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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-the-hunt dept.

Rambo Tribble writes Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced on Fox News Sunday that she stood a 'higher than 90 percent' chance of running as a presidential candidate in 2016. Fiorina's tenure at HP was marked by controversy over her leadership, and it is unclear what level of name recognition she enjoys. Her only previous political experience appears to be a failed U.S. Senate seat effort in 2010, as the Republican candidate challenging sitting Democrat Barbara Boxer, in California. Fiorina lost by 10%.

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  1. Oh goody by Rinikusu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe she can fire Congress and fill their positions with H1Bs. Not like they can do any worse.

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  2. This is great! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    She can follow up on her work at HP and merge the Democrat and Republican parties together. That should make things much more efficient, increase shareholder value and offer synergies to enhance international competition.

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    1. Re:This is great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I thought they'd already merged. They both do pretty much the same thing when they're in power.

    2. Re:This is great! by thunderbird32 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't blame me! I voted RC Cola.

  3. Echo chamber by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What sort of echo chamber does this woman live in to think she's got a good record as a manager to run on? Romney at least made real money and ran a real state government. Fiorina started lots of pissing contests, got booted by the shareholders for loosing money and assets, and lost a senate (not even governor's) race. Wow.

    1. Re:Echo chamber by hey! · · Score: 5, Informative

      She can't hear reality over the roar of the hundred million dollars she was paid for halving the shareholder value of HP. Clearly she isn't deluded; she just lives in an alternate reality from the rest of us.

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    2. Re:Echo chamber by sjames · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Only if the alternate reality doesn't exist. She actually turned HP into a ruin of it's former self, but she also actually got a massive pile of cash for it and Lucent actually started waving money and stock offers at her before her seat was even cold. Then she actually left a smoking crater where Lucent used to be but she actually made big piles of cash doing it.

      That's the thing. She lives in an actual alternate reality where terminal fuck-ups are coveted.

      For the rest of us, no matter how many times you discharge the halon, EPO the datacenter and delete the database server and all of the backups, you won't make CEO money, so it is truly an alternate reality.

  4. Carly's platform by Snufu · · Score: 5, Funny

    "My plan for America will build on my spectacularly successful tenure atop Hewlett Packard. Therefore, if selected as president by the board members of the U.S. at A I promise to:

    1. Sell California to China, because the state never produced anything of value.
    2. Merge the supreme court, the FBI, and NASA, because that's the kind of outside the box thinking this country needs.
    3. Focus on our core competence: T-shirt manufacturing. We can out-compete third world countries in this area.
    4. After my policies have led the country to the top of Fortune 500, I'll ride my golden parachute to Mars.

    Thank you!"

  5. Re:Now I understand her record at HP by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a CEO syndrome. You're surrounded all day by sycophants who claim you're the smartest, brightest, and wisest person they know. No matter what obscure VP you go to visit they all seem to recognize you on sight, so clearly you've got name and face recognition. All of your decisions are praised. Most of the time even the board of directors treat you like their best friend.

  6. Re:Now I understand her record at HP by Necron69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That isn't a rumor. I was there, and yes, people did burst into song. I've never worked for a more hated CEO. She sure as Hell isn't getting my vote for anything.

    - Necron69