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Fiorina and Islam

Aug 24, 2015 17:33

It’s interesting to see the attacks on Carly Fiorina. Fiorina does indeed have some genuine weaknesses, but those are generally ignored by the attackers, who focus on two topics: Her speech that included remarks about Islam, two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, and her corporate leadership of Hewlett-Packard, where she was brought in just before the ( Read more... )

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ford_prefect42 August 25 2015, 02:35:47 UTC

Among the things that I like about that speech is that it reminds them that they *were* great when they acted like civilized humans, and calls on Islam to return to the values that made it great! It's a VERY leader-like speech! To remind people of what they can be, and lay out a road-map for getting there, while pointing out, in sharp relief, what their current course has done.

I knew I liked her!

ford_prefect42 August 25 2015, 02:43:21 UTC

Let us hope:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

level_head August 25 2015, 02:44:52 UTC

I'm currently inclined toward a Cruz/Fiorina ticket, in fact. Wouldn't it be interesting to have a president and vice president who could speak without a TelePrompter and not embarrass themselves or the country?

I'm happy to see both of them rising in the polls. And ¡Jeb! seems to be heading to failure, which suits my notions quite well.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

ford_prefect42 August 25 2015, 02:57:40 UTC

I could live with that. Honestly, there're a half dozen candidates that I wouldn't mind at this point in either role ( ... )

deckardcanine August 25 2015, 16:20:22 UTC

I'm surprised about the brush reason. Couldn't they have used some other animal's hair?

They don’t blame the recession on Carly Fiorina, they simply fail to mention it, as if HP’s troubles were simply the effect of Fiorina’s leadership.

That sounds backwards. Surely not mentioning a potential scandal is the worst way for critics to spread belief in it.

level_head August 25 2015, 18:50:35 UTC

Fiorina is explicitly blamed for HP's difficulties, layoffs, et cetera. But these happened at the time that many of HP's competitors simply were destroyed in the massive tech recession of 2000-2001. Under her leadership, HP survived and actually prospered, and even the merger that she was publicly reviled for (the media was fed by political factions on the board) worked out well in the end ( ... )