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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (47136)	9/16/2008 8:00:01 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Carly Fiorina, who once won the title of most powerful woman in business during her days as CEO of Hewlett Packard, might need some of that clout to get out of this one. Fiorina has been one of John McCain's most active surrogates, particularly on economic issues and reaching out to women. But asked by a St. Louis radio station today whether she thought McCain's running mate Sarah Palin could run a big company like her, Fiorina flubbed her answer. "No, I don't," Fiorina replied. "But that's not what she's running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things." Later on MSNBC, she tried to explain herself, but managed to make things worse. "I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation," she said. Fiorina tried to clarify her remarks, saying that neither member of the Democratic ticket -- Barack Obama nor Joe Biden -- had the chops to be a CEO, either. "It's a fallacy to suggest that the country is like a company," she said. But the damage was done. Obama's campaign, jostling with McCain's over the Wall Street crisis, jumped all over the remark. "If John McCain's top economic adviser doesn't think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis?" spokesman Tommy Vietor asked. she's a roving ambassador for the G.O.P. and John McCain's presidential campaign. She's not a major player in fundraising or strategy, but her unpaid job has made her one of the most visible faces of the Republican Party this election year. She appears on TV about six times a week (you may have seen her on everything from ABC's This Week to Fox Business Network, where she was a contributor until the R.N.C. gig started in March, forcing her to resign) and grants interviews all over cyberspace, to everyone from HispanicBusiness.com to Gristmill, an environmental blog. She's not a close McCain buddy like, say, Republican South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, but she traveled with the presidential candidate on his poverty tour earlier this year and has been by his side at numerous press conferences. She's also advising McCain on tech and economic issues (though clearly that's a secondary role)