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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House
seven of five writes: According to Reuters, "Former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Carly Fiorina announced on Monday she is running for president, becoming the only woman in the pack of Republican candidates for the White House in 2016. ... Fiorina registers near the bottom of polls of the dozen or so Republican hopefuls and has never held public office. But she has already attracted warm receptions at events in the early voting state of Iowa where she is positioning herself as a conservative, pro-business Republican highly critical of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Fiorina was forced by HP to resign in 2005 as the tech company struggled to digest Compaq after a $19 billion merger."
As part of her announcement, she said, "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works." I'm sure we'll soon begin hearing from all the HP employees, current and former, who have nothing but love for Carly F.
As part of her announcement, she said, "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works." I'm sure we'll soon begin hearing from all the HP employees, current and former, who have nothing but love for Carly F.
Carly "The Ego" Fiorina.
Her ego covers a land mass the size of Maine.
lulz
Carly was such an awesome CEO that I left HP after a 12 years successful career. At least I don't live in Murica so I won't have to leave if she gets elected by mistake
"I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works."
Oh Carly.. setting yourself up for a stand up career?
This cycle's slate of republican canidates is so packed with FAIL is unbelievable. Most tollerable in the pack is....Rand Paul, who at least gets a handful of things right. But put her next to Ted "Obamacare for the internet" Cruz, and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
She's going to take this country away from the engineers and give it to the clueless executives who care about nothing beyond next quarter's numbers.
But wait - this already happened!
So, a woman who has done fuck all since she was ousted from a corporate position ten years ago? She can't possibly think she has a chance, she's just doing this to get herself a campaigning paycheck.
Well, looks like this will be the election for a viable third party candidate. No dynasties, no Carly, no wingnuts. Please...
She kept shouting "UNACCEPTABLE" during it, and then finished on her own with some sort of power drill. It was the worst night of my life.
Let her do the same for the Country!
Carly would probably lay off Congress and ship all their jobs to India, spend 13 trazillion dollars to buy Somalia, end all federal highway and other infrastructure funds; and drive the dollar down to 1$ == 12 slices of bread.
A failure in business, just like the last republican president.
and have uncaped H1B's Also no ACA and no ER
fail to register all the related internet domains. Like, for instance carlyfiorna.org?
Bonus: Demon Sheep!
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"Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class," Fiorina said after turning away from a television on which Clinton declared her own candidacy. "We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it."
Fiorina enters a race for the Republican presidential nomination already home to several seasoned politicians, including Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas. Others expected to join the race include several sitting and former governors.
Don't hurt the rest of the Republican field by highlighting their longtime political hackiness. Just stick to running as the anti-Hillary, Fiona, and maybe you can get the VP nomination, or a cabinet-level position in teh next Republican administration.
becoming the only woman in the pack of Republican candidates for the White House in 2016.
Because the next president of the U.S. *must* be a woman right? That's what you are implying...
Even if our only choice is an incompetent Republican or a completely unethical Democrat...
Meanwhile in the Democratic "pack", you have much more diversity. They have all kinds of candidates - both old white men *and* old white women. A true force for change in politics.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If the Republicans still don't want the presidency because the responsibility for the next economic collapse has to be put on socialism I think she has a good shot ... hard to find someone less electable, and if the Democrats push forward Clinton they need a real stinker.
In general the GOP wants to reduce the size of government. She was very successful at reducing the size of HP. Clearly she is the perfect choice.
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House
The White House is on auction? National debt must be pretty bad after all.
Yes, as everyone with three gray cells to rub together knows, she would make a terrible choice for president and she has just about zero chance of being elected.
I think it's safe to say that she's actually running for a cabinet position, and to stroke her own ego.
But beyond that, this is bad news, because it slightly lowers the odds of having a meaningful debate or dialog about the many issues facing the US, simply because she's such an ill-prepared candidate. And the further to the right the Republicans swerve (largely in order to assuage their wingnut base in order to get the nomination), the easier it is for Democrats to run as Republican Lite. As many others have pointed out, Bill Clinton and Obama would be considered right wingers in most modern democracies; we need an election pitting true conservatives against true liberals, with first-rate media coverage, debates, etc.
The odds of that happening are approximately the same as those of Linux passing Windows in desktop market penetration in the US this year.
carlyfiorina.org makes for insightful reading. I understood a lot about her conservative economic position after visiting.
