Former HP CEO and outspoken McCain campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina said that Sarah Palin is not qualified to run a Fortune 500 company. (I would venture to guess that that’s probably true, but that’s a different topic.) Presumably after the McCain campaign told Fiorina that she needed to undo the damage caused by this “foot in mouth” slip of the tounge, Carly took to the airwaves to declare that it’s not just Palin. In fact, according to Fiorina, none of the candidates running for president or vice-president could run a major corporation. As the campaign’s economic advisor, Fiorina has spent a lot of time with McCain, so I guess we can trust her judgement on his abilities. However, she’s spent virtually no time with Obama or Biden, so she’s just guessing … she has no real authority on the subject.
In any case, the whole situaiton is ironic since the statement came from the same woman who was outsted by HP’s Board of Directors. Pot, meet Kettle.
Update: Maureen Dowd makes the same point in Wednesday’s column.
Carly Fiorina, the woman John McCain sent out to defend Sarah Palin and rip anyone who calls her a tabula rasa on foreign policy and the economy, admitted Tuesday that Palin was not capable of running Hewlett-Packard.
That’s pretty damning coming from Fiorina, who also was not capable of running Hewlett-Packard.