March 17, 2008
Fiorina: McCain "Not A Regular Computer User"
High-profile, powerhouse female tech execs for John McCain ...
As we've reported, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are backing the senator's WH bid. Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, signed on with the RNC as Victory Chairman, while Whitman, outgoing CEO of Ebay, will be McCain's campaign co-chair. Here's an interesting 'Q and A' between Fiorina and Tech Crunch. In the interview, out today, Fiorina talks tech policy and about the critical use of social networking tools to raise campaign cash. She gives a tip of the hat to Barack Obama's campaign for effectively using these sites to bring in record amounts of dough.
Fiorina also notes that McCain's not such a tech guru ... Oh my, digital divide meet presidential politics.
"He was ... very comfortable talking about technology, even though he’s not a regular computer user," Fiorina said.
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
Posted at 11:16 AM
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I am very disappointed with Senator McCain’s association with Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman. What in the world is he thinking? Hasn’t anyone told him?
For those who may not remember or know, Fiorina was the C.E.O. of Hewlett Packard until 2005 when she was fired. Her most famous quote; No American has a God given right to a Job just because they were American. She fired tens of thousands of employees to then outsource jobs overseas. She managed to skip out of Lucent right before the Feds arrived and started the HP Boardroom investigation which connected to the scandal and the hostile culture she created at HP.
Whitman is currently embroiled in a boycott from the buyers and sellers who made eBay (a.k.a. greebay, feepay) successful. Seems like they want to have a cleansing of their members. The boycott calls for no buying or selling and the evacuating from eBay by May 1, 2008. The most recent faux pax is the conflicting story given for what many called ‘mystery auction listings’ mysteriously from the Shopping dot com site (sdc). Explanations started as a glitch in the system, changed to limited test that ran its course, changed to accident and back to a test. The SEC should love this investigation. Keep in mind, eBay’s stocks have been steadily sagging and Wall Street measures eBay based on listings. Can’t forget the current Paypal lawsuit; eBay has tied PayPal to be the only means one can buy/sell on eBay which violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Fiorina and Whitman’s involvement with the Senator will surely guarantee a Democratic victory but then again both want to be the Governor of California so their motives are, usual for them, self serving.
greta | 03.19.08 02:52 PM
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