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The quoted story "nothing but love", which references "Carly's way", was pulled in 2005. It's a made up story by a palm reader. Learn to check your facts. Slashdot editing fail.
She could have said, "most likely they are going to nominate Hilary, and to balance the ticket you are going to look for a woman VP candidate, so let me throw my hat in the ring, for VP candidacy, I am a woman and I may be able to force them to spend money on California instead of taking it for granted". I don't think she can deliver CA for the red team anyway. But at least that is a plausible pitch. Instead of quietly contacting the candidates and letting them know she is running for VP she goes about it this way. Republicans won't run a senator or corporate CEO again, not after McCain and Romney. Thinking of Dubya and St Reagan they will go for a governor. Christie is out, that is why Walker is the front runner.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Another narcissist whose business failures are repeatedly blamed on others. (HP's market cap rose by billions on the day she was ousted.)
We need to diagnose narcissists early and send them all to Empathyless Island, where they can prey on each other instead of us.
A good article on why narcissism is bad, even in the cold, sociopathic world of capitalism.
I think this is a great move and makes perfect sense. Seeing as how all the govt. reps are already corporate shills we might as well just put their corporation masters right into office directly. It will save time and money, get rid of all this silly play acting that the govt. reps are actually working in the people's interest, and then we won't need so many lobbyist types trying to bridge the gap between the govt. peeps and their corporation masters. We'll already have the complete package in office making all those laws the corporation need so badly for their precious bottom line.
It's remarkable that she is just any random failed CEO, like George W Bush was, but she is the most notorious was well know failed CEO in the entire IT industry.
You'll see a picture of Carly right there.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
I'd expect GOP potential candidates to be called into some back room at some billionaire's estate where they are politely told over Scotch and cigars lit with $100 bills that it would be in their best interest to spare the Old Party the embarrassment of them running, and to get back to towing the party line. Looking at the current crop, you have at most two people who actually have *something* of a shot, maybe a couple others who could come in as an "outsider", but the remainder are going to end up spending loads of time and money essentially writing the attack ads for the Democrats and associated PACs come the real election showdown. Hillary is going to sit around stockpiling money and letting the GOP tear themselves to bits with each one trying to sate the far right, which will produce a lot of on-camera sound bites of stuff that will sound godawful to anyone left in the center by the time the actual election rolls around.
I'm not a big fan of Hillary, but honestly the GOP at this point has me holding my nose and pulling the lever for her.
"She doesn't think, she doesn't imagine, most of the time, she can't even spell, she just runs things. And if we don't hitch a ride soon, you won't need the guide to tell you just how unpleasant she can be. She already destroyed a corporation today, and that always makes her a little... eeee! "
I agree, pretty much. I think she'll get backers that keep her relevant because the money understands there's an advantage to having a woman in the primary who can take shots at Hillary without getting slammed as sexist. I doubt she'll get on the ticket as VP, and I doubt she's vying for that role.
I also agree Walker looks like the front runner. He's still developing, but he starts from a very strong position. If he can avoid any major flubs that the media can run with, he has a real shot.
First she drives me out of my career and now she wants drive me out of my country.
The fact that she received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University in 1976 and then realized she was unemployable speaks volumes. Granted she went on to receive a more marketable education, but it doesn't help change my impression of her. Seriously? Medieval history? Who does this? It's like a bad joke.
She ruined HP. Now she wants to ruin the US? Hmm..
no, I don't have a sig
There are more Rs at the state level than any time in recent history.
Ok, she is not so stupid as to think she has an actual chance, just like many of the other contenders. So I am wondering, why does someone like her DO this? Status? Getting to be in the public eye? Bordom? Demonstration wealth by wasting it and impressing the neighbors?
What do these 'no chance' candidates get for all the time and energy they put into these runs?
This woman's forte is taking an organization that just spun off all the great things it was known for, and re-branding that leftover crap. She can do this cheap - she knows how to hire H1-Bs. If we are truly fucked, then there is no one more qualified to make us fuckeder than Carly.
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.
Treating sexes equally means that when a hack comes our way we judge her just like a man.
If a male politician used a private email server for government work, then deleted the whole server when it was discovered - would he still be a viable candidate?
If a male politician ran a "charity organization" that collected millions from foreign countries after those countries were favored by the organization the candidate worked for - would he still be a viable candidate?
Those are just two of many, many examples of a level of ethics so low as to be practically immeasurable.
