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September 16, 2008

Fiorina: Palin Doesn't Have Experience to Run Major Company

@ 1:13 pm by Andy Barr

John McCain adviser Carly Fiorina said Tuesday that if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was called upon to run Hewlett Packard, as Fiorina did, the Alaska Republican wouldn't be ready.

"Do you think [Palin] has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?" Fiorina was asked on a St. Louis radio show.

"No, I don't," Fiorina said without further explanation.

"I would just remind you that it is Barack Obama who is running for president," Fiorina said. "Sarah Palin has more experience than Barack Obama has."

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

Listen to the audio here.

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  1. The McCain campaign keeps saying she has executive experience, but what has she done with it? Pursued earmarks and personal vendettas, fought to deny help to victims of sexual abuse, left her town in debt, etc., etc.

    Who cares about experience if all it does is show incredibly BAD judgement and character?

    Comment by James — September 16, 2008 @ 2:13 pm

  2. The Palin pick will be remembered as McCain's Harriet Miers. (Except Palin makes Miers seem like a solid pick by comparison).

    Comment by Will — September 16, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

  3. This is just a pure example of how biased the media is! I am sick of it. Fiorina very clearly said in a response today that NONE of the candidates can run a corporation…Obama, biden, McCain, and Palin. So why is the media focused on just Palin? she said "OBAMA CAN NOT RUN A CORPORATION" Got that?

    Comment by decentAmerican — September 16, 2008 @ 3:16 pm

  4. Obama has NO executive experience, nor experience on the economy.

    McCain has chaired the Senate commerce committee.

    Palin has adminstered an 11 billion dollar budget, and has negotiated a pipeline with Canada, along with managing the national Guard.

    Obama has done NOTHING. It is utterly laughable that everyone is questioning Palin, and no one is addressing the elephant in the room, that OBAMA HAS NO EXPERIENCE.

    "Obama is not ready to be President"…courtesy of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter, and countless others.

    Comment by decentAmerican — September 16, 2008 @ 3:18 pm

  5. None of the four candidates are qualified to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Mitt Romney comes much closer than any of the other presidential primary candidates and look what good that did him. Despite recent convulsions on Wall Street, none of the politicians in this race could withstand the scrutiny and accountability that corporate CEOs must face on a daily basis. This renders all the more ridiculous all the chest-pounding by Obama and McCain about how they're going to fix the economy. It's hubris of the worst kind.

    Palin fares no worse than the others when scrutinized in this light. In fact, her work as governor plainly shines when contrast with the others' paucity of direct experience running an enterprise (other than a flailing campaign).

    Comment by armchairpunter — September 16, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

  6. Lenin said a house wife can run a country.

    Comment by Ari — September 16, 2008 @ 8:18 pm

  7. Have You Ever Been Experienced?

    This has turned into a pointless pissing contest.

    Ofcourse Obama has more executive political experience than Palin; he spent allot longer in the Illinois legislature than Palin did in Alaska and has actually served on Senate committees passing judgment on international affairs. He voted against the invasion of Iraq because he was in a position charged with that judgement call; a place Palin has never been.

    Palin is a mouthpiece for the right wing and evangelical Republican conservatives who could not stomach McCain on his own because he was too liberal for their likes.

    Her foreign policy experience is reduced to a pale mimicry of long discredited neoconservative posturing.

    As Jon Stewart said, "Palin doesn't need to know a thing about the Bush Doctrine because she is the Bush Doctrine"

    Comment by Igor Goldkind — September 18, 2008 @ 5:48 am

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