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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 05:49 PM
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So, according to Carly Fiorina, John McCain and Sarah Palin are not equipped
Edited on Tue Sep-16-08 05:51 PM by renie408
to be CEO's because being a CEO takes a lifetime of business experience.

Gee, has anybody explained to her WHY she goes out on these talk shows? Cause to have one of McCain's top advisers saying that he is too incompetent to run a company, but his campaign expects the country to trust him to handle the economy...that doesn't seem real smart to me.

Here's a link...

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/fiorina_flubs_r.html
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 05:53 PM
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1. If you can't run a company
like HP with 150,000 employees and $100b revenue, how do you run a country of 300 million people with a GDP over $14 trillion?

This seems to be an obvious question.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 06:10 PM
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2. I hate to say it, but she is 100% correct. The nation is NOT a for-profit company.
Edited on Tue Sep-16-08 06:11 PM by WinkyDink
The U.S. President does not need an MBA, nor does a CEO need to know the U.S. Constitution (both need to know about China. Heh.).

And to keep lampooning this means that we think the U.S. President should come from the business community, with which I heartily disagree.
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PsN2Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 06:13 PM
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3. Bush came into office
talking about "running the government like a business" and bragging up his MBA. We should have taken a look at the companies he ran and their fate and his grades in grad school.
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