McCain Economic Adviser Carly Fiorina’s Golden Parachute

John McCain economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin this morning suggested that McCain deserves credit for helping create the handheld communications device known as the BlackBerry.

This just illustrates the hypocrisy of the McCalin campaign. They should realize when they are pointing the finger, four are pointing back at them.

Man these people are loaded. No wonder McCain’s tax plan benefits the rich.
McCain an out of touch loser.
The truth is coming out about Palin and her record. She’s scared out if her wits to participate in an investigation… McCain numbers are dropping and so he results to LYING
Now it’s been pointed out by the media
Their running scared. Should’ve chosen Romney McCain. Could’ve won Michigan.
Thanks for the election
Obama/Biden08

Welcome to the Republican Circular Firing Squad.
We fire with blanks.
Just political grandstanding and once Bush 44 is in office…… business as usual.

Why does a so called “maverick” like John McCain need to embrace the tactics of distortion, of outright lies in the current political race that looks as if it has become as down and dirty as any election in recent years? Doesn’t a maverick refuse to join the herd, to march to a different drummer? If John McCain has already employed the tactics of the last eight years of the Bush administration (lies and deceit as in Iraq’s WMD or that Iraq was responsible for 9/11), hasn’t McCain already shown that his administration (should he win the election) will simply be a continuation of the untruths and distortions that are a hallmark of George Bush and Company?

Has anyone asked Carly Fiorina if Sarah Palin’s remarks about her golden parachute are sexist?

Barack Obama got it WRONG
I believe McCain doesn’t get it
AND
He doesn’t care.

another nothing story. rep. casey from pa is staunchly pro-life but endorsed obama in a rally they held together. people can have differing perspectives.

Biden’s son is/was a lobbyist for the Financial companies. Biden pushed the bill for all the Credit Card companies in Del. that caused the sup-prime fallout.
Freddie and Fannie donated tons to Biden and Obama. It’s their fault.

Who cares…..why doesn’t anyone want to work for their own American dream….don’t punish those that do. She knows a thing or two about finance. McCain said he will be appointing Republicans AND DEMOCRATS to his cabinet, the wealthiest of those to take $1 a year. I beleive him. The McCain’s donate 44% of their income, Obama only 1%.
CHANGE AGENTS, REFORMERS, McCAIN/PALIN ALL THE WAY. Shake up Washington with Palin there too.

I work for an HP competitor and had to laugh the first time I saw Carly Fioina as McCain’s “economic adviser”. Another example of McCain’s poor judgement…taking advice from a failed CEO who nearly destroyed a great company like HP. McCain reformer? Laughable.

This is typical of the republicans and their talk of corporate and personal morality. Corruption is only immoral if it’s the democrats that are corrupt. The $45 million golden parachute Carly Fiorina pilfered after misdirecting the once great HP, the Mc cainiacs would have you believe, is different from other corporate crooks. On the personal front, when they talk about family values, they never include devoice. That’s because so many of their icons are themselves devoiced. They talk about the Iraqi war as if it started from the point of the surge. If you listen to them you would think that the first five years of the war didn’t happen. There moral threshold is always wide enough to include there actions. So many hypocrites so little time.
Samm Carr
Fort Worth, Texas

Debra; you again. Where do you get your facts from? the House of McShame?
Okay : Let’s do have some fun with this little factoid.
let’s say the McShames donate 44% of their %.5MILLION, in income.
That’s 2.42 big ones
How do you suggest they maintain the unknown # (to JM) estates they own, and pay the taxes, and staff, and run their companies.
Let’s ‘pretend’ they get refunds, tax breaks, and financial windfalls that total approx. 1.21 big ones
Now lets’prtend’ that they get “donations, gifts, and expensive trips paid for by “friends” who happen to lobby fo big oil, big banking, big pharmaceuticals, and that shave snother
1.2 off their expenses.
gosh, that leave about .02
when you were watching our lovely Mrs. Cindy McShame on stage at the GOP convention, did you notice how well dressed and attired she was? No?
Too bad.
her outfit was enough to pay for your daughters college, her Masters Degree, her Doctorate, and her first home.
Not that you would care.
When you believe that JM is going to grow cahunes to even ASK anyone to work for a dollar a year, than I’ve got a bridge in Alaska I’d like to sell you…

Kurt – It says she negotiated a good deal, and was willing to put in the hours, be the bulls-eye target for every employee/shareholder/analyst/media reporter, and still prbly got 77% of what a male CEO would have made.

The McCain campaign is the gang that couldn’t talk straight. How much bamboozlement, lying, hypocrisy can one group of people shovel onto the public? THis is just getting ridiculous. The only thing they can do right is demonize Obama. When the real world and actual issues that affect the average voter creep into the campaign, they just start making $hit up and hoping someone buys it. What a pathetic bunch of amateurs!

