{"id":892,"date":"2015-08-18T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2015-08-18T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:33:21","slug":"carly-fiorina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/carly-fiorina\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Fiorina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carly Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard before being forced to leave the company, now she wants to hold the highest office in the land. As a woman who is a Republican she has had to project a very tough attitude. Otherwise she would not be viewed as being the right material to be the President. Looking at her website the first words you see are: New Possibilities, New Leadership. To me that implies that she will attack the major issues of today from a different standpoint than the other Republican candidates, who are all men. This is a good thing that she can use to her advantage and may give her a leg up on the other non-politician candidates. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In the first debate she did well enough to now go from being in 14th<\/sup> to 5th<\/sup> place<\/a> in the New Hampshire primary race. That indicates that voters in New Hampshire have reassessed their opinions about her after watching the Fox sponsored debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortune magazine had quite a bit to say, \u201cFresh from strong debate quips<\/a>, Carly Fiorina has improbably raced from 14th to fifth place in the New Hampshire Republican primary polls and now enjoys a 70% favorability rating in Iowa, ahead of such career politicians as Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, George Pataki, and Lindsay Graham.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It is time to take her candidacy seriously and examine her leadership record. Having never held elected office, she has staked her reputation on her business career.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Again we have a candidate that has no political experience and holds up business career as an example of what she can do. Well looking at her time at Hewlett-Packard does not inspire one to think that her business experience would be of any real help in doing the job as President. Per a Fortune magazine article, \u201cIn 1999, a dysfunctional HP board committee, filled with its own poisoned politics, hired her with no CEO experience, nor interviews with the full board. Fired in 2005, after six years in office, several leading publications titled her one of the worst technology CEOs of all time. In fact, the stock popped 10% on the news of her firing and closed the day up 7%.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP\u2019s founder, commented when discouraging voters from supporting Fiorina in her 2010 senatorial run, \u201cI know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.\u201d\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To me that says that she really does not qualify as someone that can be trusted to run a country like the United States, let alone run a large corporation like Hewlett-Packard. For the most part most people who have been the CEO or Chairperson of the Board of a large business are not qualified to be in a politically sensitive position such as being the President of the United States. You must remember that in politics it is a very different game from how business is done. I still remember all the people who voted for John Corzine<\/a> to become Governor of New Jersey they soon found out that he was not suited to be Governor. Remember that it does not always hold true that someone from the business world makes a terrible politician, just that they are two completely different words.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike<\/span><\/p>\n