In no way is the media treating sexes equally. For Democrats they ignore all flaws; for Republicans the flaws are amplified as far as possible and then beyond.
Either way, it stinks. You're ideal of how Carly should be examined simply will not happen.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I appreciate Fiorina standing up a campaign as her personal contribution to the trickle down economy, but I don't think it will remain active long enough to employ more than a handful of people for a few months.
Luke, help me take this mask off
i always thought she was pretty, but then I saw her politics when she ran for governor, no thanks iCarly, stay out of things
It's funny how socialism has such a bad reputation in 'merica. It's automatically equated to "evil" Commmunism.
Of the top 10 most prosperous countries, half are socialist countries. Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Netherlands. Of the top 10 most happiest countries, the majority are socialist countries.
It's funny how much happier people are when they don't have worry about things such as primary and university education, housing, health care, insurance, transportation, etc. It's also interesting how that correlates to a more productive society, making the country in general more prosperous.
Denmark often ranks in the top 5 year after year on both lists. While they have a 60% income tax, the people still manage to have more money in their pocket than the typical American. Why? The costs of their necessities are ridiculously low because it's distributed amongst the entire population. Their net income is higher than a typical American who has to eat the high costs of living (for the typical American, almost 50% of your income goes immediately into housing [rent, mortgage, etc.], then tack on health insurance, car insurance, loan debt, etc.) While Americans are racking up quarter million dollar debts just to go to school, Danes get paid to get a Master's Degree at University. Or rather, they're getting their collective investment returned to them when they go to school.
ACA is a good step forward. If everyone pays for health insurance, the costs will come down. You'd think fiscal conservatives would be all over that. Well, they were when Romney did it, but then suddenly were against it "just because."
She was a regular on Meet the Press for a while, and she could always be counted on to parrot whatever talking points the American Enterprise Institute was distributing at the time. She always came across as an opportunist, trying to build her brand, with nary a thought of her own construction.
People criticized Romney because he ran on his business record, and that record included the elimination of many American job. In fairness to Romney, though, his job at Bain was to save companies, not jobs, and in this he was successful. In Fiorina's case, she presided over a disastrous merger of Compaq, basically destroying that brand, as well as seriously damaging HP's; and in the process, opened the door for lesser players, like Dell, to successfully infiltrate the enterprise. Her utter failure as a business leader, coupled with a near lack of independent political philosophy, are easy pickings for her primary competitors. If she somehow does make it to a VP candidate, she will serve only to galvanize the liberal voting base to organize against a failed corporate wolf in false feminist sheep's clothing.
Carly has no chance at all. Only reason she and others are getting in the ring... to keep there name recognition out there so they can maintain the speaking fees and book deals. I don't think anyone other than Carly would argue she was a success as a CEO or in politics.
Not sure why anyone cares since she will fail at this endeavor as well. Just like Palin, no chance with the credentials and comments they have made in the past. In today's tech age everything you say is captured, rinsed and repeated.
Will be entertaining watching her implode as wells as push the other candidates to say idiotic statements to counter her idiotic statements.
""Cry Havoc and let slip the Republican candidates of war"
Carly has a specific role for the Republicans. Her job is to go after Hillary Clinton. If any of the male Republican candidates went after Hillary they would be accused of being "sexist" or some other form of "ist". Carly can get away with it because she is a woman. Sadly this is the world we live in.
Fiorina is the official attack dog for the Presidential campaign. It matters not whether she makes it through the Republican primary. If she succeeds in weakening Clinton then her job is done.
If Fiorina plays this right she might end up as the Vice Presidential nominee paired with whomever ends up winning the Republican nomination. These days, the VP ends up playing attack dog in the Presidential campaigns. The President is seen as being above the fray while his surrogates dish out all the dirty politics. Nobody will care about her failed HP ventures as a VP nominee. They will only see that she is a woman on the ticket and the Republicans will get points for that.
If elected, can we expect a new TV series based on her presidency?
http://www.acetonestudio.com
We are so fukt..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsxavPANO8s
I heard of this stuff fortold in the bible,torah they called it the apocalypse.
What is she just looking for a tax right off or something?
When is the anouncement that MEG(yes I said MEG) will be comming along like a Lamprey on a shark or some other parasite..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey
Incase your wondering, yes I fully agree this is a total waste of taxpayer time, money/effort and I feel it deludes the process and what it stands for..
Ya anyone can be president, but should they be?
