01-2015 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by djv8ga (Post 283621)
She might welcome that question with open arms.
'Vote For Carly' cause she's nuttier than Palin. :D

bobabode 09-07-2015 06:52 PM
Marc Thiessen's puffery at the Post on Carly Fiorina. :rolleyes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...b11_story.html

Tom Joad 09-18-2015 08:51 AM
After watching some, (not all, I couldn't take it) of the Republican debate I have determined that Carly Fiorina is a Warmongering Psycho-Bitch. (In addition to being a bald faced liar)

If she were President she would have us at war with Iran and Russia withing her first 100 days.

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...nce-gop-debate

Quote:
“On day one in the Oval office I will make two phone calls the first to my good friend Bibi Netanyahu to assure him we will stand with the state of Israel. The second to the Supreme leader to tell him that unless and until he opens every nuclear facility to real anytime inspections by our people not his,we the United States of America will make it as difficult as possible to move money around the global financial system. We can do that we don’t need anyone’s cooperation to do it. And every ally and every adversary in this world will know that the United States of America is back in the leadership business which is how we must stand with out allies.
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. Here’s what she said she would do about Russia

“What I would do, immediately, is begin rebuilding the Sixth Fleet, I would begin rebuilding the missile defense program in Poland, I would conduct regular, aggressive military exercises in the Baltic states. I’d probably send a few thousand more troops into Germany. Vladimir Putin would get the message. By the way, the reason it is so critically important that every one of us know General Suleimani’s name is because Russia is in Syria right now, because the head of the Quds force traveled to Russia and talked Vladimir Putin into aligning themselves with Iran and Syria to prop up Bashar al- Assad.”

more here

Rajoo 09-18-2015 09:29 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 285533)
After watching some, (not all, I couldn't take it) of the Republican debate I have determined that Carly Fiorina is a Warmongering Psycho-Bitch. (In addition to being a bald faced liar)

If she were President she would have us at war with Iran and Russia withing her first 100 days.

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...nce-gop-debate





more here
Jeb! Bush - Tax cuts for the rich, already promised.
Carly Fiorina - MIC/arms build up resumption of the cold war. War mongering.

Sounds like a GOP dream ticket, Bush3 is already bought and paid for, Fiorina is now on sale and being shopped around. She will be the designated attack dog for Planned Parenthood (anti-abortion movement), global warming, Obamacare and the Iran nuclear deal. A perfect nightmare duo.

icenine 09-18-2015 10:28 AM
Plus the "rags to riches" secretary to CEO is a myth. She was daughter of a Nixon Justice Department Deputy AG who later became the dean of the Duke University School of Law. After attending school in London she went to Stanford University where she graduated.

Her secretary job was a summer job. She dropped out of law school and taught English in Italy before returning to graduate school.

Hardly a Horatio Alger rags to riches story.

Pio1980 09-18-2015 10:41 AM
Her hysterical rant on Planned Parenthood was pure pandering. She may not need it but if she has a nanny she probably does, but fuck her.

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Tom Joad 09-18-2015 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Pio1980 (Post 285551)
Her hysterical rant on Planned Parenthood was pure pandering.
And chock full of lies.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/...candidacy.html

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Fiorina’s lurid horror story was a real crowd pleaser, but rather than daring Clinton and Obama to view the video tapes maybe she should watch them herself first. Nowhere in the 12 hours of sting videos released by the anti-abortion group attempting to defame Planned Parenthood, does the gruesome scene Fiorina mentions take place.

The brain harvesting discussion and the fully formed fetus flailing on the table aren’t anywhere in the tapes Fiorina urges Obama and Clinton to view. However, that doesn’t matter to Fiorina. She knows that by inventing grisly tales about Planned Parenthood, she can further her political career and endear herself to the right-wing, anti-choice religious fanatics who vote in GOP primaries.

Ike Bana 09-18-2015 04:12 PM
What Fiorina did to HP is far from the worst of her arrogant failures. There was a loss of jobs at HP...at Bell Labs it was the loss of America's future as a world leader in technical research.
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What she left behind at Lucent/Bell Labs was a smoking ruin of what had been the world’s most important and productive research lab, an entity largely responsible for giving America the post-World War II boost that helped make the nation the world technology leader, contributing mightily to the prosperity that Americans took for granted but which came in no small measure from the pure research as practiced at the Bell Labs. By insisting that every piece of research be tied to a product, Fiorina and her ilk helped prevent a new generation of scientists from looking out over the far horizon and bringing back the kind of benefits that have come from such then-seemingly useless technologies including the transistor, laser, fiber optics.
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-se...ack-by-decades

bobabode 09-18-2015 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana (Post 285593)
What Fiorina did to HP is far from the worst of her arrogant failures. There was a loss of jobs at HP...at Bell Labs it was the loss of America's future as a world leader in technical research.


http://readersupportednews.org/pm-se...ack-by-decades
Fuckin' A right, Alan. She's a corporate raider and a neocon from the gitgo. The worst of the worse. :(

4-2-7 09-18-2015 07:20 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 285533)
After watching some, (not all, I couldn't take it) of the Republican debate I have determined that Hillary is a Warmongering Psycho-Bitch. (In addition to being a bald faced liar)

If she were President she would have us at war with Iran and Russia withing her first 100 days.

:rolleyes:


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