Fiorina and Palin are in an airplane and apparently there is only one parachute.
“Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?”
“No, I don’t, but that’s not what she’s running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things.”
————————————
Of Course, running the United States of America after McCain drops, with two wars and a rotten economy is much, much easier. That’s why she won’t need her own parachute.

How many people really believe’s McCain lies. How many Wall Street lobbyists on is campaign. 10 – 15. Like do people really believe McCain is for the middle class people. Seems to me, McCain is only for the middle class people around election time. His voting record of 26 years show a different story. Big Business and Rep’s go hand in hand.

How will McCain end golden parachutes? With his super powers – after all McCain can do anything: he is a war vetran (ok so it was an undeclared “police action” with massive chemical bombings of innocent civilians but still – he’s a vetran and was tortured, etc).
BTW does anyone know of McCain is now in favour or opposed to illegal arrest deportation and torture in Guantanamo? Either torture is an effective a form of intelligence gathering and McCain must have told the north vietnamese a lot of useful information (possibly losing the war); or it is useless and a waste of money and a desecration of the american constitution, any notion of justice or a fair trial.

Ben Straub – does it make you feel better that I, and many many of my friends, are voting for McCain and Palin in this election cycle. I just cannot see what you see in Obama so he doesnt even get a look in this year i’m afraid.
I dont think for a second that i’m going to cause this country to go into the ground, i believe that if obama is elected we will be in a recession within a month because he is making us so depressed now with his doom and gloom speeches on the economy (not ever saying we are going to pull through)

Louise – Go right ahead and vote McShame. When you are living in a tent dont complain. McShame is going to give you 4 more years of Bush policies. Anyone considering voting for 4 more years of McBush is insane. Just like America cant vote for the best candidate cuz hes black. We as a country havent come that far and deserve whatever we get.

Anyone know where I can meet Sarah? Figure if I get in good with her right now, I could get a job in the Administration. She gave that friend of hers the Agricultural Dir. job cause she’d seen a cow once. I figure I could take Michael Chertoff’s job coz I live in a home. Pays 6 figures right?

vote4peace. your just reading the headline that CNN placed on this story. when you actually read what she said it was that Palin, Obama and McCain could not step in and run HP with their backgrounds, but that Palin’s experience as a governer made her very qualified to run government.
Hey, did you read that Obama tried to get the Iraqi government to delay their troop withdrawal until the next administration, wanting to leave G W Bush out of all talks (he doesnt want bush to have any credit for ending the war)

Seems if you’re rich, the economy is FINE. McCain said so YESTERDAY.
However, if you work for a living, Or Did, your job or pension could be at risk.
In fact, a lot of people NEED to file bankruptcy but can’t AFFORD IT…When you’re struggling to buy food, how can you retain a lawyer?
The Republicans ARE the party of the rich.
If YOU are, or you know someone who is, ‘hurting’, VOTE OBAMA
Give peace a chance…

These comments make my skin crawl. CEO’s get these buy outs at the the direction of the Board of Directors or in a contract which was approved by the board. Blame the Board Members.

The message discipline of the McCain campaign is astounding, not to mention the Palin stump speech, and the now usual presntation by Tucker Bounds who seems to be more truthfully-challenged than any other surrogate out there.

Fiorino is much like Palin who got to where she is by using her looks.
-Fiorino jobs were typically secretary and receptionist at AT&T but enabled herself to marry there an old executive who helped her out and right away retired. She is indeed self-promoting, interested in “higher offices” but has no real talent nor insight.
-By her foolish remarks on the capabilities of others to “run a company”, she only disclosed HER OWN situation.
-Of course, if Hewlet Packard were visible from Sarah’s backyard in Alaska,THAT would immediately qualify her, though.

With a dismissed CEO who received a big fat check for her mismanagement is now McCain’s economic advisor. she is likely to empty out the US treasury if it all anything is left. CEO’s like this one are utterly disgusting they should be in jail not making outrageous statements like McCain, Biden, Palin and Obama cannot make good CEO’s what kind of CEO was she. Anyone can run a company into the ground and loot the companies assets like she did. Get this monster out of my sight. There should be a culture of detest and contempt for CEOs like her and not try to make them economic pundits. Obama would have been a great CEO for any major company. All you need is a little common sense and knowledge of your business and the law.

HOW, MCCAIN???
HOW???
You have supported the financial policies of this administration, and want to continue them!
Just how, exactly, do you intend to “clean up” the mess your Republican party made? By becoming a democrat?

I don’t see any problem with these CEO’s getting golden parachutes. They deserve them — just as they deserve to ride in the first-class section soaring high above the inner city. They deserve to use their pure 24 carat gold parachutes. It seems like a perfect solution.