Whats the new Rich thing to do, Hmm,, cant ruin the enviornment, cant run for state, can control my self so I have to endevor to control others. I have a wonderful track record working with others, perhaps I should leverage that..
In my mind I have done great things at HP to which I could Extend on to our great country..
Look how close I came to winning the state, that should definitely attest to my competency..
when its all siad and done, and the peeons Hold me high, I'll be able to move into that beautiful barbie house, Buy a Ken doll, and roll away in my Pink Barbie Corvette..
(all while the world crashes down around here)
In case your wondering, I truly beleive this is a poor idea..
Those whom let it perpetuate are just looking for for the money and fees associated with this asinine exercise..
Gone are the days where good people do good things for the right reasons..
Maybe she can get a web page going of former HP and Lucent employees who endorse her!
The Agilent name is now used on their chemical/life sciences stuff (chromatographs, NMR, etc.), while the traditional electronic test/measurement gear that HP was founded on was spun off into another new company, Keysight Technologies.
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Thank jerrymandering for that. But, that's also why they can't win at the national level without trying to change the electoral college system like many R states are attempting.
It's pretty disingenuous to post a link to a Slashdot story which in turn links to a retracted article and using it to suggest that HP employees thought poorly of her.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan "Subteranean Homesick Blue
May I be the first to say... of our female contenders, I would much rather have Fiorina than Hillary.
who can take shots at Hillary without getting slammed as sexist.
(D): "Treat women and men equally"
(Everyone): "Hilary has a very poor record in public office"
(D): "Sexist!!!!"
Yeah, we want equal rights, until it is inconvenient.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
1) So did Palin (vs Obama) but that didn't stop the criticism there
Kind of stupid to post things that are so easily refuted.
Obama was a US Senator longer (3-Jan-2005 to 16-Nov-2008) that Palin was Governor of Alaska (4-Dec-2006 to 26-July-2009). Plus Obama was a member of the Illinois senate for 8 years. Palin was mayor of Wasilla (population 7,800) and served as Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission for less than a year. All other jobs held by either one were nothing on a national stage or significant enough to count as meaningful experience. So no, Palin did not at any time have more experience in public office than Obama.
2) Most of Hilary's experience is being the wife of Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend
You mean except for being a US Senator and Secretary of State?
Given the choice between Hilary and Carly, I'd take Carly. Which isn't actually saying much. Personally, I can't stand either of them.
Based on what? You clearly have your facts wrong so any opinions you might have based on your incorrect assertions are based on false premises.
There have been several CEOs since Fiorina was CEO at HP and they still haven't fixed the mess she got them into. Oh, wait ... the replacements haven't been all that good either.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
"I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works.
Yup! Offshore all the jobs and buy up shitty companies like Compaq! Carleton Fiorina sure knows her stuff, alrighty! Bet she's even played toy blocks with Geo. W. Bush when he was in the White House?
Hillary vs Fiona. I didn't expect to vote for Kang, but the lack of alternative forced me to.
Talk about delusions of grandeur.
I'm pretty sure the board of directors would let her go, hell probably even pay her to go.
For campaign cash she could hold a private auction on eBay selling herself out to the highest bidder[s].
And her qualifications are at least as..
Go Meg.
She ran HP into the ground, and she'll do the same to the US.
At least she's tech savvy enough to lock up the important domain names. http://carlyfiorina.org/
She would spin off California and Florida as independent countries, and merge the rest of the US with Canada.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
Man there is noooooooo way anyone with a brain would vote for this person. And I'm usually pretty open minded.
I think if nothing else she can challenge Hillary on issues, because it takes away the whole male chauvinistic tag being placed on any male who would. Funny how the liberal bagger her record at HP but Hillary's record is even worse! Don't remember people dying because of Fiorina's bad decisions?
I doubt she will have much of a chance, but then again neither should Hillary given her record.
You really love straw men.
It's depressing that people like this think they are suitable to be the, arguably, most powerful person in the world. I would love to see someone from any party with experience and skill.
The dirty little secret of that regulation, which is the same dirty little secret of Obamacare or Dodd-Frank or all of these other huge complicated pieces of regulation or legislation, is that they don't get written on their own, they get written in part by lobbyists for big companies who want to understand that the rules are going to work for them.... Who was in the middle of arguing for net neutrality? Verizon, Comcast, Google, I mean, all these companies were playing. They weren't saying "we don't need this," they were saying "we need it."
I think my grandmother could have done a better job running HP.
If both identify as female that makes it lesbian?
it seems like she got it both ends. she wins she gets more power. she looses, she gets a govt. refund for her "business loss" . ya cant win 4 loosing
Bernie Sanders for prez and Elizabeth Warren for VP, that would be my dream ticket.
considering how badly she tanked the companies stock prices.
Why is is such a big deal when,, We go looking for the official/national scapegoat?
I cant wait for the next big Headline,
MEG leaves HP to go and play in the whitehouse..
I remember seeing something in here about Barbie doll House, complete with a make shift Ken doll and a Pink Car as well
really fellow citizens..
Where does it really stop??
is this like a social-economic-blunderf**k?
has it really gotten to the point where if u do have $ you really can do anything, including buying happyness, and the adornment of others?
Is this going to be a Maywhether letdown??
Or, Is she really the Right ScapeGoat? Is she the one to absorb all of our shortcommings? if u stop to think about it.. Its really others whom do the actual heavy lifting,, when they messup, the president takes the blame. Look @ Ronnie Regan..
and sell it off later to China to solve the national edbt
This is your chance to get something back from Carly. She will never ever ever ever win, so you can get your piece of what she's liberated from the users in the form of bonuses by working for her campaign.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The target article of "nothing but love" has been removed. On one hand, the author's sources couldn't be verified, but MIT was likely under pressure by HP also.
Carly Fiorina gave the commencement speech for my college graduation. Her speech centered around the idea that my/our generation was the reality TV generation, and that our biggest challenge would be to successfully differentiate between reality and reality TV.
Fuck you Carly Fiorina. You suck. I hope you lose. Although you seem to be pretty well suited to be a politician.
For Democrats that is.
Need Mercedes parts ?
No, he really doesn't.
Add up all the "blue" states where no Republican that can survive the primary can win, and you get 254 electoral votes.
Add up all the "red" states where no Democrat that can survive the primary can win, and you get 149 electoral votes.
The Democratic candidate needs 1 large "toss-up" state, or two smaller "toss-up" states to win 270 votes. For example, VA will do it, and it's likely to go to the Democrat. Obama carried it twice and in the 2014 Republican wave election, the Democrat won the senate seat. (And governor, but the Republican candidate for governor had a pretty nasty scandal)
The Republican candidate needs every "toss-up" state, and needs to turn one "blue" state.
It's going to be extremely difficult for the Republican to win in 2016. Which is a big part of why the Republican primary race is such a clown car.
Pretty pictures and more analysis from right after the 2014 election: http://blog.chron.com/goplifer...
317,500 that won't be voting for her...
it begins with her nearly crashing Lucent during the dotcom boom and Y2K boom. since they were selling the once-Cascade, once-Ascend 8000/9000 frame relay switches that were the backbone of the Internet, that's hard to do in my book.
she almost took down HP also, back when the whole board was playing Spy vs Spy.
lost big in California politics.
thinks mass firings were a good thing.
not what any country needs.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKWlOxhSIKk
(This was an actual Carly Fiorina ad attacking her primary opponent in her failed run for U.S. Senate. This is NOT a parody video but rather is the actual campaign ad Fiorina ran.)
Fear the demon sheep.
Following the last link in TFS, and its link, We get a retraction of the story that is highly suspicious to say the least. Looking at "the investigation", we find a report that basically validates within reason all of the other stories by the author, leaving only the two on Carly but trying to spin the story as a complete failure to validate anything. The 'investigation' of those two seems to consist only of talking to a PR person at HP that denies the stories (yeah, big surprise, many buyers like to rationalize away and otherwise deny remorse) and "can't find" the person quoted in the company.
Retracting the article based only on that seems a bit extreme.
I do not vote in elections till the Candidate qualifies in fMRI;
Casteism
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Please.... Does anyone here believe that she is a "real" candidate, rather than a republican woman injected to soften support for Hillary for whomever the actual Republican candidate turns out to be? Clearly the vast majority of her "campaign" will be targeted at Hillary rather than actually winning the nomination. The goal is to cause fear and doubt, primarily in Republican women voters, to not vote for Hillary by attacking her like only another woman can (without repercussion based on gender). The real question for me is whether Carly truly knows that or not... or whether the Republican party leadership are just playing to her ego to serve their ultimate goal.
If you're going for analogies, and you pick a state, why would you pick the smallest one, particularly if the point is that it is supposed to be big?
Texas is the obvious answer of course...